Hime Kishi wa Barbaroi no Yome

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Short update: now the series is licensed for volume release.


I’m sort of surprised that Seven Seas is picking up something Kodansha initially licensed, but this does have precedence (they published print versions of Tokyo Revengers because Kodansha didn’t want to deal with the whole swastika thing) and I guess it makes sense here (see: the bathing scenes where the protagonist has a very visible bush)
The pubes are important.
 
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Neither side is without bloodshed, specially her country given how they keep taking lands from the natives of the land for purely greed, because they don't even care to help their own people and ruin the land by destroying the ecosystem.
That's not something that can even happen for a medieval kingdom... They have no way to destroy the ecosystem, and if they did they would disapear before having the ressource to attack any other country.

Also, it's clearly stated in the first and second chapter that her country is a barren land, so they HAVE to go to war to conquier land that can be used as farm land.

The truth is that she has found a place where she can be herself truly, where being a warrior and a woman aren't mutually exclusive, because do you think she could be both where she came from?

Veur treats her with respect and admires her as a warrior, and obviously finds her attractive as a woman, look at what she herself says her future would if she were to return, she would a second wife, never allowed to pick up her sword again, relegated to a life she doesn't want, hidden from the world in some palace, likely forgotten and shunned, while in the West lands she is respected, admired, seen as an equal by everyone else, she can live her life as she desires, she is not forced to choose either being a warrior or a woman, when offered a better life I think most would choose it
That's the generic random BS every mediocre Japanese mangaka use when they wnat to portray any country as the "bad guy" toward women, because they have no idea about how things work and it's easier to reuse the exact same low quality feminist BS that other throw around randomly.

This is not possible to take it seriously when everythings about her motherland is the most random, generic and poorly writen.
If she was so oppressed she wouldn't have been allowed to be a knight... She would have already been married so this entire story would not exist...
 
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Slow pace and lots of text.

I recommend reading it with your brain turned off.
 
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Not very good manga.

First you have princess of a country that doesn't know that dragons and all mythical beings live next to her country. First thing in conquest is sending scouts so she would learn firsthand about them. Even if some can turn invisible, dragons can't and on top of that they are huge so you could see them with your own eyes from afar.

Second you have country with barren lands, slim or skinny warriors and little knowledge of magic. On other hands country with warriors that all look like bodybuilders that hunt for dragons, they live in abundant lands and even soldiers know how to use magic. Somehow first country is aggressor and not second one with much better military force.

Third thing of course church is bad guy like in most japanese media. Boring and beat like dead horse.

Overall:
-art not good like in frieren, style not recognizable like in Dungeon Meshi but it's Ok
-romance is decent but MC is too defensive about it
-worldbuilding is really bad

If you want romance then it's 7/10, if you want fantasy story with great worldbulding then it's bad 4-5/10
 
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2 years ago i placed it in high priority. Now? I think i will be dropping it.
Manga raises many interesting topics but feels like cheap and stupid liberal and feminist manifesto targeted at female audience.
If you align our world history, sociology and psychology (which should be applied even in this sloppy fantasy work) it breaks immersion.

Meet FMC - Poster girl for every feminist, career orientated. First she will accomplish her mission and then she will think about family and children WHILE stringing along a guy.
Second, control of her partner through sexuality i.e. nothing will progress until i finish MY mission.
Older than her partner i.e. 26 vs 18. Biological clock isnt being taken into account especially important since those are medieval times.
Idealistic to a fault. I was like that up to 22-23 (it was a gradual process). Her ideals being: to make peace with east and west....idealism at its finest since nothing comlex is being provided as solution despite there being literally 6 princesses before.(but somehow our FMC will find non-complex resolution to something that is insanely complex in real world standards .

Meet MMC - Over 6 feet, 6 pack and a future king (6 zero salary equivalent). He is strong yet emotional, funny yet serious, loving yet stoic...you get the idea a man who only exists in fiction.
Is super gentleman towards his captive. Captive doesnt have anything official in title or didn't commit, yet receives royal treatment.
Despite being 18 in body his mind is of old sage but somehow falls in love to male fantasy anti-thesis.
A person who has options yet sticks with career orientated lady who has a mental age of 18y old.

