Delighted to find another chapter to this, thanks.
Sorely tempted to do what’s probably breaking the rules and reply to some comments here with whether their predictions/wishes are true, since I stuck the web novel this was based off of through an online translator and know how it turns out, but I’m not going to do that. Writing this paragraph about that desire helps me not do it.
The fact I am sticking around for manga updates even though I know what happens anyways probably shows that this story is something that people enjoy :)
Just read through all the chapters and the story is something else.
One of the best out there.After a bit of thought. The story is really captivating. Art really good. But still something is wrong with this manga. The MC isn’t kind for the sake of being kind. She doesn’t love for the sake of love. This isn’t a triumph of Good over Evil. The antagonist could vail in misery over protagonist thriving. But no, here the protagonist plots revange appearing good and benelovent where she actually is evil. That could work if the manga would be presented as philosophical in nature to pause and poneder and not as yet another isekai.
The moral that blatant evil is bad and hidden evil is good just doesn’t sit well with me.
One point that I wish to happen before the ending. Extrat the soul of Emi and implant it into clone of Remi or a body of Heroine. Then there would be conflict as Emi is good but Remi is evil.
I read this as pure entertainment, not a story trying to teach a moral and tell you the protagonist’s actions are morally okay. Not every story has to have good triumph over evil, or have a good lesson embedded in it. Also, I don’t think the story intends you to believe that Remilia is a morally good person at all.
I was entertainment but I very much keep an eye on my information diet. Some information shouldn’t be internalized, and I don’t want to involuntarily become immoral person.
All media convey some ideas and I am picky what ideas I want to read about. Social media are involuntarily designed to manipulate minds and my opinion on this manga is an extension of that defense mechanism.
I enjoyed my time but wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
To each their own. I feel as long as I personally recognize something is immoral in real life, I don’t need a story to explicitly condemn it. I don’t think I’ll internalize a nonnegative—or even positive—portrayal of a bad act in a story as okay to do in real life.
I do recognize stories change minds, that little me read a fanfic with two men in a romantic situation, and it helped me internalize gay relationships as just normal relationships like any other instead of some weird thing you have to do in the privacy of your home while straight couples could hold hands outside judgment-free. That to people who think gay people are inherently sinners (or not sinners, but become sinners if they act on their feelings instead of repressing them and trying to be single forever/pretending to be straight) this would be “a nonnegative—or even positive—portrayal of a bad act in a story” teaching me that act is okay in real life. Stories can move the needle on what you believe is moral and immoral, yes.
But I’m also an adult with an idea of what is moral and what is not, and I think I’d be harder to win over on things like murder or revenge that I already have strong beliefs about. I can entertain ideas in fiction and enjoy a story without actually taking on the beliefs it seems to hold, or that the protagonist seems to hold (sometimes those things are different! Lolita has the narrator defend his pedophilia, but the story and author want you to think the narrator is disgusting—it is supposed to be an anti-pedophilia story).
I’ve found a lot of people who believe that anything that’s less squeaky-clean than a Sunday school lesson will inevitably do harm and needs to be banned for everyone, not just their own personal consumption, so sorry if I’m coming off defensive. It’s perfectly fine to decide this is not for you because you prefer stories with more upright protagonists, a clearer moral, etc. and because you think you might be easily influenced into taking on some bad traits. It is just that I have often seen that attitude pair with “everyone will be easily influenced into immorality by this, so it needs to go”—but I know it won’t always.
For what it is worth, I am able to flip off the morality switch in my head and enjoy this revenge manga without feeling the slightest discomfort, while also being adamantly anti-revenge in real life. That was my position before this story and remains so afterwards.
Remilia to me is the literal personification of hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; I don’t see her as inherently evil.
In my worldview revenge is wrong, and this manga paints a picture where revenge is good and outcomes of revenge are good. That fact just doesn’t sit well with me.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. We just have different opinions. 😊
Maybe I’m slow on the uptake but I just realized with this chapter that if this series continues long enough, there could be and should be another entire arc coming in which everything comes apart.
Just as Emi wasn’t really Remilia, Pina isn’t really the Star Maiden.
(Or whatever her name is. Is Pina her original in-universe name? We knew that she was inhabited by an isekaied human, but have we learned her real name, like Emi to Remilia? I don’t recall that distinction being made explicitly, but I don’t remember the details…)
And this distinction between demons and devils sets up a situation in which the demons, who have been accepted into human society because all indications are that they’re not malevolent, could turn malevolent.
And Remilia’s thirst for revenge could well lead her further toward evil than Emi would’ve gone.
All of which sets up the possibility that the demons will begin to transform into devils and pose the threat they were originally thought to be and Remilia will end up, just as in the original version of events, leading an evil force. And it will be up to the Star Maiden, who quite possibly has been present all this time in the back of Pina’s mind, just as Remilia was in the back of Emi’s mind, to be the hero who sets things right.
And just as the trauma of being cast out was enough to overwhelm Emi and allow the original Remilia to take over, the experience of being publicly exposed and humiliated could be enough to overwhelm Pina and allow the original Star Maiden to take over (and just in time).
Huh…
have we learned her real name, like Emi to Remilia? I don’t recall that distinction being made explicitly, but I don’t remember the details
Her name was never mentioned, and I think this was done on purpose.
Good
