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Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter Vol. 1
The story of a young woman’s struggles after being reborn into one of her beloved romance otome games–as the antagonist!
Iris, an otome game addict with no time for romance, gets hit by a truck after getting out of work–but instead of dying, she finds herself in the world of a game she’d played just hours earlier. However, she’s not reborn as the game’s protagonist, the main heartthrob of the harem. Instead, she starts her new life as the antagonist, right at the moment she’s being sent to live in a nunnery–for the rest of her life!
Iris, an otome game addict with no time for romance, gets hit by a truck after getting out of work–but instead of dying, she finds herself in the world of a game she’d played just hours earlier. However, she’s not reborn as the game’s protagonist, the main heartthrob of the harem. Instead, she starts her new life as the antagonist, right at the moment she’s being sent to live in a nunnery–for the rest of her life!
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September 16, 2018
This book's blurb is misleading - and underrates the book. The opening chapter is generic: A young Japanese woman is struck by a car and finds herself in her dating-sim game as Iris, the antagonist. But Iris, now possessing some of an older woman's knowledge and maturity, is far more three-dimensional than the romantic setting in which she finds herself. She walks away from that setting, and that's the last we see of it.
Instead, she returns to a home where she is loved and respected, and makes a good enough impression that the Duke 'banishes' her to their home duchy - as its governor. The rest of the book lays the groundwork (to be built upon in subsequent volumes) for her efforts to reform the duchy and make it prosperous.
If you enjoy - or think you might enjoy - a well-written manga with such a theme, this book is well-written, well-drawn, and worth trying.
Instead, she returns to a home where she is loved and respected, and makes a good enough impression that the Duke 'banishes' her to their home duchy - as its governor. The rest of the book lays the groundwork (to be built upon in subsequent volumes) for her efforts to reform the duchy and make it prosperous.
If you enjoy - or think you might enjoy - a well-written manga with such a theme, this book is well-written, well-drawn, and worth trying.
April 23, 2019
I don't really think anything happened...
September 13, 2019
Here's another portal fantasy (isekai) about a woman who is killed (?) in an accident and ends up becoming a character from a video game she was playing before she died. Iris was a tax accountant in her life on earth, and her new identity is the daughter of a noble family who has recently been exiled from the capital of a kingdom, and sent back to her father's duchy. Iris's father gives her full administrative rights over the duchy, and it's up to Iris to make sure their land is economically stable and prosperous, and that its territories have their tax audits on schedule every year.
This story has a slight "infotainment" vibe to it. It reminds me a lot of Spice and Wolf or Maoyu, jumping into the nitty-gritty of economics and commerce not long after the story starts. I'm not entirely convinced that a single person could initiate an entire duchy's transition from feudalism to capitalism, but that's the setup, so let's roll with it!
Another thing that's unconvincing is Iris's psychology. Early on in the book, the main character says (paraphrased) that her consciousness and Iris's were merged. From there, this merged Iris has all of the memories and knowledge of both minds. This makes her able to negotiate both her new life with the duchy staff, and her state-building projects that rely on the Earth character's knowledge, with little or no impediment or difficulty. It's kind of hard to believe that neither initial consciousness would experience even the slightest dismay, disorientation or disagreement about this situation. Meld away, it's all good!
But psychological realism is really not what this story is about. The main focus is on its concepts, and on Iris managing and guiding her cadre of ex-urchin attendants as they introduce chocolate and capitalism to the world. The setup's pretty interesting, but much as with the aforementioned Maoyu--which I got bored with after a couple of episodes--if the characterization remains this slight, this will start to feel more like a textbook with a cartoony facade rather than a story and I'll leave it behind.
The art is initially attractive, but on longer acquaintance feels bland and not very distinctive. This reads like a licensed title, art by committee. Not a bad thing, necessarily, just kind of forgettable.
This story has a slight "infotainment" vibe to it. It reminds me a lot of Spice and Wolf or Maoyu, jumping into the nitty-gritty of economics and commerce not long after the story starts. I'm not entirely convinced that a single person could initiate an entire duchy's transition from feudalism to capitalism, but that's the setup, so let's roll with it!
Another thing that's unconvincing is Iris's psychology. Early on in the book, the main character says (paraphrased) that her consciousness and Iris's were merged. From there, this merged Iris has all of the memories and knowledge of both minds. This makes her able to negotiate both her new life with the duchy staff, and her state-building projects that rely on the Earth character's knowledge, with little or no impediment or difficulty. It's kind of hard to believe that neither initial consciousness would experience even the slightest dismay, disorientation or disagreement about this situation. Meld away, it's all good!
But psychological realism is really not what this story is about. The main focus is on its concepts, and on Iris managing and guiding her cadre of ex-urchin attendants as they introduce chocolate and capitalism to the world. The setup's pretty interesting, but much as with the aforementioned Maoyu--which I got bored with after a couple of episodes--if the characterization remains this slight, this will start to feel more like a textbook with a cartoony facade rather than a story and I'll leave it behind.
The art is initially attractive, but on longer acquaintance feels bland and not very distinctive. This reads like a licensed title, art by committee. Not a bad thing, necessarily, just kind of forgettable.
March 12, 2020
This is a classic case of premise versus execution where execution is sorely lacking.
The idea that a Japanese woman is reincarnated as a game villainess isn’t new, but in this case she enters the story after it’s too late to change things, so she tries to alter her character’s denouement instead.
That’s clever. It pivots into her ruling over a fiefdom and trying to fix a lot of its problems and sounds SO much more interesting than it really is. I’m not saying a good work about economics can’t exist in this space (it does and it’s called Spice & Wolf), but this is pretty lame.
Her cadre of supporters being all orphans she saved is ridiculous and gets relentlessly dull after a point. A half dozen characters with essentially the same backstory is incredibly annoying.
Then the solution to one village’s problems (spoilers) turns out to be that nobody has figured out how to process cocoa. Sigh. I get it, I get it, but it still feels like a cop-out to doing something more clever with the story.
Add to the mix art that isn’t terribly great and dialogue that’s both poorly edited and clunky as hell in places and what are you left with? One or two good moments that are nowhere near good enough to save it.
