moody_bish's manga / #Historical(5)

It feels long yet short at the same time, a true page turner.

I cried. the character development isnt forced nor irrational. it's not a quick change nor is it too forgiving to just say "he didnt do it in this lifetime". besides, the way it highlights even the shortcomings of the victim is forward. it doesn't create a black and white situation.

@71 Can't believe I just binged this. Tbh, the history flew past my head and I have no positive impression of Japanese history (nor of anyone, especially mine), but this had me reflecting in the pov of Shizuko. As she said, she is facing the people in front of her and those she aims to protect. It's kinda funnt how often she has these dead eyes look on her face tho

Dropped 1. The narrative jumps. Transition and adaptation are basically smoke, they're there but vaguely. You see the memories combine but events occur left and right without the intention of "getting familiar", he just goes on with continuing the life of his reincarnation (coz he got the memories but is more attuned with his modern memories) meeting people and expanding business without much respect to its setting. It just bulldozes it with "modernism and capitalism" 2. There is nothing relatable nor cohesive about his character. He may have had the confidence, but easily devalues his family (heck, we won't see them as much after all the expansion. Like where did the mom and daughter go when the workshop expanded. His father was left when he migrated his business. His brother is basically accessory and gone the next). Then he goes ahead and adapted a modern greedy capitalist who treat every one as tools of business. His detailed business proposal dwindled to not even realizing what it means to build an unconventionally high rise building (like bruh, 7 years and you forget the details coz u obsess over the big picture, what was that?). He takes martial arts as nothing coz he got a cheat (an alien in a world of martial artist valuing their art). 3. Its one of those shallow capitalist who have neither respect nor consideration of the people in the world he lives in (we can change the title to Ancient Tycoon sandbox or something more accurate). The moments of humanity he showed before he found something extraordinary really disappeared. You won't find the guy who once debated about legalism and democracy or even had thoughts that cared about "the balance of the world". And also, the "objective" he has related to his power and his ancestors are just accessories, as if to justify all his deranged tycoon ways because of how randomly it pops out to remind you about it. The art is really great tho. There's some humor to it. The skills are cool. No annoying harems or anything perverted. But like, there's not much foundation to the story which is a shame

Dropped at 103-- spoilers It just keeps going and going and going with the "detective cases" and maybe its the changing translations but nothing is making much sense the more we go (contrary to the first cases). Also, if she's going to have a skill that changes face, i wish it was more obvious and defined coz huh? Its her breasts that show more of her current gender than the face changing skill. And sometimes i dont get the feeling that she came from the cave, which im glad she is aware of her carelessness but who the hell grabs a living silkworm with their injured arm and think she can do shit? And is her face changing skills so limited that she only ever choose her real face during missions? (Its a convenient romance plot but its annoying esp when a skilled human skin user does it better than her but wishes to get her skill coz it's "perfect". I also dont get why she keeps playing this pull and push, it stopped making sense after the first night) and im not so interested anymore to keep reading after a hundred chapters coz of how incoherent it is becoming.