KANOJO GA KOUSHAKU-TEI NI ITTA RIYUU

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MANGA ComedyGeunyeoga Gongjagjeolo Gaya Haessdeon Sajeong

REVIEWS

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  AsianDisappointment

  35/100
  Bland, boring, and mediocre, though I still wish I enjoyed it as much as everyone else did.

  Did you click on this just to know if you should watch the show or not? If so, your answer’s just a few scrolls away at the end of this review in a TLDR. Otherwise, go ahead and be enlightened with the result of my wasting valuable time whining on the internet about some animated frames. Spoilers ahead, although that doesn’t exactly matter since (IMO) nothing of worth happens anyway.

  When I first heard about this story being adapted into an anime, I couldn’t help but think to myself, ‘wow, out of all of the fifteen million fantasy isekai webtoons, this one’s getting an adaptation?’ I was very curious to see how this would end up, so I decided to watch it. Truthfully, I was captivated by the romance that this series allegedly promised, and me having a massive guilty pleasure in regency-style smut with an interesting premise, I immediately took to giving this a go. However, instead of getting those sweet little butterflies, I ended up finishing it with a sour taste in my mouth that couldn’t possibly be alleviated unless I would complain about it in depth on Anilist.co (real).

  In general, I’m not one to complain about animation. I understand how difficult and time-consuming it is to draw, let alone color, shade, and, in the end, animate it all frame by frame. But in this show it feels like they aren’t trying at all. All of what you would consider ‘cool’ movements (ex. falling, sword swinging, etc) are covered up and substituted with a sound effect, which is, in my opinion, such a lazy way to avoid animating. I didn’t have a problem with it the first few times, but good God, is that the only thing you could come up with? It doesn’t even feel like I’m watching a show anymore. It’s more so a visual novel or just a moving storyboard. In scenes where there is a crowd around, their faces are always greyed out, and this makes the background seem even more empty than if there wasn’t anyone around in the first place. Even the walking sequences, which were probably the only effort to ‘animate’ anything, feels unnatural. CGI is used pretty badly- on the horses and carriages, as well as that one ballroom scene with MC & FMC. I could not enjoy their conversation with the contrast between the different movements (main characters dancing frame by frame & CGI background people dancing), and it feels so out of place and disconnected. Yes, their budget definitely isn’t equivalent to half of that of ufotable’s, but still, could you not try to use what you have in an engaging way? There’s nothing interesting happening, visually. Also, the facial expressions of the characters are so deadpan, and every time they talk, they show legitimately zero emotion at all, especially the main guy, Noah. I could go on and on about how blank and lifeless he always looks, even when he is apparently showing affection for Raeliana.

  And here we go onto my next point. Noah. He’s hot, and that’s his only personality trait. In the first episode, he is described as this devilish, horrible man with a black heart. This description was never portrayed at all, and I’m not taking ‘well, that’s because he just really likes Raeliana’ as an excuse. We never got to see anything other than one of the most uninspiring characters ever saying corny and lowkey creepy things to FMC. He has no dimension. We did see parts of his past that attempted to add character, such as how his mother tried to kill his older brother so Noah could be king, and how his father was deceived by love, but this development was not expanded at all, and, certainly, Noah was not concerned about being ‘deceived’ into loving Raeliana. And to top it off, there was no mention of ‘why’ he even likes her. He just seems so emotionless that I doubt that he could even feel such a sentiment. Okay, you know what, they actually might be right about him being an awful person. There was one part where Raeliana accused him of exploiting her, waking up in the morning one day on his bed, her lower body aching. He didn’t actually do this, but he took her charge so nonchalantly that I was shocked. He did apologize to her, but in the most manipulative way possible, pinning her to a bookcase and sucking on her fingers (what the fuck?) until she said she’d forgive him. If it weren’t for the fact that she was obviously developing feelings for him (who would though, in the first place??), this event is just so creepy if you think about it, and it still is even if she does like him. He is also overly protective and possessive, treating anyone of the opposite gender who might even have the slightest smidgen of interest in her like a maggot on spoiled meat. He appears so randomly in the story, always ending up as the ‘knight in shining armor’ whenever his beloved maiden is in trouble. His voice, while initially pleasant, ends up becoming so irritating with the cringe that he spits out that I do not understand how Raeliana can have a conversation with him without punching him in the cranium every fifteen seconds. The amount of physical touch that he imposes on her is astonishing; there are probably more frames of their hands touching than there are millimeters from Earth to the Andromeda Galaxy. It’s obvious that his VA is trying extremely hard to sound alluring and irresistible, and it just feels so forced at times that I can’t help but laugh at this ridiculous goober. He is much more likable in the manhwa, so if blushing for him is what you want, go ahead and read it instead of watching this.

