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転生王女は今日も旗を叩き折る [Tensei Oujo wa Kyou mo Hata o Tatakioru] (Novel) #1
The Reincarnated Princess Spends Another Day Skipping Story Routes: Volume 1
After an accident, a modern careerist is reborn as Princess Rosemary Von Velfalt. She soon realizes that her new life is identical to that of a rival character in an otome game that she’d once played to “100%” completion. Luxury and magic abound in the Kingdom of Nevel, alongside a collection of attractive men. However, beneath the suitors' dazzling faces lie awful masochists, necrophiles, and perverts, oh my! But it’s not all bad news—the side characters are perfect, and Rosemary has fallen for the captain of the royal guard. Since the game offers no true route to happiness, Rosemary decides to forge her own path; to avoid marriage with the suitors, she'll have to skip their story routes and fix their deviance. She’ll navigate palace and marriage politics, kidnappings, and the threat of war, all while contending with a world that’s drifting further from the game she remembers. “100%” game completion isn’t all it’s cracked up to be—sometimes, “0%” is the route to a dream life!
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First published July 10, 2015
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February 21, 2022
This is an interesting one in the reincarnated-in-an-otome-game subgenre of isekai, and it has more in common with Past Life Countess, Present Life Otome Game NPC?! than other English-translated titles. Largely this is because our heroine is Rosemary, who is neither villainess nor heroine in the original game; she's just a sort of side character whose interactions with the love interests varies depending on the route the heroine follows. It also has elements of two other Cross Infinite World-licensed titles, As The Villainess, I Reject These Happy-Bad Endings! and I Reincarnated As Evil Alice, So the Only Thing I’m Courting Is Death! in that the game Rosemary now lives in was particularly awful in terms of love interests and what could happen to the heroine...and Rosemary. That means that Rosemary is engaged in the usual process of avoiding bad endings, but she's doing it as much for the eventual advent of the isekai'd heroine as for her present self, and she's decided to fix things by making it so that the male love interests don't end up twisted...and hoping that she can end up with the side character she was a fan of. It's got some awkward moments since Rosemary's ten years old for most of the book and said side character is significantly older than her, and both of her (blood-related) brothers are a little too fond of her for comfort, and those could easily be deal-breakers for some readers. But it's also mild enough that I'm willing to push through and see where things go from here.
April 25, 2020
Currently @ ch.13
I honestly love all of the characters here, but in terms of romance I feel like Leonhard is the only answer? I hope she doesnt have a harem because I'm not fan of those...Isince I tend to like the “probably the last person MC will choose” kind of characters (￣∇￣")
I honestly love all of the characters here, but in terms of romance I feel like Leonhard is the only answer? I hope she doesnt have a harem because I'm not fan of those...Isince I tend to like the “probably the last person MC will choose” kind of characters (￣∇￣")
November 1, 2021
Also completely loved this one. 5, next please, stars.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 4, 2017
Rating : 4 stars
The story is okay. It follows the original "i remember my past life ans i got reincarnated in a game i used to play as a rival character". But the MC is really cute, noble, caring and completely loveable, she's totally the best thing about the book!
The story is okay. It follows the original "i remember my past life ans i got reincarnated in a game i used to play as a rival character". But the MC is really cute, noble, caring and completely loveable, she's totally the best thing about the book!
December 23, 2023
This book is a mix between Ascendance of a Bookworm and My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, with an added flair of trauma.
The characters are all eccentric, imperfect, and uniquely interesting, including the main character. Their interactions together are fun to read. Although many of the characters are all infatuated with Rosemary (the MC), their lives don't revolve around her. They have their own goals, ambitions, and backstories. Rosemary is never pampered nor spoiled by them, and they get flack for treating her badly.
There are also platonic relationships which made my heart throb. Chris, for example, is Rosemary's elder brother and the First Prince. He grapples with his newfound sense of responsibility towards his younger siblings and gets upset when Rosemary cries, lamenting that he's a bad older brother (he's not he's best boi).
The worldbuilding and geography are well thought out with the expected issues arising from trade and border disputes. Politics and culture are intricately woven into the story, paced just right. Each piece of information held some importantance to the conflict at hand, so if there were any 'heavy' info-dumps, they went over my head; I felt no less engrossed in the story.
The only complaint I have, and the reason I'm rating this four stars, is the love interest. Leonhart, Captain of the Royal Guard. It's pretty obvious early on that he's the person Rosemary will end up with, despite being over ten years her senior. Many of the boys are older than her, but Leonhart is much, much older.
