The Female Knight and the Barbarians

[MangaDex]

 

[MangaMangoMan]

Wholesome stuff

 

[Mathias]

@MangaMangoMan Indeed. That and his other oneshot. Dude needs to make a manga.

 

[raincoatkiller]

Why is it that so many manga that are 10/10 amazing are just oneshots? It kills me that this is completed in one chapter while the ten thousand new "generic 6/10 harem isekai" that will get put up on here will have a hundred chapters. Why can't all manga strive to be this level of quality?

 

[Kideuz]

Any chance of this getting a extender version?

I really Hope to

 

[Orange_Orange]

Yeah no this really doesn't work for me. First off the author's need to rationalise everything that occurs through exposition means that there's next to no interactions between the supposed love interests, and thus the amount of chemistry we do have is "oooh, strong ".

Secondly we have what's supposed to be a Norse culture I guess, but gosh does it just feel weird to read. It evokes memories of people who would watch James Bond and assume that's how Britain is. Or in a more modern sense, watch anime and believe Japan is just like that. I've gotten used to the stereotypes that exist about Vikings, but it still certainly weirds me out. (Fun fact, what typically happened is that the Vikings who didn't return how integrated into the local culture. Normandy and Britain are two prominent examples.)

Lastly we have the exposition troupe, whose job is exactly what it sounds like. They are there to rationalise marrying the barbarian by showing how he is not evil and in fact the empire kingdom is evil. What they perhaps could have done is, y'know, have the female lead interact with the village and learning how to live there (usually done by doing a montage). Wouldn't have appealed to the fetish thing the author seems to have been angling for, but would have been a better way of showing the lead learning about the village and coming to make the decision out of her own volition rather than treating it like an answer on a game show.

All in all I won't hesitate to say that this is a bad piece of romance that invokes some creepy stereotypes whilst managing to keep the few interactions that do exist incredibly bland. It's got ok art, but that's about all it has going for it.

 

[DragonTiger]

@Orange_Orange

Lmaooo

It's a one-shot, calm your jets.

 

[Smokron]

Yeah wasn't too struck by this. It's kinda dumb

 

[hasf11]

Aww... its a one shot... too bad...

 

[Pokari]

I have never seen a manga that gives so much lip service to "consent" in relationships, yet makes me feel so uncomfortable. Almost every damn page seems like it's either about sex or the threat of being violated, in some way. And putting the burden of coercing the lady upon her old friends, instead of the barbarians, while making the male lead as some pillar of virtue, really doesn't help things as much as it might when it's done so transparently.

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The author also for instance seems to have not realized that the options of "you can either submit to your suitor or kill him, rejecting him will cause him to be shamed for life" would essentially be emotional blackmail, and is just piling on more bad juju on top of the kidnapping, rather than excusing it. And it all feels way too calculated for me to be able to give them a free pass via cultural relativity.

And if the intention was to point out that the barbarians are better than "civilization", it really got lost in the weeds.

 

[Athanas]

This was fucking weird.

 

[mmmmnThaggoy]

Was interesting until the guy revealed himself to be bishounen guy nr. 17481.
Everything ensuing afterwards quickly helped me realize that this would be another one of those.
"Muh chaotic good, le lawful evil"

 

[tastythighs]

anyone expecting a deep or insightful storyline from a oneshot based on a hentai meme needs to stop it with the crazy pills
it's good for what it is

 

[XNovalX]

Fantastic, lovely harem dude, respec!

 

[4V29LN0n]

Super creepy.

 

[goalski]

Lmao mfs talking bout rationalising and shit
Its a one shot,man calm yo jets

 

[waalex11]

I'm relieved that the man

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wasn't old as he seemed to be with that beard. I would have most likely disregarded the serialization after if the male counterpart was an elderly man.
I'm still a little bewildered by the barbarian's customs and the female knight's lack of options of a good life from living with them being the only saving, with how she'd get raped if she'd go back to her hometown as a knight who lost to the barbarians.

It's decent. I'll check out the manga. 5/10.

 

[Latarus]

i found the precursor and this is pretty good

 

[Tikibo]

Nah, it's crap.