Just go ahead and call off our engagement!" Gina was betrothed at age 8 at the behest of her family. However she and her fiancé, Carlo, have spent every waking moment with each other fighting. Despite Gina secretly harboring feelings for him. One fateful day, Gina tells him to just call the whole thing off and tries to run away from an unpleasant situation, however she ends up tripping and falling down a staircase which causes her to go unconscious. When she finally wakes up, and after a small misunderstanding, her family believe that she has amnesia, so Gina pretends to not remember asking Carlo to break off the engagement and everything from the past month. However, when Carlo does come to see her, he tells her, not about their engagement breaking up, but that he proposed and that she accepted. Now that he's seemingly all over her, where will their new relationship take them...?! Machibari Makoto Ayase Didn't You Say You Hate Me!? The Troubled Doting Marriage Life of a Strange Duke 1 Yes 2023-05-31 2023-06-02 7.99 No Digital Exclusive collection 6810000008549 MDOQQ Didn't You Say You Hate Me!? The Troubled Doting Marriage Life of a Strange Duke Philia is the daughter of an Earl and wishes to spend her life enjoying her hobbies and doing the things she likes. She has no interest in socializing with other socialites of her age and in dating the opposite sex. She enjoys reading books and listening to the stories of the coming and going merchants. She relied on her parents when it came to marriage. That is when Philia receives a marriage proposal from Duke Claude Morris, who is admired by everyone. Being unable to decline, Philia marries Claude. – On the first night of being married, they return to the Duke's estate where he suddenly pushes her away saying "don't come near me." With a stern face, Claude says "I don't plan on having a man and woman relationship with you," and Philia begins to ask the reason but... Nakami Sashimi Senju Kitasato Otohime Diver 1 Yes 2023-04-20 2023-05-09 8.99 No Digital Exclusive collection 9781955583091 9781955583091 MDOQQ Otohime Diver Sixteen years after the great hydroseism, nearly the entire world has sunken beneath the seas... but that won't stop Tatsumiya Minato from following her dream of becoming a high school student at the Enoshima Women's Ocean Academy! Okito Endo Okito Endo
The artwork was pretty, but the translation seemed rougher than I expected with the art being that fine-tuned.
2, not going to read the next one as I can't stand the above mentioned trope though the MCs ARE quite young and it makes sense but not something I enjoy, stars.
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Apart from one questionable name choice that is either a typo or something that got reconsidered partway through the translation, this is a fun romance in the classic vein. Carlo is clearly taking advantage of Gina's "amnesia" to get his head out of his own ass, and Gina's halfway convinced that he's messing with her, while desperately hoping that he's not. Unlike many manga of this type, neither of them are tsunderes (or any other deres), just two people who keep getting in their own way. The first chapter's a little rough, but once you get past that, it's a romp.
DNF@35%. Not for me. Went from cold indifference to love bombing. The fmc was awful at feigning amnesia. Felt like a will they won't they misunderstanding one. I'll give it a miss.
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Three things I liked about this manga novel (besides the artwork style) include-- 1. The characters' depth of feeling and realistic connection highlighted in the best of ways 2. Carlo's mother, who revealed a secret to Gina about how Carlo's felt for a long time 3. And how this is a full-blown series and not at all a stand-alone manga novel!
I wouldn't say I have a favorite character, but the two characters I'd admit to being eager to learn more about are Lady Gina and Lord Carlo and their origins. They never got along from day one, but why? Gina's had a crush on Carlo from said day one, but why? Was it love at first sight for her, or something more in-depth despite her and Carlo both being barely ten years old. I'm not the one with amnesia, but maybe I missed the part explaining the enemies-to-lovers theme? The characters felt semi-realistic; they're "realer" than powerful mages and heaven-gifted healers in all sorts of high fantasy manga sagas, but I still feel a very fictional vibe to them. The thing that puzzles me most? How are these eighteen-year-old characters so mature for their ages? I had a lot going on when I was eighteen, but I don’t remember being that level of mature prior to... certain experiences I'd rather not discuss in detail at this time. Anyways, did I care about these characters, too? Yes, if an exception or two via Gina's parents; they insisted she had amnesia when all that happened was a fall that caused an aching bump on her head and didn't listen to her much throughout the manga.
Reading this manga novel gave me time to think about cutesy, lighter topics than the heartbreaking backstories of warrior heroines in high fantasy books; I appreciated that overall, and the part that made me squeal in childish happiness was when Gina had a memory of seeing her childhood best friend, who told Gina that a boy held her hand; in turn, Gina squeezed a pillow to death and reacted so funnily! "He squeezed your hand...? Your hand?! That means he loves you back!" I never really had friends growing up, but I like to imagine what it might’ve been like if I had friends to discuss first crushes with. In that regard, I felt a pang of loneliness, but it was overshadowed by a cute love for this manga novel, which I appreciated a great deal!
There was nothing I disliked about this book under the umbrella term of hatred, but I didn't really like how, although Gina's parents did love her, they didn't listen to her and ran with the idea their Gina was suffering from amnesia.
This manga novel was indeed a page-turner; I read it in an hour and a half! Ha-ha, it was a slow reading day at the time! I enjoyed the cliffhanger ending and look forward to reading the sequels. I don’t know how many there are, but I’ll be reviewing all of them on my BookTube channel!
If I was the author of All My Fiancé and I Did Was Fight, But Now He's All Over Me in place of author Machibari, the three things I’d alter to make this book better involve-- Giving Gina's brother a more memorable name because I'll be honest here... I forgot it! I'd add a scene or two giving a for-real forgotten memory of Gina and her brother playing some kid game with Carlo in their childhoods because I think that it would be so cute and deep for Carlo to bring up to Gina in one or several of his many love letters to her. I'd maybe take out the cliffhanger ending, even though I have no complaints about it at this time, but I'd want Carlo's declaration of love for Gina to be experienced in The End, more than just hinted at and continuing forward in the next manga novel.
This manga novel is the perfect mix of manga and historical romance with a few vibes of old-world reimaginings, which I found I liked in this manga while I haven't in others. I'd recommend this book to historical romance fangirls who want to branch out into other literary genres but also want some semblance of a familiar hunting ground, figuratively speaking, because this manga is one I'd recommend to my mom if she saw manga as something different than comic books, ha-ha! I rated this manga 4/5 stars and enjoyed it thoroughly, although this still wasn't one of my all-time favorites. Will I read the rest of this series in time? That's an absolute yes!
Can you have enemies-to-lovers and love-at-first-sight at the same time?
The artwork is good. I’m not too pleased with the liberties that Carlo takes with Gina. I realized he’s supposed to be “all over her”, but he’s pushing the bounds of etiquette to the breaking point. Her supposed amnesia only goes back a month. How exactly is his about face in behavior NOT suspicious?
Very short Manga but pretty cute story so far. I will keep reading. I think Carlo's change is due to his fear that he could have lost Gina in the fall.