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EP. REVIEW: The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess

... The mundane solution of the current king having a third child seems unlikely, and they haven't suggested anything else...

If the support of the people in that room were enough, they wouldn't be in this predicament to begin with.

Knowing that Anis is a good person and knowing how genuinely positive she feels about Euphie, to me the logical response to Euphie is something along the lines of, "thank you for wanting take a burden off my shoulders, but your sacrifice (i.e. spending eternity alone, losing all your memories) would be several magnitudes greater than mine (giving up magicology and generally not doing what I want to do) so I can't let you do this."

with her biggest ally now firmly in the way.

This gets to what I was noting in a previous post - for the members of nobility outside the king/queen, the king and queen are just figureheads for their authority, pieces to the system. Note the throwaway line about using the king to foster another heir. While I get the intent and want to display this episode as pejoratively about male dominated society, I don't think that misses the totality of the intent. The nobles don't seem much to care if it's a woman or a man on the throne, they just want to maintain their hold on power over the commoners.

To which end makes the conflict here all the more (distressing, I guess is the word I'll choose) as there seems to be zero will by Anis or anyone else on her side to step up to do anything about the nobles. I know someone mentioned the potential for a war, but at this point she has her family and friends willing to back her up, would certainly have most of the citizenry, and I'm sure could manage to even peel away some of the nobles. While it certainly wouldn't be bloodless, are we to presuppose our protagonist cast is so pacifist minded they'd forego anything that wasn't a bloodless revolution?

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If the support of the people in that room were enough, they wouldn't be in this predicament to begin with.

Of course part of Anis' problem is she's been fighting alone for so long, she stuggles to see that she has their support, and struggles to accept it even where she does. Euphie has made very clear her desire to support Anis, both in magicology and more generally. But we never see Anis ask for Euphie's help. Anis actively works to prevent "her" troubles from affecting those she's taken under her wing.

Of course part of Anis' problem is she's been fighting alone for so long, she stuggles to see that she has their support, and struggles to accept it even where she does. Euphie has made very clear her desire to support Anis, both in magicology and more generally. But we never see Anis ask for Euphie's help. Anis actively works to prevent "her" troubles from affecting those she's taken under her wing.



Smashing the old guard is pretty much inevitable at this point, but Anis isn't quite in the place where she's accepted that she can. In practice we've seen that outside the nobility she's got a lot of important support - in the royal guard, the aventurers guild, the city merchants, and plenty of regular commoners. The way this world is constructed, that doesn't equate to political power directly, but it's an important stepping stone.


It's a little stupid of course.. they should clearly be joint queens. The Kindom will just have to figure out the royal succession some other way... they could always give democracy a go, but Euphie becoming immortal is a different sort of solution to the problem.

What makes this interesting is how this is so clearly a learned behavior for both Anis and Al.

Their parents have taught them to shoulder their burdens to the point of self-destruction, but not how to share those burdens with others, even people who are there to help them.

Really, what Anis is doing here is not that much different in spirit than Al telling Euphie they don't need to have a relationship built on trust because they are just doing their duty.

They seem to view the act of sharing their burdens as an almost dereliction of duty. As I said above, the reviewer is 100% correct, Orphanse and Sylphine are terrible parents.

Lay the Dragon's skull on the table in front of these panty-wasted little boys, and offer a deal to the nobility that they can't refuse.

It's pretty nice to see some of the implications of an isekai series be addressed. I don't watch much isekai, but I've never seen an isekai protagonist be concerned with usurping the body of someone else.

I still kind of hate Anis' parents. Getting to retire and farm like they always wanted seems like too good of a reward considering how their bad parenting is the root cause of many of the series' tragic events.

But for my tastes the whole Spirit Contract plot point felt like an ad hoc drop in that was never fully explained.

The biggest issue is that the [spirit contractor] will become a slave to their desires