The ‘My Life as Villainess, etc’ light novels cover this same ground to WAY better effect and far deserve your time over this book.
The idea that a Japanese woman is reincarnated as a game villainess isn’t new, but in this case she enters the story after it’s too late to change things, so she tries to alter her character’s denouement instead.
That’s clever. It pivots into her ruling over a fiefdom and trying to fix a lot of its problems and sounds SO much more interesting than it really is. I’m not saying a good work about economics can’t exist in this space (it does and it’s called Spice & Wolf), but this is pretty lame.
Her cadre of supporters being all orphans she saved is ridiculous and gets relentlessly dull after a point. A half dozen characters with essentially the same backstory is incredibly annoying.
Then the solution to one village’s problems (spoilers) turns out to be that nobody has figured out how to process cocoa. Sigh. I get it, I get it, but it still feels like a cop-out to doing something more clever with the story.
Add to the mix art that isn’t terribly great and dialogue that’s both poorly edited and clunky as hell in places and what are you left with? One or two good moments that are nowhere near good enough to save it.
The ‘My Life as Villainess, etc’ light novels cover this same ground to WAY better effect and far deserve your time over this book.
January 14, 2019
What the JUNK?
I bought this because I thought the premise sounded really fun and the reviews I saw online were good.
But this manga is so shallow and completely squanders the amusingly dumb premise that it sets up!
So the idea is that an office lady in Japan who loves dating sims is hit by a car and wakes up as the villain in the game she was playing. But the story rushes so fast we barely know anything about her before she dies/goes into a coma/whatever, so we have about zero investment or understanding of who she is before she is whisked away into another world.
Worse, she isn't even surprised in the least when she wakes up inside her game! She just immediately accepts it and apparently doesn't really miss anything about her old life, doesn't even think about what she left behind, and instantly falls into her role perfectly.
I was looking forward to watching her deal with being a villain and being treated badly by the other characters or dealing with gaming tropes or something, but instead of actually being a villain, we soon find out that her character is a super saint who actively takes care of suffering and abused children and is loved and adored by her underlings to the point of nausea. Even the villainry that she apparently does at the beginning (bullying the heroine of the game) is presented as being exaggerated by the heroes so that the villain is a victim.
Then the game elements are basically forgotten so that our new heroine can become a lord of a fiefdom as a "punishment" and we get to look at the economics and.... zzzzzzz snork snooooore
The characters are so boring, the writing often awkward, the premise traded in for a boring and generic world. What a disappointment!
I bought this because I thought the premise sounded really fun and the reviews I saw online were good.
But this manga is so shallow and completely squanders the amusingly dumb premise that it sets up!
So the idea is that an office lady in Japan who loves dating sims is hit by a car and wakes up as the villain in the game she was playing. But the story rushes so fast we barely know anything about her before she dies/goes into a coma/whatever, so we have about zero investment or understanding of who she is before she is whisked away into another world.
Worse, she isn't even surprised in the least when she wakes up inside her game! She just immediately accepts it and apparently doesn't really miss anything about her old life, doesn't even think about what she left behind, and instantly falls into her role perfectly.
I was looking forward to watching her deal with being a villain and being treated badly by the other characters or dealing with gaming tropes or something, but instead of actually being a villain, we soon find out that her character is a super saint who actively takes care of suffering and abused children and is loved and adored by her underlings to the point of nausea. Even the villainry that she apparently does at the beginning (bullying the heroine of the game) is presented as being exaggerated by the heroes so that the villain is a victim.
Then the game elements are basically forgotten so that our new heroine can become a lord of a fiefdom as a "punishment" and we get to look at the economics and.... zzzzzzz snork snooooore
The characters are so boring, the writing often awkward, the premise traded in for a boring and generic world. What a disappointment!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 29, 2019
This was an okay story. I think I might have enjoyed it a bit more as an anime though. For the price, I'm not entirely sure it was worth it for me. I liked Iris, and the art, but don't think I will get the next one. The anime Maoyuu Maou Yuusha has a similar premise (reforming the kingdom, although here it's a fiefdom) through taxes and laws and things. It was somewhat interesting, with nice art, but nothing outstanding. I'm curious to know more of the academy backstory. I felt a bit confused by the lack of backstory, and the plot wasn't very interesting. 3 stars. I'm glad I tried it, but it was a bit expensive.
June 24, 2019
The series' unnamed heroine is a young (youngish? one of her coworkers calls her ma'am) office worker at a tax firm who stayed up all night playing her favorite otome game. She has to work late and, on her way home, doesn't pay close enough attention to her surroundings and gets hit by a car. She wakes up in the body of Iris, the villain of her favorite otome, in the middle of a climactic scene that she knows will result in her banishment to a convent. She alters Iris's original choices just enough to prevent this from happening and is instead sent away to the family's fiefdom. Her father (Iris's father) develops a sudden progressive streak and makes her, rather than her older brother, the acting fief lord.
Iris is accompanied by her four most faithful servants, people she once rescued from terrible lives and fates. Her first goal is to inspect the various regions on the fiefdom, particularly the most and least prosperous cities.
I picked the first few volumes of this series up because I actually wanted to read a different series but couldn't. More specifically: There is a glut of "transported to another world" light novels starring ordinary guys, so when I heard that My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! existed and starred an otome-loving female main character who ends up reincarnated as the villain in her favorite otome, I really wanted to read it. It's currently available in e-book form, but I'd need to break my "no DRM" rule to get it, which I refuse to do. I thought it was coming out in paper form in August, but that may just be the manga adaptation.
So I bought a few volumes of this manga series, which also stars an otome-loving female main character who ends up in the body of the villain in her favorite otome, and which I believe was also based on a light novel series. I have no idea how the two series compare. I suppose I'll find out, eventually. If this isekai light novel/manga glut continues, I hope that it leads to the licensing of more series starring women. Crossing my fingers that they don't all star women being reborn into the bodies of the villains in their favorite otome games.
Anyway, this first volume of Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter was...okay. The artwork was reasonably attractive but seemed to be a bit light on backgrounds. As for the story, there was nothing particularly bad about it, but also nothing particularly good or noteworthy.
