I really love how expressive the fashion is in this comic. Before Pereshati gets married, she always has her hair down and dresses in youthful, spring-colored dresses. After she joins the Lapileons, she adjusts her wardrobe to match their austere preferences. Her hair is always up, she wears dark, conservative clothing, and she looks more mature. All the Lapileons dress this way. Her outfits are always stunning. Dodolea's wardrobe also sets her apart. Her gothic lolita-esque style is so different than everyone else's outfits that it makes her even more unsettling. Everyone on Webtoon should take notes on this artist!
You brought up something I had barely noticed! Something so simple as outfits has such a huge impact on the way audiences perceive characters, totally an underutilized part of comic creation!
On that topic one thing I noticed is that every frame that both Pereshati and Dodolea are in there in opposite colors like the first time we see the fourth princess she's in dark purple while Pereshati's in a light sage. Thought this was interesting because it really shows how completely different the characters are from each other. Pereshati is calm, composed, and a genuinely kind person and the fourth princess is obsessive, crazy, and shows quite alarming psychological behaviors. Another thing is that like what @snailcall mentioned Pereshati starts to match the family colors and outfits which makes Dodolea, who always dresses opposite to what Pereshati does, stand even more as an enemy and outsider.
the best part of this webtoon? pereshati doesn't automatically forgive therdeo because he's hot. she actually holds grudges and has biases and actually has character!!! its so depressing this is what makes us happy but i love it and i will love this webtoon forever
Yes this! When she finally let all her frustrations out, I genuinely cried. Also the fact that he actually listened to her and didn’t half ass an apology. He was genuine and from then on was attentive to try and not hurt Pereshati’s feelings (he’s a working progress). He’s also slowly opening up to her which makes me happy.
@@middleeasternforhire8985 lots of the more popular ones are korean in origin, so they Do sometimes just make up names that sound western LMAO more seriously, if a westerner tried to write smth like milaowm, there would be only a few layers of separation from the culture: time period, , existence of magic, etc. korean authors have a whole other harder-to-navigate level of separation above that, which also complicates everything below it. and of course the names are written in korean characters, which leads to shit like 'theodore' being translated as 'therdeo' and 'dahlia' as 'dodolea', because there's no 1-to-1 translation of these names in korean and back again lol
I also love that Pereshati doesn't instantly burn every single bridge with her step-mother. She questions herself, especially when her mother starts manipulating her with crocodile tears and protecting her from hot tea with her hand, burning it. Even though she witnessed them gleefully murdering her, she still had doubts. She still wants her mother's love. Her step-mother was so kind, gentle and loving. Surely she can't be that horrible? Surely Pereshati has made a mistake somewhere? Surely her mother still loves her and always did? Surely she didn't kill her just for money? Right? It's so realistic. Even when children have been abused their whole lives, a lot of them still want a relationship with their parents. They want to believe that they're actually good people. Even if they know logically that's not true and they should stay far away from their abuser, their emotional side wants to cling onto the parent. Same here with Pereshati. She knows her mother ruthlessly killed her, smiling while doing it. She knows she can't trust her. But that thought clashes with all her childhood memories where her mother was good and loving. She knows she has to cast her mother aside but it's very hard to do that. And when she finally gets a win over her mother, finally gets revenge... She doesn't smile, laugh or celebrate. She is stone faced until finally crying once the situation is over. She's not happy about any of this. She's hurting and wishes it hadn't come to this. That her mother was the loving facade she was putting up. It's so good, so realistic, so heart wrenching.
I love how realistic it is, if the family and friends I loved killed me for money, I would battling myself internally if I was wrong or if I did something wrong.
Okay, I finally read the comic and that scene... omg. I can't blame her for doubting. If someone who watched me die joyfully in my previous life protected me I would be doubting myself like Pereshati.
I think another lovely thing about the story is that while Pereshati may be young, she and the other adult characters actually act like adults. Pereshati isn't blushing and flailing like a high school girl all the time - when she interacts with Celphi, she's not JUST nice and encouraging. She actually takes on responsible duties like picking him up and dropping him off places, she creates boundaries in the process of raising him, and discusses decisions and parenting with her husband. She doesn't sneak out behind everyone's back to secretly build a business or ask the information guild stuff, but instead tends to talk big decisions over with her husband. This makes their interactions delightful, because from the beginning, it's this constant gentle influence from her to tackle life as a team. And he does his best to return that energy, especially in public, and isn't just stubbornly refusing to share with her out of shame or such. He is trying to balance that teamwork with the trust and responsibility his family puts in him. But they both always do try to approach that issue like actual mature people, and that's really pleasant. There are still moments when that communication really buckles under the pressure of their circumstances, but that depiction of their love slowly growing from the fertile soil of actual teamwork is really wonderful.
Another thing about Pereshati's business is that it also makes sense why Pereshati wasn't open with relaying every detail of her business towards Therdeo when it was struggling. By this point, the leads are friendly, but they haven't confessed yet and are still under the assumption that they'll still divorce once the contractual period ends--so Pereshati doesn't want to be too reliant on her status as the Grand Duchess because then she'll deal with the fall out once she loses that title and the privileges that came with it. Apart from that, she also feels a sense of misguided guilt that her husband and family have helped her too much for someone who's only staying temporarily, and she at least wants to maintain independence once she leaves the Lapileons and presumably takes on her duties as a Countess.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the characters don’t have same face syndrome! Now, most of the diverse body types are in background characters but I honestly still love it. There’s plus sized women, women with square jaws, and they have various heights. It’s a lovely touch and they aren’t villainized. I also just appreciate the touch that there are gender biases and roles in the world, like them not wanting to appoint a woman as the head duke as mentioned by sister in law. However, women do hold positions of power (like the reverend, the sister in law was duke for a short time, the crowned princess who has lovers due to her penchant for pretty men, etc)
Yeah,that reminds me,it also touches on therdeos trauma too. When we see pershati after the trial about her stepmother(lets all admit,she needs a break and im happy that therdeo didnt force pereshati to return since this is just a contractual marriage). When we see snippets on why therdeo is uncomfortable about dodolea or woman in general,we see the flashback that shows us why. Honestly,dodolea is giving me freaky vibes but not to this extent. Its even disturbing how she seems so so obsessed that she even drugged therdeo and almost SA him. Its just so surreal and so scary actually.
I find it weirdly funny that pink haired female leads are really common in romance webtoons while being a green haired character is nothing short of suffering. Like I kid you not, most of the green haired characters (be it manhwa, manga, etc) I have seen are either depressed, traumatized, crazy or mentally unstable in some way or another
Isekai Maid Is Starting A Union is a Webtoon that plays with that trope by making the main character a frequent reincarnator that knows if her new life is about to be bad if she has green hair lmao.
@@lowkeyayokaii don't watch a lot of anime and i've only seen one of these (hunter x hunter) but hxh focuses heavily on the green mc's psychology after his father left him and boku no hero is just the green mc breaking bones over and over lol
@@lowkeyayokaithere's also shion + mion sonozaki from when they cry? i bring them up because all 4 greens i can think of suffer terribly their whole lives and im not even big on this shit 😭😭 i bet someone who watches a lot more would have dozens
@@mattybitesfor me,I suggest you should read actually,I was the real one novel version. Because I am very maybe a bit disappointed that the adaptation has romance which the novel does not have and the fact I am mad that the scenes with her brother in the novel are replaced with her so called male leads(mainly due to me hearing a lot of fans are sad that there is no romance in the novel last year ago or long time ago before the adaptation was made)
@@syafeeqahisham1740doesn't the novel have romance tho? from what the artist of the webtoon said they actually toned down the romance and made it a side plot rather than the main one so they could put more focus on the actual story
@@syafeeqahisham1740 The original novel might be able to tell a great story without romance but personally I think in the webtoon adaptation, the author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the cutesy romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when they're having serious conversations about the plot. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on his own. In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose.
i thoroughly enjoyed cellphi giving theo the silent treatment because he was pissed at him for treating perry the way he had. it was amusing but it was also entirely warranted and understandable and that made me happy. i loved seeing theo actually acknowledge he wasnt the best father or just, person, in general and try to do better moving forward. its the bare minimum, but unfortunately bare minimum is a bit hard to achieve with these types of stories.
I enjoy reading this comic. Not going to lie. I reread the part where she died after accidentally swallowing some of the Duke's blood. The way he just yeeted her body in an UNMARKED grave. And even told the FL why he yeeted her in an unmarked grave with no shame. Not sure if I am evil, but I laugh every time.
when I first read the first couple chapters, I also laughed! I was nearly expecting it to be a comedic webtoon, like maybe a very straight faced comedy of errors.
tropes have a reason that theyre tropes in the first place. theyre popular and have insanely great potential! its just that unfortunately, and sadly, they are so often not done with enough love and effort to unfold their true potential.
one of the things I love most about this webtoon is how they explored Pereshati's relationship with her step-mother. I love how nuanced and real it is. Despite knowing the terrible intentions of her step-mother, she still felt conflicted about her feelings. Yes, she felt anger and rage towards her step-family but it couldn't erase the fact that they were once her family. The webtoon showed flashbacks of Pereshati as a child and her step-mother, treating her as if she's her own child, playing with her, laughing with her. She was once her mother that she loved so much. Pereshati didn't immediately forget everything about her step-family. She still treated them like her own family, after all. I love how the characters feel so human and not just some tropes or caricatures. They didn't make the step-family be a plain cartoonish villain that doesn't have anything on their mind than do bad
10:36 my best assumption is that by the time that year is up, she can either a) escape even further out where her step-family can't reach her b) pray her step-family will have found other people to use so they leave her alone c) ask the lapelions to provide her with protection in case she doesn't believe even the marriage can stop them from killing her or d) make them believe that she still has the lapelions on her side without staying too long with them (1 year is enough for the family to assume that she still has connections with the family and short enough that she can just try to endure it if she really doesn't like them) cause let's be real, ex-wife or not, pereshati would still be assumed to have connections to the lapelion family if she stayed there for a long period of time. who's gonna want to kill her if they don't know exactly what happened in her marriage (mainly because all of the lapelions act in near secrecy)
I think its also because she assumes one of the things that makes her an easy target is that she isn't very good at running the countdom, in one of the first episodes she states she needs to learn as much as she can while she is married to Therdeo and she is shown to still care about the state of the countdom. Living with the Duke gives her a lot of opportunity to learn about administrative tasks safely.
