{"id":11243,"date":"2024-03-11T14:29:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=11243"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:34:13","slug":"the-otome-heroines-fight-for-survival-7th-time-loop-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-otome-heroines-fight-for-survival-7th-time-loop-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Otome Heroine&#8217;s Fight for Survival &#038; 7th Time L\u221ep #1-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0CNTJMDBQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival<\/a> makes a couple of unexpected choices in its event trajectory. Rather than have the protagonist be isekai&#8217;d into the game world, she&#8217;s instead naturally one of the game&#8217;s characters who awakens to self-awareness after killing someone who was isekai&#8217;d into the story. Then later on it looks like it&#8217;s going to go the independent murderhobo route only to swerve into noble-backed battle maid training instead.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely a number of interesting elements floating around so far and I&#8217;m curious to see how things develop. That said, the first quarter or so is a bit of a chore to get through due to being absolutely drenched in background exposition and overflowing with various training-related monologues. Would&#8217;ve been nice had that part been condensed to like a chapter or two max.<\/p>\n<p>The lengthily, and slightly misleadingly, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0B25F59YC\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu o Mankitsu suru<\/a> series (English subtitle: <em>The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!<\/em>) starts out as a fairly enjoyable slow-burn romance with hints toward a larger background plot. The protagonist is a nice mix of competent and awkward, the love interest is a pretty standard kuudere, and events play out in an entertaining manner&#8230; for the first two novels at least.<\/p>\n<p>The third novel, however, is atrocious. The focus there mainly falls on two children, each annoying in a different manner, while the protagonist falls back on behaving like a servant from one of her previous loops (despite now being an empress-to-be) and the prince basically becomes an afterthought. With the event development and secondary characters not being any good either, I&#8217;m likely not going to bother following the series any further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival makes a couple of unexpected choices in its event trajectory. Rather than have the protagonist be isekai&#8217;d into the game world, she&#8217;s instead naturally one of the game&#8217;s characters who awakens to self-awareness after killing someone who was isekai&#8217;d into the story. Then later on it looks like it&#8217;s going to go the independent murderhobo route only to swerve into noble-backed battle maid training instead. Definitely a number of interesting elements floating around so far and I&#8217;m curious to see how things develop. That said, the first quarter or so is a bit of a chore to get through due to being absolutely drenched in background exposition and overflowing with various training-related monologues. Would&#8217;ve been nice had that part been condensed to like a chapter or two max. The lengthily, and slightly misleadingly, titled Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyuu Kimama na Hanayome Seikatsu o Mankitsu suru series (English subtitle: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!) starts out as a fairly enjoyable slow-burn romance with hints toward a larger background plot. The protagonist is a nice mix of competent and awkward, the love interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28,827,829,828,64,826,510],"class_list":["post-11243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-fantasy","tag-harunohi-biyori","tag-loop-7-kaime","tag-otome-game-no-heroine-de-saikyou-survival","tag-romance","tag-touko-amekawa","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}