Mystia has contact with someone. They become obsessed with her. If not an MC, they obsess to the point of going to hurt her. Her obsessed but want to protect her MCs rally to protect her. Mystia is oblivious.
Rinse, repeat.
BOOOOOORIIIIIING.
2, not going to seek out the next volume, stars.
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This took me forever to read because I just was not feeling it. Like I’ll still continue on with the series, but I’m hoping that the style changes, and that we’ll actually see Mystia come into her own.
I waited for this installment to come out for months, and I find my obsession with this story reignited as I read this volume, and I'm already dying for more! Picking up where readers left off, Mystia Aren is the villainess in an Otome dating sim game called Kyun-Love, and the main character finds herself reincarnated into Mystia’s place. Much as she’d like to follow through with the game to the end, no matter what she does to not have all the handsome love interests, those love interests keep falling head over heels in love with her! Those love interests include—
Raid—Mystia’s fiancé betrothed since childhood after Mystia saved his mother from death and his parents’ entire marriage, which resulted in Raid getting a little brother he adores far more than anyone else (except, perhaps, Mystia…?) Eric—Mystia’s childhood friend; he was antisocial until Mystia entered his life and brought him out of his shell; he may be a flirtatious playboy now, but the only girl he has true eyes for is Mystia! Jey—Mystia’s teacher; he’s the forbidden love interest who plans to propose to Mystia the day she graduates high school (if I had to choose a crush amongst Mystia’s love interests, Jey would be mine!) Robert—Mystia’s love interest in the enemies-to-lovers sort; Robert once despised Mystia until he saw how passionate she was towards helping others, which changed his perception of her completely (honestly, Robert is my least favorite of all the love interests…)
I don’t know how I feel about this aspect of the book, but… Raid is off his rocker! He’s so obsessed with Mystia that he’s decided to do anything to keep her with him, whether that’s lose his mind to jealousy (which he’s seemingly already done) or sully his surname of Nocter (which he’s willing to do). There was a part of me who liked him before, but not so much now. The way I see love, it’s selfless and sacrificial. If you truly loved someone, you’d put their happiness before your own; if you truly loved someone, you’d sacrifice your time and effort to have them smile. It’s seldom easy, but what Raid feels for Mystia is, I think, a selfish obsession in place of true love. He’s going insane and is dangerously unpredictable. That alone either makes this book so good or so dangerously bad, and I have no clue which it is, so I don’t even know if I like that aspect about Raid anymore…
Overall, my favorite character in this series is Melo the maid. She’s selfless, loyal, and protective in all the right ways, and she’d be the perfect lesbian love interest for Mystia. Mystia herself said it would be so easy to be with Melo, so if anything, their relationship would be a great representation of a bicurious-turned-lesbian romance. I doubt that’ll happen, but I’m not giving up my hope that comes to fruition. Concerning a specific love interest, my favorite is Jey, the forbidden love interest of Mystia’s whom I think would be best-suited for her and would prove to be the most romantic of all love interests. Purposely keeping a distance, forbidding himself to cross the line, proposing to Mystia at graduation, her accepting his proposal, their happy ever after—so damn romantic!
As I read this book, for the majority, I felt excitement, concern, confusion, and a rather odd sense of dedication to this storyline—
Excitement, because the plot has twists and turns I don’t expect until I look back on them Concern, because Mystia is in uncharted territory from altering the sim game so much Confusion, because the side characters within Kyun-Love spend most of their time obsessed with protecting Mystia, who knows something is different about their behavior but won’t come out and ask, Hey, what’s really going on…? And finally, an odd dedication to this series, because I started it, and even though I don’t know which way is up or down, I want to finish it, even if a guaranteed HEA isn’t promised
Silly as this sounds, I loved any scene between Mystia and Jey. I cheered mentally when Jey and a few of Mystia’s friends visited her at her family’s estate. Jey kept harnessed passion under control and kept a respectable distance, but it was clear he was worried about her regardless, and I loved the scene where he protected Mystia prior to her elongated stay at the manor. Jey is a hero, through and through, and again, I adore him so much as my favorite love interest in the lot!
There were few scenes I disliked about this book, but I would’ve preferred a scene or two where at least a few characters were more truthful to Mystia. Love cannot be built on lies, and Raid’s strange obsession with Mystia isn’t love, just madness. The servants are dedicated to keeping Mystia safe, but I feel they’re going about it the wrong way. It’s irritating I can’t change that, but if I write a fan fiction on this series, only then would I be able to make this manga more my own, if that makes sense…? Also, if I could give any character in this series any advice at all, I’d advise Raid Nocter to get some therapy!
This book was indeed a page-turner, even by the standards of short manga novel volumes. I didn’t want to put the book down, and the only slow moment that broke my heart for Jey, the love interest character I love most, was his inner dialogue over his fears of Mystia falling out of love with him. If I were in place of Mystia, Jey would never have to worry about that! I’d be his in a nanosecond!
This manga was targeted for fans of shojo romances, and that’s exactly what I am, a lover of love stories, manga and otherwise! I loved every moment in reading this, and the only negative factor is the rest of this saga has yet to be published! Give me more, Sou Inaida!
