Bring the Love - Ch. 2

[QueenKumQuat]

The bunny~~~~~
So uh, this party should be fun... ha haha 😅

 

[jaellybeans]

heeeyy isn't that matcha cookie😍 anyways thanks for the translation!

 

[Aldis]

There's a rabbit eating her leaves!

 

[Nixnaw]

The delayed scream cracked me up.

 

[shiirosagi]

Oho it was very big yes? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[jdexo1]

so she is a traditionally beautiful woman, but also over 180cm and much stronger than the average adult male. Yes, that makes sense, she totally wouldn't be like a blonde Arnold Schwarzenegger but without a penis.

 

[AevaEl]

@jdexo1 A woman can be that tall and strong without being an oiled, androgynous bodybuilder. MC should have some muscle definition under those dresses though, should we ever get to see it.

But really though, why are people far more ready to suspend their immersion in a story when a female character has prime protagonist characteristics like strength and fighting ability?

Are women only breasts and a pretty face, even in fiction where all people can be anything?

 

[jdexo1]

@AevaEl yes, exactly. Apparently women are only pretty face and tits even in loosely-based German Empire Germany. God forbid having a shoujo manga protagonist that has flaws.

A Brienne of Tarth-like character would've been much more amazing narratively, but I guess the author has to make her super hot lest the yandere ML doesn't even look at her. It's as if the author wants to have it both ways: Making the protagonist an empowered, no-need-no-man kinda woman who defies the societal standards of the times while at the same time having her being the typical damsel-in-distress pretty girl that needs saving; appease both the “progressive” women that are tired of the same cookie-cutter romance story and the girls that just want a typical one.

 

[AevaEl]

@jdexo1
From the synopsis, I also expected her to be more like Brienne of Tarth. But shojo must shojo...

It's a common issue in media and society. No one wants to pay attention to women unless they meet whatever criteria counts as beauty in that culture.

Tiring trope, but not going away anytime soon.

 

[Trashcandy_Snorter]

Rereading this series because I can and it's so good 🥰

 

[Greyvenn]

By the age of ten, she became famous for being able to carry adult men.

Swol ten-year-old.

 

[NinkNikkita]

I love our heroine already! That belated cry 🤣🤣 and the rabbit... 😆

 

[luca17]

Her eyes looking downward.. lol!!
Thank you!

 

[looc64]

Lol she gave up finding a husband after "a couple days"

 

[Exkelsior]

Ok I'm getting some mary sue vibes from this chapter. I hope I'm wrong but if this features a Mary sue and bad art I gotta jet

 

[StickyTar]

I mean I gotta give credit for making the ML disfigured

its kind weird tho, like I'm not used to the ML being ugly. Lol the dude looks like a mix between scarface and Todoroki from MHA

 

[Gurgling]

Little bunny so so cute

 

[Infinity577x]

Ngl this is a bit weird to me. She sits there staring at a naked dude and even examines and mentally commentates on his junk. Yeah, I get that there are a lot of harem manga out there, if it was a dude ogling a woman and mentally commentating on her body I'd find it just as weird.

On another note, being able to carry adult men as a 10 year old girl? I get that she was a knight, but is there a reason to make her so fantastically strong besides superficially enhancing her character? Maybe it'll become relevant at some point.

Not very enthusiastic about it at this point. Doesn't seem like it's for me, but I'll give it some time to build up.

 

[Infinity577x]

@jdexo1 A woman can be that tall and strong without being an oiled, androgynous bodybuilder. MC should have some muscle definition under those dresses though, should we ever get to see it.

But really though, why are people far more ready to suspend their immersion in a story when a female character has prime protagonist characteristics like strength and fighting ability?

Are women only breasts and a pretty face, even in fiction where all people can be anything?

Ok lets contextualize this - she was stronger than an adult male when she was 10 years old. That's fantasy, superhuman strength. Strength and fighting ability, fine, but why does it need to be stated that she is so ridiculously strong? It just seems like a superficial addition to the character, like I stated in my other comment. If she was out fighting battles then it might be relevant to make her so strong, but it doesn't seem like that's going to be the case.

This isn't a 1:1 comparison, but if this was a narrative about a nobleman who had that level of strength but never meaningfully used it, it'd feel superficial as well.

As for your last statement and your other comment, people like beautiful people, be they man or woman. Many people here are even commenting on how strange it is for the ML to be "ugly" despite the fact that he's not ugly at all, he's shredded to all hell and has a chiseled face, he's just got a scar. In fiction you can choose to make a character beautiful, so why wouldn't you?

Irl, beauty is certainly more of a standard when it comes to women in media. Vtubing has become an option for content creators, so there's that at least, but I don't see the societal perspective itself ever changing. Just an unfortunate reality.

In terms of the trope of a character having little to no characterization/personality outside of their appearance, I think you see that in shojo pretty damn often for MLs. Harems, reverse harems, it's all bad, really. It's a more common trope for women for sure, but it's not the whole picture. Seems that men use the trope for women and women use the trope for men.

Sorry for rambling in response to an old comment, just thought it would be important enough to put it out there.