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Feb 25, 2025
fluffy childcare vibes + murder mysteries + the usual OI tropes.
Good:
* gorgeous art. All (both male and female) characters are hot. Marianne (duke's sister) is great in both looks AND personality.
* Simple, but cool plot seamlessly mixes mysteries and fluffy childcare plot. There's some sparse comedy too. The setting of a secret "serial killer hunter" magician duke is pretty intriguing.
* lots of cute moments, where the child is cuddled/spoiled/fawned over by daddy, brother, aunt and butler characters.
* A quality villain who feels threatening. TBH, all characters are great and have an air of mystery about their past.
Bad
* Murder mystery writing is
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kinda garbage. MC magically (literally) gets information to solve the puzzle, while others think she's some genius (NOT in a funny way like tearmoon/overlord/eminence in shadow).
* annoying trope of MC overthinking and worrying that she will be thrown out if she's not useful, despite the family repeatedly telling her explicitly that they love her.
* general OI nonsense: making MC's past and current life tragic like being terminally ill or an orphan for pity points, making the duke/brother/everyone obsessed with MC for no reason, MC hiding her memories of past life from her family thinking nobody would believe her etc..
Overall
If you can look past certain overused tropes, the series is quite good (by relative OI standards). It has a unique setting and already setup seeds for interesting future plots (eg: the workings of the church). But, after season 1 (40 chapters), the author had to take a 2-year+ hiatus for cancer treatment, so, there's very few chapters released (only 50 at this moment). If you can't deal with weekly cliffhangers, I recommend binging one season at a time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Feb 22, 2025
Some good parts, but the reset of the series is mid.
Plot
10 years old FL is married to 20 years old ML by her father. She isolates herself in her room and just spends money on luxurious items. Eventually, she hears rumors about ML having a mistress and decides to have an affair herself. When ML, along with her father and brother, dies at war, she is kicked out by ML's brother for the affair. After living for a while as beggar, she prays to gods for second chance at life, so that she can not repeat the same mistakes. And she regresses back.
Review
Good:
1. The princess
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is hot and would be really cool as a main character.
2. The antagonist is a real sadist, but he doesn't get many moments to shine.
3. The side characters like the maid or commanders are fun and kinda carry the series during the boring parts. I also love the side ships a lot.
4. Some great comedy moments. I especially loved the greedy priest who's just trying to aim for promotion.
5. Good art (although it's a little plain).
Bad:
1. The main couple are frustrating due to their constant misunderstandings and lack of communication. . It is also weird that her powerful father would marry her off to a lower noble like ML. And the age gap is just eww.
2. Despite getting a second chance at life, FL still seems childish. She keeps worrying about things, but does nothing. Her entire plan is to gather funds by.. selling laces and designer candles. She could have saved so many lives, just by sharing information with her husband or father, but she prefers just panicking internally.
3. The story is way way longer than it needs to be. lots of space is wasted on angst filled misunderstandings.
Overall
A lot of the series (especially main romance track) is generic OI trash. But the side characters and art are good enough that you can continue read at least the main story. Keep your expectations low.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Feb 2, 2025
Plot
Bullies uses MC's phone to lure and rape MC's childhood friend/crush. When MC arrives to stab the bullies with knife, the demon of lust appears and offers him a contract to take "proper revenge". MC will get teleportation skill and help from demon, to mindbreak and NTR the bullies, just like they raped his childhood friend.
Review
Good:
* edgy story of revenge. demon plans a strategy using psychological techniques and MC executes that strategy. He does question his methods at times, but fortunately, he remembers the past and just commits to his mission.
* We do have lots of [short] erotic scenes. They are kinda fucked up
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and dark at times, but also happy (?) like a regular harem at other times (stockholm syndrome?).
* The demon girl is written as this bright and bubbly cousin which contrasts hard against the dark setting. She basically hard carries this manga.
* perfect title. NTRevenge describes this series perfectly, and you know exactly what you are getting into.
Bad:
* Garbage Art: the manga looked like a rough draft/sketch of outlines and almost no shading. Erotica with bad art are just sad.
* Slow pacing and Irrelevant filler: The investigation of kidnapping by cops is distracting and drags the pacing. There's also a lot of scenes which try to show how the girls are competing with each other for MC, but IMO, they just don't belong in a dark story like this.
Overall
It is very hard to recommend an erotica with bad art. Still, if you are here for NTR + revenge, then you are at the right place. Every story has its target audience and this is an average / good-enough series for that audience.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jan 28, 2025
Plot
FL is the child of a commoner prostitute (single mother). When the count marries this prostitute, FL is adopted as the count's daughter. But the count's legitimate daughter hates FL (and her mother) for being commoners. She uses rumors and manipulates FL into becoming a villainess, eventually leading to FL and her mother's death. FL regresses back in time, and using her newfound time travel powers, she will have her revenge on the stepsister (and her supporters).
Review
The good things:
* FL is morally a gray character. She is super [fake] nice to people, who will gain power in the nearby future, so that
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she can use them for her revenge.