Another small thing about the nail biting, eventually she realizes how biting her nails will put her in danger because it gives her small cuts on her hands that could expose her to the blood poison. She gradually stops biting her nails, but when she's nervous she STILL puts her fingers to her lips. That small mannerism never completely goes away. It's such wonderful character acting.
"Pereshati revives for a second time, leaving me, Pereshati, and the palace staff confused" is a good indicator on how good this story is. At first you think you know where it's going, because cliches, but plot twist, but then you think - plot twist, and another plot twist. Her murder is sudden and brutal, he reacts like a normal person, but she dies again, and no one knows why
As a romance itself, this series exceeds in every aspect that I want in a romance. Slow-burn, adults that are flawed but willing to communicate to detangle the twists together slowly, how the story unveils the characters' trauma that affects their thought process and decisions. I silently screamed when I read the panels where our main couple had first confession and skinship. It was marvelous and so worth it!
The original novel might be able to tell a great story without romance but personally I think in the webtoon adaptation, the author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when the pair is having serious conversations about the main plot. Or personal issues they're dealing with, and confiding in the other about them. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on her own. In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose. Normally it would be an absolute, complete annoyance for it to take 100 chapters for these two idiots to kiss (lmao) but in this story in particular it's done so well. It's slow burn and it makes sense for a lot of different factors. First, that there is a genuinely extremely interesting mystery in the main story that involves pretty much every member of the Lapelion family that keeps you WELL occupied during those 100 chapters, and second, the fact that Theo is such a cold and distant character who's an absolute brick wall to try to interact with, that it genuinely takes that long for him to slowly remove those bricks one by one and begin to see this strange woman who he agreed to marry for convenience in a completely different light. And it feels worth it to compare the stone cold expressionless scary man he was in the first few chapters, with how vibrant and expressive and human he is in the most recent ones. It feels like you watched him grow this whole time, and you're proud of him.
Something subtle I love about this Webtoon is how Pereshati’s wardrobe changes. She goes from very girlish clothing with soft colours and full, frilly skirts with ribbons in her hair that’s often down to wearing usually darker shades of fabrics and keeping her hair pinned back. No shade to her former style, I think it’s cute (that’s actually another thing I like about ‘In-Laws’: compared to a lot of these types of stories, where the protagonist wears such over the top clothes with so many jewels and frills they look ridiculously gaudy- Peri’s clothes have always been detailed but never ott) but the way her wardrobe matures as she herself matures and becomes a respectable lady and mother over an innocent young woman who just lost her father is some quiet storytelling I really love. Also she looks absolutely fire in those dark dresses and her pink hair really compliments that.
I am so happy you read this! There’s a scene I want to talk about but there are spoilers. The moment I knew this was a good comic was because of a panel in season one. I’m pretty sure it’s from on of the earlier episodes. There is just this panel of Therdeo walking down a hallway but it’s dark. Not natural dark, but as if there was this heavy shadow over him. It showed his inner conflict and trouble of what he needs to do and face. I remember being very surprised that such a panel was in the comic. Nothing was said, no sound effects, no inner monologue telling us his thoughts. Just him walking down a hallway. But it said so much, and I knew right then I would love this comic.
@@mattybites⁉️ SPOILER ⁉️ They actually acknowledge Theos bad actions chilphi get's mad like he should but what ticks me off it that pereshati says "it's fine" but theo acknowledges his mistakes and tries to gain Perry's forgiveness rather then demanding it in some other webtoons they forget the horrible actions of the ml but in this comic they acknowledge it accept it embrace it that's why I like it tbh when I was reading it I was not sceptical like I was reading "i thought my time was up" i hope you'll do a second vid on this to summarise it and it's ok if you don't! Also I get that you didn't trust this webtoon at first you've read too many mediocre webtoons I get it but idk when I First read it i had a guy feeling this was gonna be good i only started reading this in April but it was so awesome I think I re-read it like 16 times and it still doesn't get boring best pink haired mc for pereshati!!
Same girly... when i first started reading MILAOWM when it first started i was unhealthily obbsessed, eyeing the updating notifications. Glad you liked our recomendations. I really enjoy how the people in this story is wellpeople as weord as it sounds, they dont give of the impression of being created simply for the sake of the FL, they have personalitys, hold grudges, ambitions and are not easily "fooled" or naive, like hiw he didnt blindly believe her when she told him she tolerated and could touch his blood (without dying that is) , he tried it out because he was skeptic which is realistic. Its one of my fave webtoons that give me such a nostalgic feeling
Yeah,for me,I just love how the trauma didn't mysteriously disappear for pereshati and therdeo actually especially pereshati. Like seriously,it's so sad to see the person that care about her since she was little do something like this heck killed her father. And it's even more sadder that she just found this out in the second life.
They’re both such amazing and well-written masterpieces omg, I just got done with reading the recent chapters from the dark lord’s confession, praying she gets to read them and cover them too!
One of my praises for this webtoon is the way Pereshati's relationship with her family and Schiff is written. It's not just pure hatred, she still sort of loves them and deep down wants them to change. It's more feeling hurt than anything. She talks about how she wants them to realise they shouldn't kill her. But she also holds grudges, I feel that's really realistic. You don't just live your entire life with someone and then switch up your feelings the moment they backstab you
the reason I loved this webtoon was because it actually let you immerse yourself in the art and story, I always felt like webtoons like I thought my time was up would just draw scenes for the sake of eye candy and because of that I would always just scroll mindlessly because the plot didn't really exist. Boy was I glad when I read this webtoon and I actually FELT the art telling me the story
I think the one year contract was a short time solution for her to get away from them and then become independent under the lapileon's protection so when the contracts end she's more capable of handling her status as the countess and is powerful enough to protect herself and her fortune
BROOO I started reading it because I thought it was gonna be stupid but then I was like: OH GODS LOOK AT THIS LOOK AT THIS!! I love Perry and the fact is that there are reasons to love her, and she is not perfect, and she tries her best. AND I LOVE HOW HER AND THE ML SUPPORT EACH OTHER EVEN THROUGH SMALL THINGS I LOVE THE CHARACTERS I LOVE THAT THE ACT OF DEATH IS TAKEN WITH WEIGHT AND THAT TRAUMAS DON'T JUST DISAPPEAR
PLEASE READ SCHOOL BUS GRAVEYARD! I RECOMMEND IT!!It subversts tropes, Interesting characters and world building and a fun and relatable cast of characters wtih horror‼️
The silent panels are my favorite in the series. Consedering the lapilleon's stoic they never shows much expression but the way the artist frame the scenes and the eyes of the characther.
There's a comic I think you'd like, it follows the story of a young man in high school navigating relationships and his abusive family, it's called Diary of a Wimpy Kid!
Have you heard of the great estate developer best webtoon no romance just a super greedy main lead who wants to live peacefully and goes to great length to make sure people get fair wages and the people around him sing his praises to extreme lengths that is just so funny I can’t not EXPRESS that you will not predict what happens next no one can and it’s beautiful.
I usually hate isekais where the MC's are super amazing at everything they do, but Greatest Estate Developer is my favorite manhwa ever. Lloyd and Javier's begrudging brotp is transcendental
I think the foundation of the plot is shaky on purpose since it's a rashly made decision by a Perry that's still in a state of confusion and nobody to confide in. The marriage was never a solution to her issue but a stop-gap to give her time to plan what to do and learn how to manage her inheritance. She already has doubts when she accidentally died. I'm guessing the 1 year time frame was long enough for a marriage to a stranger and she didn't think the grand duke would agree to a longer period of time considering the public family history.
I also love how they make her wear darker colors and use updos and intricate hairstyles to make her seem more mature. She’s not just a kid throughout the story and she’s not infantilized she just grows as a person and a woman and I absolutely love that for her so much❤❤❤❤❤
I personally think "The spark in your eyes" by MURO is also one of the few historical webtoons which are very well-written and show light to the side characters aswell :) not to mention most of the roles are reversed so it's so unique😭😭 one of my favorites out there
@@Meow-ts3ce hi hi, yes ofcc if you've liked the spark in your eyes i definitely reccomend "the dark lord's confession" but you could also try out "like a wind on a dry branch" or "secret lady" - (which is not on webtoon unfortunately😔. but you could try out websites like bato) i've also noted that most of these manhwa's are slow paced so i love them, enjoy your read !!
Now it’s time for you to read from knight to lady, cause that’s a really good one, if not for plot for its ART! Like bro, I love the details in some panels where they have both the main girls old life and new life appearances merge in the frame causal like as though it’s just lighting choice. Its hard to explain without seeing it for yourself but as an artist god it’s beautiful
To me, i guess it's just good. Because the story is more of a character-driven one, the main focus of it would be the characters themselves. A good story of redemption, but I'm not that hooked on the characters despite seeing all their perfects and flaws, especially Ethan. Though I like Dorothea a lot, the others are just mehhh
i think the main reason she wanted a 1 year contract is because she needed urgent protection from her step family and boyfriend and also needed time to grow herself. She said she isn't capable enough to be the head of her household and that's why she needed help from the laplieon to protect her while she studies and learns to be independent and potentially continue her father's business. So after the year had ended, therdeo had already escaped his marriage problem (well, that's according to pereshati..though im not sure if this would actually work cuz they time travelled and many variables came along with it like Doodolea) anyway he was supposed escape the marriage and pereshati would get his protection in return and once she's capable enough she'd start her own business. This has been mentioned throughout the comic in small fragments we just needed to piece it together.