I liked that it seemed to be part of the subgenre I call "economic fantasy" - at the moment, there's more emphasis on Iris learning the economic conditions of her new home than on Iris's love life. Which isn't to say that romance won't happen. I'd be surprised if it didn't, considering the series' premise, even if the heroine was reborn as the villain and not the protagonist.
Two of the four servants closest to Iris have gotten flashbacks to the time prior to their becoming part of Iris's household. I assume the others will get flashbacks soon enough. Right now my favorite of the four is Tanya, whose backstory makes me think of Kaoru Mori's Emma. If I had to pair Iris off with anyone at this point, it'd probably be Tanya, although I doubt the series is going to go in that direction.
So far, at least, the "reincarnated in an otome game" elements are so light as to almost be unnecessary. The heroine's past as an office worker at a tax firm allowed her to plow through large stacks of financial documents far more quickly than the real Iris would have been able to do, and her knowledge of the game helped her prevent Iris from getting sent to the nunnery. But the series could just as easily have been basic fantasy starring a heroine who secretly studied economics and accounting in the hope of one day getting to use that knowledge to help her family and her people. I have no idea if Reia plans to do more with the series' premise (either the otome game aspects or the things the heroine knows because of her real world life), or if it was only intended to get the ball rolling and smooth over anything that readers might have otherwise questioned Iris knowing.
I don't have too much to say right now about Iris's plans for the fiefdom. Well, I did roll my eyes a bit at Iris's discovery of potential source of income for one region. It struck me as demonstrating a colonial mentality. The locals used the product but viewed it as worthless to anyone but themselves, resulting in Iris being the first one ever to consider how to market it to others? Sure, uh huh.
I own the first three volume of this series, which I figured would give me more than enough time to figure out whether it's worth sticking with or not. It hasn't yet managed to win me over, but I don't regret having a couple more volumes in my collection to read.
Extras:
"Womanly Secrets" by Reia, a 5-page short story in which Iris's female servants try to set up a girls' day out but find themselves missing Iris. I found it to be a bit much. Also, it emphasized that Iris doesn't actually feel like an otome game villain - everyone loves her so much. It's tough to believe that the original Iris ever bullied the protagonist, even just out of jealousy, and there's no sign that any of the characters even vaguely suspect that the gentle and studious Iris they're speaking to now isn't the Iris they knew a week ago.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
Iris is accompanied by her four most faithful servants, people she once rescued from terrible lives and fates. Her first goal is to inspect the various regions on the fiefdom, particularly the most and least prosperous cities.
I picked the first few volumes of this series up because I actually wanted to read a different series but couldn't. More specifically: There is a glut of "transported to another world" light novels starring ordinary guys, so when I heard that My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! existed and starred an otome-loving female main character who ends up reincarnated as the villain in her favorite otome, I really wanted to read it. It's currently available in e-book form, but I'd need to break my "no DRM" rule to get it, which I refuse to do. I thought it was coming out in paper form in August, but that may just be the manga adaptation.
So I bought a few volumes of this manga series, which also stars an otome-loving female main character who ends up in the body of the villain in her favorite otome, and which I believe was also based on a light novel series. I have no idea how the two series compare. I suppose I'll find out, eventually. If this isekai light novel/manga glut continues, I hope that it leads to the licensing of more series starring women. Crossing my fingers that they don't all star women being reborn into the bodies of the villains in their favorite otome games.
Anyway, this first volume of Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter was...okay. The artwork was reasonably attractive but seemed to be a bit light on backgrounds. As for the story, there was nothing particularly bad about it, but also nothing particularly good or noteworthy.
I liked that it seemed to be part of the subgenre I call "economic fantasy" - at the moment, there's more emphasis on Iris learning the economic conditions of her new home than on Iris's love life. Which isn't to say that romance won't happen. I'd be surprised if it didn't, considering the series' premise, even if the heroine was reborn as the villain and not the protagonist.
Two of the four servants closest to Iris have gotten flashbacks to the time prior to their becoming part of Iris's household. I assume the others will get flashbacks soon enough. Right now my favorite of the four is Tanya, whose backstory makes me think of Kaoru Mori's Emma. If I had to pair Iris off with anyone at this point, it'd probably be Tanya, although I doubt the series is going to go in that direction.
So far, at least, the "reincarnated in an otome game" elements are so light as to almost be unnecessary. The heroine's past as an office worker at a tax firm allowed her to plow through large stacks of financial documents far more quickly than the real Iris would have been able to do, and her knowledge of the game helped her prevent Iris from getting sent to the nunnery. But the series could just as easily have been basic fantasy starring a heroine who secretly studied economics and accounting in the hope of one day getting to use that knowledge to help her family and her people. I have no idea if Reia plans to do more with the series' premise (either the otome game aspects or the things the heroine knows because of her real world life), or if it was only intended to get the ball rolling and smooth over anything that readers might have otherwise questioned Iris knowing.
I don't have too much to say right now about Iris's plans for the fiefdom. Well, I did roll my eyes a bit at Iris's discovery of potential source of income for one region. It struck me as demonstrating a colonial mentality. The locals used the product but viewed it as worthless to anyone but themselves, resulting in Iris being the first one ever to consider how to market it to others? Sure, uh huh.
I own the first three volume of this series, which I figured would give me more than enough time to figure out whether it's worth sticking with or not. It hasn't yet managed to win me over, but I don't regret having a couple more volumes in my collection to read.
Extras:
"Womanly Secrets" by Reia, a 5-page short story in which Iris's female servants try to set up a girls' day out but find themselves missing Iris. I found it to be a bit much. Also, it emphasized that Iris doesn't actually feel like an otome game villain - everyone loves her so much. It's tough to believe that the original Iris ever bullied the protagonist, even just out of jealousy, and there's no sign that any of the characters even vaguely suspect that the gentle and studious Iris they're speaking to now isn't the Iris they knew a week ago.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
June 11, 2020
Plot - 3.8 ☄
Character - 3 ☄
Writing Style - 3 ☄
World Building - 4 ☄
Art - 4 ☄
Cover - 3 ☄
Overall - 3.47 ☄
The manga genre is isekai recarnation as a villan character from a otome game. The pacing was quite slow and most of the story focus on making money. You'll see a lot of business and accounting term this manga.
