I'm in Love with the Villainess - Ch. 50 - Sudden Turn of Events

[shinshom]

Yeah let's not even knock her out, not like there is a blood pool of guards next to us...

Letting characters act braindead to create drama/tension is just a major writers sin to me. So lame.

The thing is that they thought it was a simple brainwashing manipulation thing, but it is quite a more problematic thing because of the emotional attachment as well.... not only that her time manipulation gimmick is way too busted lol

 

[NinjaGoemon]

I swear to my love of yuri, if the author make lily sacrificed herself and somehow rewind time for the whole world like a certain other series I've read. I'm gonna cry, what's the chance I read two different series with a saint sacrificing themself

Spoiler

that doesn't happen don't worry

We're into the "fun" stuff now. Can't wait. Great way to end the volume. I ended up liking the additional Thane scenes to the fight with Lilly. Once again, they didn't change much from the source material, just added a bit of spice--and I like spice.

What i thought was interesting was Salas commenting on the king's inability to move without a magic tool. Did he suffer from paralysis you think?

 

[SrNevik]

Spoiler

that doesn't happen don't worry

What i thought was interesting was Salas commenting on the king's inability to move without a magic tool. Did he suffer from paralysis you think?

I just think he couldn't do anything at his age without magical help. Even if he could, Lily would easily block any attacks against her father, so there was nothing to do while she was there besides getting in the way.

 

[shinshom]

Ok why is no one attacking the dad?? I know they are hesitating because its Lilly but like the dad is right there monologuing???

thats the thing, he is mostly monologuing... I would say its ok to leave him alone and just arrest him, thats mostly th problem I would say, but Lily is a big problem and now the vulcan will mess the whole country

 

[Justking14]

God above as a LN reader, those first few pages were genuinely painful to read! And I absolutely love the parallels they drew with the two young girls looking up as Everything they cared for and tried to protect goes up in flames

 

[shinshom]

I swear to my love of yuri, if the author make lily sacrificed herself and somehow rewind time for the whole world like a certain other series I've read. I'm gonna cry, what's the chance I read two different series with a saint sacrificing themself

I understand the fear cause I was scared reading the novel , now knowing the extend of the bullshit the time manipulation would go, because infinite mana potion is already bruh lol

 

[shinshom]

and I have to say again how this is proving time and time again how its becoming a superior version compared to the light novel. This is just way too good how they handle everything.

 

[KairiHawk]

Each new chapter convinces me that the writing is just a load of horseshit designed for maximum surprise possible and not to be actually good, I know the volcano was somewhat foreshadowed but come the fuck on now.

Everything here has been foreshadowed and built up though? Rod wouldn't be in that village in the first place if not for the worry of the inevitable eruption.

Spoiler

There is even a reason as to why the volcano erupted way earlier than it should, but we won't have that for quite a while.

 

[NinjaGoemon]

I just think he couldn't do anything at his age without magical help. Even if he could, Lily would easily block any attacks against her father, so there was nothing to do while she was there besides getting in the way.

Ah that would make sense yeah. I can see that.

 

[GLFanatic]

Was I the only one rooting for Lily this whole fight?

 

[b58]

Everything here has been foreshadowed and built up though? Rod wouldn't be in that village in the first place if not for the worry of the inevitable eruption.

Foreshadowed horseshit is still horseshit, I do remember why Rod went there This manga consistently goes for the most plot-twisty stupid bullshit imaginable, there is no point even in trying to comprehend the whole picture and maybe guess what happens next, because we know it's some kind of crap out of the left field. This kind of thing can probably be done well, more akin to some sort of mystery plot (or I dunno, maybe if the plot twists are absurd but funny), but this just comes off to me as author desperately trying to be very clever and very serious.

Not everyone in the comments is bothered by it because they probably read the source material and they roughly know what's going to happen, but I think an adaptation should stand on its own, I didn't read the novels or whatever and I don't intend to.

I still enjoy the manga for what it is, without reading the original it seems to me like a competent adaptation of what's probably even stupider source material, but it won't receive any awards from me for good story (not that anyone cares ) I guess it just boils down to the fact I don't like this kind of thing.

