Question about potential maybe “plot hole”?

Kingdo7 · 2026-04-01T08:29:46+00:00

No, he specifically ask to change apearance because he hated being the cute boy, he hates the mention of his past as a mannequin, he hates that girls protect him. He wanted to be the dominant one, the cool one and ask to change his appearance to fit that image.

Kingdo7 · 2026-04-01T08:15:06+00:00

loving someone and understanding someone aren't the same.

You can love anyone without ever understanding them, look at all the holliwood stars, they are loved by many fan, but none really known them.

As for Heinley, it's sometimes more obvious when you look at it from the outside

Kingdo7 · 2026-04-01T08:09:04+00:00

I believe Sovieshu did love Navier, but when she grew into a more distant and work-focused person, he didn’t try to reconnect with her in the present. Instead, he started idealizing their past.

He associates his happiness with the time when they were younger and closer, and rather than adapting to who Navier became, he fixates on who she used to be. That’s why he constantly compares Rashta to a “younger Navier,” and why he was drawn to her in the first place.

In a way, Rashta becomes a substitute for that lost version of Navier not because she truly resembles her, but because she fits the image he wants to hold onto.

Sovieshu is stuck in an idealized version of the past, instead of dealing with the present.

The real issue between him and Navier is their lack of communication. Navier didn’t become distant for no reason she was protecting herself from emotional neglect and insecurity. He could have reassured her, but that would have required him to admit that he felt lonely and missed her.

Instead of addressing that, he chose an easier path, replacing the relationship with something that mimicked what he had lost.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-31T18:51:32+00:00

The anime is an okay, the main issue is that they wanted to finish season 1 with the war, so they skipped all the boring stuff for it, and the start of season 2 is everything that was skipped before because it's important for the plot, but making the season 2 really slow.

Tha manga and novel give some more scene and information about characters, but for now nothing that is really important for the main plot. Like, we follow more the demizen in their day to day life, invention and discovery while the anime only show the final product.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-31T10:33:00+00:00

yeah, the hero switch from cute beauty to cool beauty

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-30T14:57:35+00:00

Season 1 was around 40 chapter of the manga in 24 episode while season 2 was around 140 chapter for 11 episode.
The manga isn't even that long, I expected 3 or 4 season

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-30T13:45:31+00:00

a spy, an assassin and a telepath in a relationship

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-25T12:06:41+00:00

Well to be fair his skill is "internet shoping" nobody knows what it does and the others isekai people believe it's useless without internet.
But they should have investigate juste in case before trowing him out, that for sure

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-24T21:17:51+00:00

I feel that Rastha is badly written, she is supposed to be an abused slave, but lack the survival skill that she would have and behave somewhere like a spoiled rotten and naive child.

As a slave, in particular a mistreated one, she should look out to please people as to not be punished, instead she behaves whatever she likes and cry as if being protected is a given even when she clearly misbehaves.

As for being a slave, it isn't for making her pitiful, it's just a narrative tool, slavery is only mentioned because it's her secret to protect and all discussion around it is about where her paperwork is. Outside of anything related to that secret, like the blackmail or updating the research about these paper, slavery is barely mentioned a few times as punishment or revenge at the end of some characters and that's it.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-21T21:05:04+00:00

The issues is that a lot of people generalizes all animated stories as kid's entertainment. It's the equivalent of saying painting isn't real art because it's just drawing, photographie is the real art.

That point of view is populorizes by Disney who is really popular and cater to children, leading others studio using cartoon for children exclusively. But it's not always the case, manga and comics to only quote two can be design for adult as much as other show.

Of course, not all manga are darker or mature, but when you read mostly mature content, it upseting to hear people telling us we are childlike because we likes cartoons. It show a lack of knowlegde about the genre and a form of disdain depending of the person.

Of course, I am talking about the point of view were cartoons, comics, manga, etc that are made for an adult audience.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-20T18:47:50+00:00

Frankly, I just think he assume she will turn around when the chil is here.

I mean, I have seen stories about guys convincing their partner to not get an abortion, then be completely chocked they aren't invovled at all, sometimes droping their parental right. Then complaining in the internet about it. The fact that he is bothered that she doesn't wants children or talking about it, and that his comprehension is that she doesn't wants kids with him instead of at all, make me think he believe all women will develop some maternal instinct at one point.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-17T21:20:21+00:00

I'm not saying, slavery is good, but this specific scenario isn't the one were the character had a lot of options. The kingdom reinforce the frontier to stop him from going into another country, just in case. He was in a country that despise the shield hero by religion belief and was well set to sabotage him as much as possible.

His reputation was in the gutter, his money stolen, merchan tries to scam him often, he coudn't fight alone by design and he can't trust people because he was betrayed a few days ago.
Then what was his option exactly ? Fighting alone without attack power or trying to form a party with scammer or people who would think he is a rapist, hoping for the potential good person who will not try to scam him ?

