The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady - Vol. 6 Ch. 33

[Pyras]

I love Anise’s smile, it’s so pure which makes next arc so much more painful.

... Wait, there's MORE ? The story doesn't end after this fight is resolved ?

 

[Kaldrak]

reading the comments has made me realise media literacy is dead

Agreed. Some seriously godawful takes here.

 

[ErikTheRed]

Algard did nothing wrong.

 

[Kuraiaku]

...They don't have to tho?
End of the 2nd LN volume would be perfectly fine to end on.
It always baffles me how people try to justify after the fact that "well, you have to cut stuff to fit the anime medium" like there isn't an infinity of examples of shows that prove the opposite.

I do agree to some point but what I write is just a simple response to a simple comment you don't need to be offended and mock me like that, it's not like I'm claiming to be an authority and everything I said has to be correct, I even said "I guess" as in I was also just trying to figure it out. It baffles me how you're baffled by just people trying to have simple conversations.

 

[Salfaro]

With the tendency of manga to just be advertisements for their LN/WN counterparts, seeing a chapter that ends on a half-title-drop has me kind of worried, lmao

 

[AbsurdAsparagus]

the prince is right about the kingdom being shit. but all kingdoms are.

also i wanna add a voice saying that i don’t particularly care if its yuri or not. i prefer political drama over yuri sol always.

 

[BreadBunny]

I think the crucial point where Algard went wrong is that he assumes that Anis giving up her right to the throne was her giving up on making this world a better place whereas in reality her abdicating was her doubling down on magicology as the answer to this world's problems.

And because Algard falsely assumed he was now on his own he correctly assumed he was worse than his sister at everything except for magic (something that he hates) and thus wrongfully concluded that he was going to need extreme methods to change this world, which lead to him doing all of the shit he did.

The tragedy here then, is that had he stayed a little more levelheaded then he would have realised that Anis was already changing the world through magicology and that the title of Queen would have only held her back from doing so

 

[AbsurdAsparagus]

The monarchy, nobility, the church, the corporations, etc. It's the classic villain with good intentions but bad methology caused by the rich trying to keep the status quo to stay rich. It's every superhero plot.

superheros tend to be super cops tho

 

[parkourse]

...hoh.

 

[natchu96]

nah prince still sucks. he correctly id'd the root cause but then decided that the proper course of action was to murder a young woman so he could isolate and assassinate his sister, who also wants to defeat the people he thinks are responsible for all this mess. classic dumbass shit but hell im here for it

i'll def keep reading this tho because the investment is like 0 at a release rate of like half a chapter every seventeen months and i really dug it at the beginning (and still mostly dig it now)

I mean...the plan was to use the vampire to overturn the entire aristocracy with mind control, but then his sister made it all go south and he had to stall her off somewhere so he can just take Lanie's power for himself, as using her indirectly was no longer an option. The fight itself sort of just cropped up in the heat of the moment.

 

[ForTheJerusalem]

Cool, i guess.

 

[Penthero]

... Wait, there's MORE ? The story doesn't end after this fight is resolved ?

There’s 6 LN volumes (4 translated to English) and it’s still ongoing afaik. Currently the manga is at the end of the second volume so there’s quite a lot of material left.

 

[Kaguya-Sama]

Both Anis and Algard are in the wrong here. Anis' way of thinking and Algard's way of doing.
Anis shouldn't have thought to maintain "stat quo" and drop all of her responsibilities onto Algard in the first place but when Algard's method involves the possibility of causing deaths, poverty, and famine as the effect of cilvil wars, then it's not something anyone should just stand aside and watch it happens.

 

[Kaguya-Sama]

The tragedy here then, is that had he stayed a little more levelheaded then he would have realised that Anis was already changing the world through magicology and that the title of Queen would have only held her back from doing so

Not true on already changing the world through magicology. Anis magicology isn't currently spreaded among the commoners and nobility is against that and she wasn't doing anything about that. Anis intended to maintain 'stat quo' even at the cost of her own dream. You'll learn more about what Anis did wrong and what she would continue to do so if not for Euphie after this arc. Algard wanted the superiority of magic and nobility to end while Anis wanted the 'stat quo' of peaceful time.