* The story commits to the core aspect of revenge until the climax. It takes a long time, but by god, FL enacts her revenge step by step, meticulously, with utmost care until the evil sister breaks down.
* I love how ML and FL help each other in their revenge. Even in romance, the characters are united by hatred.
* Great art and character designs. I don't know why, but I love FL's braided hairstyle. Her maid also gets a huge towards the end.
The bad things:
* Mielle (stepsister) is a child, who was taught by people around her to hate FL. She just doesn't make a compelling villain, as all she does is hate and be a dumbass.
* The conflict between commoners and nobles was completely ruined, when it was revealed that FL has royal blood. In fact, the whole "royal blood grants power" is just such an middle finger to commoners vs nobles narrative. There is a meme about "poo people" and this series is basically an example of that.
* This story grants time travel powers (upto 5 minutes) to FL for having royal blood . It just makes FL feel like a hack/cheat, who gets everything handed to her on a silver platter.
* Second ML is an absolute ass with zero personality. I was really hoping for him to do something, but he stays pitiful until the end.
* The revenge ends at 107, but we have a looooong epilogue of 20 chapters which just pisses me off even more, because we are shown that problems must be fixed by time travel powers and god granted miracles to those of royal blood.
Overall
Even with all the faults, I was happy to read this because I love a badass protagonist who commits to her goal of revenge.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 27, 2025
This is a very easy series to review. The plot is a generic otome-isekai story, but we get to see it unravel from the perspective of the yandere ML.
Good:
1. short runtime: With less than 40 chapters, it is easy to binge.
2. heavy usage of tropes: This allows the series to skip a lot of routine filler and let the readers fill the gaps with their imagination. readers must familiarize themselves with the OI genre before picking up this series.
3. lots of fluff: As we read the story from ML's point of view, we get to see our fluffy FL doing cute things all
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the time. Our FL claims to be a villainess, but is more or less a clumsy tsundere.
4. Good art: One complaint would be that most female character designs looked the same as each other.
5. yandere ML: I really appreciated his PoV and loved watching his frozen heart slowly melt due to FL's warm affection. I also loved how smart and balanced he was throughout the entire series.
6. wholesome families: Almost every character had a loving family and while all of them were great parents/siblings, I want to specially call out FL's dad for being the best father (even with all her flaws and quirks).
Bad
1. TSTL FL: Too stupid to live FL can be very annoying, as everyone around her rallies into fan clubs to love her or protect her. Even after completely changing the OG plot, she keeps trying to get the ML and OGFL to fall in love, while refusing to explain *why* she is so desperate to get them together.
2. incoherent OGFL: She seems to be isekai-ed, but is dumber than FL, which is an impossible feat. It was very weird, because she hallucinates things that never happened and just simply seems to lack a coherent and functioning brain. I am genuinely concerned that she hit her head and is mentally challenged.
3. lack of any tension: There's barely 2 antagonists (OGFL and one side character). Both of them are stupid, so when our "genius" ML takes them down with boring plans, all I felt was emptiness. It just feels like a tiger acting mighty, while stomping an ant.
4. generic plot: While the yandere ML's PoV is a good hook, the core story is still generic with no creativity from the author.
Overall
The series is easy to recommend due to its short length, but please remember that this is targeted at experienced readers who are already families with OI genre's tropes. If you don't like the main "hook" (yandere ML PoV), there's not much else to find here. I personally loved the fluff, even if I felt sorry for the brain-damaged OGFL. The first chapter is a good intro and should be enough to know whether you will like this series.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 26, 2025
This is a mid generic childcare manhwa. The pretty art is probably the only good thing about the series.
FL is the typical innocent/pure woman who will win over everyone with her love and kindness. ML is a simp for his wife. The child will also become a simp for his mom's attention. None of the characters have any depth or charm. The story tries to make you pity the ML or child because they have been waiting for FL's love for so long, but sadly, I couldn't care at all.
FL lost some of her memories, and only remembers parts like how she ignored
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the duke (husband) or how her family abused her. The mysterious past and her reasons to not accept the duke's love could be interesting, but dear god, after 24 chapters, all we get are shallow "cute moments". I cannot spoil the story for you, because there's no story. It is just an empty shell.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jan 22, 2025
Plot
FL wakes up as the fat daughter Tara Elias in a boring unfinished novel written by her friend. She knows that one of her siblings will commit treason and the Elias family will be killed. To avoid the bad ending and protect her family, she decides to work hard to become a close aide of ML, the second prince and MC of novel.
Review
This series gets some things right.
* FL takes a while to get her body in shape and we get to see her slow journey of exercise and diet. She has a successful career and works hard to improve herself. She also
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gets a lot of support from other characters (including ML). Her growth is one of the main reasons to like this series.
* The romance is a slow-burn, and the first 100 chapters basically don't have any romance at all. The relationship between ML and FL is a long journey, and we see it evolve a lot over the course of time.
* The characters act mature and communicate. For an otome isekai, there's surprisingly little drama. FL also knows her limits and doesn't try to help/save everyone. She's just busy with save her own family.