The only thing that makes this okay, in my begruding opinion, are the 20 years of memories she has from her past life and the cultural norms at the time; the age of maturity is historically younger, which paired with social scrutiny/societal expections, makes younger people more mature that we currently are today. Mainly though, the former.
Their age gap is actually discussed at several points in the story (not to the level of depth above, those are my own thoughts) but due to the times, everyone is pretty lax about it. Rosemary struggles with it, but only because she first want Leonhart to view her as a child. I suppose to her adult mind, dating a boy her (physical) age would feel as if she's molesting him.
So, I can excuse the age gap. Leonhart is a good character, after all, very good... just... good.
No, the issue I have is that he's BORING. Leonhart is so, SO boring! He interacts a lot more with Rosemary in later novels, but by the third volume we still don't know anything about him. The most we're told is that he used to be a rough n' tumble kind of boy in his youth, with a hidden mischievous side, but even that is very mild. He's basically the ideal image of an honorabke knight, a good man who can do no wrong.
At the beginning, I had him pegged as a traitor; the Hans of the novel. But no, he can do no wrong. It's as if the author inserted her idea of what a strong, chivalrous man would be, and was scared to ruin that by giving him too much personality. Yet in comparison to the rest of the colourful cast, he shines as pale as a ghost. It sucks, a lot. I can't hate him because he's fine, but just fine, like a perfectly cut square of tofu.
But the other characters spend plenty enough time with Rosemary that I can tolerate his presence. I keep reading to hear their story because, honestly? The boys are the best goddamn part of this novel. They are all precious, and I want to spoil them rotten. If only Rosemary had the good sense to see what's right before her eyes, but no, she's in love with a square. *sigh*
The characters are all eccentric, imperfect, and uniquely interesting, including the main character. Their interactions together are fun to read. Although many of the characters are all infatuated with Rosemary (the MC), their lives don't revolve around her. They have their own goals, ambitions, and backstories. Rosemary is never pampered nor spoiled by them, and they get flack for treating her badly.
There are also platonic relationships which made my heart throb. Chris, for example, is Rosemary's elder brother and the First Prince. He grapples with his newfound sense of responsibility towards his younger siblings and gets upset when Rosemary cries, lamenting that he's a bad older brother (he's not he's best boi).
The worldbuilding and geography are well thought out with the expected issues arising from trade and border disputes. Politics and culture are intricately woven into the story, paced just right. Each piece of information held some importantance to the conflict at hand, so if there were any 'heavy' info-dumps, they went over my head; I felt no less engrossed in the story.
The only complaint I have, and the reason I'm rating this four stars, is the love interest. Leonhart, Captain of the Royal Guard. It's pretty obvious early on that he's the person Rosemary will end up with, despite being over ten years her senior. Many of the boys are older than her, but Leonhart is much, much older.
The only thing that makes this okay, in my begruding opinion, are the 20 years of memories she has from her past life and the cultural norms at the time; the age of maturity is historically younger, which paired with social scrutiny/societal expections, makes younger people more mature that we currently are today. Mainly though, the former.
Their age gap is actually discussed at several points in the story (not to the level of depth above, those are my own thoughts) but due to the times, everyone is pretty lax about it. Rosemary struggles with it, but only because she first want Leonhart to view her as a child. I suppose to her adult mind, dating a boy her (physical) age would feel as if she's molesting him.
So, I can excuse the age gap. Leonhart is a good character, after all, very good... just... good.
No, the issue I have is that he's BORING. Leonhart is so, SO boring! He interacts a lot more with Rosemary in later novels, but by the third volume we still don't know anything about him. The most we're told is that he used to be a rough n' tumble kind of boy in his youth, with a hidden mischievous side, but even that is very mild. He's basically the ideal image of an honorabke knight, a good man who can do no wrong.
At the beginning, I had him pegged as a traitor; the Hans of the novel. But no, he can do no wrong. It's as if the author inserted her idea of what a strong, chivalrous man would be, and was scared to ruin that by giving him too much personality. Yet in comparison to the rest of the colourful cast, he shines as pale as a ghost. It sucks, a lot. I can't hate him because he's fine, but just fine, like a perfectly cut square of tofu.
But the other characters spend plenty enough time with Rosemary that I can tolerate his presence. I keep reading to hear their story because, honestly? The boys are the best goddamn part of this novel. They are all precious, and I want to spoil them rotten. If only Rosemary had the good sense to see what's right before her eyes, but no, she's in love with a square. *sigh*
October 20, 2021
To be fair, the story looks promising. The concept of breaking flags to avoid bad outcome is also nice, because for once we get a main character who wants to change the guys instead of just avoiding death in bad endings. Rosemary is also a rival character instead of a villainess, and she only has one canon love interest in the original game. Sadly, the execution is just not working for me.
