#darisha

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Darisha

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Miren aka Darisha via Watch4Beauty

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Darisha - By Sauluoi0101 (7.5/10)

I cannot fathom why the author added a reincarnation element to this story. Darisha stands out from the crowd in multiple ways. It's spicier than most fantasy webtoons and the reincarnated character isn't very important. The plot centers around two decent characters with good chemistry.

This webtoon takes place inside a novel called The Princess's Sweetheart. It's about a tragic evil wizard named Darius, who falls for a powerless princess named Asha. They are both trapped in different chains. Asha's mother died, and the current head of the harem hates her. She gets bullied as soon as she leaves her quarters. Her father, the King, can't and won't save her. Even he can't interfere with womanly harem politics. The Queen has all the power there. Asha wants to escape, because she knows she will never be accepted in the palace.

She has a dream. She wants to run away and marry a normal man. The Queen intends to marry her off for political power. Women in the harem don't have much freedom at all, so the idea of becoming a peasant is exciting for Asha. She likes to bake, so her fantasy is owning a bakery and raising a small family. Asha is "quirky". When I say that I mean she's boring but the author does try to spice her up. Asha is capable of anger, resentment, and crude jokes. She would love to kill the Queen, but she knows she would get caught.

So, Asha pursues romance. She has a secret lover named Darius. They exchange letters often, and she loves....his face. His incredible looks haunt her dreams and she drools when she sees him. She calls him a tasty chocolate bar more than once. She's weak to handsome men, and she doesn't want to accept a miserable political marriage. She plans to run away with Darius before her father starts approving fiance candidates.

Then we see the truth. Darius isn't a cute village boy. He isn't even in love with Asha in the beginning. He used her to get inside the palace. He poses as her servant, and he tortures harem guards at night to get information out of them. Darius wants revenge. He latched onto the lonely princess so he could get an alibi and a convenient room in the palace. He's also an extremely powerful evil magician, so as soon as he gets inside the castle walls the guards are doomed. Ghosts start haunting the halls and the maids can't sleep at night. He unleashes hell upon them all slowly, and soon the entire castle is gripped by paranoia.

Darius has an insanely long, complicated backstory. Magic is rare, so he was imprisoned as a child. Then he voluntarily imprisoned himself because he didn't want to accidentally hurt anyone. He feels like a monster and he lost everyone close to him, so he keeps his magic a secret. He never actually tells Asha he has magic. She catches him. He's a really secretive guy and he lies alot. Also he daydreams about killing his enemies all day.

Why?

The royal family killed his mother. An unknown assailant sexually assaulted her before she died too. He couldn't get back to his village in time, because he was in his solitary castle practicing magic. By the way he's super overpowered. He can make teleportation doors and other ridiculous things, but he is not a god. He knows that greedy people can capture and imprison him. Plenty of nobles would love to use him as a tool. That's why his powers are a secret. Even if you're overpowered you have to sleep and eat. His mother wanted him to be safe, so they lived apart, and then she died in the worst possible way. He blames himself, because his mother's death is connected to the royal palace. The same royal palace that really hates people with magic. His mother was a maid in the palace. He assumes that her assassination was actually torture. The soldiers that violated her were trying to find him. That's what he thinks, but he's wrong. The truth is even more complicated.

The worst thing about Darisha is the pacing (and the random reincarnated character). Darius falls for Asha way too fast. He offers to kill the Queen and all of her snobby sisters by like chapter three??? Huh??? Like I get it. Asha is super nice. She's not loyal to the King or the Queen. She is Not Like the Other Girls. Her mom was killed by the Queen because harems are ruthless like that. Asha spent years of her childhood depressed and alone, but the author maybe should have made this particular development slower. In chapter one Darius is ruthless and his feelings for princess Asha are a lie. He used her naive dream of freedom and love to get past security. Then by chapter four he's willing to massacre her enemies. Um. Did I miss something?

