this has been on my plan to read section for so long even though i adore ohitsuji ei’s art. if it wasn’t for the end notes of chapter 2 of butterfly-rat swap villainess ( sorry for butchering the title ) it probably would have stayed in my plan to read section. thank god i picked it up to day and binged it in one setting.
first of all thank you haruparty for being gay in love with ohitsuji ei and always doing excellent scanlations 😘 second of all... i wish i had read this earlier. i’m a fanatic for mythology but funnily enough the exact opposite of ohitsuji ei sensei in which i touched upon egyptian mythology during my formative years of camping out in said section of my school library and then falling head over heels in love with greek mythology. mythologies retold is probably one of my favorite things on earth. i’ve been following pjo since i was twelve, song of achilles haunts me to this day, and olympos has a soft spot in my heart despite the mediocre plot line. LIKE YEAH SURE IT HAD PRETTY ART AND WAS GREEK MYTHOLOGY BASED BUT WAS IT AN ANTAGONIST POV??? no. did it brilliantly tie together the inconsistencies between different myths? absolutely not. i cannot keep complimenting this manga enough because it brought to light lesser known version of egyptian myths and then smoothly transitioned it into one most are familiar with albeit through set’s insistence and “lie”. especially that last scene where anubis appeared and it’s more commonly known that he’s the son of set and nephthys. but sensei points out how set never touches nephthys and thus it falls in line with more recent discourse/interpretation that none of the ancient texts actually tie set and nephthys together.
sorry for the ramble. point is absolutely love love this manga. i hope we see more of ohitsuji ei ( may they continue to dominate villainous week amen )