 

[youdontknowwho]

Each new chapter convinces me that the writing is just a load of horseshit designed for maximum surprise possible and not to be actually good, I know the volcano was somewhat foreshadowed but come the fuck on now.

People have complained forever about bad writings in the later part of the novel, so I'm not surprised.

 

[broadsword80]

Hmm... this is exciting and all, but I kind of feel like a "jumped the shark" tag is appropriate.

If you read the MangaDex description, I feel like everything past the school arc would be way out from what you'd expect.

It's like a yuri/political-drama equivalent of the JRPG "kill a slime in the beginning, kill god at the end".

 

[popo53414]

 

[Khazar123]

The thing is that they thought it was a simple brainwashing manipulation thing, but it is quite a more problematic thing because of the emotional attachment as well.... not only that her time manipulation gimmick is way too busted lol

Who cares what it is, knocking someone out is on the daily in this world so nothing terrible, especially not in a life and death situation. Again there is literally a pool of blood next to them.

There is no logical reason not to knock her out, except for the story trope “oh no my friend is possessed/brainwashed.”.

The problem is that stories that normally have this trope have super humans that are hard to knock out and it’s either get rid of the possession or risk accidental damage or even death to the host.

This is simply a very bad adaptation of this trope that doesn’t fit the situation that is presented to the reader. It makes the characters feel dumb for no reason.

 

[Azalel]

Lily be like

As for the story the only thing i dont like is that they let the father just talk instead of attacking him when they couldn't do anything vs her, she would for sure slip up if she saw them attacking her father.

 

[shinshom]

Who cares what it is, knocking someone out is on the daily in this world so nothing terrible, especially not in a life and death situation. Again there is literally a pool of blood next to them.

There is no logical reason not to knock her out, except for the story trope “oh no my friend is possessed/brainwashed.”.

The problem is that stories that normally have this trope have super humans that are hard to knock out and it’s either get rid of the possession or risk accidental damage or even death to the host.

This is simply a very bad adaptation of this trope that doesn’t fit the situation that is presented to the reader. It makes the characters feel dumb for no reason.

what I'm saying is that there is reason, Lily was basically a lab experiment in this worlds standards, so she is stronger above normal so yeah, it's not as simple as you want it to be,thats the whole reason why she is an odd piece that Rae can't predict.

 

[Khazar123]

what I'm saying is that there is reason, Lily was basically a lab experiment in this worlds standards, so she is stronger above normal so yeah, it's not as simple as you want it to be,thats the whole reason why she is an odd piece that Rae can't predict.

None of that happened here though.
So far all they did was try to exhaust her and give Thane a moment to get through her defenses. When they finally did, Thane said “nope”, intentionally missed his knock out punch and instead went with talk-no-jutsu.

So far we readers have not seen any knock out resistance. So you can headcanon if you want and gaslight me with that. But right now you are telling me things the author has not; not even with hints.

Not to mention that 1-2 chapters ago we saw sleep magic in action. You know, stuff to try instead of talk-no-jutsu.

 

[shinshom]

None of that happened here though.
So far all they did was try to exhaust her and give Thane a moment to get through her defenses. When they finally did, Thane said “nope”, intentionally missed his knock out punch and instead went with talk-no-jutsu.

So far we readers have not seen any knock out resistance. So you can headcanon if you want and gaslight me with that. But right now you are telling me things the author has not; not even with hints.

Not to mention that 1-2 chapters ago we saw sleep magic in action. You know, stuff to try instead of talk-no-jutsu.

It was shown since the first apparence in the unniversity... u can pretend you don't remember, its fine, but it is there. It's not a particular resistance ot knock out, its just a higher specs than others, which was seen everytime he showed up.... and what I said its better explained in the novel, so its not a headcannon, so you could try to be less entitled when you don't know all the info or you are straight not paying attention.

 

[Khazar123]

Hmm... this is exciting and all, but I kind of feel like a "jumped the shark" tag is appropriate.

If you read the MangaDex description, I feel like everything past the school arc would be way out from what you'd expect.

It's like a yuri/political-drama equivalent of the JRPG "kill a slime in the beginning, kill god at the end".

Many stories have the escalation problem, with sometimes more or less breakneck speed.

I think this was fine so far, even though we are only at around 50 chapters, they are long and well filled.

But yeah where to go after apocalyptic volcano.