I'm so happy you made a video about this comic. I paused this after you told Therdeo kills her a second time ON PURPOSE and went to binge read the comic myself and I agree with you on all the praise. The silent story telling especially caught my eye, it was so masterfully done! As a comic artist, it really made me study the panels and hope to make something similar in the future, to speak more with the art rather than the words. I'm also happy that Therdeo took time to warm up the Pereshati. There's so many manhwas where the male lead is supposedly a cold hearted, murderous war hero but then they fall for the mc almost instantly. Here, Theo actually stays cold and distant for a long time and even after it's clear he's starting to catch feelings, he STILL keeps distant to Perry because he doesn't know how to socialise. He grew up isolated from society because of the curse, he's only been surrounded by his family who are just as cold and distant as he is. So I'm glad that actually reflects in his actions. Finally there's an actual reason for why the characters have poor communication from time to time and it doesn't just get fixed with one incident. He keeps being distant and quiet. He gets a little closer to her, then withdraws again, leaving Perry confused about their relationship. It makes sense!! God I love this comic!
The author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when the pair is having serious conversations about the main plot. Or personal issues they're dealing with, and confiding in the other about them. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on her own. In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose. Normally it would be an absolute, complete annoyance for it to take 100 chapters for these two idiots to kiss (lmao) but in this story in particular it's done so well. It's slow burn and it makes sense for a lot of different factors. First, that there is a genuinely extremely interesting mystery in the main story that involves pretty much every member of the Lapelion family that keeps you WELL occupied during those 100 chapters, and second, the fact that Theo is such a cold and distant character who's an absolute brick wall to try to interact with, that it genuinely takes that long for him to slowly remove those bricks one by one and begin to see this strange woman who he agreed to marry for convenience in a completely different light. And it feels worth it to compare the stone cold expressionless scary man he was in the first few chapters, with how vibrant and expressive and human he is in the most recent ones. It feels like you watched him grow this whole time, and you're proud of him.
The original novel might be able to tell a great story without romance but personally I think in the webtoon adaptation, the author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when the pair is having serious conversations about the main plot. Or personal issues they're dealing with, and confiding in the other about them. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on her own. In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose. Normally it would be an absolute, complete annoyance for it to take 100 chapters for these two idiots to kiss (lmao) but in this story in particular it's done so well. It's slow burn and it makes sense for a lot of different factors. First, that there is a genuinely extremely interesting mystery in the main story that involves pretty much every member of the Lapelion family that keeps you WELL occupied during those 100 chapters, and second, the fact that Theo is such a cold and distant character who's an absolute brick wall to try to interact with, that it genuinely takes that long for him to slowly remove those bricks one by one and begin to see this strange woman who he agreed to marry for convenience in a completely different light. And it feels worth it to compare the stone cold expressionless scary man he was in the first few chapters, with how vibrant and expressive and human he is in the most recent ones. It feels like you watched him grow this whole time, and you're proud of him.
I love this webtoon so dang much!! I'm so glad it's getting love and attention because it totally deserves it and more! I just re-read it (up to chapter 100) and every development; every story beat felt completely earned. All the relationships (platonic and romantic) feel so real and genuine. Plus, this webtoon even has the main character reflect on the privilege she has as a high member of society, reflect on failures and when it's okay to ask for help, and she even holds onto anger and resentment toward people for more than a chapter. If you haven't read it, it is currently my golden standard for webtoons right now. They take the rule of "Show don't Tell" so well and know how much information to give and when.
I had only read the Chapter 1 preview and ended up ditching the story, but after seeing this, I really want to give it another shot. Thank you for making this video!
its not obvious at first but in late chapters it says that the brother wife when she was no longer apart of the family still get protection because they know about the curse
Ok I stopped 5 mins in, binged the whole comic and came back. This is the first time since 2020 I’ve reopened webtoon. I also am OBSESSED with this omg
13:31 Dodilia????? I had to pause your video to binge the webtoon, my coins have been spent and oh boiiiii. I kept reading her name DODO-LEA this entire time and it fueled me with even more haterage towards that character because I just couldn't get over that name. I didn't give this one a chance over the title alone, because I'm just over that genre, but daaaamn is this one good! Thank you for this new obsession.
You should read "This isekai maid is starting a union ". The character are really written while and the plot is something i havent seen Plus it makes fun/shames of common tropes that shouldn't be glamorized in webtoon
I just started that one, it feels like it’s kind of just listing off bad writing tropes other Webtoons have at first, but once it finds it’s rhythm it feels more organic and is really immersive.
@@turner15That’s what I love about this webtoon is that it does a perfect balance of calling out overused and just horrendously bad tropes that we’re used to seeing in those kind of settings while also still having a story and plot of their own.
Because of you i was stuck to my phone for 3 days straight reading this and i loved every second of it. I wouldn't have given it a chance because of how similar it looked to other weebtoons. But i'm so happy i came across your video! Such a well written webtoon it is! And the art! I just adore it!
my in laws are obsessed with me is one of the very few Comics that really elevates the standards that webtoon has set, and now that you finish this one maybe you can read purple hyacinth. BECAUSE OMG WILL YOUR STABDARDS RISE
To do with the marriage contract- I think the reason why it was only for 1 years was for 2 major reasons A. When the contract starts she's shown to be scared of the duke and well yes she could ask someone she doesn't what to ask her normal social circle for fear of her step-family finding out and being judged for doing that since she's dating Schiff B. I think her plan to protect herself was to set up system and force them out of the main family house and eventually dampen there influence within the family she didn't at the start of the comic want to go scorched earth on them she just wanted to stay alive and keep her inheritance. She could with hard work ( as we see her doing) stop them from Targeting her inheritance or her life by virtue of no longer being in active contact with them
I love how this chanel usually discusses "bad" webtoons, ones I don't read, but discusses good things about the ones I do read ㅠㅡㅠ makes me feel oddly superior/j
I’m so grateful you enjoyed this webtoon as it is one of my all time favorites and the story development is so good. The artist adapted the story a whole lot differently than the novel (the novel is very bad imo) and it’s such a satisfying development and even when the main couple gets romantic it’s awkward and they both don’t know what they’re doing which makes it so sweet and realistic I love it so much aghshfhahahgd
The original novel might be able to tell a great story without romance but personally I think in the webtoon adaptation, the author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when the pair is having serious conversations about the main plot. Or personal issues they're dealing with, and confiding in the other about them. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on her own. In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose. Normally it would be an absolute, complete annoyance for it to take 100 chapters for these two idiots to kiss (lmao) but in this story in particular it's done so well. It's slow burn and it makes sense for a lot of different factors. First, that there is a genuinely extremely interesting mystery in the main story that involves pretty much every member of the Lapelion family that keeps you WELL occupied during those 100 chapters, and second, the fact that Theo is such a cold and distant character who's an absolute brick wall to try to interact with, that it genuinely takes that long for him to slowly remove those bricks one by one and begin to see this strange woman who he agreed to marry for convenience in a completely different light. And it feels worth it to compare the stone cold expressionless scary man he was in the first few chapters, with how vibrant and expressive and human he is in the most recent ones. It feels like you watched him grow this whole time, and you're proud of him.
@@JinlongTheGoldenDragon the novel is definitely a great story without to the romance and I’m sure that will be adapted greatly into the manhwa (just a little differently) and I’m looking forward to it a lot. Just… the romance between the characters and the way some of them were written in the novel was very shallow to me, personally, and I’ve only read a bit of the novel anyways. It’s overall a really interesting story and definitely different than your average manhwa reincarnation romance.
Inlaws is such a phenomenal webtoon to me I look up to perry so much I absolutely love this comic!! Also for the decision of marriage for a year, I believe it was stated in some chapters that perry married theo so she can stay away from her family and learn to manage the countdom, she also wanted to form connections that will help her after the year, she believed if she learnt to manage the countdom herself she wouldn't have to depend on her step family anymore. Which makes this even more sad cuz this implies in her past life she really depended a lot on her family and had planned to learn about handling the countdom together with them
next you should read surviving romance! it’s great! or the makeup remover they’re both by the same author and i love them so much i subscribed to the authors instagram even though i don’t really use instagram!
The slow and gradual pacing, the still art in between, and the character development! All these things make it one of the best series! Finally, we reach the romance part!
Matty you should read 'the Villianess lives twice' i really love it and i am still catching up but i wanna see your opinion on it. The brutality is captured really good.
Dude i watched the first 30-40 episodes in two hours i totally ate that comic up and i love that you're talking about it! ❤ (Btw this is the first video im watching from you!)
The one year contract was probably so that perrshati could inherit her title and then become indepenendant because i think you need a husband to inherit the title
I started reading this book late one night, expecting it to be brainless fluff/trash that would help me fall asleep. . . . I did not sleep that night. It's one of my favorites.
I will read this after this video! It sounds very interesting. Personally I belive that authors on the internet relay to much on tropes, whixh damages their story. There is nothing wrong to use one or two tropes in your story, but every time I see or hear about a romantic webtoon/novel that was written online, there are awlays the same things and most of them are things I define as "fanfiction tropes", which are not bad but need to be more elaborated for orginal material since we don't know stuff about the world/character unlike in a fanfiction.
I have a really high standard for webtoons after reading this one and I honestly don’t think anything can beat it but there is that I think kind of meets it. Like wind on a dry branch is a really good romance that has its own charm as the two leads highly respect each other and I honestly hope you can read it and review it if you have the time and patience for a slow burn😅
I think why it ends up handling the romance and plot so well is that the author in their post season 1 notes, says the romance isn't the first priority of the story but the family dynamics. They wanted each character to have a goal, even the crown princess gets one. The romance isn't also smooth sailing after they confess too. Their pasts and lives still end up conflicting.
