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Yune Amagiri
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 10:00 am |
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Nice, this is one of my favorites LN based on revenge and with a female protagonist, for those wondering it's a shounen.
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Jabootu
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 11:44 am |
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She sure looks adorable for someone planning to wreak bloody vengeance on a kingdom.
It's funny how fast an idea can become a hoary cliche. Just a few years ago being publicly denounced and framed by your royal fiancée seemed kind of fresh. Now... Of course, the idea doesn't matter, it's all in the execution (no pun intended), so I look forward to this.
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Gamen
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 1:58 pm |
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I bounced off this one hard when (spoilers for the ending of volume 1) she puppets one of her revenge targets into killing most of his family and family servants, starting with his little sister. And when those run out, moving onto local people in the marketplace, including more children. Poetic, I suppose, given the atrocities that happen earlier, if you ignore the innocents sacrificed to ruin his reputation, or that he'd been (weakly) trying to stop the atrocities and betrays the kingdom to join her before getting stabbed in the back.
Which is to say that I rank it as viler than Redo of Healer.
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MFrontier
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 10:56 pm |
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Definitely Villainess adjacent what with being denounced and thrown into the slammer.
I'm also under the impression that there's no romance?
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Yune Amagiri
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 2:01 am |
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| MFrontier wrote: | | I'm also under the impression that there's no romance? |
There is no romance as of V6; it's mostly about her increasing her financial standing and connections in order to seek revenge, along with a bit of adventuring and facing targets when the opportunity arises.
The first volume was by far the cruelest; after that, it's much tamer.
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Blanchimont
Joined: 25 Feb 2012
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Location: Finland
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 7:55 am |
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| Gamen wrote: | | I bounced off this one hard when (spoilers for the ending of volume 1) she puppets one of her revenge targets into killing most of his family and family servants, starting with his little sister. And when those run out, moving onto local people in the marketplace, including more children. Poetic, I suppose, given the atrocities that happen earlier, if you ignore the innocents sacrificed to ruin his reputation, or that he'd been (weakly) trying to stop the atrocities and betrays the kingdom to join her before getting stabbed in the back.
Which is to say that I rank it as viler than Redo of Healer. |
Thanks for the heads-up, not going to touch this with a ten-foot pole. By that description this ranks up there with The Saga of Lioncourt...
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Tenebrae
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 12:14 pm |
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The blurb just says "future queen" but I assume she's the one marrying to the crown, not the other way around. Because if she were the crown princess, some nobody throwing her into jail would basically mean trying to upend the hereditary order and donning the cloak of a usurper.
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Shay Guy
Joined: 03 Jul 2009
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 2:50 pm |
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Hellsoldier
Joined: 21 Jun 2013
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Location: Porto,Portugal,Europe,Earth,Sol
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:01 pm |
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OK, this turns out to be surprisingly psychotic.
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