Character - 3 ☄
Writing Style - 3 ☄
World Building - 4 ☄
Art - 4 ☄
Cover - 3 ☄
Overall - 3.47 ☄
The manga genre is isekai recarnation as a villan character from a otome game. The pacing was quite slow and most of the story focus on making money. You'll see a lot of business and accounting term this manga.
October 4, 2021
Not quite as good as the light novel, but I still love it! Such a good storyline. 4, on to the next, stars!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 1, 2019
I was just hoping that there'd be more with this manga. I actually play otome games (dating sims where usually a female character chooses to pursue a male character romantically). So I understand sort of what the author was trying to do but it fell rather flat.
We as readers know nothing about the woman who dies and becomes Iris. Iris is supposed to be the villain character in the otome game but for whatever reason, the author has written her as if she's actually the heroine. That contradicted the whole point of her being the villain character.
Most of the book is "off script" from the game which the nameless main character (her real name is never mentioned) knows the game since she has played it so many times. So instead of the woman playing as Iris, the mean rival, she instead plays as an almost saintly figure, the furthest from a villain as you can imagine. So much so, it's just unbelievable and makes little sense.
If the author wanted Iris to be evil then later redeemed, there are so many better ways that the author could have set the story up. Instead, Iris ends up looking like she's being bullied by a bunch of boys who are friends of the game's heroine, Yuri, another person the readers never really meet. Because there's almost no backstory, the author forces us to assume a lot of what happened. It's too vague for me.
This reads more like it's from the middle of a series rather than the first book. There's just too many loose ends and I feel like I'm supposed to know this game better than I do and more about what happened before the plot starts. Instead I'm feeling like not much of it matters because the author rushed into the story without explaining anything.
I also found the whole dynamic between Iris and the people she rescued as children to be kind of strange. They all end up being her servants in one way or another who think she's their savior who can do no wrong. They're not so much her friends as her worshippers. It's a very weird dynamic which I'm not entirely comfortable with.
Moneda is also so obviously untrustworthy that I can't believe a smart business woman would ever trust an unscrupulous man like him to run her company. She calls him out at first but then is like "I totally want you to run my company's finances because you're an accountant." In her real life, the main character was an accountant herself so she really wouldn't even need him. I can almost bet he's going to try to betray her since he's already being suspicious.
I gave this book 2 stars. I'm not really interested in reading any more of this series because everything in volume 1 is cliched, predictable, or just makes absolutely no sense. I'm just disappointed because the premise of the book sounded so much better than this.
We as readers know nothing about the woman who dies and becomes Iris. Iris is supposed to be the villain character in the otome game but for whatever reason, the author has written her as if she's actually the heroine. That contradicted the whole point of her being the villain character.
Most of the book is "off script" from the game which the nameless main character (her real name is never mentioned) knows the game since she has played it so many times. So instead of the woman playing as Iris, the mean rival, she instead plays as an almost saintly figure, the furthest from a villain as you can imagine. So much so, it's just unbelievable and makes little sense.
If the author wanted Iris to be evil then later redeemed, there are so many better ways that the author could have set the story up. Instead, Iris ends up looking like she's being bullied by a bunch of boys who are friends of the game's heroine, Yuri, another person the readers never really meet. Because there's almost no backstory, the author forces us to assume a lot of what happened. It's too vague for me.
This reads more like it's from the middle of a series rather than the first book. There's just too many loose ends and I feel like I'm supposed to know this game better than I do and more about what happened before the plot starts. Instead I'm feeling like not much of it matters because the author rushed into the story without explaining anything.
I also found the whole dynamic between Iris and the people she rescued as children to be kind of strange. They all end up being her servants in one way or another who think she's their savior who can do no wrong. They're not so much her friends as her worshippers. It's a very weird dynamic which I'm not entirely comfortable with.
Moneda is also so obviously untrustworthy that I can't believe a smart business woman would ever trust an unscrupulous man like him to run her company. She calls him out at first but then is like "I totally want you to run my company's finances because you're an accountant." In her real life, the main character was an accountant herself so she really wouldn't even need him. I can almost bet he's going to try to betray her since he's already being suspicious.
I gave this book 2 stars. I'm not really interested in reading any more of this series because everything in volume 1 is cliched, predictable, or just makes absolutely no sense. I'm just disappointed because the premise of the book sounded so much better than this.
March 31, 2019
4.5 stars. This makes my nerdy heart happy. I love reading about basic economic and government set-ups in my manga with pretty art. Who knew?
February 3, 2020
I found it boring but the art is great I wish it had more color tho
July 3, 2020
I really wanted to love this but it didn’t convince me. (◞‸◟) There’s nothing major that stands out to me after reading it, except the art.
The story is good. I wish they didn’t try to sell it as “Reborn in an Otome Game!” because it wasn’t giving off those vibes in this one. It felt more like a shonen fantasy with a cool female lead rather than an otome game. It wasn’t gushy and it didn’t focus on the romance at all in this. It just introduced characters that could potentially be love interests.
I did like the main character’s initiative in scenarios and she was charming 6/10 times. But she felt blank and empty. Hopefully that will change in later volumes.
The one redeeming factor is the art. I really enjoyed this style. Some parts of it I didn’t fully like but I get their reasoning why they would have the hair curl in a certain way or whatever.
Nothing too amazing.
The story is good. I wish they didn’t try to sell it as “Reborn in an Otome Game!” because it wasn’t giving off those vibes in this one. It felt more like a shonen fantasy with a cool female lead rather than an otome game. It wasn’t gushy and it didn’t focus on the romance at all in this. It just introduced characters that could potentially be love interests.
I did like the main character’s initiative in scenarios and she was charming 6/10 times. But she felt blank and empty. Hopefully that will change in later volumes.
The one redeeming factor is the art. I really enjoyed this style. Some parts of it I didn’t fully like but I get their reasoning why they would have the hair curl in a certain way or whatever.
Nothing too amazing.
July 19, 2024
An inoffensive Isekai story with nice but not amazing art and semi forgettable side characters.