* I love some of the side cast and their humor. Neils (works for FL), Nick (works for ML), emperor, FL's father etc.. are fun to watch.
The series also gets plenty of things wrong.
* The conversations in particular feel long, dry and boring. You can skip about 5 pages of dialogue and not miss anything. The characters say really obvious things, and none of them are charming enough to keep me interested in their conversations.
* Romance makes the characters weak. We used to have this strong axe wielding FL with her own motivations, but after the confession, her entire life revolves around ML and his romantic intentions.
* The quality goes down after the confession. We focused on politics and FL's growth at first. After confession, cliche romance becomes a priority. Towards the climax of season 2, we suddenly have "Aura" (wtf???) like a martial arts manhwa.
* The bad guys are incompetent. The other princes, empress, FL's stepmom etc.. act dumb and self-centered. None of them feel threatening.
* Side characters just get ignored. FL's knight, FL's sister, ML's cousin, FL's maids/servants/mother, etc.. are all decent characters, but they rarely get to do much in the story. In a way, the narration feels artificial, as we only care about characters when they are plot-relevant (or interacting with FL/ML). It doesn't feel like the world is alive and people are living their lives in the background.
* There's a big change in art style after a while. But, I never cared for the art style of this series, so it did not bother me.
Overall
This is a good series with a unique strong FL and an interesting relationship with ML. But if you are looking for romance, you will be waiting a loooooooooong time. Due to the shortcomings that I listed, there will be plenty of people who won't like this series. I would recommend reading until chapter 15 (where FL and ML meet) and see if you like the character interactions.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 20, 2025
Plot
FL is sold by her mother to a noble for marriage. The noble is terminally ill, and wants FL to take care of his territory until the eldest son becomes an adult. FL, after the husband's death, works really hard and tries her best (even if the children hated her). Just before she can finally retire by letting the eldest son takeover, she is murdered and regresses back to the time of her husband's funeral. She decides to do things better this time and build a loving family.
Review
The story revolves around FL and her desperate efforts to protect her family from other greedy nobles. This
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makes her children realize how great of a mother she is and they all become a wholesome family. It is mostly a heart-warming slice of life, with some occasional drama. Unlike other OI, the FL here is not some genius. She depends on others and the rest of the cast do their best to support her. The art is good too. Although, I just cannot see our FL as hot. Her character design looks childish.
I like the overall plot and the vibe. The series has a great start too, with some nice metaphors. But I hate the pacing of this series. Everything moves at a snail's pace. This makes the story boring, because there's very little happening at any given moment. I read two seasons (137 chapters), but it feels like I read only 80 chapters worth of actual plot.
The characters are interesting in terms of their personalities, but take a LONG time to actually *do* anything. The characters have motivations and *should* act, but they don't.
I am honestly tired of reading this. So, I would actually not recommend this to anyone. There may be bad manhwas out there, but I would rather be reading them than this boring series.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jan 19, 2025
Plot
FMC, who reincarnated from korean, is terminally ill and lost her parents in an accident. The duke takes her in as daughter-in-law and plans to marry his son (ML) to princess (OGFL), when FMC dies in a few years. FMC, with her novel knowledge, decides to cure herself and gather funds to eventually runaway from the duke.
Review
The good things:
1. FMC is cunning and fun to watch. She manages to fool everyone around her and knows how to use her innocent face. She has a strong personality, who has a clear goal in mind and executes plans to achieve it.
2. Lots of comedy. I
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love FMC's paintings and OGML's misunderstandings.
3. Simple story, good pacing, great art and fun cast of characters. Great Aunt Livia, princess (lovely character design btw) and OGML are hilarious characters. I think the story is ending very soon (around 110 chapters in total), so you can binge it.
The bad things:
1. I hate the tragic stories for the main cast. The story gaslights you into feeling sorry for them. ML and his father characters have nothing going for them besides their trauma and being simps for their wives.
2. Characters trying to hide problems because they don't want others to "worry", which leads to misunderstandings.
3. The main romance track is a little uncomfortable due to FMC trying to be a mother figure to MC in the early parts of the story.
Overall
This is not a masterpiece by any stretch. There's plenty of plot holes (and conveniences) with forced misunderstandings and most characters are walking tropes. But FMC and OGML's characters along with the comedy carried the series for me. If you don't like them, there is not much else that this series can offer you.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 9, 2025
Lethal romance is the love story of a strong female martial artist from the world of Murim (action high school) and a handsome male lead from the world of shoujo (romance high school).
The series is a comedy at its core, with some hints of romance and action. It is hilarious and repeatedly mocks the tropes of romance and action genres. Due to the short length, the pacing is good and there is no filler/padding. Any serious drama or trauma are dealt with in less than 2 chapters, because we gotta make time for comedy.
Just read the first chapter to see if the comedy
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is to your taste. The chapter sets the right mood, and maintains that quality for the entire series. I will recommend it to everyone, but experienced readers who are already aware of the romance/action manga tropes would probably enjoy this way more.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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