First of all, the concept of the game itself is really vague and it results in the world-building being just as abstract. The heroine of the game is a shrine maiden? In a world of princes and knights and sorcerers that has no shrines mentioned so far? As a reincarnated princess, Rosemary is always described as intelligent and independent, but this only lasts for the first few chapters before she gradually turns into someone who struggles to make a decision, refuses help when she needs it, and always has to be protected. In fact, Rosemary spends the climax of this book in the safety of her own room, under the protection of her guard and her brother. The spotlight is instead given to the sorcerers and her younger brother, so in the end all she does is mope around. The second half of the book is especially sappy.
The biggest challenge for me is to get used to the writing. On top of a lot of telling instead of showing, there's also a lot of flashbacks that serve as little info dumps. A new character shows up? Info dump. New character development? Info dump. Said character gets their own perspective? Flashback and info dump. Most of the scenes consist of 80% internal monologue and descriptions of emotions. It really drags down the pacing, and even when we get action scenes, it doesn't take long until the writing reverts back to that. At some points, the internal monologues would also blur the line between thoughts and reality, leading to lapses in logic that get resolved very conveniently.
I do like the story though, and the book does start off pretty solid, so hopefully it can go back to that tone in the next volumes.
First of all, the concept of the game itself is really vague and it results in the world-building being just as abstract. The heroine of the game is a shrine maiden? In a world of princes and knights and sorcerers that has no shrines mentioned so far? As a reincarnated princess, Rosemary is always described as intelligent and independent, but this only lasts for the first few chapters before she gradually turns into someone who struggles to make a decision, refuses help when she needs it, and always has to be protected. In fact, Rosemary spends the climax of this book in the safety of her own room, under the protection of her guard and her brother. The spotlight is instead given to the sorcerers and her younger brother, so in the end all she does is mope around. The second half of the book is especially sappy.
The biggest challenge for me is to get used to the writing. On top of a lot of telling instead of showing, there's also a lot of flashbacks that serve as little info dumps. A new character shows up? Info dump. New character development? Info dump. Said character gets their own perspective? Flashback and info dump. Most of the scenes consist of 80% internal monologue and descriptions of emotions. It really drags down the pacing, and even when we get action scenes, it doesn't take long until the writing reverts back to that. At some points, the internal monologues would also blur the line between thoughts and reality, leading to lapses in logic that get resolved very conveniently.
I do like the story though, and the book does start off pretty solid, so hopefully it can go back to that tone in the next volumes.
September 5, 2021
Rosemary, the princess of Neval, has memories of her previous life. Her current life resembles an otome game she used to play---but all of the love interests in that game were insane. And Rosemary herself was a villain. Determined to change things for the better, Rosemary embarks on her crusade to twist the story into something she can live with.
The premise is becoming increasingly familiar to the English-speaking audience, but I really like how this one handles things. Although the first half of the book is basically hopping around various future suitors to try to eliminate the causes of their obsessive tendencies later, once it hits the latter chapters I feel it really gets more into what it wants to be.
Because once Teo and Lutz arrive, it feels like the story starts shifting from Rosemary wanting to fix people to Rosemary putting herself in a position where she's become friends with them, and because she's friends, she can't bear to see the future she knows is coming for them.
But Rosemary herself is almost powerless to change things. Although she's a princess, she's mostly without personal power. She has no magic. She barely sees her parents at all (and at least in her mother's case, the less they see each other, the better). She is, for better or worse, mostly an ordinary person. And THAT is what I think makes the ending work so well. She can only do little things, but she was never the only one working on the problem. And the things she has done and continues to do were enough to change things for the better.
So if you like found families, and ordinary heroism, this is a great book. I'm really glad this one got picked up for an official translation. I rate this book Recommended.
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The premise is becoming increasingly familiar to the English-speaking audience, but I really like how this one handles things. Although the first half of the book is basically hopping around various future suitors to try to eliminate the causes of their obsessive tendencies later, once it hits the latter chapters I feel it really gets more into what it wants to be.
Because once Teo and Lutz arrive, it feels like the story starts shifting from Rosemary wanting to fix people to Rosemary putting herself in a position where she's become friends with them, and because she's friends, she can't bear to see the future she knows is coming for them.
But Rosemary herself is almost powerless to change things. Although she's a princess, she's mostly without personal power. She has no magic. She barely sees her parents at all (and at least in her mother's case, the less they see each other, the better). She is, for better or worse, mostly an ordinary person. And THAT is what I think makes the ending work so well. She can only do little things, but she was never the only one working on the problem. And the things she has done and continues to do were enough to change things for the better.