The original novel might be able to tell a great story without romance but personally I think in the webtoon adaptation, the author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when the pair is having serious conversations about the main plot. Or personal issues they're dealing with, and confiding in the other about them. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on her own. In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose. Normally it would be an absolute, complete annoyance for it to take 100 chapters for these two idiots to kiss (lmao) but in this story in particular it's done so well. It's slow burn and it makes sense for a lot of different factors. First, that there is a genuinely extremely interesting mystery in the main story that involves pretty much every member of the Lapelion family that keeps you WELL occupied during those 100 chapters, and second, the fact that Theo is such a cold and distant character who's an absolute brick wall to try to interact with, that it genuinely takes that long for him to slowly remove those bricks one by one and begin to see this strange woman who he agreed to marry for convenience in a completely different light. And it feels worth it to compare the stone cold expressionless scary man he was in the first few chapters, with how vibrant and expressive and human he is in the most recent ones. It feels like you watched him grow this whole time, and you're proud of him.
I know this is uber uber late, but to answer your question as to why Pereshati wanted just one year of marriage- it's because she just wanted to buy herself more time and to keep herself away from her family who would likely try to kill her in that period. Given his violent reputation at the time, it is extremely unlikely Pereshati WANTED to stay married to him in the long term. EDIT: Oh, also it's just as likely because she knows the duke isn't too interested in marriage either, and keeping it up for just a year would sound like a better deal than keeping the timing indefinite. If you remember, there was a moment where the Duke asked if she was willing to extend the contract-likely so he'd have more time to run tests on her- and she (internally) very adamantly refused.
(TLDR at the end) i JUST commented on the Hello Baby video how, on like, 34 seconds or so into the video, there's a small segment of webtoons that have been recommended to you, and I paused and commented about each one. And I said how I've been avoiding "My In-Laws Are Obsessed With Me" because the synopsis sounded SUPER bland. (The name of the comic is also super generic, so it doesnt rlly help it either). But you just convinced me to read it, thank you for not telling the whole plot as well! As I was watching, I was getting invested, and was wondering if I should stop watching to not get spoilers I'm trying to write my own comic, and everything you said is what I've been trying to study to do on my own comic, especially giving screen-time to every character and making them feel human, like normal people who exist in the world, without overexplaining things (As I tend to rant like in this comment, sorry) I've read comics all my life, but i only started reading webcomics a few months ago, so I've struggled with figuring out what is considered good or not amongst the most popular "types" of comics (isekai, revenge, villainess is the mc, etc.), and how the writing and pacing works, so I'm really thankful to channels like this one, that review, give critcs, advice, etc. Before the Baby Tyrant video, I had never noticed how many onomatopoeias are used randomly on these comics. (Also probably because so many stories are so similar it feels like brainrot, so I've got to the point I'm just basically skimming through many comics) Out of the webtoons I've read so far, I'd say my favorite "romance" ones are 'Surviving Romance', 'The Makeup Remover', maybe 'No Outtakes' but that was one of the first ones i read ever, so I dont remember much of it now. I guess it's because they're more unique than all the other "set in europe-like country on the 19th century" or something like that, so they stand out more. If I had to pick a comic like that though, I guess I'd recommend 'The Remarried Empress', but I struggle on telling apart what's good or not on these genres that are overdone. TLDR: I've been avoiding My In-Laws Are Obsessed With Me because the synopsis and the title were super generic, but this video changed my mind, and I'm gonna give it a chance and try to use it as reference for my own comic I've been planning out. I'm somewhat new to webcomics, so I struggle telling what's well-made and what isn't, so channels like this are both entertaining and helpful for me. I really enjoyed 'Surviving Romance', 'The Makeup Remover', and 'No Outtakes', and if I had to pick one of those "europe-like, 19th century" comics, I'd pick 'The Remarried Empress', but I do have a harder time picking out what's good especially in overdone "genres" like isekai, villainesses, revenge and karma.
I am happy I found this video because I’ve been avoiding reading this WEBTOON simply because I didn’t want to deal with the same old same old. I look forward to picking it up and reading it.
yes, i didn't know how much i needed someone talking about how wonderful this webtoon is, it´s without a doubt one of my favorites, from the art style to the adaptation of the story, is simply a masterpiece and something that i find incredibly well done is the way in which the feelings of the main characters are transmitted throughout the story, without forcing anything like it took us over 100 chapters for them to finally talk about the feelings they have for each other AND IT FEELS BELIEVABLE because you witnessed everything that had to happen for them to reach that point and conclusions and I love the story for it. Honestly I would love to see in the future another video of you talking about more things that you liked and enjoy about the story, spoilers included and all. Greetings from Mexico and sorry for any error c:
I will read this webtoon today it sounds really good. If you want another good webtoon of a similar genre then you should read Your Throne/To be you just for a day it is peak fiction and both female leads are beautifully written
Read all of season 1, LOVED it! I'm waiting until season 2 is complete to continue so I can binge on a day when I feel under the weather (doing the same with Jungle Juice) Also, I would love to know your thoughts on Eleceed. I feel that it's quality has dipped a fair bit, but was strong in the beginning. I'd love to know your thoughts!
Ngl I wrote down a lot of things you said in this video as they're important to world budiling and character building and I'm trying to make a small story myself and your videos help me figure out things and how to take a new approach.
I am so incredibly excited that my love for this comic seems to be echoed with a huge passion. It’s honestly so brilliant and I can’t wait to hear another person gush about it! I adore Pereshati as a lead so much, she’s composed, responsible, and brilliant to the bone and yet quietly and consistently wins over every single (sane) Lapileon she meets by just pure compassion and her steadfast reliability as a person. I love how Theo is a man with a clearly damaged past who while NOT cruel to her, is emotionally indifferent to her when they enter their contract, and yet slowly but surely Perry continues to silently wear down his walls with just her presence and support. The way he looks at her is something that I cannot get over, and the artist has such a mastery of silent expression. I have never seen a webcomic with better emotional telegraphing in such a genuinely beautiful way. I can’t get enough of it and I hope all of these characters overcome their own challenges as we continue
I have rearead this comic so many times just because of how absolutely amazing it is. The world building, character design/development, and the overall plot are just so well done that I can't help but be enamored by it.
Her family can't kill her unless she marries the dude , because if she dies without husband or kids , her inheritance goes to her uncle, and also she wasn't looking for revenge, she was gonna let them live in her estate but she wanted to make a business in this year that would support her living elsewhere .
A little review i cant forget in regards to this manwha is the fact the family has so much love to give, but cant really show it due to the curse. They dont need the mc to show them how. But that doesn't diminish the importance of the mc either. Rather, they're both giving each other love and healing together. I love it when stories give equal opportunities for every character to grow. This manwha is really a rare gem ❤
I read the comic because of this video, so thank you for introducing it to me. I'd seen in on webtoons before but the whole time reversing marriage revenge thing is a genre I've long since grown bored with so I just ignored it. But no, this one is actually really good! I really appreciate the lack of leading dialogue in thoughts. For example, when Pereshati returns home to hear that all the servants are on leave, there was no, "The last time that happened was when [spoilers]." There was just the understanding that the servants all being on leave was a bad thing. I that was so refreshing to me
I think that you’ll also like “my husband changes every night” I believe the writer is the same (or artist) I’m not sure who but I know the people working on this webtoon also worked on that one
I really enjoyed this vid!!! Looks like I have a good manhwa to read☺️ Also PLEASE read ‘Kill the villainess’ it’s honestly one of my favorites due to the fact that it doesn’t follow the usual formula regarding the trope of being reincarnated into the villainess of a game/novel.
I really love how expressive the fashion is in this comic. Before Pereshati gets married, she always has her hair down and dresses in youthful, spring-colored dresses. After she joins the Lapileons, she adjusts her wardrobe to match their austere preferences. Her hair is always up, she wears dark, conservative clothing, and she looks more mature. All the Lapileons dress this way. Her outfits are always stunning. Dodolea's wardrobe also sets her apart. Her gothic lolita-esque style is so different than everyone else's outfits that it makes her even more unsettling. Everyone on Webtoon should take notes on this artist!
You brought up something I had barely noticed! Something so simple as outfits has such a huge impact on the way audiences perceive characters, totally an underutilized part of comic creation!
On that topic one thing I noticed is that every frame that both Pereshati and Dodolea are in there in opposite colors like the first time we see the fourth princess she's in dark purple while Pereshati's in a light sage. Thought this was interesting because it really shows how completely different the characters are from each other. Pereshati is calm, composed, and a genuinely kind person and the fourth princess is obsessive, crazy, and shows quite alarming psychological behaviors. Another thing is that like what @snailcall mentioned Pereshati starts to match the family colors and outfits which makes Dodolea, who always dresses opposite to what Pereshati does, stand even more as an enemy and outsider.
@@alysandrafalcon1439that's a really smart observation to make
I love the outfits but I didn't notice this either! Everybody is represented by their clothing 😱
Thank you so much for mentioning this I feel so seen 😆
the best part of this webtoon? pereshati doesn't automatically forgive therdeo because he's hot. she actually holds grudges and has biases and actually has character!!!
its so depressing this is what makes us happy but i love it and i will love this webtoon forever
Yes this! When she finally let all her frustrations out, I genuinely cried. Also the fact that he actually listened to her and didn’t half ass an apology. He was genuine and from then on was attentive to try and not hurt Pereshati’s feelings (he’s a working progress). He’s also slowly opening up to her which makes me happy.
Pereshati? Whats with webtoon and their obsession with wierd ass names
@@middleeasternforhire8985 :/
@@middleeasternforhire8985 lots of the more popular ones are korean in origin, so they Do sometimes just make up names that sound western LMAO
more seriously, if a westerner tried to write smth like milaowm, there would be only a few layers of separation from the culture: time period, , existence of magic, etc. korean authors have a whole other harder-to-navigate level of separation above that, which also complicates everything below it. and of course the names are written in korean characters, which leads to shit like 'theodore' being translated as 'therdeo' and 'dahlia' as 'dodolea', because there's no 1-to-1 translation of these names in korean and back again lol
@@middleeasternforhire8985I like the different names. Tired of everyone being named "Sarah" lol
I also love that Pereshati doesn't instantly burn every single bridge with her step-mother. She questions herself, especially when her mother starts manipulating her with crocodile tears and protecting her from hot tea with her hand, burning it. Even though she witnessed them gleefully murdering her, she still had doubts. She still wants her mother's love. Her step-mother was so kind, gentle and loving. Surely she can't be that horrible? Surely Pereshati has made a mistake somewhere? Surely her mother still loves her and always did? Surely she didn't kill her just for money? Right?
