Though I May Be a Villainess, I'll Show You I Can Obtain Happiness! - Vol. 9 Ch. 2 - After My Engagement Was Broken Off, My Unknown Brother Came Char…

[Maverun]

wtf did i just read

 

[alkaline46]

cheesiest chapter yet. love it, keep up the good translations.

 

[hurafloyd]

I apologize for the long wait, this chapter took a while.

Spoiler

IMO, This is by far the worst chapter in this anthology, not volume. And it's also quite hard for me to edit because of the text bubbles placement and whatnot. I'm sorry, I'll do better next chapter.

You dont need to do better, the anthology artists do, this chapter was… deplorable in so many ways.

 

[riflow]

I got distracted from everything by the male lead being dressed like Jareth the goblin king and now I can't unsee it.

 

[Darkshade13]

90% of this series/anthology is pretty good.

5% is amazing.

This is the 5% that is awful. Nothing about this chapter was redeeming in any way. Every single aspect of it sucked.

 

[BobTheSkrull]

Like others have said, there's nuggets of gold buried in the garbage. For example, that scene with her losing it and sarcastically going on about knowing nothing about "controlling her man"? That could have been solid if it was the focus of the story and if the art actually met the tone it was trying to set. Hell, the yandere fiance just fucking freezing everything had potential, but they tried to cram a light novel's worth of backstory into a one-shot.

 

[Amimikamoon]

NGL this entire series (and "villainess has her engagement broken" stories in general) has become infinitely funnier to me now that I've learned about "Breach of Promise", which was basically a law that forbade men from breaking engagements.

(Since in real life during the time this law would've actually been enforced, men were the only ones who could propose, women were conversely the ones who had the power to break it off should the man prove undesirable- "it's a woman's pejorative to change her mind", after all. Although given the familial politicking involved in noble engagements, whether a woman actually could invoke this right is another story...)

In other words, every time a man breaks his engagement in these stories, he's doing something illegal.

... Actually, I wonder if that's where the condemnation thing came from? Since the original idea is "a man is trapped by his engagement to a vile woman who refuses to break it off," proving she's some sort of criminal would provide a defense against a breach of contract suit (there is a precedent in real life that a man could file a countersuit if he could prove the woman only got engaged to him for his money) but over time the game of trope telephone led to the current story format.

Anyways, I'm adding "Breach of Promise" to terminology I wish villainess writers knew about, alongside "morganatic marriage"

 

[Nijitori]

I apologize for the long wait, this chapter took a while.

Spoiler

IMO, This is by far the worst chapter in this anthology, not volume. And it's also quite hard for me to edit because of the text bubbles placement and whatnot. I'm sorry, I'll do better next chapter.

I mean the very first one still unfortunately exists. Calling it THE worst in the entire anthology is kinda a stretch wouldn’t you say.

 

[FightingBread]

pure ass ✋😐🤚

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

I mean the very first one still unfortunately exists. Calling it THE worst in the entire anthology is kinda a stretch wouldn’t you say.

There is a reason it has (skip this one) included in the title.

 

[CielarcR]

Thank you for the tl

This by far might be the worst chapter in the anthology, the art is kinda odd and the plot is... ??? Idk what else to say 😂

 

[reteryisk]

I mean the very first one still unfortunately exists. Calling it THE worst in the entire anthology is kinda a stretch wouldn’t you say.

I'd say it depends on if you think a story with a couple good ideas told very poorly is worse, or if a crap idea told competently is.

Credit to the first one, while its 'twist' is a total red flag dogshit, I wasn't confused, its pacing didn't suck and cram a bunch in, and the heroine doesn't looked obviously traced from a CG model half the time like this one is.

Even ignoring this one, there's still one or two stories in this anthology I think are worse than the first (namely Vol 4 Chapter 6 "Let me... Be the Villainess!!!" better art but the twist is way worse and borders on confusing for how much of a stretch it is)

 

[Nixhou]

uncle

WHAT
edit: i was so confused by ice man being called "uncle" that i forgot to read the rest of the chapter.

 

[chendu]

Tanks for the food

I apologize for the long wait, this chapter took a while.

Spoiler

IMO, This is by far the worst chapter in this anthology, not volume. And it's also quite hard for me to edit because of the text bubbles placement and whatnot. I'm sorry, I'll do better next chapter.

No need for apologize ... And I do agree with you on that chapter :x

 

[BrownStorm]

and we're back to dogshit. Thanks for the tl tho

 

[XenoAshura]

lol, that wasn't even a villainess story~
if anything Mr. freeze here is the real villain.

 

[Explosiverose]

Her calling him "big bro" given the context of their relationship was....yikes

 

[Serathe7]

Wow... that was something alright... I was rather shocked to see the stock image crowd characters in a manga rather than a Manhwa, gossip girl, ribbon girl, girl with fan etc.

 

[Angelnickl]

I didn't mind it, but I consume a lot of terrible manga at this point. Felt maybe a little over explain-y and dragged on a bit, like a little more show not tell would have been nice. Most of the other chapters feel like they could be expanded upon in a full serialization, but this one is pretty shut and closed in the one-shot without anything making me want more.

 

[Liar]

Yeah, this is one of the weakest stories from this anthology. I was not invested.