Then it gets a little more cringe. Asha rejected a fiance candidate named Kurush, because he was ugly. He worked hard to lose weight and then he came back handsome. He proposes again, and Darius breaks a shit ton of rules. Remember, he's Asha's servant right now. The prince could behead him anytime, but Darius sasses him. Darius gets in the way. Darius insults Kurush for like three straight pages. Kurush is also obsessed with Asha. She is his ideal bride, because she said one nice thing to him years ago. Ugh. I hate that trope. Anyway, Kurush is dead set on marrying Asha. He wants her even though she has no political power, and he's the first prince of his country. Asha doesn't even want to be a princess, so being Queen would be hell for her. Kurush doesn't feel necessary. So, the author makes him a narcissistic joke character. I guess his scenes are kind of funny, but he feels like a waste of time.

*cracks knuckles*

I hate this. Read my lips, fantasy comic book authors. I do not want to read about reincarnated isekai women. Period. Full stop. Stop. I especially don't want to see obvious self insert characters ten chapters in, after the main plot has already been established. I really, really don't want to see a side character that is randomly from another world. I super don't want to watch that character flirt with Darius. Trust me. My anger is justified. This plot point is so pointless. So boring. So worthless. So unrepentantly bad that it kind ruins the whole atmosphere. Sigh. Her name is Sholeh. Sholeh is a harem maid who reincarnated into the world of this novel. She can't go back to her world until she...ugh....ow...the cringe...makes her OTP canon. I wish I was making this up. Sholeh accidentally flirts with Darius and causes annoying misunderstandings. She doesn't need to exist. She shouldn't exist and thank goodness the author kind of phases her out of the story later on. Burn Sholeh author. I'll pretend she didn't happen and your fans will respectfully do the same. Everybody makes mistakes. I forgive you.

Then the plot gets good and weird. Darius thought his mother was a maid, but she was actually more important. The King was obsessed with her. An abandoned palace near the castle is dedicated to her. The King will never let anyone else move in as long as he lives. Does this mean Asha and Darius are siblings?? Probably not, but it means they are entwined in a messy way. It looks like the King tried to force her to love him, but then she got pregnant and ran off. This explains why she was killed. She had the King's love, and she was a mere maid. The Queen was part of her gruesome death, so that makes sense. Neat.

Focus on this author.

Not Sholeh.

Forget Sholeh.

There is no reincarnation in this webtoon. It's a really cliche arabianish drama with a crazy magician guy. The art is sometimes really good. Ignore Sholeh and have fun.

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Summary:  With the help of technology, vampires can go out under the sun now. But the bloodlust is still there. Wealthy vampire families started recruiting the people to legally suck their blood with contracts...

Available on Webtoon and Tapas!!

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My favorite manhwas - Part 2

part 1

1. Kill the villainess.

Story: A modern day girl, dies and reincarnates into the villainess of a novel, Elise, the only daughter of Marquis. A villainess who is jealous of the kindhearted and loving female lead, Helena. Due to her torturing Helena, Elise was ultimately killed by the Male Lead in the novel. But the reincarnated Elise has only one goal in life, that is to get back to her original world.

So the thing about this manhwa is that, I only ONLY care about Elise. I just don’t care about anyone else. The male leads are straight assholes (except for 1) and Helena, she is just getting too much attention for no reason or maybe for being the female lead, who care? I mean, there are people who like her and they are who don’t. I from the latter, who thinks that she is getting too much love just because she’s the FEMALE LEAD. The only character I sympathize with is Elise because she’s just minding her own business and just wants to get out of the god awful novel world, but she is looked down upon by almost everyone.

The crown prince, who according to the original novel is the male lead and his marriage is fixed with Elise. But this son of a bitch loves Helena. So if he loves someone else, the logical thing to do is to break the marriage and marry someone who you truly love, right? Even Elise asked him to break  their  engagement but this coward is to scared to even bring that topic in front of his father. Dude, you’re the crown prince, a soon to be king. If you can’t even solve your own problems then how are you going to protect your country. And I’m not done here, he is also a domestic abuser, slapping Elise just because she said she doesn’t want to associate with them Helena. Throughout he just keeps finding a reason to torment Elise. 