It's so realistic. Even when children have been abused their whole lives, a lot of them still want a relationship with their parents. They want to believe that they're actually good people. Even if they know logically that's not true and they should stay far away from their abuser, their emotional side wants to cling onto the parent.
Same here with Pereshati. She knows her mother ruthlessly killed her, smiling while doing it. She knows she can't trust her. But that thought clashes with all her childhood memories where her mother was good and loving. She knows she has to cast her mother aside but it's very hard to do that.
And when she finally gets a win over her mother, finally gets revenge... She doesn't smile, laugh or celebrate. She is stone faced until finally crying once the situation is over. She's not happy about any of this. She's hurting and wishes it hadn't come to this. That her mother was the loving facade she was putting up.
It's so good, so realistic, so heart wrenching.
I love how realistic it is, if the family and friends I loved killed me for money, I would battling myself internally if I was wrong or if I did something wrong.
Okay, I finally read the comic and that scene... omg. I can't blame her for doubting. If someone who watched me die joyfully in my previous life protected me I would be doubting myself like Pereshati.
I think another lovely thing about the story is that while Pereshati may be young, she and the other adult characters actually act like adults. Pereshati isn't blushing and flailing like a high school girl all the time - when she interacts with Celphi, she's not JUST nice and encouraging. She actually takes on responsible duties like picking him up and dropping him off places, she creates boundaries in the process of raising him, and discusses decisions and parenting with her husband. She doesn't sneak out behind everyone's back to secretly build a business or ask the information guild stuff, but instead tends to talk big decisions over with her husband.
This makes their interactions delightful, because from the beginning, it's this constant gentle influence from her to tackle life as a team. And he does his best to return that energy, especially in public, and isn't just stubbornly refusing to share with her out of shame or such. He is trying to balance that teamwork with the trust and responsibility his family puts in him.
But they both always do try to approach that issue like actual mature people, and that's really pleasant. There are still moments when that communication really buckles under the pressure of their circumstances, but that depiction of their love slowly growing from the fertile soil of actual teamwork is really wonderful.
Another thing about Pereshati's business is that it also makes sense why Pereshati wasn't open with relaying every detail of her business towards Therdeo when it was struggling. By this point, the leads are friendly, but they haven't confessed yet and are still under the assumption that they'll still divorce once the contractual period ends--so Pereshati doesn't want to be too reliant on her status as the Grand Duchess because then she'll deal with the fall out once she loses that title and the privileges that came with it. Apart from that, she also feels a sense of misguided guilt that her husband and family have helped her too much for someone who's only staying temporarily, and she at least wants to maintain independence once she leaves the Lapileons and presumably takes on her duties as a Countess.
matty reading this like: " Finally, some good fu##### food."
One could say you've become...... obsessed......with it
i mean who wouldn't be?
HA! Pun intented?
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the characters don’t have same face syndrome! Now, most of the diverse body types are in background characters but I honestly still love it. There’s plus sized women, women with square jaws, and they have various heights. It’s a lovely touch and they aren’t villainized.
I also just appreciate the touch that there are gender biases and roles in the world, like them not wanting to appoint a woman as the head duke as mentioned by sister in law. However, women do hold positions of power (like the reverend, the sister in law was duke for a short time, the crowned princess who has lovers due to her penchant for pretty men, etc)
Yeah,that reminds me,it also touches on therdeos trauma too. When we see pershati after the trial about her stepmother(lets all admit,she needs a break and im happy that therdeo didnt force pereshati to return since this is just a contractual marriage). When we see snippets on why therdeo is uncomfortable about dodolea or woman in general,we see the flashback that shows us why. Honestly,dodolea is giving me freaky vibes but not to this extent. Its even disturbing how she seems so so obsessed that she even drugged therdeo and almost SA him. Its just so surreal and so scary actually.
I find it weirdly funny that pink haired female leads are really common in romance webtoons while being a green haired character is nothing short of suffering. Like I kid you not, most of the green haired characters (be it manhwa, manga, etc) I have seen are either depressed, traumatized, crazy or mentally unstable in some way or another
Isekai Maid Is Starting A Union is a Webtoon that plays with that trope by making the main character a frequent reincarnator that knows if her new life is about to be bad if she has green hair lmao.
@@lowkeyayokaii don't watch a lot of anime and i've only seen one of these (hunter x hunter) but hxh focuses heavily on the green mc's psychology after his father left him and boku no hero is just the green mc breaking bones over and over lol
@@lowkeyayokaithere's also shion + mion sonozaki from when they cry? i bring them up because all 4 greens i can think of suffer terribly their whole lives and im not even big on this shit 😭😭 i bet someone who watches a lot more would have dozens
@@turner15 THAT TITLE IS GREAT
There's that coworker of ji-won in Marry My Husband, she's really cool and green haired!
I rarely find a Webtoon adaptation that better than novel but this one of them
I started reading the novel, but decided I also really liked the adaptation better
@@mattybitesfor me,I suggest you should read actually,I was the real one novel version. Because I am very maybe a bit disappointed that the adaptation has romance which the novel does not have and the fact I am mad that the scenes with her brother in the novel are replaced with her so called male leads(mainly due to me hearing a lot of fans are sad that there is no romance in the novel last year ago or long time ago before the adaptation was made)
@@syafeeqahisham1740doesn't the novel have romance tho? from what the artist of the webtoon said they actually toned down the romance and made it a side plot rather than the main one so they could put more focus on the actual story
@@syafeeqahisham1740I think you replied to the wrong comment? Different manhwa…
@@syafeeqahisham1740 The original novel might be able to tell a great story without romance but personally I think in the webtoon adaptation, the author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the cutesy romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when they're having serious conversations about the plot. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on his own. In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose.
No hate, but you made me laugh when you kept calling her parashawty😭
I love that theo apologized and tried to gain her forgiveness and chilphi's anger at that is so real
i thoroughly enjoyed cellphi giving theo the silent treatment because he was pissed at him for treating perry the way he had. it was amusing but it was also entirely warranted and understandable and that made me happy. i loved seeing theo actually acknowledge he wasnt the best father or just, person, in general and try to do better moving forward.
its the bare minimum, but unfortunately bare minimum is a bit hard to achieve with these types of stories.
I enjoy reading this comic. Not going to lie. I reread the part where she died after accidentally swallowing some of the Duke's blood. The way he just yeeted her body in an UNMARKED grave. And even told the FL why he yeeted her in an unmarked grave with no shame. Not sure if I am evil, but I laugh every time.
when I first read the first couple chapters, I also laughed! I was nearly expecting it to be a comedic webtoon, like maybe a very straight faced comedy of errors.
tropes have a reason that theyre tropes in the first place. theyre popular and have insanely great potential! its just that unfortunately, and sadly, they are so often not done with enough love and effort to unfold their true potential.
This. Also, a trope being popular doesn't mean it's bad, though it may be used poorly more often than not due to said popularity.
one of the things I love most about this webtoon is how they explored Pereshati's relationship with her step-mother. I love how nuanced and real it is. Despite knowing the terrible intentions of her step-mother, she still felt conflicted about her feelings. Yes, she felt anger and rage towards her step-family but it couldn't erase the fact that they were once her family. The webtoon showed flashbacks of Pereshati as a child and her step-mother, treating her as if she's her own child, playing with her, laughing with her. She was once her mother that she loved so much. Pereshati didn't immediately forget everything about her step-family. She still treated them like her own family, after all. I love how the characters feel so human and not just some tropes or caricatures. They didn't make the step-family be a plain cartoonish villain that doesn't have anything on their mind than do bad
10:36 my best assumption is that by the time that year is up, she can either
a) escape even further out where her step-family can't reach her
b) pray her step-family will have found other people to use so they leave her alone
c) ask the lapelions to provide her with protection in case she doesn't believe even the marriage can stop them from killing her
or
d) make them believe that she still has the lapelions on her side without staying too long with them (1 year is enough for the family to assume that she still has connections with the family and short enough that she can just try to endure it if she really doesn't like them)
cause let's be real, ex-wife or not, pereshati would still be assumed to have connections to the lapelion family if she stayed there for a long period of time. who's gonna want to kill her if they don't know exactly what happened in her marriage (mainly because all of the lapelions act in near secrecy)
From the start shes actively moving to separate her family from the moneg too--through her business adventures and uncle
I think its also because she assumes one of the things that makes her an easy target is that she isn't very good at running the countdom, in one of the first episodes she states she needs to learn as much as she can while she is married to Therdeo and she is shown to still care about the state of the countdom. Living with the Duke gives her a lot of opportunity to learn about administrative tasks safely.
I just always assumed she thought he would accept more easily if she didn’t ask to stay married for a lifetime.
I HAD BEEN PRAYING FOR YOU TO FIND THIS WEBTOON
"it's for science" and he's 100% srs
Another small thing about the nail biting, eventually she realizes how biting her nails will put her in danger because it gives her small cuts on her hands that could expose her to the blood poison. She gradually stops biting her nails, but when she's nervous she STILL puts her fingers to her lips. That small mannerism never completely goes away. It's such wonderful character acting.
"Pereshati revives for a second time, leaving me, Pereshati, and the palace staff confused" is a good indicator on how good this story is. At first you think you know where it's going, because cliches, but plot twist, but then you think - plot twist, and another plot twist. Her murder is sudden and brutal, he reacts like a normal person, but she dies again, and no one knows why
As a romance itself, this series exceeds in every aspect that I want in a romance. Slow-burn, adults that are flawed but willing to communicate to detangle the twists together slowly, how the story unveils the characters' trauma that affects their thought process and decisions. I silently screamed when I read the panels where our main couple had first confession and skinship. It was marvelous and so worth it!
The original novel might be able to tell a great story without romance but personally I think in the webtoon adaptation, the author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when the pair is having serious conversations about the main plot. Or personal issues they're dealing with, and confiding in the other about them. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on her own.