  The other characters aren’t much better, either. Almost none of them are memorable in the slightest. The main girl is your average clueless shoujo protagonist who tries to use lengthy inner monologues to create the illusion that she’s smarter than she actually is. Considering how this is an isekai, we should probably have a bit of background information on who exactly she was before she became Raeliana McMilan, right? Nope, we didn’t get anything at all. There is zero explanation on her original identity, Rinko Hanasaki, other than the fact that she’s a graduate desperate to get into a good college. So what’s the point in having those moments where there’s a little flash of Rinko’s image beside Raeliana? It just seems so unnecessary for this to even be an isekai, since we know literally nothing about Rinko- what she liked, what she did, her personality, etc. I do give credit that they at least tried to make her somewhat reliant on herself and not a complete idiot. However, key word, somewhat. There are moments where she’s pretty badass, such as that one scene with her taking Noah’s gun and threatening to shoot Francis Brooks, but she always ends up getting saved by Noah anyways. She always tries to ‘get herself together’ around him and seem witty in every single conversation they have. It was entertaining at first but this style of interaction ended up being so overused that it feels like different ChatGPT generations of the same prompts. Here’s how their discussions would go:

  • Noah says something cheesy
  • Raeliana says something insulting/clever
  • Noah seems completely unfazed and says more cheesy things
  • Raeliana starts blushing

  Same formula, over and over, again.

  The antagonists are exactly what they’re supposed to be. Anti-gonist. Against the protagonist. So, they have to be immature pieces of shit, right? Yup, we’ve got the jealous villain woman, Vivian Shamal, who has no character trait other than wanting Noah all to herself (goodness gracious, what the hell do these women see in him?). I honestly hate these kinds of characters, not because they suck, but because they’re not interesting at all. There aren’t any underlying motives behind anything they do, nothing that might make me relate to them. They have no purpose other than to be hated. Beatrice might seem to stir up something cool, but that’s because we also know nothing about her. We see slight snippets that she may be the one wanting to kill Raeliana, but Raeliana thinks about her, at minimum, about five seconds in each episode, before her train of thought is interrupted with the appearance of the incorrigible numbskull that is Noah Wynknight. The only character that I do actually like is Heika, the high priest. He’s funny and has a personality. I do understand why he’s always alone, because everyone else in the story is nothing but infuriating, shallow excuses of ‘people’.

  In moments of high tension it falls flat. Like when the cursed crystal that Raeliana wore in her hair was about to explode, the screen immediately cuts to the shocked but static reactions of the people watching, just like in a children’s gag comedy. It was such a laughable attempt at suspense, and the crude animation made it even more awful. Well, Heika did literally pull a fucking Jotaro’s Star Platinum time stop when that happened, though, so that was kind of one of the only awesome moments.

