Konyakusha wa, Watashi no Imouto ni Koi wo Suru
Fiancés Fall in Love with My Sister.

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I have been trying to write reviews more actively. Both to have reviews for less popular series and to practice writing in general. For this series I felt it was worth writing a review just to have a counter opinion to the only current review for this manga, because I personally think that besides its shortcomings this manga is actually pretty special.

Fiancés Fall in Love with My Sister. tells the traditional villainess story of the main character, Illya falling in love with her political marriage partner and childhood fiancee, Soleil. However, Soleil does not reciprocate these feelings for her, instead he is in love with ... Ilya's sickly sister Sylvia. The premise of the manga is that Illya, hopelessly in love with Soleil, keeps regressing every time she dies and each time she tries something different the outcome of the relationship she has with Soleil remains similar. During this process we as the readers also come to learn more about the way Illya is treated in general.

This in and of itself is already a fairly novel concept. While villainess stories are common the repeated loop concept where the focus is actually on the looping, not on the fact that they happened is not something I have seen before in the genre. The hurt of the main character and the disconnect she starts feeling at a certain point is really interesting and portrayed in a unique way. It is, like the plot, not something I have seen done often in way where the story actually commits and doesn't just use it as a theme. And the result is really engaging. Past a certain point the story becomes less linear and more disjointed. This is also something that really adds to the story and works surprisingly well, and although the awkward fan translations can make it somewhat hard to follow at times, this is of course not a fault of the original manga.

The quality of this story is revealed in the dialogue of the main character. Small details and ways of speaking reveal subtleties that are not something you really expect from a manga like this. Sure, it can be over the top and dramatic, but that is also part of the appeal. We as the audience are dragged along for the ride as we wallow in the suffering of the main character. However, it is important to distinguish between what is felt and what is actually written, as the actual story is not nearly as much of a downer as you might be led to believe.

Overall, I would totally recommend this manga to anyone looking for something different. Having read over 22k chapters of manga/manhwa/manhua, including many tropey isekai manga, regression/villainess manhwa, and more, I tend to really appreciate unique ideas and concepts. Add to this the pretty good execution, and you have something that could very well be special if it is allowed to continue. Currently, it is around 23 chapters long with only 4 volumes, so you can knock it out in an hour or two.

Bottom line: waste of time.

Basically the entire story is the main character in hell being punished for eternity in this poorly organized opera run by satan with comedic levels of tragedy. Everything the main character does ends in nearly the worst feasible way. All the characters act as if they were written by chatGPT with the prompt "Please write characters that have the reasoning of characters within a dream, but the deramer dreaming the dream has the mental capacity of a goldfish. Also they are being guided by some force to unnaturally hate the main character." (Yes, this hate force is a part of the ... plot. I don't quite get how it works myself.)

It is so pathetic watching this character wallow the worst traits of humanity; She is immortal yet she just does the worst job ever at the bare minimum of living a life that is not miserable. There is no character development here. I would have liked this manga more if the author just went all in and had the main character being skinned alive every other page; If the character is in hell, I am extremely disappointed in whoever is running the joint because they are torturing this woman in the most low-effort, yet also convoluted fashion possible.

The author just wanted to write a whole boat load of sad mini-stories all happening to one character and then write in patterns and themes that are actively harmful to the betterment of society; Normally a book has the main character go through trials to convey themes and symbolism that empower the reader to better themselves in some way. Not this time. It starts terrible and maintains it all the way.

I gained nothing by reading this manga. I only wasted a few hours of my life and have become stupider as a result of reading it. The core of why I am so angry is because the manga is so well made it gives the impression of actually being good. If it had just been honest that it was bad from the start I would not have wasted so much of my time.

I hope the hyperbole is obvious, but I am writing this review 2am on a thursday because I need to recoup the zero enjoyment I had reading with the actually enjoyable practice of ragging on the manga.