In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose. Normally it would be an absolute, complete annoyance for it to take 100 chapters for these two idiots to kiss (lmao) but in this story in particular it's done so well. It's slow burn and it makes sense for a lot of different factors. First, that there is a genuinely extremely interesting mystery in the main story that involves pretty much every member of the Lapelion family that keeps you WELL occupied during those 100 chapters, and second, the fact that Theo is such a cold and distant character who's an absolute brick wall to try to interact with, that it genuinely takes that long for him to slowly remove those bricks one by one and begin to see this strange woman who he agreed to marry for convenience in a completely different light. And it feels worth it to compare the stone cold expressionless scary man he was in the first few chapters, with how vibrant and expressive and human he is in the most recent ones. It feels like you watched him grow this whole time, and you're proud of him.
Something subtle I love about this Webtoon is how Pereshati’s wardrobe changes. She goes from very girlish clothing with soft colours and full, frilly skirts with ribbons in her hair that’s often down to wearing usually darker shades of fabrics and keeping her hair pinned back. No shade to her former style, I think it’s cute (that’s actually another thing I like about ‘In-Laws’: compared to a lot of these types of stories, where the protagonist wears such over the top clothes with so many jewels and frills they look ridiculously gaudy- Peri’s clothes have always been detailed but never ott) but the way her wardrobe matures as she herself matures and becomes a respectable lady and mother over an innocent young woman who just lost her father is some quiet storytelling I really love.
Also she looks absolutely fire in those dark dresses and her pink hair really compliments that.
I am so happy you read this! There’s a scene I want to talk about but there are spoilers.
The moment I knew this was a good comic was because of a panel in season one. I’m pretty sure it’s from on of the earlier episodes. There is just this panel of Therdeo walking down a hallway but it’s dark. Not natural dark, but as if there was this heavy shadow over him. It showed his inner conflict and trouble of what he needs to do and face. I remember being very surprised that such a panel was in the comic. Nothing was said, no sound effects, no inner monologue telling us his thoughts. Just him walking down a hallway. But it said so much, and I knew right then I would love this comic.
I loved that scene!!
@@mattybites⁉️ SPOILER ⁉️
They actually acknowledge Theos bad actions chilphi get's mad like he should but what ticks me off it that pereshati says "it's fine" but theo acknowledges his mistakes and tries to gain Perry's forgiveness rather then demanding it in some other webtoons they forget the horrible actions of the ml but in this comic they acknowledge it accept it embrace it that's why I like it tbh when I was reading it I was not sceptical like I was reading "i thought my time was up" i hope you'll do a second vid on this to summarise it and it's ok if you don't! Also I get that you didn't trust this webtoon at first you've read too many mediocre webtoons I get it but idk when I First read it i had a guy feeling this was gonna be good i only started reading this in April but it was so awesome I think I re-read it like 16 times and it still doesn't get boring best pink haired mc for pereshati!!
Same girly... when i first started reading MILAOWM when it first started i was unhealthily obbsessed, eyeing the updating notifications. Glad you liked our recomendations. I really enjoy how the people in this story is wellpeople as weord as it sounds, they dont give of the impression of being created simply for the sake of the FL, they have personalitys, hold grudges, ambitions and are not easily "fooled" or naive, like hiw he didnt blindly believe her when she told him she tolerated and could touch his blood (without dying that is) , he tried it out because he was skeptic which is realistic. Its one of my fave webtoons that give me such a nostalgic feeling
Yeah,for me,I just love how the trauma didn't mysteriously disappear for pereshati and therdeo actually especially pereshati. Like seriously,it's so sad to see the person that care about her since she was little do something like this heck killed her father. And it's even more sadder that she just found this out in the second life.
Now you need to read “From a Knight to a lady” and “The dark lord’s confession”
I second this they're both great!
From a Knight to a Lady is soooooo good
They’re both such amazing and well-written masterpieces omg, I just got done with reading the recent chapters from the dark lord’s confession, praying she gets to read them and cover them too!
Omg yall need to read lady Knight the Art is beautiful and the story is very good
AGREE
One of my praises for this webtoon is the way Pereshati's relationship with her family and Schiff is written. It's not just pure hatred, she still sort of loves them and deep down wants them to change. It's more feeling hurt than anything. She talks about how she wants them to realise they shouldn't kill her. But she also holds grudges, I feel that's really realistic. You don't just live your entire life with someone and then switch up your feelings the moment they backstab you
the reason I loved this webtoon was because it actually let you immerse yourself in the art and story, I always felt like webtoons like I thought my time was up would just draw scenes for the sake of eye candy and because of that I would always just scroll mindlessly because the plot didn't really exist. Boy was I glad when I read this webtoon and I actually FELT the art telling me the story
I think the one year contract was a short time solution for her to get away from them and then become independent under the lapileon's protection so when the contracts end she's more capable of handling her status as the countess and is powerful enough to protect herself and her fortune
Funny how the title is "my in-laws are obsessed with me" and you became obsessed with the comic too 😂
BROOO I started reading it because I thought it was gonna be stupid but then I was like: OH GODS LOOK AT THIS LOOK AT THIS!! I love Perry and the fact is that there are reasons to love her, and she is not perfect, and she tries her best. AND I LOVE HOW HER AND THE ML SUPPORT EACH OTHER EVEN THROUGH SMALL THINGS I LOVE THE CHARACTERS I LOVE THAT THE ACT OF DEATH IS TAKEN WITH WEIGHT AND THAT TRAUMAS DON'T JUST DISAPPEAR
14:45 “cause at the time of writing this” sounds like you have big plans big man
PLEASE READ SCHOOL BUS GRAVEYARD! I RECOMMEND IT!!It subversts tropes, Interesting characters and world building and a fun and relatable cast of characters wtih horror‼️
ABSOLUTELY AGREE GLAD TO SEE IT MENTIONED ❤
SCHOOL BUS GRAVEYARD MY LOVE
Im praying Matti sees my comment 🙏
YES ABSOLUTELY 💯💯💯
YESSS
The silent panels are my favorite in the series. Consedering the lapilleon's stoic they never shows much expression but the way the artist frame the scenes and the eyes of the characther.
There's a comic I think you'd like, it follows the story of a young man in high school navigating relationships and his abusive family, it's called Diary of a Wimpy Kid!
Do you mean Dysfunctional Perspective?
@@angelstine are you suggesting that Greg might be an unreliable narrator????
@@Underscore_studioto be fair he’s kind of a sociopath
@@Underscore_studio no I mean the LLB fanfic
Have you heard of the great estate developer best webtoon no romance just a super greedy main lead who wants to live peacefully and goes to great length to make sure people get fair wages and the people around him sing his praises to extreme lengths that is just so funny
I can’t not EXPRESS that you will not predict what happens next no one can and it’s beautiful.
I usually hate isekais where the MC's are super amazing at everything they do, but Greatest Estate Developer is my favorite manhwa ever. Lloyd and Javier's begrudging brotp is transcendental
Ah yes and can't forget the faces
Llyod is GOAT!👊😎 Llyod = water, water = good, Llyod = good
I think the foundation of the plot is shaky on purpose since it's a rashly made decision by a Perry that's still in a state of confusion and nobody to confide in.
The marriage was never a solution to her issue but a stop-gap to give her time to plan what to do and learn how to manage her inheritance. She already has doubts when she accidentally died.
I'm guessing the 1 year time frame was long enough for a marriage to a stranger and she didn't think the grand duke would agree to a longer period of time considering the public family history.
I also love how they make her wear darker colors and use updos and intricate hairstyles to make her seem more mature. She’s not just a kid throughout the story and she’s not infantilized she just grows as a person and a woman and I absolutely love that for her so much❤❤❤❤❤
The way I screamed seeing u make a video on this LIKE HELL YEAH
also i love how celphi's and pereshati's relationship progressed! that was very realistic and felt like how a normal relationship would develop.
Damn you just really needed a webtoon that has the bare minium
"You shouldn't be here-" the way it clicked it my head when you said it omg!
I recommend Like Wind on a Dry Branch!!!! The relationship they build (and they the work to build it) is so sweet and grounded.
One thing I love about this webtoon is how awkward the main couple can be. It's kind of adorable.
I personally think "The spark in your eyes" by MURO is also one of the few historical webtoons which are very well-written and show light to the side characters aswell :) not to mention most of the roles are reversed so it's so unique😭😭 one of my favorites out there
I read the spark in your eyes because of your comment and wow… it was literally amazing! Do you have any recs that are similar?
@@Meow-ts3ce hi hi, yes ofcc if you've liked the spark in your eyes i definitely reccomend "the dark lord's confession" but you could also try out "like a wind on a dry branch" or "secret lady" - (which is not on webtoon unfortunately😔. but you could try out websites like bato) i've also noted that most of these manhwa's are slow paced so i love them, enjoy your read !!
@@lailai.5576omg i have found my people, every single webtoon you mentioned is such a masterpiece, you’ve got great taste!!
@@Meow-ts3ce you would love your eternal lies
@@zyynfrhhh6805 I’ve read it! it’s soooo amazing and incredibly well written
Now it’s time for you to read from knight to lady, cause that’s a really good one, if not for plot for its ART! Like bro, I love the details in some panels where they have both the main girls old life and new life appearances merge in the frame causal like as though it’s just lighting choice. Its hard to explain without seeing it for yourself but as an artist god it’s beautiful
YESSSS i know what you mean and the parallels never miss
YES
Knight to lady sounds interesting
"The tyrant wants to be good"
Is a really good one tbh u should try it if you want ANOTHER REINCARNATION STORY but this one is pretty good
To me, i guess it's just good. Because the story is more of a character-driven one, the main focus of it would be the characters themselves. A good story of redemption, but I'm not that hooked on the characters despite seeing all their perfects and flaws, especially Ethan. Though I like Dorothea a lot, the others are just mehhh
i think the main reason she wanted a 1 year contract is because she needed urgent protection from her step family and boyfriend and also needed time to grow herself. She said she isn't capable enough to be the head of her household and that's why she needed help from the laplieon to protect her while she studies and learns to be independent and potentially continue her father's business. So after the year had ended, therdeo had already escaped his marriage problem (well, that's according to pereshati..though im not sure if this would actually work cuz they time travelled and many variables came along with it like Doodolea) anyway he was supposed escape the marriage and pereshati would get his protection in return and once she's capable enough she'd start her own business. This has been mentioned throughout the comic in small fragments we just needed to piece it together.