  The plot itself is a mess. The scenes are dragging, and the progression makes no sense at all. The politics makes no sense. The ‘mysteries’ throughout the show are so blatantly obvious, since, guess what, they were all revealed to us in the first place! While Raeliana spent three episodes wondering who exactly wanted to kill her, we were blessed in advance with this knowledge from a great scene where it was shown to be none other than Vivian Shamal. Seriously, could you at least make these characters just a bit less shallow? They legitimately have as much depth as those inflatable kiddie-pools they sell at Wal-Mart. I’m not sure if this is the right word for it, but the dramatic irony in this story makes it fifteen times worse than it already was. Destroys the very last smidge for any excitement that I could have about it, ignoring all the romance. What was supposed to be the main focus (What’s happening with Beatrice, the isekai world’s protagonist) gets flashes of relevance here and there, as mentioned before, and is only truly the subject in the final episode, but throughout the series it just seems like a side quest, romance being the highlight. Really unfortunate, because I was pretty invested in that, as well, in the beginning.

  Then again, this is probably all on me. I shouldn’t have expected anything more from an isekai shoujo, but whatever, I’ve already written this thing at full length. If you liked this anime, I am personally very jealous of you, since I definitely did not experience here the desperately-sought giddiness, familiar to all, in enjoying a nice, heart-thumping romance.

  TLDR: Overall, I do not recommend watching this. The story flows more smoothly in the manhwa, and it’s better than watching dull, pretty much moving slideshows for 12 episodes (although, besides the eyefull of attractive people, the manhwa itself isn’t amazing after giving it a go). The MC is an irritating and entitled troglodyte and does not come across as ‘charming’ at all other than his appearance. The dialogue and interactions between the characters have almost no meaning at all, and the story just seems to go nowhere with its main narrative. I do have hopes that the next few seasons might be more enjoyable, but, from what I experienced, I’m not very optimistic.

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• 

  MissMajorOtaku

  69/100
  Raeliana's story is a good one, but the adaptation is disappointing next to the manhwa—bland, flat, and meh art

  __[LIGHT SPOILERS MARKED WITH TAGS]__
  #__Overview__
  
  *The Reason Why Raeliana is at the Duke's Mansion* is…
  What, you thought I'd tell you? 
  *Crickets chirping* 
  Jokes aside…this will be the first anime I'm reviewing (and the first one I've watched in general) that I've read the manga/manhwa for before the adaptation. 
  So I will be doing a bit of comparison in this review, unlike my others where I only discuss the anime (because I didn't read the source material beforehand). 
  
  I was confused at first, as the anime itself is Japanese but the manhwa (source material) is South Korean. It turns out that it's simply adapted by Japanese productions, which I didn't find out until after watching episode one. It certainly was off-putting, expecting Korean but hearing Japanese… 
  I suppose it's for the better since the site I use very rarely uploads Korean anime. 
  Now, with that information over with…. 
  
  Eunha Park is an ordinary girl, hoping to pass an entrance exam and get into a college. (Although her name is different in the subtitles…I like her manhwa name better) 
  She's standing on the roof of a tall building when she receives an email stating that she passed. Right as she smiles triumphantly…a stranger comes up behind her and pushes. 
  She falls to her inevitable death. 
  When she wakes up, she's Raeliana McMillan…a supporting character in a novel she read before she reincarnated?! 
  Yep, it's another one of those isekais. 
  Turns out, Raeliana was a supporting character who's fated to die from a horrid fiance. Knowing this…what does the new, clever Raeliana do? 
  She gets into an engagement with the duke, Noah Wynknight to avoid her unwanted fate.
  However, Raeliana's tampering with the novel's story in an effort to stay alive has a more significant effect than she thinks…
  
  What else is there to it? 
  I'll let you find that out for yourself. 
  
  #__The Good/Positive__
  
  The thing I most enjoyed about this was the characters. 
  Raeliana is very badass, landed on my list of fave badass female MCs. 
  Noah has his own charm and wit. Sometimes he's cute, but he's primarily straightforward and likes teasing Raeliana in a way that clearly shows he really loves her. 
  They're a great couple, in my opinion. (But lots of others agree!... I think) 
  I liked Adam a lot, too. His design suits him very well, and his taciturn ways, are similar to a kuudere…~~He's quite cute~~ Heika was also a nice kamidere, though I do wish he wasn't turned into an adult. ~~I like him better in his shota form~~
  
  I'll be honest, at some point I thought Raeliana would be a harem similar to Yona of the Dawn: a girl with one main love interest but a few guys around her who really like her but back off. Skull emoji all you'd like, although I already know this is definitely not the case. 
  