So if you like found families, and ordinary heroism, this is a great book. I'm really glad this one got picked up for an official translation. I rate this book Recommended.
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June 20, 2023
Another for the pile of otome isekai rebirth stories. She isn't a cliche princess or villain which helps. The world she is in was a rather dark and unenjoyable game and she realizes quickly that this version of Rosemary will have to make efforts to change the characters for things to get better. She tries to give outside support to her brother Johan so he isn't addicted to Rosemary. She saves the mother of a potential capture target so he doesn't blacken and become self-obsessed. Then she gets a bit flustered when she realizes she cannot control the homelife of her knight and therefore cannot do much beyond refusing to harbor romantic feelings and hope someone else will step up to break him of his S&M tendencies in the future. Rose moves on to trying to help the young wizards that will receive an education in the palace but has trouble dealing with their mercurial natures and the complicated abduction plan of a foreign empire as she remains a ten year old girl without real power. Not all of her plans work but she is generally successful. The narrative is once again obsessed with introducing Japanese food culture to this other world. We have yet to even get to the start of the game timeline and there is a disturbing age gap between her and the side character she wants to send her future with. It holds enough distinction for genre fans, but I'm not sure there is enough here to bring in outsiders.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 3, 2023
A career woman from modern day Japan is reborn as Princess Rosemary Von Velfalt, a side character from an otome game she used to play. While most might love to be reborn in the game they played a lot, Rosemary was horrified. She hated the game, or to be more precise, she hated the main characters because each had a ridiculous character flaw. Unwilling to deal with such personalities, she decided to intervene and make sure the forming events of those people would turn out differently before the demon lord and heroine would show up.
The story and world are fairly typical for the villainess genre. It is fairly well written, and it had me hooked to some extent with entertaining characters and a decent plot. The MC being treated as weak and fragile to some extent was a bit irritating at times especially in the later section were she had very little agency, but to be fair she is a young kid in this volume. Some of the MC's behaviour is also a bit creepy, 6 year olds crushing on 18 years olds even with the MC having the mind of the adult. To me though it was a bit creepier that somebody would have a genuine crush on a game character and that it carries over when you would meet the real version, but that is part and parcel of the genre.
So a decent read, 3.5 stars, rounded down due to a few tropes I personally dislike, but others might not mind.
The story and world are fairly typical for the villainess genre. It is fairly well written, and it had me hooked to some extent with entertaining characters and a decent plot. The MC being treated as weak and fragile to some extent was a bit irritating at times especially in the later section were she had very little agency, but to be fair she is a young kid in this volume. Some of the MC's behaviour is also a bit creepy, 6 year olds crushing on 18 years olds even with the MC having the mind of the adult. To me though it was a bit creepier that somebody would have a genuine crush on a game character and that it carries over when you would meet the real version, but that is part and parcel of the genre.
So a decent read, 3.5 stars, rounded down due to a few tropes I personally dislike, but others might not mind.
February 8, 2024
I honestly don’t know what to say that hasn’t been said already, the plot itself is interesting, not revolutionary by any means, but well done. I find the fact that the fl is trying to change things, and then finding that she has little power to do so on a broader scale to feel in line for what we know of her, but the fact that she has yet to do anything to even attempt to rectify this by the end of the first volume was quite the let down.
As for the elephant in the room, the age gaps between Rosemary and her love interest makes me wildly uncomfortable. On its own, a 10 year age gap may not be all that shocking, but when the pair meet when one is sixteen and the other is SIX!!! That is a whole other can of worms. I get that she is mentally in her 20s and she was initially attracted to a more age appropriate ml, she tends to quite literally act the age of her body (6-10 years old in this!!!)
While the concept of this story itself is interesting, I don’t see myself being able to look over this specific issue, especially when there are other acceptable and age appropriate options available.
As for the elephant in the room, the age gaps between Rosemary and her love interest makes me wildly uncomfortable. On its own, a 10 year age gap may not be all that shocking, but when the pair meet when one is sixteen and the other is SIX!!! That is a whole other can of worms. I get that she is mentally in her 20s and she was initially attracted to a more age appropriate ml, she tends to quite literally act the age of her body (6-10 years old in this!!!)
While the concept of this story itself is interesting, I don’t see myself being able to look over this specific issue, especially when there are other acceptable and age appropriate options available.
November 13, 2021
If you like "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!" you will enjoy this book. The concept is very similar, but unlike the main character, she is not as dense.
The main character (Rosemary) finds herself reincarnated in another world, in an otome game, where all the male love interests, while attractive, have the personalities: masochists, necrophiles, and perverts. While the male love interests have such personalities, the side characters are basically perfect.
