I was hesitant about this due to the negative comments here, so now that I’ve read this I’d like to address them for anyone else wondering too. There are quite a few comments very upset with the FL’s backstory… basically she was a war lord that became an empress in her past life, and a very competent one at that. IMO how she learned all these skills she needed to become empress and some random history fact thrown in about her people isn’t necessary to scrutinize, and most transmigrate / reincarnate / whatever manga have FL backstories that are similarly glossed over and to be taken at face value. Also not sure why people were upset at the reincarnated version of the FL looking the same as she did in the past. Isn’t there other literature out there where that’s what happens?
Anyways, as far as the manga goes.
The art is great, no complaints.
The female lead actually matches her backstory! She actually acts like an old competent empress! This is very refreshing to see! And it makes sense, when there are so many of this type of manga where someone was like twenty five but they end up acting six once they’re in the body of a six year old. A common theme with reincarnation is usually how the character reconciles her past identity with her present identity, but looks like this story is circumventing that with the FL regaining her memories when she was three and for all intents and purposes she is her past identity just with different friends and family in this present setting.
In contrast to a great female lead, the male lead sucks. Because the FL entirely acts the age of her past self, I don’t see how she would fall for the male lead who has the mental age of a child as someone who was isolated from society until he was twenty. I feel like realistically, how it’s gonna happen is just that he’s going to be really kind to her and because he looks good and is kind she’s going to fall for him. The male lead has pretty much no merit other than being a decent guy with good looks.
All we’ve seen of him so far is him act childish and selfish and unreasonable despite his age. It can be explained by his background of isolation sure, but you’d think such a strong woman would deserve a strong, capable man. Not a guy who blushes like a child at exposed skin (when she’s in a regular nightgown, not anything provocative), and the problems in his thoughts aren’t about anything important like his curse, but rather fixate upon him having a crush on this woman. It’s like crushing on a celebrity or something where of course he likes her because she’s super cool and competent and a shining star in society, whereas like what reason does she even have to like him. None, except his face.
It’s such a poor and disappointing match up. I’ll continue reading this, but also might drop if the ML acts more childish than he is already.
Update: I dropped this after finishing the first season. Like oh my god, all the FL has done is save both him and his duchy and help everyone, and because she doesn’t have feelings for him the ML sulks and actually throws a fit. When the author is capable of writing strong, reasonable, characters, why in the world did she choose to make all the men in this story weak and annoying.
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