this is not going to be a puff piece
and its an
informal RANT for people thinking about reading this but have standards...
this is like a worse version of seijo no maryoku
2 saint candidates are summoned (1 presumed to be false saint and our MC the true saint)
in Maryoku both have no relation prior to getting isekai'd, the one looking well kept, hair done and make-up on, is assumed to be the saint at first glance
whereas the main girl who works spends all of her time working looks disheveled (#relatable, not everyone gussies themselves up to work at some miserable mentally draining job) is looked down upon at the start as a result (though you find out about this a little bit later when her eyesight improves and her skin looks healthier as a result of being a saint)
in this? we got a "good" girl and a bad girl who torments the good girl for seemingly no reason
-evil for the sake of being evil so to speak
where differences in culture can cause conflict which serves to paint a picture of the society they live in
in this bad girl being a bad girl and all the nobles have a real bad case of "young master" syndrome with some religious-like fanaticism sprinkled on top
hell, nearly identical premises set up in the first chapter... even down to the introduction of the prince
and soon this type of "saint getting betrayed" isekai is going to become over-saturated
just like the cooking isekais
just like the dark hero/villain isekais
spawning dozens more lifeless copies
anyhow on an earlier remark
i say "good" girl b/c really...
the motives of the saint in this have been the following
-she wants to help her benefactor
-the cat is cute
-she knows the scenario and what her mission is supposed to be
-and she wants to get at the bitch
why even look forward to any of that... we've seen the future
we know this bad girl is gonna make a really ugly ass cartoonishly distorted face ridden with malice and contempt when she finally gets her inevitable comeuppance
and so far in terms of art and narrative its been subpar, average woulda been fine i guess
saint can can cast such a ridiculous debuff such as spreading wounds/ injuries/ impurities cuz #reasons
saint coming straight out of highschool makes the conscious decision (without hesitance) to take a slash from a noble, play dead, expecting him to only take a strand of hair as proof of her death
-i daresay she also expected that he wouldnt lead nobility to the spot he slayed her to show more physical proof of her departure to the afterlife
--but she couldnt apply that weird ass convenient insight and knowledge of this world's politics when making her decision to expose that there are potentially 2 saints (she also knows ms.,soon to be mrs
,"bad girl" wants to destroy any shot our protag has at happiness so she actively put a bullseye on her back...)
in terms of tanking a slash to play dead... at least in re:zero when subaru comes back from getting disemboweled even though he "returns by death(? I think its called)" unharmed, he can still recall the sensation which leads to great discomfort even spanning hours since having been straight up killed
hell when i get cut up in a nightmare even i feel an odd numbness and discomfort when i wake up
was thinking 5 was reasonable for all of what we got thus far, afterall... its not so braindead that ill actively avoid it if i see an update while im bored
but as i think about it... a 3 or 4 seems more reasonable, b/c part of me feels like that that line of reasoning in itself is indicative of me setting the bar too low for the 5 star rating
i read some real generic wuxia when im bored and think very little of it
but when you have something so hollow like this, it practically begs every aspect of it to be called into question
the very first pages are shameless and practically cry out, hey this is going to be a meh story with meh characters but in the future the bitch you are going to be made to hate, b/c she's just a spawn of satan, is GOn' GET BOIIIIIIIIIiii
its like with Boruto 90% filler garbage that hurts the brain but hey the first episode (100+ episodes ago) showed the future where Kawaki and Boruto are fighting over a, once again, destroyed Konoha
and Kawaki makes the remarks your daddy is dead so im your daddy now
and everyone's like OOOOooOOohhh Narutooooo my childhood hero and inspiration is deaaaaaad (trying to be a bit humorous amid what looks to be a dumpster fire saint isekai)
btw i left chapter 2 out b/c i didnt feel like getting into convenient old man and convenient "cat" both of whom just look weird and act weird...
the cat's ugly af too, with weird proportions, so even the deus ex machina mascot isn't easy on the eyes
230 ratings for 2 chapters of so so nonsense and a majority of em are in the 8-10 range
woefully criminal
if you just want your braindead edge and characters looking smart and having to take 0 responsibility for their actions
welp this is just for you
nothing wrong with that
but lets be real
OP healing and OP debuff with unclear parameters...
plot practically works to coddle our saint girl, so it looks like her really brash and stupid actions are really calm and calculated in the end...
but i dont wanna continue reiterating the long shizz i already typed above
so, moving on, if thats not what you are expecting...
dont bother getting invested in this and harboring some sort of hope that this will be something that its not.
im of the persuasion that if something is THIS bad in 92-ish pages of content its most likely not going to get better
and if you want something more wholesome
with some drama, decent characterization
Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu is just for you
since some people have real problems
let me clear this up,
i've got nothing against Biamam scans
i love some of their translations and memes (some b/c i dont read everything they put out)
my problems have nothing to do with them im 100% certain they've done the best they can bringing works that us dirty english speaking apes would never have the pleasure of even knowing about.
this is hella long
i think i covered my tracks