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Skyla, who is abandoned as a baby is found and raised by 4 men (ex-pirates) , 1 plays her father while the other 3 are her uncles (now with this, you would expect her to at least be a tom boy, know how to fight, sword play, not naive/ easy to blush something along those lines, especially since she is a witch, instead she is a weak female who has her rare moments of being strong) Marrying the first man ( Jewel ) she takes a liking to to save a big boat then supposing wants to get it annulled.... but from then she ... acts like she really loves him, not just a convenient husband, so that throws the story off, like someone decided to make her one really cool moment into being a wimpy female crying over a love that was only suppose to be for business, she doesn’t know him at all, that’s why I can see the point of it being a business marriage but the next chapter she is saying “no I only have eyes for jewel” “jewel this” and “jewel that” even breaks down and cry’s when she cant find him. Over looking her first FAKE love and onto the next. An alchemist named Kaylus, in the beginning he treats her like crap and calls female “luggage” and “to know your place” but once he finds out she is a witch and matures to a beautiful woman he warms up to her (somewhat) and she follows along like a lost puppy. So his character is kinda bad, but then you wouldn't expect anyone to like him after getting to know his rotten attitude, but she does and all the while she cry’s how she is a witch but has no powers, and when she matures into her powers, she cry’s cause she doesn’t know how to use them, even when she is living with Kaylus, who has a library full of books on witches, does she read, or try to practice? No she sits on her bum and cry’s and blames others. One of the few reasons I gave it a chance and read half way was because the lead female did have her strong moments ( 5% strong moments, 35% childish moments,10% smart moments, 50% naive/idiotic moments) even the dialog which started out funny became predictable and sometimes painful to read. so that reason was diminished, along with the art, I really liked the detail in each page, it was lovely to look at, but whats with the dresses?!? they are either plain or bushy making her look like a upside down flower. It made her very unappealing when ever they tried to make her beautiful, even adding the flowers behind her in a scene didn’t help. The only way I would recommend this is, If you have time to wast and don't mind getting your hopes up because the chapters are so short! Each one was like 15 pages then you have to go to a whole new chapter and they do that to grab you, the story starts going down hill, then hits a little bump and your like “ohh now its getting good” then its the end of the chapter.

I read the summary for this manga and thought it was gonna have a strong female lead in it, in fact i found this manga because people recommended it as having a strong female lead. BUT its truly misleading

-The story goes to fast/the series is to short
-The main character is physically strong but barley uses her strength
-The lead female is kinda wimpy when it comes to "love"

MY first point is the story goes to fast. one minutes she is entering a new school, same chapter (few pages later) she is in love. No many people fall in love that fast that deeply, so that ... is just to fake right there.

Second point, In the beginning she uses her strength twice in the first chapter, after that you barley see her being really strong? she cowers when she sees a bear and the lead male takes over, when Shin tells her he is using her and never liked her, she weeps and later confronts him and ur reading it going '"punch him.... Tell him how horrible he is!" instead she straddles him and be's pathetic my crying cause she still loves him. Are you kidding? This is about a strong female! but this whole series makes her seem weak and wimpy.

Third point is kinda in my first and second point, she falls in love way to quickly, its basically making women out to be emotional wrecks at the sight of a pretty boy

So all in all, this manga kinda makes me mad, the way they portray the woman, its suppose to be targeted for girls/women but really it seems more like to cater to boys/men having the woman trail after the male like a lost puppy.