I think the author's image of who lemon was changed as the series went along, to where it no longer really made sense for who her character had become.
The character writing feels so clearly forced because it has to arrive at a conclusion that's no longer natural.
GoT season 8 type shit.
This...
In contrast to the now ubiquitious isekai self insert slop, here we have an example of the traditional self insert slop.
But man some Japanese reaaally have an inferiority complex don't they.
This is the problem with writing backwards. I'd bet my life the author wrote the premise first and then had to come up with the reason much later. The author was going to have to write this moment eventually. They didn't pull it off. It felt like it had no weight.
I don't know that that's the case, it feels like a very self-contained story based around one character's singular arc, and all their other works have been short too. I mean maybe it was cancelled, but I think it was intended to be brief from the start. Not every series benefits from being...
I feel like the author changed their mind halfway through and retconned what happened. Maybe out of fear Lemon would come off as unsympathetic? This doesn't really line up with how they reacted at the start. The beginning is pretty dishonest now and a fair bit of the drama has been sucked out of it.
Naively romantic as it is, this series is quite fascistic in a way. Bizarre how oblivious and disconnected people can be from the atocities they enabled.
Well, not really. It makes perfect sense people are like that, it's just laughable.