쌍둥이 남매의 뉴라이프

SSANGDUNGI NAMMAEUI NEW LIFE

MANGA

STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
Not Available
RELEASE
November 14, 2023
CHAPTERS
159

DESCRIPTION

Reborn as the prince and princess of a fantastical land, Arienne Yuriana and her twin brother, Arhen, should have been living a life of luxury… But instead of beautiful palaces, magical adventures, and attentive servants, the twins are left by the emperor to live with their abusive mother in a rundown castle full of cruel maids. However, after a freak accident suddenly leaves them without a guardian, their father reappears, saying that now he wants them to live in the palace! Thrown into an unfamiliar world of royals, can the twins forgive their neglectful dad and make the most of their new life with him? Or will this world prove too dangerous for the two of them to survive?

(Source: TappyToon)

CAST

Arien Beatrice Yuriana
Arjen Ysilven Yuriana
Eiji Yuriana

CHAPTERS

REVIEWS

Julyfire
24/100
A Failed Attempt to Twist the Isekai Genre
CAUTION: REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

At first, I was excited by this webtoon, since it introduced an interesting twist on the now overdone isekai genre, with two people being reborn into new bodies, instead of just one person.

The twins are Arjen and Arien, who were also twins in their past lives. In their new lives as abandoned illegitimate royal children, they can now telepathically communicate with each other, although it's not really explained if this is turned on all the time, or they need to mentally focus or something to make it work. I suppose it is the latter, as I will discuss below.

However, the story quickly starts to suffer, since it focuses mainly on the girl twin, Arien. She's very, very dull as a character. The twins are very passive characters who have zero motivations besides surviving the torment that they suffered at the hands of their abusive mother and negligent servants. Their lives change drastically when their mother dies, and they're reintroduced into the royal family. It's realistic that they're wary of their new, unfamiliar environment full of new faces, unsure of who they can trust.

But instead of using their newfound freedoms and being on the receiving end of endless adoration from their half-brothers and royal father, they stay cooped up in a room, and rarely leave. A lot of the times, either one of them passes out, or they both pass out. It becomes very tiresome to read this, because instead of focusing on how their new family members react to their poor physical and mental health, it fades to black and starts again when the twins regain consciousness.

I find it strange that the author decides to write this way, when they have demonstrated scenes that the twins are not present for, to show scheming and add mystery to the plot. If they want to only show scenes that the twins are present for, that's fine, but they should stick with it, or not do this at all, since the constant fainting and getting sick is not adding anything to the story, not even tension. Basically, it's a waste of panels.

The twins are very close, and almost exclusively talk to each other with their minds, until the fainting happens, then Arjen starts shutting himself out and Arien is always wondering what her brother is thinking. It makes no sense why he would do that, and it happens all too suddenly. Almost all the new chapters consist of Arien looking at Arjen wistfully and wondering what he is feeling, etc.

That's when you know that the author has spectacularly failed in making this webtoon be a dual protagonist-type story, since there's only one true protagonist, and it's Arien, who is as interesting as a piece of brick. Arjen is only slightly more interesting, simply due to the fact that he's being moody and uncommunicative, but otherwise, the twins have exactly the same personality and are indistinguishable.

The main positive points of this webtoon are the various personalities of their family, such as the second prince and the third prince, who have wildly different approaches in protecting the twins. The emperor and the first prince are basically the same character, and they even look the same, demonstrating a complete lack of creativity on the author's part. The bits of lore about this world and insights on how the royal family is unique are interesting, but there's not enough of this being discovered and built upon by the twins themselves. They show almost zero interest about learning, and they're not very bright.

They constantly (and incorrectly) add up their current age and their past age to bring their mental age to being 20+, when that's not how mental intelligence is measured. Your mental intelligence is whatever the maximum capacity your brain can function at, and being children again, they cannot be smarter than what they used to be in their past life, since you don't get smarter with each year that you live. You can only be as smart as you once were, unless the isekai rules somehow make it so you do somehow get smarter when you're reborn.

Anyway, despite whatever mental age they think they're at, they act completely like children, and think like children. It's one thing to be limited due to the physical strength or capabilities of a child's body, but it's another thing when you throw tantrums and such when you are misunderstanding the situation, without even properly talking about it with the parties involved.

In conclusion, all the dumb plots that are being introduced and false tensions that are written in to extend run time can easily be solved with simple communication. The twins are mad at their father for abandoning them and pretending that they didn't exist, but they never outright say this to him, and he's so dumb, he couldn't find himself out of a paper bag, let alone rule a country, to be honest.
Each new chapter I read is another disappointment.

Overall Breakdown:
Characters: 2/10
Story: 1/10
Art: 5/10
Lore/Worldbuilding: 3/10
Enjoyment: 1/10
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