Endo and Kobayashi's Live Commentary on the Villainess - Vol. 3 Ch. 12.1

[ilaya]

branch family?? so wait is this somewhat incest and is the prince a distant relative of rize-tan or am i just too high right now??

 

[ilaya]

also
>"do not cry, my child."
>romances his own creation
ok

 

[Dreadkiwi]

We are getting META

 

[Nathol]

ty

 

[nawoon]

wtf eggplant bolognese is the good shit

 

[shibaweeb]

@ilaya It's not uncommon for royalty and high noble houses to share distant family trees; nobles would have had to marry into the royal family to climb the ranks, and in turn having a branch family ensures that the royal family will have someone of "proper pedigree" to maintain the "purity" of the royal house (remember that many ancient civilizations had founding mythos that tied their monarch to divinity either by lineage or by ordination). It sounds weird on paper, but chances are enough generations have passed since Rize-tan's family became a branch that calling it incest would be a big stretch.

On a similar vein, a creation has no real blood ties to its creator when divinity is involved. Yes it's like a potter romancing their vase or an artist romancing their own OC but we're also operating on a very finite, mortal scale. Most all gods are written and understood in a much grander, timeless scale: if they do age, it's over thousands and millions of years. After a while I guess it just doesn't matter to them anymore. Zeus is an example of this, seeing as he'll stick his d*ck into any hole that catches his eye, even while said person has actual lineage to another demigod he sired. And as mentioned before, many founding myths link their ruler to divinity; in a way, you could say that anyone marrying into the royal family is already technically courting a deity.

 

[Aria321]

Thanks for the chapter !! =D

 

[ilaya]

@shibaweeb OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH DUDE THAT WAS ACTUALLY SO INSIGHTFUL I FEEL BIG BRAIN'D BY 1%
THAMK

 

[Cremonac]

Hmmm, what if, Finne's rl ver is Kobayashi and Bard's rl ver is Endo... is my theory after reading this chapter.

 

[dementedcockroachondrugs]

our heroine chan is really nice

 

[RalekTheOne]

Man, does anybody ever get sick of the fact that being a noble entitles you to being hot in this mangas? Cuz I don't. At least not with mangas, all the villainess webnovels art-styles are pretty trashy.

 

[iceaco]

@Next_order oo thx it's been a while

 

[xXPenisXx]

 

[Morsealworth]

@RalekTheOne to be fair though, being noble and rich gives you a better choice of a partner to marry, and that allows you to get the best genes out of the pool.

 

[verysurprisedowl]

Thanks for the update!

 

[uwumis]

SO INTERESTING WOOOOO

 

[Yumeru]

that dude is p out of place but we have to have an antagonist right?

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Aryazaky]

I can't believe they just spoiled the game ending like that

 

[Koserpansi]

I just realized something about the character designs... Is it me or the heroine and knight look like endo and kobayashi?

 

[avid_consumer]

@koserpansi I don’t think so, they don’t look that similar, but more importantly they are very emotionally different, at least Baru (knight) is very different to endo in their romantic views and feelings. Also, part of what I like about this series is exactly that our commentator gods are not of the world we are watching, and vice versa — none of the people in the game have any op knowledge from a past life or something dumb. It’s very interesting to me.