 

[Willie29]

he knew from the start!!

 

[DarkeLourd]

How can you call that a monarchy when the king is nothing but a puppet, used only to birth more puppets for the nobles to use?

When you get right down to it, a king's power is entirely reliant on how willing other people are to do what he tells them to. Someone unhappy with the king might try disobeying orders, but it will usually go poorly for them*. But if enough of the king's alleged followers start disobeying orders, especially the ones whose JOB it is to punish those who disobey*, the king's orders no longer have any power behind them.

That's not just true in the king's case either. The nobles themselves only have power because their own underlings are willing to do what they are told. Same in any other government; whatever rules in place are really just orders that enough people have to be willing to follow. Same with your bosses at work. Same even with your friends when you sit around a table to play Monopoly. Power disappears if no one is willing to follow your orders.

And the most reliable way to get someone to follow your orders is the promise of mutual beneficence, and then making good on that promise.* "Do what I say and it will turn out good for both of us. See? Now we're both happy" The king has to keep enough individual members of his court (the nobles) happy enough to follow orders, that the happy ones in turn help the king keep any unhappy ones in line. And together, the king and his court have to keep everyone else "downstream" so-to-speak happy enough that they don't rebel in large enough numbers to be a threat*.

And that's the most basic rule of political philosophy. You gotta keep people happy enough with you that they're willing to follow your orders.


*Edit: These points all hint at the alternative: instead of making people happy, make them afraid. Afraid of the violence you would do to them. But the king is still just one person; he can't be expected to successfully do violence on an entire army of angry peasants, or even on the entirety of his court of nobles. So the king would need people to do violence on his behalf: a military. But that again raises the point of how he keeps THEM following his orders. In order to keep anyone in line with fear, the king has to at least keep the military, people whose job it is to do violence on his behalf, happy with him.

 

[wakamo]

10% of this series has been exposition on the prince Mid fight while characters are grievously wounded. 1/4th of the year has been this fight and finding out the motivations and past of the brother.

I just wanted some Yuri and Magic and I'm getting so much information on a character I don't care about. It's killing all the enjoyment I've had so far.

Yeah honestly this is just a waste of chapter because we all know this prince route will lead to nothing anyway maybe I'm wrong but still a waste of chapter imo

 

[Kynnath]

Was this supposed to make us empathise with Al? Because it did the opposite for me. He wanted to help Anis develop Magicology, and when she gave up her claim to the throne to focus entirely on Magicology, placing him in the ideal position to help her (not with the actual research, but from a position of authority), he turned his back on her. He is the one that cut her off, not the other way around. She was always available to him.

It's not even clear why her not being the heir affected him. If he thought she could both be the heir and develop magicology, then surely as the new heir he would have enough time to assist as well. If the position took up too much of his time, the how did he expect her to both lead research and fulfill her royal duties?

Plus, he saw how everyone discriminated against her. They looked down on her enough to gossip about her within the palace even. Between her lack of magic and heretical interests, she would have had a rebellion in her hands in short order, and have him replace her anyway.

Basically, Als problem is he has no spine. He wanted to follow after his sister, but he was never able to speak out against the people who blatantly contradicted his sister's values. He should have told the teacher to stuff it and helped that child, but didn't. He internalized the views of the aristocracy that despised his sister despite claiming to want to change things. And again, all she did was give up her right to the throne at a time when the aristocracy made use of some incident (I don't recall what happened exactly) to blame her and disqualify her. He is a dumbass, and has no reason to feel any resentment at all against Anis.

 

[Thalandor]

... Wait, there's MORE ? The story doesn't end after this fight is resolved ?

as far as I know from here on the story is quite terrible

 

[SrNevik]

... Wait, there's MORE ? The story doesn't end after this fight is resolved ?

No. There's a lot more. It's still continuing.