I could write more but seeing this absurd interaction between main leads is enough. Why? Because psychology and sociology are things that can't be easily discarded by words like "chill, its fantasy".
Lastly author raises important topics but the way they handle it? Its like a teen who doesnt know shit is trying topple everything but his understanding isnt deep enough.
 
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Doesn't
him being her sister's child
count as incest?

Either way, my biggest gripe is the noble savage trope. The interactions between the two are cute tho.
 
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Doesn't
him being her sister's child
count as incest?

Either way, my biggest gripe is the noble savage trope. The interactions between the two are cute tho.
It's not actually her sister by blood, though they are related.

Also does really still it count as savages when they live way more prosperous lives and have access to technologies that outperform anything those that would be the so called civilized people in that scenario can do on average?

Like the only savage thing about them is this population of people living in a dense forest use wood instead of stone for their buildings, and that they have a warrior culture, though in a way the "civilized" knights have that too.
 
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How did this make the 'Spring Recommend Reading' list but it has no chapters available? I get that they were pulled down because of publication.
 
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2 years ago i placed it in high priority. Now? I think i will be dropping it.
Manga raises many interesting topics but feels like cheap and stupid liberal and feminist manifesto targeted at female audience.
If you align our world history, sociology and psychology (which should be applied even in this sloppy fantasy work) it breaks immersion.

Meet FMC - Poster girl for every feminist, career orientated. First she will accomplish her mission and then she will think about family and children WHILE stringing along a guy.
Second, control of her partner through sexuality i.e. nothing will progress until i finish MY mission.
Older than her partner i.e. 26 vs 18. Biological clock isnt being taken into account especially important since those are medieval times.
Idealistic to a fault. I was like that up to 22-23 (it was a gradual process). Her ideals being: to make peace with east and west....idealism at its finest since nothing comlex is being provided as solution despite there being literally 6 princesses before.(but somehow our FMC will find non-complex resolution to something that is insanely complex in real world standards .

Meet MMC - Over 6 feet, 6 pack and a future king (6 zero salary equivalent). He is strong yet emotional, funny yet serious, loving yet stoic...you get the idea a man who only exists in fiction.
Is super gentleman towards his captive. Captive doesnt have anything official in title or didn't commit, yet receives royal treatment.
Despite being 18 in body his mind is of old sage but somehow falls in love to male fantasy anti-thesis.
A person who has options yet sticks with career orientated lady who has a mental age of 18y old.

I could write more but seeing this absurd interaction between main leads is enough. Why? Because psychology and sociology are things that can't be easily discarded by words like "chill, its fantasy".
Lastly author raises important topics but the way they handle it? Its like a teen who doesnt know shit is trying topple everything but his understanding isnt deep enough.
It strains credulity for sure. Right now the frustrating pace is because the FMC is taking every possible side quest when she should just send a letter home that says "I'm fine, enjoying my best life. Feeling cute, may get married soon UwU btw, you wouldn't believe who my mom-in-law will be..."

Instead we've been spending the slow slog of complicated world building. Interesting, but this thing just keeps going with it
 
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It strains credulity for sure. Right now the frustrating pace is because the FMC is taking every possible side quest when she should just send a letter home that says "I'm fine, enjoying my best life. Feeling cute, may get married soon UwU btw, you wouldn't believe who my mom-in-law will be..."

Instead we've been spending the slow slog of complicated world building. Interesting, but this thing just keeps going with it
Thank you for updating me.
I would likely not read it again. I'm taking a long vacation from manga/anime/LN's from Japan and before that i placed a 2 or 3 in my personal library (meaning: READ ONLINE IF COMPLETELY OUT OF IDEAS WHAT TO DO, which doesn't happen at all in my life).

As i stated and stand corrected: Feminist wet fantasy manga. I rage about losers getting harems, cause let's be real the most action ordinary (modern) japanese MC's will get is changing from their right hand to the left. As a guy, i feel my feminine side goes dry and i only hear my feminine side only when it screams throughout dimensions.
I hold the same standard for gender reversal, with less scrutiny I admit (I will not lie like majority about being slightly biased)
 

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