Gyaru Maid to Akuyaku Reijou ~Ojou-sama no Happy End shika Katan!~ - Vol. 3 Ch. 14 - Blooming Feelings

[Mivy]

Axed oh comeon

 

[emmadrew]

English popularity doesn't predict Japanese sales I guess

 

[Othingl]

Why do half of the top-tier yuri get axed?????

 

[BanzaiYuri]

Gyaru maid goes super saiyan for her ojou who she oshis

 

[Ore]

Why do half of the top-tier yuri get axed?????

Because top-tier yuri is still hot garbage.

 

[Redrot]

Sad that it's ending so soon. Regardless, thanks for the translation!

 

[YuriEmpress]

I hate it if next is Last Episode.

I want more flirting scenes.

 

[Yokubou]

You can tell the mangaka also gave up when the series got cancelled, the faces are much more sloppy in this chapter

 

[NBL6]

"Japan is an incredibly LGBT supportive country"

Seeing how yuri manga are one of the most commonly cancelled manga series, the japanese market customer base tells me that is NOT fucking true.

Eat up your isekai slave girl slop you incel pieces of shit.

Smote by the 10,000 beast girl slaves of Generic-kun(sama?)

 

[himi-cat]

Some are certainly exaggerating the "going nowhere" aspect of the series, but I will concede that the momentum of it has been a snail's pace - and I think that's the key thing some are forgetting. Like, aside from the brief snippets of how the school and magic systems work, this has mainly been a fluffy series of an isekai-ed gyaru unintentionally rizzing up a villainess. Heck, we've had numerous chapters where the game's MC only has a few lines and NO development, just reduced to a yes-girl! I don't think it's entirely wrong to say that the one instance it introduced a radical shift - the brief amputee debacle in Vol 2's second half - was likely done to stave off the impending axe.

And like, that initial formula could've worked as like, a first step process. Plenty of romcoms/isekai/yuri have done that. But those grow - or at least, further hone those elements - into something else that keeps reader attention and establishes its longevity. The fact we have only met one of the supposed many Male LIs in this otome game setting speaks volumes about that problem. Compare the first volume of this to, say, ILTV, or (to keep it related to recentish monthly series) Muryoku Seijo to Munou Oujo, and it's a night and day difference.

anyway this long ramble is really just an extension of what @SrNevik was saying: It either should've leaned into the "com" or "rom" part more with more dashes of worldbuilding, instead of being the worst of both with a backdrop that could've easily been replaced with something else entirely.

I think it's unfair to say this deserved to be axed, but it's definitely fair to say that it didn't demand to be continued for another ten volumes - it's a good premise with some good character ideas and some decent world-building, but it's let down by pacing and coherent story development. And honestly, those are all absolutely the hallmarks of a first time author . . . The ideas that go into the premise and the world-building and the characters are all (broadly speaking) the easy part of writing, the remaining 90+% is definitely not easy; taking all those lovely ideas and turning them into a completed story is something that requires both lots of work (the perspiration side of "10% inspiration, 90% perspiration"), and lots of practice and experience, and first time authors just don't have that practice and experience.

Probably the biggest thing to come out of this is that the author now has a bunch more experience under their belt, and hopefully they'll be able to apply that to their future work. Which will hopefully have more of the perspiration, to go along with the already pretty decent inspiration . . .

 

[yanderecoverl]

Rip gal x villainess, you will be missed

 

[Alice_Cheshire]

Why do half of the top-tier yuri get axed?????

Because people would prefer some dom/sub garbage with two guys playing hide the ferret. (Which is what like 90% of yaoi seems to be.)

 

[gr2222]

"Japan is an incredibly LGBT supportive country"

Seeing how yuri manga are one of the most commonly cancelled manga series, the japanese market customer base tells me that is NOT fucking true.

Eat up your isekai slave girl slop you incel pieces of shit.

this has nothing to do with it being yuri, I am not going to lie, this manga has nothing good enough to keep going. Yes, there is the mc and the Villainess, they are both interesting characters, but it's only that.

There are still plenty of yuri manga and LN/WN that are popular and have a lot of sales.

But any ways, this doesn't feel like it's being canceled, but it feels like it's about to be completed. You know, it is very common for a manga to end in three volumes, not because it didn't sell well, but because it simply was supposed to end there. and as I said, there is nothing more to this manga, and almost nothing unresolved because there is nothing in the general picture other then the 2 characters.

 

[Sailor47]

I was really enjoying this one, what a shame it's ending so soon 💔

 

[Alice_Cheshire]

But any ways, this doesn't feel like it's being canceled, but it feels like it's about to be completed. You know, it is very common for a manga to end in three volumes, not because it didn't sell well, but because it simply was supposed to end there. and as I said, there is nothing more to this manga, and almost nothing unresolved because there is nothing in the general picture other then the 2 characters.

Did people not post earlier in the thread about the author themselves announcing it was a matter of selling poorly?

 

[gr2222]

Did people not post earlier in the thread about the author themselves announcing it was a matter of selling poorly?

It was a publisher decision to stop it, yes. It didn't sell as much as they wanted. however it wasn't canceled but the publisher said to finish it up. canceled in this case means that it stops where it is, and it doesn't have a conclusion.

I meant that it is normal for manga to end in three volumes because they are meant to end there, I wasn't talking about this one specifically, I just made an error and typed 'it didn't sell well' instead of 'they didn't sell well' (english is not my first language sorry.)

any way my point was that it 'felt' like it is about to be completed without a bs ending, because there is nothing really more then the relationship of the two.

Also from what I can tell from posts on x from the mangaka, the manga was planned to finish soon any way, since they said that there were a few more foreshadowing lines they couldn't cover. I am guessing they were originally planning for one or 2 more volumes.

here is the thing, when a big publisher sees sales that are just good, and drop slightly instead of going up, they want them to finish the manga so they can work on something else that will bring those numbers up instead. Especially when the publisher is huge, and they have huge sales on other manga.

 

[Zerotune]

Lol at people who are trying so hard to justify the axe by "there wasn't enough going on, not enough hook etc." So many series go on for 100+ chapters on no progression, running the same dumb jokes over and over, even barely inroducing new characters or sublots. The truth is that very well liked main characters and some gimmick is enough for the series to be popular. I guess Serina/Almelia just weren't liked enough, if they were it would have gotten few more volumes I believe. Which is a shame, but oh well.

 

[Kaitensatsuma]

:gasp:

GO SERINA

Lol at people who are trying so hard to justify the axe by "there wasn't enough going on, not enough hook etc." So many series go on for 100+ chapters on no progression, running the same dumb jokes over and over, even barely inroducing new characters or sublots. The truth is that very well liked main characters and some gimmick is enough for the series to be popular.

Also - let's be honest - the Isekai Reborn genre is completely flooded right now and this isn't even one of the ones that would have high stakes action scenes (Slime, Tsukimichi, etc) or relying on the Mangaka's already well regarded reputation in the genre (Combatants, Kemonomichi)

We got lucky with Bakarina and a few of the others.

 

[maeribaeri]

Aw no, what? It's so cute to see Serina actually figure out her stuff for the first time, I would have loved to see her dwelling on this for at least one more volume.
But it is what it is, I guess.
At least it seems like it'll get a proper conclusion, if an untimely one.

 

[CannibalShinobi]

I hope with more isekais getting canceled Japan can lay off this shitty and lazy genre.