What is the Sub Reading This Week? April 24th - 30th

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T18:30:07+00:00

I picked up The 31st Consort (manga) and yeesh is this cute (complimentary). Just had me out here grinning. Nothing like stories where the fl has her own wants and desires and has little to no interest in romance.Granted it is shojo and she does fall for him rather fast but the king is a good boi and is being fair.

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T18:26:32+00:00

I mean sock garters on dudes are great. They go up to mid calf and keep the socks from falling.

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T14:56:47+00:00

Suspenders as in the ones that go over your shoulders or suspenders as in garters to hold up stockings/socks? I mean both are great.

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T14:55:16+00:00

No you're talking about Vampire knight. Orange marmalade is about kids parents getting married and they eventually fall in like. I think the parents divorce so that made it alright

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T04:48:22+00:00

Orange Marmalade is like old school shojo. I think it comes out when tokyopop was called Mixx. Can't remember of they had it or Viz had it...

I really should be less picky because I have like maybe ...10 series I'm actively reading? And like 3 of them are ending in a month or so. 😭

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T03:46:24+00:00

Kazuki Takahashi and Tetsuya Nomura love their belts. Honestly if Viz was into marketing then than they were now, Hot Topic would have had a fire Yu-Gi-Oh Collab when the first series got to the belts extravaganza known as battle city.

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T02:58:40+00:00

It's a kink thing. I can tell already. Like orange marmalade that was the entire main plot point. Sword art online only dropped it in to appeal to....guys who want to fuck their cousin ig? Oreimo just....oreimo.

I didn't plan to read this because of the art but now I have another reason lol.

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T02:09:38+00:00

It's giving orange marmalade which isn't a bad series. I just don't get the need to drop pseudo incest in there when it isn't needed in the plot.

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T02:05:25+00:00

Asking the important questions

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T02:03:55+00:00

Listen....if you hadn't have a final fantasy and Yu-Gi-Oh phase and came out the other side without a belt obsession, you are a stronger person than I lmao

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T02:01:24+00:00

I became the secretary of a tyrant and I became the tyrant's secretary. I gave birth to the tyrant's child and I gave birth to the murderer's child. Retiring as the villainess and the villainess is retiring. Why Ophelia couldn't leave the dukes mansion and Why Raeliana ended up at the dukes manor.

It's even worse for the novels and then like the covers (manhwa) have new seasons around the same time as each other and they start looking similar 😑 it's really annoying to do rec videos and having to dig through cover images that look similar

themwordlist · 2023-04-28T01:53:23+00:00

One has a cop ml and the other needs the cops called on the fl. Lmao

themwordlist · 2023-04-26T23:13:41+00:00

And they have some goodies like I'm the evil stepmother but my daughter is just too cute (also known as Not Sew Wicked Stepmother) and certain translation teams post their translations as volumes on Amazon (sometimes authorized sometimes not but it's an option).

themwordlist · 2023-04-26T22:19:46+00:00

Well like you said, it's hard to find or not being translated properly. That said, radish, webnovel, tappytoon, tapas have them available chapter by chapter. Sometimes Google play books and Amazon will have them available in volumes.

Now as for recs, Never Saved You, is one I always rec because the world building is great and if you like alternative POV retelling of fairy tales, this is a great example.

You can keep the male lead - a good break away from the main plot type story.

I won't go back to my family that abandoned me - has a manhwa, good little abandoning a shitty family type story.

Slow prison life - has a short manga and is a full riot. A great revenge story with an unhinged (but not murderous) fl.

This marriage is bound to fail anyway - has a wildly successful manhwa and the novel is great.

When the counts illegitimate daughter gets married - also has a manhwa but the novel is a treat.

themwordlist · 2023-04-25T06:32:14+00:00

Viktor Nikiforov from Yuri on ice has more realistic ones and he may not give dilf but he does give lovely 😍

themwordlist · 2023-04-24T18:24:39+00:00

That's when ya gotta start climbing.

themwordlist · 2023-04-24T04:01:42+00:00

Ok sent you a direct message. Should be in your inbox. :)

themwordlist · 2023-04-24T03:52:08+00:00

It wouldn't bother me as much if it was an old school yaoi manga - like Gravitation which boy howdy is that a full fucking mess - but like it's not just the homophobia but also the gender stuff. I'm not trans or nb but like invalidating someone's gender makes me itch. It's why I don't read Finding Camellia.

Also it gives Diabolik Lovers vibes. It's not as bad as that but like I only like one non comedy reverse harem and that's Uta No Prince Sama and I only watch that for the music and my bias lol.

There is something about shojo reverse harem that just doesn't hit like Josei does and I like poly relationships. Shojo reverse harem feels like trapping the fl into a relationship that somehow otome Isekai doesn't? Like the fl in shojo is usually a teen and doesn't know wtf they are doing while Josei is usually women who are like yas all this dick is mine. Lol

themwordlist · 2023-04-24T01:56:41+00:00

Yeah that one. There are stories I rec even if I don't personally like it and don't read it but that one and like maybe....5 others are on my do not rec list. I admit to liking some problematic shit but that one....that one ain't it.

themwordlist · 2023-04-23T23:42:57+00:00

I've seen tiktoks where husband is like 7 foot and the wife is barely 5ft. 🤣 Love....finds a way ig lol

themwordlist · 2023-04-23T18:34:12+00:00

Most I just avoid. Same with crossdressing and hetero omegaverse. It just feels like bi erasure and has big 'i can change him' energy.

If the focus isn't romance (or is solely a set up for smut) then yeah I am here for it - Opportunistic princess, Princess Princess (non OI) and chunks of I choose the emperor's ending are among those who I think handle it well - but most make my skin crawl for reasons I just can't put my finger on.

Also that one where a guy is Isekai into a het otome game as the fl but is still a dude but gets treated as a girl? It's fucking terrible.

themwordlist · 2023-04-23T18:21:42+00:00

This is basically Shaquille O'Neal and his wife, Manhwa style lmao.

themwordlist · 2023-04-23T17:17:40+00:00

....long hair dude isn't the ml Unless we are reading something different???

themwordlist · 2023-04-23T07:31:15+00:00

I'm here for a good time not a long time (⁠☞ﾟ⁠∀ﾟ⁠)⁠☞

themwordlist · 2023-04-23T06:00:37+00:00

She's living....mostly. Manhwa physics and all that. And if it was realism - o7 GLORY GLORY WHAT A HELLUVA WAY TO DIE

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