The main character Iris is an Isekai character into the villain girl from an otome game she used to play. Overall, it’s fun but moves a little too quickly without establishing back stories of why people care about this character pre Isekai
But it is nice that she isn’t truly a villain and never really was
The main character Iris is an Isekai character into the villain girl from an otome game she used to play. Overall, it’s fun but moves a little too quickly without establishing back stories of why people care about this character pre Isekai
But it is nice that she isn’t truly a villain and never really was
June 10, 2022
I know I'm biased because I read the light novel. However, Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter is truly an engaging and enjoyable tale. The manga is a bit rougher at the beginning plot-wise, which is why I will be knocking off a star on a lot of the earlier volumes. However, I highly suggest checking it out if you have time.
April 14, 2021
I love how she just sort of accepted the fact that she now lives in another world. It’s fast paced, but you still understand what’s happening in the manga. ❤️
April 21, 2023
A lot of world building and character introduction in this volume.
Oh,and exploring the lands.
Hopefully, volume 2 will be better.
Oh,and exploring the lands.
Hopefully, volume 2 will be better.
October 22, 2018
Read up to ch. 41
3,5 stars
**reading the synopsis**
>tag: reincarnated into a game world
"Meh, another Isekai story?" O.o
**avoid it all costs**
**tried to read it because I was bored**
**got hooked**
**keep checking every day for the newest release**
DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE DESCRIPTION.
Yes, the protagonist does gets reincarnated as a character in the otome game and instead of being the romantic lead she previously played in the sim, she is the antagonist - the girl who bullied the heroine and lost and is now about to receive her comeuppance. However, that's only the starting point. Unlike other stories based on isekais/past lives or otomes, the story jumps straight into the bigger picture and it’s honestly amazing.
I was totally surprised by the depth and complexity of the story. It's so refreshing to see realistic female MC that uses what she's got instead of pretending to be something else. Instead of acting like a helpless idiot being dragged around by different men, MC is level headed and have more backbone than most isekai manga out there!
And what is more amazing is that the isekai element is ONLY used to introduce the story but then it's thrown off the whole story in chapter 12. From there, the story focuses on the protagonist and the politics of the world she finds herself in. It 's more about 1 girl trying to survive a long-term conspiracy related to her family than isekai or puppy romance. There are a lot of issues that arise here which I gotta say the way they are handled are so much more realistic than most "another world" novels.
So why 3 stars?
Weeeelll....
I was really bored with the ''Economic development and Business Management'' parts of the story and there were times I felt like the author is milking the plot as much as he can with fillers. So definitely not reading the light-novel.
Another huge problem; the villainess wasn’t really evil.
HA.
This isn't a redemption story.
Every evil deed she supposedly did is the 'game' is suddenly not evil at all and is justified later. Besides so-called 'good guys' of the game, everyone loves her and she always succeeds in everything she does and she always had a pure heart. Bla bla. She's a fucking special snow-flake ok? UGH.
I also found a lot of characters flat and one-dimensional.
But oh well, she isn't some helpless cute harem queen so I'll take it.
Synonyms: Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter / 公爵千金的爱好 / 公爵令嬢の嗜み / Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter / Kōshaku Reijō no Tashinami / Koshaku Reijo no Tashinami / Koushaku Reijou no Tashinami / Simply Good Sense for a Duke’s Daughter/ Duke's Daughter (Phew. It's finally over!!)
It's adapted from: 公爵令嬢の嗜み 1 (Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter) Light Novel Vol 1 Just so you know, the light-novel apparently has a prequel called Common Sense of a Warrior and a spin-off called Koushaku Reijou no Tashinami.
Themes and What To Look Forward To: İsekai, Reincarnation, Strong/Practical Female Lead, Politics, Royalty, Strong Friendship, Josei, Slow Romance.
The Art: It's...pretty good. Seen better. I think I've been spoiled.
3,5 stars
**reading the synopsis**
>tag: reincarnated into a game world
"Meh, another Isekai story?" O.o
**avoid it all costs**
**tried to read it because I was bored**
**got hooked**
**keep checking every day for the newest release**
DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE DESCRIPTION.
Yes, the protagonist does gets reincarnated as a character in the otome game and instead of being the romantic lead she previously played in the sim, she is the antagonist - the girl who bullied the heroine and lost and is now about to receive her comeuppance. However, that's only the starting point. Unlike other stories based on isekais/past lives or otomes, the story jumps straight into the bigger picture and it’s honestly amazing.
I was totally surprised by the depth and complexity of the story. It's so refreshing to see realistic female MC that uses what she's got instead of pretending to be something else. Instead of acting like a helpless idiot being dragged around by different men, MC is level headed and have more backbone than most isekai manga out there!
And what is more amazing is that the isekai element is ONLY used to introduce the story but then it's thrown off the whole story in chapter 12. From there, the story focuses on the protagonist and the politics of the world she finds herself in. It 's more about 1 girl trying to survive a long-term conspiracy related to her family than isekai or puppy romance. There are a lot of issues that arise here which I gotta say the way they are handled are so much more realistic than most "another world" novels.
So why 3 stars?
Weeeelll....
I was really bored with the ''Economic development and Business Management'' parts of the story and there were times I felt like the author is milking the plot as much as he can with fillers. So definitely not reading the light-novel.
Another huge problem; the villainess wasn’t really evil.
HA.
This isn't a redemption story.
Every evil deed she supposedly did is the 'game' is suddenly not evil at all and is justified later. Besides so-called 'good guys' of the game, everyone loves her and she always succeeds in everything she does and she always had a pure heart. Bla bla. She's a fucking special snow-flake ok? UGH.
I also found a lot of characters flat and one-dimensional.
But oh well, she isn't some helpless cute harem queen so I'll take it.
Synonyms: Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter / 公爵千金的爱好 / 公爵令嬢の嗜み / Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter / Kōshaku Reijō no Tashinami / Koshaku Reijo no Tashinami / Koushaku Reijou no Tashinami / Simply Good Sense for a Duke’s Daughter/ Duke's Daughter (Phew. It's finally over!!)
It's adapted from: 公爵令嬢の嗜み 1 (Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter) Light Novel Vol 1 Just so you know, the light-novel apparently has a prequel called Common Sense of a Warrior and a spin-off called Koushaku Reijou no Tashinami.