  In all honesty, the anime does make them seem a bit bland in comparison to the manhwa, but I’d like to say that’s because not all the scenes that show these things were adapted. Now that the excitement has worn off, I feel that the anime is a bit unpolished next to the manhwa…I think I might’ve enjoyed the feeling of comparing and reliving the parts of when I was reading.
  
  #__The Bad/Negative__
  
  The number one thing I have to mention is the art style/animation quality. 
  My first impression was that the anime did it better, but after reading through the whole manhwa? 
  Absolutely not. 
  Raeliana does *not* match the orange hair and green-apple-colored eyes. She looks best in brownish locks and pale green irises. 
  The other characters overall look worse in the adaptation. Sure, Adam still has his charm and so does Noah, but only a fraction of it. The way the anime looks just feels so meh after seeing the manhwa. If I hadn’t read the manhwa before watching the anime and instead just saw it as a show I watched for the first time, the characters would feel average looking–just not *meh*. 
  Comparing will really do that to you, I guess. 
  
  I’m also a little unhappy about one of the scenes that got chopped out during the adaptation. I’m going to continue on this a bit below—nothing huge that’s related to the plot but little scenes that I got a kick out of. 
  <span class='markdown_spoiler'><span> The part after Raeliana got kidnapped and Noah and Adam saved her could’ve been better. 
  In the manhwa, during the scene when she takes Noah’s gun and shoots the tree near Francis’s head, Francis pees his pants from fear. Raeliana noticed out of the corner of her eye and thought something about satisfaction. 
  I thought it was pretty funny in that savage fashion similar to those slapping scenes I like seeing. I was a little disappointed when I saw they chopped it from the anime. I’m not sure *why* they did. Maybe it was considered inappropriate for TV or unnecessary to spend time on animating, but still a little sad nonetheless. 
  During the hunting tournament, when Raeliana sews the dragon handkerchief, I noticed they drew it differently. It’s a small, trivial matter but it still bothered me a little. It’s been a while since then, but I think I was bothered cause it looked more like a wyvern. It could’ve also been because it was purple. (I have something against the color after it plotted to end me in Roblox now) I don’t remember other than the fact that I was slightly bothered. 
  However, it was nice how they improved the scene at the ball (I think it was?) where Vivian and Nick had that *encounter* lmao. 
  The sneeze…
  The original was “ah-sly fox-choo!” while the adaptation went “ah-bitchoo!” which I found funnier. 
  In the end, it’s a balance, I guess. 
  </span></span>
  Sometimes I feel like mentioning the little, trivial things. Maybe because I’m doing somewhat of a comparison this time, so I notice them more. 
  
  Let’s get this review over with; I’ve been stalling for at least two months now (I think).
  
  #__Do I Recommend?__
  
  Do I recommend you listen to Raeliana’s story? 
  Yes, absolutely. 
  *However…*
  __I recommend the [manhwa ](https://anilist.co/manga/104973/The-Reason-Why-Raeliana-Ended-Up-at-the-Dukes-Mansion/) over the anime.__
  I have mixed feelings about how it turned out, but while adding sounds, voices, and movements normally improves the experience, it did not help Raeliana very much. 
  I’m not saying it turned out to be the worst trash; however, it’s still bland when next to the original. 
  If you’ve already read the manhwa, then you may be disappointed by the anime, but it’s still worth a go. 
  If you haven’t, I urge you to read the manhwa first or around the same time you watch. 
  Feel like adding another fantasy/romance/shojo anime to your collection? Sure, though only if you’ve already seen “the greats” of the genre because the Raeliana anime shouldn’t be your first impression of it. Unless you are someone who can’t read manga or manhwa (either due to lack of access, time, or manhwa/manga just doesn’t attract you), I will tell you to just pick up the manhwa and think about the anime later. Seriously. I’m repeating this over and over because I really think so. 

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