Helena, it would be much easier for me to hate her if she is two faced bitch, but sadly she’s not. She is actually kind and always wants to be friends with everyone and wants everyone to be happy. I’ve seen how the original Elise, tormented her and I did feel bad. So guys  what would you do, if there is a person who keeps tormenting and abusing you from time to time? If it was me, I would just stay away from that person, I’ll just run away and promise myself that I’ll never associate with that person again even if I forgive him/her. But this girl is just ignoring everything even after Elise CLEARLY told her, she doesn’t want to be friends with her. Girl, understand that, and leave her alone. After clearly telling her that she wants to be left alone, and when Elise tries to leave, Helena tries to stop her and accidently slips and fall. The male lead, conveniently comes at the that time and saw Helena on the ground. He started to get the wrong idea that Elise pushed her. At this moment, I was thinking, ‘okay, Helena, you have one chance to prove yourself here. You can go up straight defend Elise, when she’s falsely accused.’ But no. She just stands their quietly, acting all innocent and Elise gets slapped by the male lead for no reason. This is why I hate her.

Oh geez, Even after writing this much, I still can’t vent my anger. I don’t care about anybody, except for Elise.

2. Darisha (18+)

Story: Asha is a young princess and she has a boyfriend Darius, who is a commoner. They both are madly in love and one day when they decide to meet outside, Darius doesn’t show up. Thinking that he is going to break up with her, Asha comes back home and receives a letter from Darius, telling that he’ll come to meet her in her palace. But to her surprise, Darius shows up not her boyfriend but as an eunuch.

I love this manhwa for two reasons. 1. Both the leads are super lovey dovey and cute. Darius, one second is like “I should not get involved with the princess. She’s a princess and I’m a commoner and also I’m here for another goal....” and the very next second when Asha shows him her cute face, he starts having sex her. Even Asha, is not holding back, she just causally comes behind Darius when he is cooking or something, seduces him, gives him a hand-job and runs away leaving it unfinished. Yup! It’s hilarious

2. thing I love about this the it’s short and not so dragging. 

3. I’ll live on as a villainess

Story: A modern day girl (again!) gets reincarnated as the villainess of a novel, who attempted to kill the female lead. But after being reincarnated, the new villainess, decided to move away and live the rest of her life peaceful. But the mansion she moved into was in a town where it was snowing and she and her maids were freezing to death. So summoned a demon to fire her fireplace. But then she realized that she made a contract with the demon for satisfying her current need(fireplace) and the demon sticks with her because of the contract. But later she comes to know that she also have to help him in relieving his desires. 

This manhwa is straight up super fluff. Yveria and Harry(demon) both are just straight up so close to each other from the very start. I can’t even say if they are just flirting with each other or they both are actually in love. They both just causally cuddle in bed, and Harry would be in his dog form and Yveria just pecks his cheek time to time. They both also secretly check out each other. When Yveria hears about Harry’s desire, she would be very casual about it and Harry is like “Don’t talk about those kinds of things! You’re still a child compared to me.” and all. It’s just so silly sometimes, that I don’t even care what’s happening in the main story, I’ll just scroll down to their scenes together.

4. Éminence Grise Female Lead Is Trying To Make Me Her Stepmom

Story: A modern day girl, reincarnates into a side character in her own tragic novel that she wrote with her friends for fun. Due to some turn of events, she meets up with a female lead’s dad and he finds out from her that they are in a novel world and the his daughter is going to be facing a tragic fate. So the dad decides to make her his daughter’s personal nanny, and also ordering her to disclose about every male lead in the novel that will associate with his daughter(female lead) in throughout the novel. 

I can’t say much about this one, but it did caught my interest when I started reading it. Currently there are only 9 chapters.

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Cant believe I missed Marius night

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Look at Misha like Darius does. Bless you, Darius.

(Original picture here: https://twitter.com/dariusmarder/status/828333883615633408)

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A short story of my OCs from my own series.