Themes and What To Look Forward To: İsekai, Reincarnation, Strong/Practical Female Lead, Politics, Royalty, Strong Friendship, Josei, Slow Romance.
The Art: It's...pretty good. Seen better. I think I've been spoiled.
October 19, 2021
The art in this manga is beautiful but the story is extremely dull.
An accountant is killed in a traffic accident and reincarnated as the villainess in her latest otome game. (Not to be confused with a manga of the exact same plot, "I Was Reincarnated as the Villainess in an Otome Game but the Boys Love Me Anyway!")
I was hoping for SOME kind of romance, seeing as the plot revolves around an otome game, but that whole concept is wiped out in the first few pages. The main character, Iris, realizing she is the villainess of the game, quickly apologizes for her behavior and excuses herself from the lives of the heroine and her reverse-harem of love interests. She knew the original game's plotline was that the villainess would be exiled to a nunnery, but instead she uses her game- and planet Earth-knowledge of business and taxes to convince her father she would better serve her family if she could be engaged in some sort of political marriage.
Nothing really comes of that idea, though; instead her father sends her to their family estate and gives her the position of lord of a fiefdom. (She is lord but they still refer to her as "Lady Iris.") Iris gathers a gang of her most trusted and loyal friends and the entirety of the manga is about her examining the current economy and making plans to redistribute wealth so that her new fiefdom will prosper.
I will say this is a great feminist manga. No one questions Iris's ability in commerce, economics, taxes, or business. They do indicate her personality is different from what they are accustomed to (seeing as she's now two people in one: a Japanese accountant and an otome game villainess), but there is no complaint from any character that she is now lord over a fiefdom. Iris concerns herself entirely with her new enterprise and does not give a single thought to the prince who broke off his engagement with her in favor of the otome game's heroine.
On the other hand...this is a manga about commerce, economics, taxes, and business. And it was interesting for a little while, but you could see clearly what the story was leading up to and yet it dragged on...
I might be willing to borrow the rest of the series from the library to read, if they have it, but I won't spend any more money on purchasing this manga to keep and reread because I just found it terribly dull. The characters are beautifully drawn, they each have a small backstory about how they came to befriend Iris after she rescued each of them from poverty, but since most of the plot revolves around taxes and wealth distribution, there was no chance to even get to know them.
An accountant is killed in a traffic accident and reincarnated as the villainess in her latest otome game. (Not to be confused with a manga of the exact same plot, "I Was Reincarnated as the Villainess in an Otome Game but the Boys Love Me Anyway!")
I was hoping for SOME kind of romance, seeing as the plot revolves around an otome game, but that whole concept is wiped out in the first few pages. The main character, Iris, realizing she is the villainess of the game, quickly apologizes for her behavior and excuses herself from the lives of the heroine and her reverse-harem of love interests. She knew the original game's plotline was that the villainess would be exiled to a nunnery, but instead she uses her game- and planet Earth-knowledge of business and taxes to convince her father she would better serve her family if she could be engaged in some sort of political marriage.
Nothing really comes of that idea, though; instead her father sends her to their family estate and gives her the position of lord of a fiefdom. (She is lord but they still refer to her as "Lady Iris.") Iris gathers a gang of her most trusted and loyal friends and the entirety of the manga is about her examining the current economy and making plans to redistribute wealth so that her new fiefdom will prosper.
I will say this is a great feminist manga. No one questions Iris's ability in commerce, economics, taxes, or business. They do indicate her personality is different from what they are accustomed to (seeing as she's now two people in one: a Japanese accountant and an otome game villainess), but there is no complaint from any character that she is now lord over a fiefdom. Iris concerns herself entirely with her new enterprise and does not give a single thought to the prince who broke off his engagement with her in favor of the otome game's heroine.
On the other hand...this is a manga about commerce, economics, taxes, and business. And it was interesting for a little while, but you could see clearly what the story was leading up to and yet it dragged on...
I might be willing to borrow the rest of the series from the library to read, if they have it, but I won't spend any more money on purchasing this manga to keep and reread because I just found it terribly dull. The characters are beautifully drawn, they each have a small backstory about how they came to befriend Iris after she rescued each of them from poverty, but since most of the plot revolves around taxes and wealth distribution, there was no chance to even get to know them.
March 7, 2020
More like a 3.5 star rating, but full stars only so, yeah.
Generally, I liked this one, but it felt a little thin in places. Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter is an isekai about a Japanese salarywoman who ends up in an otome game she just finished playing as Iris, the "villain." This isekai premise is underutilized and I'm not sure is even necessary. The otome game premise only comes into play in the first two chapters, barely, and it seems like Iris (the original character, separate from the nameless salarywoman who now inhabits her) is a fully fledged character and existence to begin with and doesn't really need the modern-Japan know-how. The glimpses of the "real" Iris's past that we get tell me that the Isekai'd protagonist isn't really necessary and Reia-sensei could have finagled things a little to not need the salarywoman at all.
There was at least one plot point that I got confused on, but I think that was me trying to push the otome-game-isekai premise on this first volume a little more because it's so underused. Late in the volume, Iris looks down a dark alley that due to perspective and some artistic choices of Umemiya-sensei's, looked like the world simply ended. "Oh boy!" I thought, "Iris has found the edge of the otome game world! This might come into play later!" Alas, no, seems like it was a shortcut to not draw what was in there because a character later implies that it's a hive of scum and villainy (gambling, bars, maybe brothels, the sorts of thing a young noblewoman shouldn't get involved in).
I like the general premise of a young noblewoman who, spurned by her princely fiance and effectively banished to her home fief, tries to improve the conditions of her community with what she's learned at the academy she was expelled from, and generally, I like the characters and hope that they get a little more fleshed out, particularly Iris's crew of former street rats. I just wish that they'd either leaned in more on the isekai aspect or just dropped it entirely.