I'm so happy you made a video about this comic. I paused this after you told Therdeo kills her a second time ON PURPOSE and went to binge read the comic myself and I agree with you on all the praise. The silent story telling especially caught my eye, it was so masterfully done! As a comic artist, it really made me study the panels and hope to make something similar in the future, to speak more with the art rather than the words.
I'm also happy that Therdeo took time to warm up the Pereshati. There's so many manhwas where the male lead is supposedly a cold hearted, murderous war hero but then they fall for the mc almost instantly. Here, Theo actually stays cold and distant for a long time and even after it's clear he's starting to catch feelings, he STILL keeps distant to Perry because he doesn't know how to socialise. He grew up isolated from society because of the curse, he's only been surrounded by his family who are just as cold and distant as he is. So I'm glad that actually reflects in his actions. Finally there's an actual reason for why the characters have poor communication from time to time and it doesn't just get fixed with one incident. He keeps being distant and quiet. He gets a little closer to her, then withdraws again, leaving Perry confused about their relationship. It makes sense!!
God I love this comic!
The author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when the pair is having serious conversations about the main plot. Or personal issues they're dealing with, and confiding in the other about them. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on her own.
In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose. Normally it would be an absolute, complete annoyance for it to take 100 chapters for these two idiots to kiss (lmao) but in this story in particular it's done so well. It's slow burn and it makes sense for a lot of different factors. First, that there is a genuinely extremely interesting mystery in the main story that involves pretty much every member of the Lapelion family that keeps you WELL occupied during those 100 chapters, and second, the fact that Theo is such a cold and distant character who's an absolute brick wall to try to interact with, that it genuinely takes that long for him to slowly remove those bricks one by one and begin to see this strange woman who he agreed to marry for convenience in a completely different light. And it feels worth it to compare the stone cold expressionless scary man he was in the first few chapters, with how vibrant and expressive and human he is in the most recent ones. It feels like you watched him grow this whole time, and you're proud of him.
The original novel might be able to tell a great story without romance but personally I think in the webtoon adaptation, the author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when the pair is having serious conversations about the main plot. Or personal issues they're dealing with, and confiding in the other about them. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on her own.
In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose. Normally it would be an absolute, complete annoyance for it to take 100 chapters for these two idiots to kiss (lmao) but in this story in particular it's done so well. It's slow burn and it makes sense for a lot of different factors. First, that there is a genuinely extremely interesting mystery in the main story that involves pretty much every member of the Lapelion family that keeps you WELL occupied during those 100 chapters, and second, the fact that Theo is such a cold and distant character who's an absolute brick wall to try to interact with, that it genuinely takes that long for him to slowly remove those bricks one by one and begin to see this strange woman who he agreed to marry for convenience in a completely different light. And it feels worth it to compare the stone cold expressionless scary man he was in the first few chapters, with how vibrant and expressive and human he is in the most recent ones. It feels like you watched him grow this whole time, and you're proud of him.
My prayers have been answered
It was silent but I was being very loud in my mind because I am terrified of commenting on youtube
The way I smiled when I saw the title 😍My in laws are obsessed with me is actually so fucking good and it's synopsis did it so much injustice.
I can't believe I'm finally seeing you talk positively about a comic like you actually like it
12:15 the danny in furryland audio jumpscared me, i never would of thought that'd be referenced in a video i watched on youtube 😭
I love this webtoon so dang much!! I'm so glad it's getting love and attention because it totally deserves it and more! I just re-read it (up to chapter 100) and every development; every story beat felt completely earned. All the relationships (platonic and romantic) feel so real and genuine. Plus, this webtoon even has the main character reflect on the privilege she has as a high member of society, reflect on failures and when it's okay to ask for help, and she even holds onto anger and resentment toward people for more than a chapter. If you haven't read it, it is currently my golden standard for webtoons right now. They take the rule of "Show don't Tell" so well and know how much information to give and when.
One thing is that they don't have to say anything, the eyes and expression are everything. You genuinely feel the emotions
I had only read the Chapter 1 preview and ended up ditching the story, but after seeing this, I really want to give it another shot. Thank you for making this video!
its not obvious at first but in late chapters it says that the brother wife when she was no longer apart of the family still get protection because they know about the curse
Ok I stopped 5 mins in, binged the whole comic and came back. This is the first time since 2020 I’ve reopened webtoon. I also am OBSESSED with this omg
13:31 Dodilia????? I had to pause your video to binge the webtoon, my coins have been spent and oh boiiiii. I kept reading her name DODO-LEA this entire time and it fueled me with even more haterage towards that character because I just couldn't get over that name. I didn't give this one a chance over the title alone, because I'm just over that genre, but daaaamn is this one good! Thank you for this new obsession.
You should read "This isekai maid is starting a union ". The character are really written while and the plot is something i havent seen
Plus it makes fun/shames of common tropes that shouldn't be glamorized in webtoon
I just started that one, it feels like it’s kind of just listing off bad writing tropes other Webtoons have at first, but once it finds it’s rhythm it feels more organic and is really immersive.
@@turner15That’s what I love about this webtoon is that it does a perfect balance of calling out overused and just horrendously bad tropes that we’re used to seeing in those kind of settings while also still having a story and plot of their own.
Because of you i was stuck to my phone for 3 days straight reading this and i loved every second of it. I wouldn't have given it a chance because of how similar it looked to other weebtoons. But i'm so happy i came across your video! Such a well written webtoon it is! And the art! I just adore it!
my in laws are obsessed with me is one of the very few Comics that really elevates the standards that webtoon has set, and now that you finish this one maybe you can read purple hyacinth. BECAUSE OMG WILL YOUR STABDARDS RISE
To do with the marriage contract- I think the reason why it was only for 1 years was for 2 major reasons
A. When the contract starts she's shown to be scared of the duke and well yes she could ask someone she doesn't what to ask her normal social circle for fear of her step-family finding out and being judged for doing that since she's dating Schiff
B. I think her plan to protect herself was to set up system and force them out of the main family house and eventually dampen there influence within the family she didn't at the start of the comic want to go scorched earth on them she just wanted to stay alive and keep her inheritance. She could with hard work ( as we see her doing) stop them from Targeting her inheritance or her life by virtue of no longer being in active contact with them
I love how this chanel usually discusses "bad" webtoons, ones I don't read, but discusses good things about the ones I do read ㅠㅡㅠ makes me feel oddly superior/j
I’m so grateful you enjoyed this webtoon as it is one of my all time favorites and the story development is so good. The artist adapted the story a whole lot differently than the novel (the novel is very bad imo) and it’s such a satisfying development and even when the main couple gets romantic it’s awkward and they both don’t know what they’re doing which makes it so sweet and realistic I love it so much aghshfhahahgd
The original novel might be able to tell a great story without romance but personally I think in the webtoon adaptation, the author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when the pair is having serious conversations about the main plot. Or personal issues they're dealing with, and confiding in the other about them. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on her own.
In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose. Normally it would be an absolute, complete annoyance for it to take 100 chapters for these two idiots to kiss (lmao) but in this story in particular it's done so well. It's slow burn and it makes sense for a lot of different factors. First, that there is a genuinely extremely interesting mystery in the main story that involves pretty much every member of the Lapelion family that keeps you WELL occupied during those 100 chapters, and second, the fact that Theo is such a cold and distant character who's an absolute brick wall to try to interact with, that it genuinely takes that long for him to slowly remove those bricks one by one and begin to see this strange woman who he agreed to marry for convenience in a completely different light. And it feels worth it to compare the stone cold expressionless scary man he was in the first few chapters, with how vibrant and expressive and human he is in the most recent ones. It feels like you watched him grow this whole time, and you're proud of him.
@@JinlongTheGoldenDragon the novel is definitely a great story without to the romance and I’m sure that will be adapted greatly into the manhwa (just a little differently) and I’m looking forward to it a lot. Just… the romance between the characters and the way some of them were written in the novel was very shallow to me, personally, and I’ve only read a bit of the novel anyways. It’s overall a really interesting story and definitely different than your average manhwa reincarnation romance.
Inlaws is such a phenomenal webtoon to me I look up to perry so much I absolutely love this comic!! Also for the decision of marriage for a year, I believe it was stated in some chapters that perry married theo so she can stay away from her family and learn to manage the countdom, she also wanted to form connections that will help her after the year, she believed if she learnt to manage the countdom herself she wouldn't have to depend on her step family anymore. Which makes this even more sad cuz this implies in her past life she really depended a lot on her family and had planned to learn about handling the countdom together with them
next you should read surviving romance! it’s great! or the makeup remover they’re both by the same author and i love them so much i subscribed to the authors instagram even though i don’t really use instagram!
The slow and gradual pacing, the still art in between, and the character development! All these things make it one of the best series! Finally, we reach the romance part!
Matty you should read 'the Villianess lives twice' i really love it and i am still catching up but i wanna see your opinion on it. The brutality is captured really good.
Finally taking notes on what to do instead of what not! XD
Dude i watched the first 30-40 episodes in two hours i totally ate that comic up and i love that you're talking about it! ❤ (Btw this is the first video im watching from you!)
The one year contract was probably so that perrshati could inherit her title and then become indepenendant because i think you need a husband to inherit the title
I started reading this book late one night, expecting it to be brainless fluff/trash that would help me fall asleep. . . . I did not sleep that night. It's one of my favorites.
I will read this after this video! It sounds very interesting.
Personally I belive that authors on the internet relay to much on tropes, whixh damages their story.
