Munou no Akudou Ouji wa Ikinokoritai - Ch. 1

[AmethystLord]

MC changed cloth style to black but he was already wearing black in as a kid his own flashback?

 

[Kingdo]

So, the girl was actually in love with the previous version of the apparently evil dude because he gave her a handkerchief... some time ago? He can't have been that evil in the past then. Also were they like ten? I DON'T GET THE TIMELINE. THEY LOOK TOO FUCKING OLD TO BE THIRTEEN.

Is the handkerchief scene something the MC did or something from the character's memories? HE said "I should have asked her name." But if it's something the MC did is there some random ass time skip.

This shit is so confusing.

From what I can tell he is having this engagement meeting the same day as he got isekai'd. So where the hell are the memories coming from?

They should be around 7 to 10 during the handkerchief scene.
The MC did give her the handkerchief, the MC and Harold are the same person. He just remembers his past life, but didn't replace him or anything.

See it as Harold and the MC mixes together instead of two different persons.

 

[Izaya_Onisai]

Anyone else noticed that the villains in manga often have better physiques and unique designs, but if the protagonist wakes up as the villain he will have a weak physique black hair and average looks...
I wonder if the majority japanese authors can't self insert themself if the protagonist doesn't look similiar to them...

 

[ShinduPK4]

I genuinely despise the "forgotten childhood meeting" trope. 99% of time, it's just a cheap, pathetic excuse for lazy writers to make the romantic interest fall in love with the protagonist before the story even starts. Of course, it's the same this time.
I really hope that the protagonist isn't a dense cretin, since that's pretty typical for a manga with a setting like this one.

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Still, it has some potential, so I hope it gets better.

 

[habla]

I was literally about to say that

This seems to be the new isekai (This is still an isekai but ya get what I mean), unknown and interesting at first but then every writer hops onto the hype train and it becomes dull

girls' isekai for boys

 

[Ludd_]

girls' isekai for boys

Exactly
"A random girl reincarnates into her favourite otome game as the heroine/villainess" has always been a popular trope but now it seems the guy version has started becoming a popular troupe

 

[CrowGoesCaw]

Is it just me, or has there been an influx of this type of manga

Yeah I was gonna say that this reminds me of that OTHER manga where the premise is basically the same except the MC is blonde and referred to as "Scum"

 

[Nivek]

Exactly
"A random girl reincarnates into her favourite otome game as the heroine/villainess" has always been a popular trope but now it seems the guy version has started becoming a popular troupe

media is cyclical and everyone jumps into bandwagons, so just enjoy those are good enough

 

[welcome2atlantis]

Prince, at least you're not fat. You don't need to go on a diet on top of training.

 

[MaiaAmos]

Wait...did they remove the chapters while I just started reading Chapter 1?

Edit: Urgh it might be some weird error. Sorry but I am not so sure how to delete this post.

 

[Monovar]

Wait...did they remove the chapters while I just started reading Chapter 1?

Edit: Urgh it might be some weird error. Sorry but I am not so sure how to delete this post.

The chapters were missing for me too. But reappeared soon after. Might have been taken down for a short while for some reason.

 

[WillTell]

that's not a good look to give a prince, maid-san

 

[Tavero]

And another one to the trash pile.
There are a lot of villain reincarnation shitsekai slop manga released lately. I wonder if the mangaka all went to the same "how to make your first isekai" workshop.

 

[ibnu-ja]

orefura takes too long for updates
so harold took new series

 

[Slingerman]

Attractive female villain 'not popular among the users?' Well, I guess gamers are different from novel readers.

Villains in stories like Seventh (Ceres),The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs (Marie), and Hazure Hantei (Camilla) are their franchises most popular girls.

 

[essensue]

Attractive female villain 'not popular among the users?' Well, I guess gamers are different from novel readers.

Villains in stories like Seventh (Ceres),The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs (Marie), and Hazure Hantei (Camilla) are their franchises most popular girls.

Sounds like 'villain' is a nickname, though (p.13) - she's actually just the most useless heroine in a game full of beautiful women, and has a nasty personality that picks fights with other characters. So it's implied most players' experiences with her will be "ah, well, that's one for the pile of characters that aren't going in my party" until she turns traitor and gets killed off in a non-playable story event.

So when she's a "bad character," it's not "Oh man, Marie is the fucking worst, I love her," it's "Who? Oh, yeah, she's shit-tier."

 

[Darkshade13]

I've read two stories translated by this group and it's already grating on me that they translate the clumsy way that Japanese characters refer to themselves by name when talking to other people. The "this Alexandra" or "this Joe" when the person with that name is speaking to another.

That's just not done in English and it looks stupid. I know it's meant to show humbleness and deference, but just use "I" and let the context carry things.

Is it just me, or has there been an influx of this type of manga

The manga industry is extremely "follow the leader". If something is even the slightest bit popular it will spawn a bajillion shallow imitators that do exactly teh same thing with one small change.

If the concept is good and you don't mind the repetition it can be good. But if not it creates a sea of lazy copycat dreck that sucks the life out of you.

 

[Qriiz]

A prince kneeling to a duke's daughter? Said girl then hurting a prince? Seriously?