Jun 9, 2024
“Princess in the Rough” is a very beautiful manhwa with a unique art style and a plot that keeps you on your toes. Princess Estrella is a classic example of a moeblob MC with a traumatic past, with the added I/DD-coding to her character that brings something fresh to the genre. The supporting cast is also quite enjoyable, and this manhwa takes its time with fleshing out her healing from trauma and the mysteries surrounding her and the other bejeweled-eyes’ existence.
All that said, the creators really fumbled season two. The thing that really killed this interesting story was the 9-year time-skip approximately 15 episodes before
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the finale. For some reason, the authors decided that the male lead should be the father figure that raised Estrella since she was born, and not any of the other characters that were her age. Hell, her cousin had much more involvement in the overall plot up to this point than her adoptive father. They tried so hard to speedrun and shoehorn in this romance that had no basis in the previous ~85-ish episodes. All of this was at the cost of never seeing some of the most important characters from the manhwa again. In this final arc, we only see her biological father once, and that’s in the final episode where he goes from denying their romantic relationship to accepting it in the manner of a few panels. We don’t see her cousin or uncle at all. The final arc is sloppy, rushed, and morally questionable; don’t even bother wasting your time with this manhwa, you will only end up disappointed.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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