Manga 147692 I Shall Master This Family

I LOVE IT !!!

The art style definitely suits the characters and story. It makes it more visually appealing and we have a more realistic take of how the characters look and can easily tell their expressions.

For an isekai-time travel type of manga, it’s very interesting. The story is unique (I am not an active manga reader so I don’t know about others except those that already have an anime).

What makes even more enjoyable is that there are no supernatural characters. So no one is over-powered and it lessens the impact of how they’d have to include that and if that happened we would ... have had some boring fight scenes and power explaining. I love that the author chose a more simplistic approach.

Love love it. It’s so smooth and cute, nothing unfavorable has happened so far and I love the direction it’s going in. I can easily follow the story and actually enjoy it. I believe others that pick this up will enjoy it too.

Woe to the Empress 💀
I don’t like her. And her son but they are the villains we need hahaha.

Everyone needs a father like Gallahan 🩵

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▶Summary and recommendation: -----------------------------------------------------------------
This is one of the pillars of the otome isekai genre. An absolute recommend to genre fans, or those wanting to check the subgenre out.

It is a wonderful light power fantasy / revenge fantasy that is able to keep the tensions up even though the protagonist holds all (or at least a lot of) the cards.

▶Story: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
❗The textile / clothing industry plays a big part in the story, but I am sadly not well versed enough in commerce and textile history to know how accurate or realistic the manhwa handles ... this topic. I do not believe it is too unrealistic.

The setup is somewhat contrived and unrealistic, but it sets up an enjoyable story that is about the main character getting revenge and changing her fate. This is mostly done indirectly through anonymous schemes and plots involving commerce or political influence orchestrated by the main character. Quite refreshing for this genre.

The setting is that of a generic albeit well realised European medieval setting (in reality, it is closer to early modern setting, but people usually mistakenly call this Medieval). It is however apparent that the author put some extra effort in some parts of the world building.

Some genre fans have criticized the pace at which the protagonist ages. Much of the story takes place during her childhood. Too much of it according to some readers. I disagree!

There are a myriad of problems that the main character needs to deal with in order to save herself, and there is no logical reason for her to delay until she is older. So a time skip would be disruptive to the story. Instead we get to see the characters grow up incrementally. One day at a time. To me a much more natural pace.

▶Characters: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The protagonist being an "isekaied" person is acting a lot more mature than someone her age realistically would, and surrounding characters do not react to it the way they should to seeing her mannerisms.. The story has weakly hinted at other characters dismissing this as her being a prodigy, but I would have liked the story to try and address it more than it does.

▶Romance: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The romance may be a bit off-putting. The characters act older than they should in the field of romance and courtship. Though not *too* much older.
Sometimes they display age appropriate misunderstandings and naïvetë. Which is quite charming.

▶Artwork: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The art is gorgeous and it lends itself very well to the story. It does an excellent job at showcasing emotions during tense and emotional moments of the story. The manhwa's intricate dresses and use of earthy colours makes it stand on the top among Otome Isekai art wise.

listen. it's tolerable. the art is good, even though we're stuck in the childhood phase for way too long. the most annoying thing is how OP the mc is. after 50 chapters it gets so tiresome. we get it, her family is sooooo powerful and everyone loves tia. male lead is incredibly bland and generic, from his personality to his backstory and appearance. i will give the fl credit for having a cool character design, and her family members also credit for being cool. but all her political initiatives start blurring together until every conversation with her advisor is word salad with "lombadi strong!" thrown ... in a few times.
not a terrible read, but gets really repetitive with time. do not read if you like to see the mc overcome struggles. do read if you like extremely op mcs.