There is nothing wrong to use one or two tropes in your story, but every time I see or hear about a romantic webtoon/novel that was written online, there are awlays the same things and most of them are things I define as "fanfiction tropes", which are not bad but need to be more elaborated for orginal material since we don't know stuff about the world/character unlike in a fanfiction.
I have a really high standard for webtoons after reading this one and I honestly don’t think anything can beat it but there is that I think kind of meets it.
Like wind on a dry branch is a really good romance that has its own charm as the two leads highly respect each other and I honestly hope you can read it and review it if you have the time and patience for a slow burn😅
I think why it ends up handling the romance and plot so well is that the author in their post season 1 notes, says the romance isn't the first priority of the story but the family dynamics. They wanted each character to have a goal, even the crown princess gets one. The romance isn't also smooth sailing after they confess too. Their pasts and lives still end up conflicting.
The original novel might be able to tell a great story without romance but personally I think in the webtoon adaptation, the author found a way to make the romance work really, really well. Because unlike a ton of manhuas the romance moments between the characters aren't just cute fan service. Many times they happen when the pair is having serious conversations about the main plot. Or personal issues they're dealing with, and confiding in the other about them. And the writer uses the romantic tension between Therdeo and Pereshati to intensify the drama of the main mystery of the story even further. Because the romantic attraction he has for her now causes him to hide things from her and not communicate in order to keep her happy in a little bubble of ignorance, causing her to become frustrated with this (and him) and seek the answers he's not telling her on her own.
In my opinion, this writer and artist is an absolute genius for how they made the romance between these two both feel so realistic, awkward and sweet, and serve an actual purpose. Normally it would be an absolute, complete annoyance for it to take 100 chapters for these two idiots to kiss (lmao) but in this story in particular it's done so well. It's slow burn and it makes sense for a lot of different factors. First, that there is a genuinely extremely interesting mystery in the main story that involves pretty much every member of the Lapelion family that keeps you WELL occupied during those 100 chapters, and second, the fact that Theo is such a cold and distant character who's an absolute brick wall to try to interact with, that it genuinely takes that long for him to slowly remove those bricks one by one and begin to see this strange woman who he agreed to marry for convenience in a completely different light. And it feels worth it to compare the stone cold expressionless scary man he was in the first few chapters, with how vibrant and expressive and human he is in the most recent ones. It feels like you watched him grow this whole time, and you're proud of him.
I know this is uber uber late, but to answer your question as to why Pereshati wanted just one year of marriage- it's because she just wanted to buy herself more time and to keep herself away from her family who would likely try to kill her in that period. Given his violent reputation at the time, it is extremely unlikely Pereshati WANTED to stay married to him in the long term.
EDIT: Oh, also it's just as likely because she knows the duke isn't too interested in marriage either, and keeping it up for just a year would sound like a better deal than keeping the timing indefinite. If you remember, there was a moment where the Duke asked if she was willing to extend the contract-likely so he'd have more time to run tests on her- and she (internally) very adamantly refused.
You should read “My Derelict Favorite” I really like that WEBTOON
(TLDR at the end)
i JUST commented on the Hello Baby video how, on like, 34 seconds or so into the video, there's a small segment of webtoons that have been recommended to you, and I paused and commented about each one.
And I said how I've been avoiding "My In-Laws Are Obsessed With Me" because the synopsis sounded SUPER bland. (The name of the comic is also super generic, so it doesnt rlly help it either).
But you just convinced me to read it, thank you for not telling the whole plot as well! As I was watching, I was getting invested, and was wondering if I should stop watching to not get spoilers
I'm trying to write my own comic, and everything you said is what I've been trying to study to do on my own comic, especially giving screen-time to every character and making them feel human, like normal people who exist in the world, without overexplaining things (As I tend to rant like in this comment, sorry)
I've read comics all my life, but i only started reading webcomics a few months ago, so I've struggled with figuring out what is considered good or not amongst the most popular "types" of comics (isekai, revenge, villainess is the mc, etc.), and how the writing and pacing works, so I'm really thankful to channels like this one, that review, give critcs, advice, etc. Before the Baby Tyrant video, I had never noticed how many onomatopoeias are used randomly on these comics. (Also probably because so many stories are so similar it feels like brainrot, so I've got to the point I'm just basically skimming through many comics)
Out of the webtoons I've read so far, I'd say my favorite "romance" ones are 'Surviving Romance', 'The Makeup Remover', maybe 'No Outtakes' but that was one of the first ones i read ever, so I dont remember much of it now. I guess it's because they're more unique than all the other "set in europe-like country on the 19th century" or something like that, so they stand out more. If I had to pick a comic like that though, I guess I'd recommend 'The Remarried Empress', but I struggle on telling apart what's good or not on these genres that are overdone.
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I've been avoiding My In-Laws Are Obsessed With Me because the synopsis and the title were super generic, but this video changed my mind, and I'm gonna give it a chance and try to use it as reference for my own comic I've been planning out.
I'm somewhat new to webcomics, so I struggle telling what's well-made and what isn't, so channels like this are both entertaining and helpful for me. I really enjoyed 'Surviving Romance', 'The Makeup Remover', and 'No Outtakes', and if I had to pick one of those "europe-like, 19th century" comics, I'd pick 'The Remarried Empress', but I do have a harder time picking out what's good especially in overdone "genres" like isekai, villainesses, revenge and karma.
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO TALK ABOUT IT. IT'S ONE OF THE BEST WEBTOON ISTG MXMSKKSMD
I am happy I found this video because I’ve been avoiding reading this WEBTOON simply because I didn’t want to deal with the same old same old. I look forward to picking it up and reading it.
This video made me binge the whole thing in 2 days, it's legitimately great!
Gosh you mentioned EVERYTHING I love about this comic!!
yes, i didn't know how much i needed someone talking about how wonderful this webtoon is, it´s without a doubt one of my favorites, from the art style to the adaptation of the story, is simply a masterpiece and something that i find incredibly well done is the way in which the feelings of the main characters are transmitted throughout the story, without forcing anything like it took us over 100 chapters for them to finally talk about the feelings they have for each other AND IT FEELS BELIEVABLE because you witnessed everything that had to happen for them to reach that point and conclusions and I love the story for it. Honestly I would love to see in the future another video of you talking about more things that you liked and enjoy about the story, spoilers included and all. Greetings from Mexico and sorry for any error c:
I will read this webtoon today it sounds really good. If you want another good webtoon of a similar genre then you should read Your Throne/To be you just for a day it is peak fiction and both female leads are beautifully written
Read all of season 1, LOVED it! I'm waiting until season 2 is complete to continue so I can binge on a day when I feel under the weather (doing the same with Jungle Juice)
Also, I would love to know your thoughts on Eleceed. I feel that it's quality has dipped a fair bit, but was strong in the beginning. I'd love to know your thoughts!
Ngl I wrote down a lot of things you said in this video as they're important to world budiling and character building and I'm trying to make a small story myself and your videos help me figure out things and how to take a new approach.
WAITT THIS IS ACTUALLY CRAZY!! I DON'T REALIZE WHAT THE PRINCESS MENT BY "You shouldn't be here" until I read the later chapters! This is so good!!
Hahhaha the pipe sound when she died the 3rd time had me laughing for so long 😂😂
I am so incredibly excited that my love for this comic seems to be echoed with a huge passion. It’s honestly so brilliant and I can’t wait to hear another person gush about it! I adore Pereshati as a lead so much, she’s composed, responsible, and brilliant to the bone and yet quietly and consistently wins over every single (sane) Lapileon she meets by just pure compassion and her steadfast reliability as a person. I love how Theo is a man with a clearly damaged past who while NOT cruel to her, is emotionally indifferent to her when they enter their contract, and yet slowly but surely Perry continues to silently wear down his walls with just her presence and support. The way he looks at her is something that I cannot get over, and the artist has such a mastery of silent expression. I have never seen a webcomic with better emotional telegraphing in such a genuinely beautiful way. I can’t get enough of it and I hope all of these characters overcome their own challenges as we continue
I have rearead this comic so many times just because of how absolutely amazing it is. The world building, character design/development, and the overall plot are just so well done that I can't help but be enamored by it.
Her family can't kill her unless she marries the dude , because if she dies without husband or kids , her inheritance goes to her uncle, and also she wasn't looking for revenge, she was gonna let them live in her estate but she wanted to make a business in this year that would support her living elsewhere .
I am so in love with this WEBTOON oh my gosh I’m so happy someone’s talking about it because sits honestly become one of my favorites
Love this video!
I think you should read purple hyacinth or seniorita cometa
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I would still love to see a synopsis of the comic with your comments sprinkled throughout! I’ve read everything that’s out so far :)
A little review i cant forget in regards to this manwha is the fact the family has so much love to give, but cant really show it due to the curse. They dont need the mc to show them how.
But that doesn't diminish the importance of the mc either. Rather, they're both giving each other love and healing together.
I love it when stories give equal opportunities for every character to grow. This manwha is really a rare gem ❤
YIPPEEEE I Love this comic so much raghhhh I’m so glad you talked about it 💜
I read the comic because of this video, so thank you for introducing it to me. I'd seen in on webtoons before but the whole time reversing marriage revenge thing is a genre I've long since grown bored with so I just ignored it. But no, this one is actually really good! I really appreciate the lack of leading dialogue in thoughts. For example, when Pereshati returns home to hear that all the servants are on leave, there was no, "The last time that happened was when [spoilers]." There was just the understanding that the servants all being on leave was a bad thing. I that was so refreshing to me
I think that you’ll also like “my husband changes every night” I believe the writer is the same (or artist) I’m not sure who but I know the people working on this webtoon also worked on that one
YES I JUST STARTED READING THIS AND WAS HOPING YOUD TALK ABT IT!!
I really enjoyed this vid!!! Looks like I have a good manhwa to read☺️
Also PLEASE read ‘Kill the villainess’ it’s honestly one of my favorites due to the fact that it doesn’t follow the usual formula regarding the trope of being reincarnated into the villainess of a game/novel.