Rosemary decides to forge her own path, skipping all the story routes, and changes/interferes with the male love interests, hoping that they would not become characters with horrible personalities.
This is a very interesting start to the series and look forward to the next volume.
The main character (Rosemary) finds herself reincarnated in another world, in an otome game, where all the male love interests, while attractive, have the personalities: masochists, necrophiles, and perverts. While the male love interests have such personalities, the side characters are basically perfect.
Rosemary decides to forge her own path, skipping all the story routes, and changes/interferes with the male love interests, hoping that they would not become characters with horrible personalities.
This is a very interesting start to the series and look forward to the next volume.
February 5, 2022
Fun and wholesome
The story follows the typical lightnovel routine of girl being reincarnated into a fantasy otome game, but with a twist that makes the actual story work well.
The main 'suitors' in the game are all broken, emotionally damaged individuals with mental issues/ perversion.
This sets up the perfect scenario for our loveable mc to go around fixing the problems for most of these broken peole before the traumatic stuff happens to them.
I'm sure people have seen the trope of the main heroine being a balm that heals the heart of a broken man with an unfortunate past. This is sorta that trope but on steroids, because the girl is healing everyone and their mothers (literally, kindoff).
A fun and wholesome read.
The story follows the typical lightnovel routine of girl being reincarnated into a fantasy otome game, but with a twist that makes the actual story work well.
The main 'suitors' in the game are all broken, emotionally damaged individuals with mental issues/ perversion.
This sets up the perfect scenario for our loveable mc to go around fixing the problems for most of these broken peole before the traumatic stuff happens to them.
I'm sure people have seen the trope of the main heroine being a balm that heals the heart of a broken man with an unfortunate past. This is sorta that trope but on steroids, because the girl is healing everyone and their mothers (literally, kindoff).
A fun and wholesome read.
November 3, 2025
The story started off with a lot of promise, but after a while it became overly focused on the protagonist’s constant overthinking — she hesitates, doubts everyone, and spends most of the time criticizing everything around her. It’s very understandable, but it does get a bit heavy after a while. There are some good aspects, yet the flaws end up outweighing them. Still, I can see why the readers might be drawn in by the premise.
October 15, 2021
More a 3.5, tbh - mostly for the narration style (don't know if it's the original text or the translation that is slightly off to me) and it took me more than half of the book to warm up to the story. It's not that it's bad, but it's not a stand-out either.
February 23, 2022
Cute
I love Rosemary and her devotion of Sir Leonheart. Chris you better be careful cause perhaps they will get married lol Also Teo and Lutz needs live of hugs and kisses. In short, it’s a cute story with lovable characters
I love Rosemary and her devotion of Sir Leonheart. Chris you better be careful cause perhaps they will get married lol Also Teo and Lutz needs live of hugs and kisses. In short, it’s a cute story with lovable characters
March 9, 2022
Adorable and dense
Rose is the cutest little cinnamon roll!!! She gets isekai'd into a princess with a world full of trash main character men. Instead of running away, our pure hearted hime-sama sets out to fix them. So wholesome and delightful to read.
Rose is the cutest little cinnamon roll!!! She gets isekai'd into a princess with a world full of trash main character men. Instead of running away, our pure hearted hime-sama sets out to fix them. So wholesome and delightful to read.
December 5, 2023
Had to drop at the 40% mark. I couldn't take how people were talking about marriage with a 6 year old, how she was crushing on a guard 15 years older than her, and how constantly there were references to the sex appeal of young kids. Gross.
May 20, 2024
well written
The author did such an incredible job of conveying the tension and tear inducing moments that I had to keep aspirin and tissues close at hand. Bravo, well done and keep up the good work. Off I go to buy book 2.
The author did such an incredible job of conveying the tension and tear inducing moments that I had to keep aspirin and tissues close at hand. Bravo, well done and keep up the good work. Off I go to buy book 2.
March 12, 2022
The isekai premise is pretty common but i felt this one had really endearing characters. It also left you wanting to know more about the world.
March 17, 2022
This is a cute little story.
April 10, 2025
good :)
September 1, 2023
Read long ago; I remember liking the story and Lux but then I got pissed because the age gap between Rosemary and Leonhardt?? Anyways the gap is like >20 years AND Leonhardt literally sees her grow up AND they have like a father/daughter relationship for a while. I can take large age gaps in relationships if the two people meet when they’re like, adults, but when you fall in love with a daughter figure?? That shit is nasty.
April 21, 2016
good novel, but the fact that she is 10 years old, bugs me a lot
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