2024-01-07, 20:02 | Link #23 | |
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I think this was caused by the author wanting to start her story using the popular "denounced otome villainess" cliche to hook internet readers (it started as a WN), and once she'd gotten them promptly abandoned any notions of Rishe being a villainess in any way. |
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2024-01-07, 21:39 | Link #24 | |
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1. Meeting people from her past lives again and deal with their problems from a new perspective. 2. Stop the war from happening to not die this time. And no, we won't see any conclusion as the novel itself is not finished yet. |
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2024-01-08, 07:24 | Link #26 | |
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Anyway, as for the rest, I thought it was good enough. Rishe feels like she's going to be a competent heroine, given all the experience she has under her belt. Also, she's hot.
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2024-01-08, 10:35 | Link #27 | |
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2024-01-08, 10:53 | Link #28 | |
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2024-01-11, 14:21 | Link #34 |
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This had one of the most boring openings I've seen in a while. I hate one-man-army scenes, and this one went on for way too long. I might have dropped the series had I not seen the good reviews on ANN. Luckily the rest of the show is pretty entertaining.
Do we have more than the usual number of shoujo/josei series these days? There have been long periods where shoujo was rare and josei nonexistent. Seems like things have shifted some in the industry but maybe it's my imagination. The boom in villainess and isekai stories seems to have played a role. Right now I'm watching Apothecary Diaries, Dr. Elise, Frieren, this show, and Sign of Affection (which may not remain in my list if they guy isn't just pretty and nice). And that doesn't even exhaust all the possibilities.
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2024-01-11, 18:17 | Link #35 | |
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2024-01-11, 21:54 | Link #36 | |
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The novelist said Apothecary Diaries was inspired by one Korean TV drama, but she chose to use a fictional ancient China as the background. So, it is also mixed theme. The villainess in Apothecary Diaries are traditional villainess. They bully other maids but scared away by Maomao. She probably involved some black ops, such as jaegar or informant. |
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2024-01-13, 11:52 | Link #37 |
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Maid is kind of a weird choice for her in one of her loops. You'd think, as ambitious as she seems to be, she'd have chosen something else.
Yea, that was a good trick lol. To hide breasts that big, so effectively, there must be magic in this world |
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That was my immediate reaction as well. I suppose we could make up a devious story where she chose the maid job to infiltrate and carry out some other mission. Otherwise it seemed a very unlikely choice to me, too.
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2024-01-13, 13:06 | Link #39 | |
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2024-01-13, 13:22 | Link #40 |
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That may be true for the New Yogo Empire where the anime takes place. But Kanbal's mountainous geography was thought to resemble Korea. Balsa leaves Kanbal with Jiguro and later returns after the events in the anime. In the NHK live-action series it looks very different from New Yogo.
There are other kingdoms and empires involved as well. The final stretch of NHK episodes portray the attempts by the Karsh Empire to conquer New Yogo and Chagum's effort to thwart them by building alliances with adjacent countries. I tried reading the novels about Asura which follow Chagum's story but didn't get far into them. Her story is the weakest of three NHK seasons. I might try and track down the novels behind season three which have a much more compelling story. The only person who knows for sure is Uehashi Nahoko who wrote the novels.
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