Generally, I liked this one, but it felt a little thin in places. Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter is an isekai about a Japanese salarywoman who ends up in an otome game she just finished playing as Iris, the "villain." This isekai premise is underutilized and I'm not sure is even necessary. The otome game premise only comes into play in the first two chapters, barely, and it seems like Iris (the original character, separate from the nameless salarywoman who now inhabits her) is a fully fledged character and existence to begin with and doesn't really need the modern-Japan know-how. The glimpses of the "real" Iris's past that we get tell me that the Isekai'd protagonist isn't really necessary and Reia-sensei could have finagled things a little to not need the salarywoman at all.
There was at least one plot point that I got confused on, but I think that was me trying to push the otome-game-isekai premise on this first volume a little more because it's so underused. Late in the volume, Iris looks down a dark alley that due to perspective and some artistic choices of Umemiya-sensei's, looked like the world simply ended. "Oh boy!" I thought, "Iris has found the edge of the otome game world! This might come into play later!" Alas, no, seems like it was a shortcut to not draw what was in there because a character later implies that it's a hive of scum and villainy (gambling, bars, maybe brothels, the sorts of thing a young noblewoman shouldn't get involved in).
I like the general premise of a young noblewoman who, spurned by her princely fiance and effectively banished to her home fief, tries to improve the conditions of her community with what she's learned at the academy she was expelled from, and generally, I like the characters and hope that they get a little more fleshed out, particularly Iris's crew of former street rats. I just wish that they'd either leaned in more on the isekai aspect or just dropped it entirely.
March 25, 2019
Today' post is on Accomplishments of Duke's Daughter, volume 1 by Reia and Suki Umemiya (Illustrations). It is 180 pages long and is published by Seven Sails. The cover has the main character and her bodyguard on it and the cover illustration wraps around to the back with other characters on the back. The intended reader is someone who likes shojo manga, portal fantasies, and otome game tropes. There is no foul language, no sex, and no violence in this manga. The story is in third person close of the main character. There Be Spoilers Ahead.
From the back of the book- After a young woman gets hit by a car, she wakes up in her favorite dating sim as "Iris", the villain of the game. Iris decides that rather than chase after the prince, she'll go down a different route: revolutionize society and save her father's failing fiefdom! Now it's not only Iris's happy ending at stake, but the whole country's...
Review- If you like otome games and shojo manga then you should give this manga a try, it is very fun. We never get to know much about our main character before she is killed and wakes up in another world. But we get to see her character in her quick thinking. When 'Iris' realizes where she is and what is going on around, she moves quickly to get some control of her new life and name. I enjoyed this manga, it is slow with world building being more important than fast plot in this volume. Iris is going to live in this world and she is not going to give control of this new life to anyone. I like the side characters and I do hope for some romance later in this series but I am satisfied with this first volume in general.
I give this volume a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and bought this manga with my own money.
From the back of the book- After a young woman gets hit by a car, she wakes up in her favorite dating sim as "Iris", the villain of the game. Iris decides that rather than chase after the prince, she'll go down a different route: revolutionize society and save her father's failing fiefdom! Now it's not only Iris's happy ending at stake, but the whole country's...
Review- If you like otome games and shojo manga then you should give this manga a try, it is very fun. We never get to know much about our main character before she is killed and wakes up in another world. But we get to see her character in her quick thinking. When 'Iris' realizes where she is and what is going on around, she moves quickly to get some control of her new life and name. I enjoyed this manga, it is slow with world building being more important than fast plot in this volume. Iris is going to live in this world and she is not going to give control of this new life to anyone. I like the side characters and I do hope for some romance later in this series but I am satisfied with this first volume in general.
I give this volume a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and bought this manga with my own money.
August 2, 2021
Since I'm still on an otome isekai kick, I thought I'd reread this series in its physical format.
Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter starts off as any other isekai story. Our MC is transmigrated into an otome game as the villainess, Iris. However, she is teleported at the moment of her condemnation event. Due to quick thinking, she is able to avoid her bad end, but now she decides to live on in this life and focuses on revitalizing her father's fiefdom.
This series is unique because it is more focused on Iris doing administrative work and getting into political intrigue rather than a typical otome romance storyline. Personally, I do like the political intrigue part of it, and I am excited to see the eventual payoff Iris gets after her hard work.
That said, the one thing that bogs this series down is the fact that the beginning is very clunky and too fast paced. MC gets transmigrated, and then proceeds to fully adjust to her new identity as if nothing has happened. It almost makes the isekai aspect seem useless, until you realize its her prior knowledge of Japan and modern capitalist ideas that will help her find success in this new life which is why the isekai element was introduced. Either way, I can overlook this because I have a soft spot for series like this. I look forward to the next volumes! Overall, I gave this volume a 3.6. Normally, I'd round up, but my gut says to go down.
January 7, 2019
Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter is a lighthearted and straightforward manga about a Japanese woman who dies and is reincarnated into an Otome game as the "villain." Unlike the standard trope of being reincarnated and fixing it so everything turns out well - she starts off at the end of the game where her character is shunned and sent elsewhere. It's now up to her to rebuild and start a new life given the fiefdom she was granted by her father.
The idea behind this is fairly cute to me - but the execution was a bit lacking. The whole middle part of the story just felt like nothing was really happening. It wasn't until the end that it started picking up a bit. I liked the fact that the main character is so smart and sounds like she's going to revitalize the fiefdom - but it took far too long to get there.
Overall, I just didn't feel connected to the characters and it wasn't really clear where things were heading until the end. Nonetheless, it wasn't difficult to read and I'm curious to see where the author takes things (although I probably won't buy any more of this series). The art was also pleasing to me and reminded me a bit of another manga I really enjoy (Horimiya).
If you're looking for a book in this genre, I'd recommend My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom instead, though.
The idea behind this is fairly cute to me - but the execution was a bit lacking. The whole middle part of the story just felt like nothing was really happening. It wasn't until the end that it started picking up a bit. I liked the fact that the main character is so smart and sounds like she's going to revitalize the fiefdom - but it took far too long to get there.
Overall, I just didn't feel connected to the characters and it wasn't really clear where things were heading until the end. Nonetheless, it wasn't difficult to read and I'm curious to see where the author takes things (although I probably won't buy any more of this series). The art was also pleasing to me and reminded me a bit of another manga I really enjoy (Horimiya).
If you're looking for a book in this genre, I'd recommend My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom instead, though.