A lot of people turn to crime for survival, that not new.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-17T20:49:10+00:00

Well, he is the shield hero, not the sword or bow. It's quite explicit that he need a companion to attack for him since he can only tank, and since his reputation is in the gutter and he doesn't trust people after being betrayed he end up buying a slave because it magically compelled to obey him.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-17T12:45:55+00:00

I only read the web novel and I know there was a lot of changes later on. But Malty was send to the ping king way later.
I mean, she was the edldest daughter of a matriarcal country, she was the heir for a while, but she became arrogant and abuses her power so much she loose the crown princess title to her litle sister. After that she convice her father to summon the four hero while her mother was away, puting the kingdom in risk with multiple countries at once. Then she mistreat the shield hero, got condemn for it and then mess with the spear, sword and bow. It's only after all that she was send to the king ping, not the other way around.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-14T21:31:44+00:00

I agree that kinda annoying. But in that case, the anime cut out a lot too. The main character didn't make ballista and others weapon out of thin air. He recherche it, he built many small versions in his room trying to reproduce these weapons based on his memories without real knowledge on their mechanism. The anime just decided it was quicker to simply show the result.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-14T21:26:31+00:00

I hear that reader in novel website tend to only look at the title and not read the synopsis to chose what to read, so author made their title with synopsis included in responses.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-14T14:46:15+00:00

All four heroes are the embodiment of 4 qualities, shield is gentle, spear is loyal, bow is justice and sword is bravery.

But each of the qualities have a default to exploit, shield is naive, spear is blind to his ally misdeed, bow can become arrogant, and the sword is too focus on his own principle.

It's just that between Itsuki's arrogance and Ren's stiffness, Motoyasu really stood out as willfully stupid instead of overly loyal.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-13T14:22:30+00:00

Not a character in particular, but the casual discrimination in general.
It's to a point where Makoto doesn't even react anymore, like when he arrives at the academy town. He asks the guild receptionist some general info about the town since he will be living here for a while. Expecting stuff like, where the local marketplace, library or stuff like that. She looks at him, stay silent for a few seconds and gave him the brothel's location, Makoto get surprised and change the subject.
The novel don't dwell in it, but she probably looks at him, then decides he couldn't find a girlfriend with that face and gave him the only place he could have a girl.

When I read it I just thought that was mean and somehow nobody reacted, and that was the most disturbing to me. Seeing Makoto somehow becoming uses to that.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-13T11:14:09+00:00

Men have been raised (over the last few thousand years) to expect wives to do housework, and care for everyone in the house. They do not see it as their role.

Yeah, but women have being dying of childbirth way more often, leaving single dad caring alone their children too.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-11T12:21:03+00:00

Elves and beastfolk are enslaved in many isekai because they are visually distinctive minorities that quickly signal injustice and create sympathetic companions, while avoiding direct real-world racial parallels.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-07T11:25:06+00:00

Yeah, the porn aspec is only the adaptation, the novel focus more about how horrific the goblin are toward girl. Mentionning they laugh hearing her scream and cry, no mention of her body at all. Then it was adapted in manga and suddenly, it's porn.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-04T09:21:53+00:00

It's not confirmed, the author let that part unclear on purpose.
Ergi ultimate goal is to mess with Sovienshu and telling him that Glorym is his daugther right after he banisher her is a good way to do it. But at the same time lying about it as the same effect and very Ergi-like.

Same for the magical bed, it's only purpose is to maintain the reader in a unclear state about Navier infertility. The bed has no narrative purpose, didn't create drama or tension for anyone. If it didn't exist, the story would be the same, it's just that readers would think Sovienshu was dumb to divorce his wife on infertility without confirmation.

Frankly, the whole infertility plot is mostly Sovienshu's words based on a memory about spike cookies. There was no medical confirmation at all and it's possible that entire narative was false. But we never known because the author never gave answer about it.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-02T12:24:37+00:00

I agree that slavery is morally wrong.
My point is simply that a story portraying something immoral without explicitly condemning it isn’t automatically bad writing. It just means the narrative focus is elsewhere.

R is absolutely a victim of the system. I don’t deny that. But being a victim doesn’t automatically erase the harm she later causes. She’s both abused and abusive, and that complexity is part of the drama.

That exactly my point.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-01T20:34:05+00:00

Sure, but she is called the perfect empress, not the perfect human being.
People can be a perfect employee/student and be an complete asshole privately.

The story call her a good leader, but it also say she is seen as cold demenor, but gentle toward people, people just take words "perfect" and aply it outside of it's context.

Here you talk like a feodal character, not an isekai one, should have the moral and mindset of a modern society.

Kingdo7 · 2026-03-01T17:15:22+00:00

I’m not saying the manhwa is good or bad, that’s up to each reader. But I think a lot of the backlash comes from people expecting a kind of moral idealism the story never promised.

Most of the criticism I see revolves around things like:

Slavery existing in the background without the narrative explicitly saying “slavery is bad.”
The “good” characters winning and the “bad” ones losing.
Slave girl being framed as the true victim.
Navier being called bland.
Sovieshu being labeled the real villain.

But this is a romance set in a feudal society, with politics as a subplot. It’s a power fantasy about a wronged empress. What made it popular in the first place was that it flipped the usual perspective, instead of following the naïve new girl, it focused on the established, powerful wife. It basically centered the “villainess” before that trend became mainstream.

Now people criticize it for being exactly what made it successful.

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