This book continues to be interesting, but it's definitely got more than just an undertone of psychological horror. Why is Mystia being attacked daily? Why is everyone so obsessed with her? I don't know. I'll keep reading, but my hopes is that she will escape the whole thing. Or run away with Alice. She seems nice. But probably isn't, given everyone else.
Since it takes forever for each volume to get released I actually had to reread the previous volumes to remember all the details. I forgot how dark this series was getting. But even that didn't prepare me for when everything hits the fan in this volume. There was a moment of surprise when certain clues missed along the way suddenly came to fruition, but still seemed quite surprising how things came about. There's a number of characters that seem to have some sort of history with our heroin that is very suspicious. It's amazing how much development has gone into just the back stories of her servants and some hidden past details they have. She seems to be incredibly naive and uninformed as she's surrounds herself with very capable and dangerous admirers. It seems that the people around her fall into one of two categories overprotective or a passion becoming yandere... At this point all her suitors feel like they're about to break and there love and passion is starting to twist. I'm starting to really wonder what's going to happen for her, too many people are starting to get into the zone of super creepy and morbidly dedicated. It's very interesting, I hope I don't have to wait a year for the next volume to come out.
It is really hard to decide on a rating for this series. On the one hand, I find it difficult to tell certain characters apart, and they are all cute on the surface but deeply, deeply disturbing inside. It’s like reading a horror that is disguised a fluffy romance. Mystia is completely oblivious to how everyone around her is unhealthily obsessed with her. Her servants would like to keep her locked in the house for her safety, and you get the feeling that it’s only a matter of time before they make it happen whether or not she agrees.
I basically expect the characters to start offing each other in an attempt to eliminate the competition. Mystia herself is kind of irritating in her worry that she will harm Alice, the original main character of the game. It’s one of the tropes that I dislike the most, when a transmigrated character refuses to understand that she has completely changed the script and keeps acting as she needs to avoid certain events. Just don’t harm Alice, and the problem is solved.
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I found this one a bit disjointed but it had been a year or so since I read volume 4 as I was waiting for this to be translated to English so that might be part of my issue here. Everything to do with the servants has my attention, who are they all really? Especially Melo, how did that deep relationship between her and Mystia come to be? Who is Melo really? Why is Mystia constantly being attacked and why is it being hidden from her? I want to know what is actually happening! I feel like following the servants would be more interesting than following Mystia. The obsession with Mystia by basically every character is a too much for me. Everyone wants her and if they cant have her nobody can. Definitely a lot of toxicity happening with many of the characters. All of them seem to be going insane. Mystia doesn't notice how all these people are obsessed with her and she is oblivious about so much.
Still, I enjoy the art and the strangely dark tone it is shifting into is interesting. Hopefully its not too long of a wait for the next volume.
This series proved to be a little harder to follow coming in with the new release and not having read the rest of the books more recently for the storyline and characters to be more fresh in memory. Mysteria still seems very concerned that everything is going wrong and her life is at stake, yet it seems like everyone either wants to marry her, be her best friend (or outright idolize her), or protect her. If anything, she doesn't seem to know or understand the depth of everyone else's positive feelings towards her and is baffled that her attempts to make things go right for the previous game's heroine keeps seeming to reveal other stories and not go according to plan.
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I stopped buying the physical copies of this series at volume 4, and I can't say that volume 5 has changed that decision. Mystia continues to be stunningly dense regarding her bizarre interactions with all the other characters — and their increasing obsession with her baffles me. Is there something in the water of this kingdom that breeds yandere behavior in everyone?!
I'm rating this three stars because the art is still gorgeous, and, odd as this cast is, the story engaged me till the end.
I'm really unsure how to rate the series as it goes on. The "everyone is a yandere" aspect moves between comedic and dramatic (though maybe it's still supposed to be dark comedy?). Some of the reactions still get a smile from me, but overall the fixation, particularly within the romance subplots, feels too serious. I can't decide if the parts I like outweigh the detractions to be net-positive or merely break-even.
And the saga of them being crazy continues. Though it kinda felt like it was shorter than the previous volumes. Definitely one of my fav manga series 🥹🫶🏻
story is creeping towards Junji Ito. Or maybe it's a critique on how often "love" in otome games/ isekai stories are actually examples of unhealthy obsession?
2.5/Low 3 stars. This has lost the pacing and plot. The characters seem to shift and more information seems to just appear. The main character seems less and less intelligent and has less and less agency. There is now a build up of secrets with servants that has the potential of extra depth, but if it is anything like the two ornthr reveals in this volume they will be lackluster and add little to nothing (as 2 of the 3 big ones here did diddly sqaut -- the prince's monologue/plan and the student attack on the main) to the main story. What a clunky volume that went nowhere. Way too long just to have one character change her mind with help from the main.
The fifth volume in this villainess isekai makes it abundantly clear that all of the ostensible love interests are very deeply flawed and problematic individuals, such that the protagonist’s lack of interest in them is justified and reassuring.