October 23, 2022
I think I would actually like to read a story about how a duke’s daughter manages an estate with a group of trusted friends and partners and the details of what she does to improve the estate and the lives of the people living on it. ….Too bad this shallow, endlessly rehashed isekai plot line is humdrum and boring as heck to wade through. The cacao plot line was slightly interesting and it could be fun, in a different manga, to read about 1) the details of how the cacao products are produced, 2) the lives of those farming and producing the product, 3) details of the presentation to the other nobles.
The art also isn’t to my taste.
Oh well. I tried!
(Reading this, it’s clear that I’d rather go read something seinen or josei, Kaoru Mori preferably. I’d like to see how she handles a story like this, minus the isekai intro. (Though if she did try an isekai, I bet she’d manage to make it charming.) What’s even the point? The only perk a past life has given this main character is a head for taxes. Which she could have learned in the world of the story in some actually interesting way.)
The art also isn’t to my taste.
Oh well. I tried!
(Reading this, it’s clear that I’d rather go read something seinen or josei, Kaoru Mori preferably. I’d like to see how she handles a story like this, minus the isekai intro. (Though if she did try an isekai, I bet she’d manage to make it charming.) What’s even the point? The only perk a past life has given this main character is a head for taxes. Which she could have learned in the world of the story in some actually interesting way.)
November 16, 2022
3.5.
This took me by surprise. I was not expecting the political heavy storyline but was pleasantly appeased by it. This is another refreshing take on the isekai reborn female lead story but focuses much more on her growth and the power she has to help those around her. I do enjoy the hybrid mix of modern intelligence being used in a historical fantasy royal setting and loved Iris' counsel of helpers!
Doesn't seem to be a romance brewing yet but I can imagine something festering later in the series for the hopeless romantics! Excited to continue on.
This took me by surprise. I was not expecting the political heavy storyline but was pleasantly appeased by it. This is another refreshing take on the isekai reborn female lead story but focuses much more on her growth and the power she has to help those around her. I do enjoy the hybrid mix of modern intelligence being used in a historical fantasy royal setting and loved Iris' counsel of helpers!
Doesn't seem to be a romance brewing yet but I can imagine something festering later in the series for the hopeless romantics! Excited to continue on.
January 15, 2020
It is average for a manga in my opinion. It is an isekai genre manga which I have read so many of in the last couple years. It is about a account male who is turned into a duke's daughter through something happening that was not well explained.
He/she retains his/her memories and those memories help him/her in the new world. In the beginning it is like a visual novel he played alot so he knew all the ways it could go. At the point it put him seems towards the end. So he/she got a different ending from what was programmed in. To which he/she is no longer in a nunnery as the result of what he/she did.
It reads like a good beginning to the series. To that volume 2 might or might not be good. It did end on a note I do want volume 2. As there are 7 volumes right now I do not have to wait for volume 2 to come out.
He/she retains his/her memories and those memories help him/her in the new world. In the beginning it is like a visual novel he played alot so he knew all the ways it could go. At the point it put him seems towards the end. So he/she got a different ending from what was programmed in. To which he/she is no longer in a nunnery as the result of what he/she did.
It reads like a good beginning to the series. To that volume 2 might or might not be good. It did end on a note I do want volume 2. As there are 7 volumes right now I do not have to wait for volume 2 to come out.
August 16, 2018
Felt more like an accompanying piece for the original light novel.
Unfortunately, the support cast appears out of nowhere really quickly without much characterization and the pace feels rather fast as if it's trying to get adapt as much of the the light novel source material at the beginning so it doesn't muddy around in heavy exposition. Due to the nature of the pacing, it's hard to really feel connected with the cast of characters besides Iris, but just barely.
I hope that it starts to slow down in the next volume or I might have to go scouring to read the novel so that I can graspore of the story.
Unfortunately, the support cast appears out of nowhere really quickly without much characterization and the pace feels rather fast as if it's trying to get adapt as much of the the light novel source material at the beginning so it doesn't muddy around in heavy exposition. Due to the nature of the pacing, it's hard to really feel connected with the cast of characters besides Iris, but just barely.
I hope that it starts to slow down in the next volume or I might have to go scouring to read the novel so that I can graspore of the story.
February 18, 2022
I read this adaptation of the light novel only because my library doesn't carry the novel online. I usually find manga adaptations fairly faithful to the base material, but they usually take MUCH longer to get to any satisfying point, and I can't stand the dragging pace. Considering that, it makes sense that I didn't enjoy this manga very much.
I wasn't interested in the characters or the plot, which translated into some uncharacteristic skimming on my end. For a certain type of reader, I'm sure this could be a very enjoyable read, but I have the feeling that it'll take maaany more volumes to see the progress I would want to see, and I'm not up to that time commitment.
I wasn't interested in the characters or the plot, which translated into some uncharacteristic skimming on my end. For a certain type of reader, I'm sure this could be a very enjoyable read, but I have the feeling that it'll take maaany more volumes to see the progress I would want to see, and I'm not up to that time commitment.
January 24, 2019
Iris is sent to be the acting fief lord of her father's country and decides to set up a central banking system, revolutionize taxes, etc.
The back cover description of this series is super misleading. It is not about a girl who wakes up in the body of a computer simulation character. It is about economics in a small country. The latter is not something I'd say is typically on my 'want to find out more about that' list but this book hooked me a bit. I'm not loving it yet, but I'll give the next one a try.
The back cover description of this series is super misleading. It is not about a girl who wakes up in the body of a computer simulation character. It is about economics in a small country. The latter is not something I'd say is typically on my 'want to find out more about that' list but this book hooked me a bit. I'm not loving it yet, but I'll give the next one a try.
June 28, 2021
Well, for once we have an adult who's been isekai'ed, instead of a high school student. I do like that Iris is portrayed here, and throughout the series, not as a character who is inherently evil, but rather as someone who let their jealousy and emotions get the better of them, which led to petty, villainous behavior. So it's not that the main character suddenly changes Iris's character, although her knowledge of modern tax and business systems certainly helps in running a feudal domain. She also basically invented chocolate in her world. How can someone who invents chocolate be a bad person?
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