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Please Marry Me Again, Husband! - Manhwa Review

[Summary from Mangadex] As a so-called "half-noblewoman," Shurya Littenheim was shunned by all in high society except her husband, Grand Duke Kardi Esperand. So when the powers Kardi inherited from his family start to slowly kill him, Shurya gladly makes a deal to sacrifice her own life instead. Upon her death, she's reborn as her younger, single self, and this time... she's doing it all over again! Shurya's on a mission to make Kardi her hubby once more, but is there any hope of avoiding yet another tragic ending?

[Full review under read more]

Basic Premise: A "do-over" style reincarnation manhwa where she dies once, then mysteriously returns to life at a prior point in her timeline. Heavily romance-centric, as it largely focuses on how she bonds with her husband (from whom she was largely distant in her first life) and how said bond can be utilized to try to save them both from a doomed fate.

My Review: I did actually quite enjoy this manhwa. I can't say that the plot was amazing or intricately constructed, but that's not really the focus and the author seems to know it. The focus is, instead, on the relationship between go-getter Shurya and her husband, who she is determined to properly romance in her second chance at life. Shurya herself is not a character that I felt particularly on one way or another; she didn't fall into many of the lazy genre tropes that drive plot forward in what feel like cheap and contrived bursts of inspiration or stupidity, which I liked. She's naive, bright, dedicated, and absolutely interested in her husband, which are not particularly uncommon traits but which overall constructed a character that I felt fondly towards.

Her husband, Kardi, is both consistently respectful of her and similarly shows genuine interest. I actually did enjoy how the author portrayed him as hesitant, but not overly disinterested or frustratingly incompetent when it came to showing his interest in his wife. I like when love interests can be pathetic, but there's a line I draw...I was also surprised by how they allude to sexual interest alongside romantic interest multiple times. It's logical, as they are married nobles, but that topic is often "taboo" in these manhwas and it was honestly refreshing to see it discussed.

Their relationship is one which, overall, felt believable to me as "husband and wife," both in terms of mutual romantic interest and as a partnership.

Overall: If you crave romance, and want to see two people slowly falling in love without contrivances, give this a read. The plot regarding reincarnation is honestly not very strong or interesting, but the character interactions felt heartfelt and real in a way that made up for it. A romance manhwa I genuinely enjoyed much more than I expected to.

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Sketchy vignette comic I did to test out some ideas. I'm not happy how wordy this ended up being! Originally there was even more but I condensed and cut some stuff away, and it's still a lot. I could've reworked this more, maybe add a few more panels or more breathing room, but I decided I don't wanna stress out too much. I'd rather have something to post than not, and I already settled on making a sketchy scene instead of anything polished. 

I wanted to post this as one long strip but the file size ended up being. A bit too much. 

Anyway, this is a scene that happens, like, quite a bit after the opening scene I posted some time ago. Here, they're already more familiar with each other, and have developed... a dynamic. But they get along! They both like wearing black and hate sleeves! (actually they do have a surprising amount of things they could connect over.)

I also made a fun little 3d view for Beriith's horns (here: https://vincered.net/beriith-horn-reference/) and I gotta say, it was good. I ended up cheating w/ the perspective for a more interesting silhouette, but having a reference for the base perspective helped out a lot. If you have characters with annoying horns, I highly recommend getting 3d ref set up. 

Crumbs of context for the hungry:  - Beriith is a demon. Val summoned him. It was an accident; she meant to summon a hellhound to accompany her on her lil journey. She ended up summoning Beriith instead, which is kinda awesome and bad because summoning "semi-human" creatures is thought to be almost impossible and also unethical.  - Beriith is literally stuck with her. As in, he physically cannot move past a certain distance away from her. It's a side effect of the summoning spell; if he was a hellhound, it would be fine, but because he's, uh, a person, it's kinda awkward. Finding out a way to undo it is one of their goals

FAQ: 

- Are kisses hard to draw? Yea. Especially when one character has as big a nose as Beriith does. 

- What's with the reaction? Is he not into it? CONSENT?! He's super into it, actually, which is the problem. Due the circumstances of them meeting (see previous post, or find my previous comic about them) he's been trying to be a good boy for once (he is not above flirting with his employers lmao what's professionalism) and Val caught him off-guard and he's incredibly upset about it because he didn't expect to be caught off-guard. 

- What's next? They pretend it never happened and never talk about it again. Val finds her aunt, they unbind Beriith, he leaves for his home country and they never see again and Val becomes an arch mage.  Yeah. Let's go with that.

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that theres something wrong with nagai kei

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For @dcmkkaishinevents' one prompt challenge:

"I won't be good company."

"Doesn't matter."

Do check out how the others interpreted this prompt at the kaishin events blog and the ao3 collection!

Trigger Warning: Implied Major Character Death

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Hanamaki Takahiro (3rd year)

Had the feels for makki these past few days. (He’s so yummy haha)

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Hello!

Collab with the wonderful @elofrommars. It was so fun to make this. Lots of laughts, screams and injured limbs, but I guarantee to you that no children or birds were wounded during the production of this strip. Not much.

For the ones who saw my older Hawks (hello @baezetsu​, @waxwingedhawks​ xD), that was me studying possibilities for this strip and I ended up getting excited. Well, a female!Dabi should appear something around here, but it’s for another time.

I hope you enjoy <3

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“When they were young, people said that the relationship between them was nice. The Count lived with the lady, and the lady also said she would marry his father. Maybe she couldn’t forget the memories of that time.”

“What a fool.”

Suddenly, the surrounding became quiet.

I lifted my head, my dad and brothers were staring at me.

Dad asked me,

“Blaine, who do you want to marry?”

This time I bring you a little comic based off of a scene of a korean webnovel called "The Baby Rising a Devil" to which I am both completely obsessed with and upset it doesn't have a webcomic yet, so ya'll will have to make do with this. Hope ya'll likey!