“Wh-what are you going to do with me?” “You’ll be our sacrifice to the river god.” Born as an untouchable, Lisha’s life has never been easy. Her misery peaks when she is about to be thrown into the river, but suddenly a man appears with a flash of white light in the downpour. Just like that, Prince Helios enters Lisha’s life like a ray of light in the darkest moment of her existence. Oblivious, Lisha follows him to the palace. Surrounded by kind people, she’s introduced to a while new world, and her cold, bitter days seem to take a dramatic turn. Then, unbeknownst to her, Lisha’s true identity is revealed as Aleph, the noblest being in the Empire and a demigod protecting the Empire of Agalia. Despite some explanations provided to her, there is one thing that still troubles Lisha: why is the prince so sweet to her?
Goaties
It’s not great, nor terrible. Very mid.
Art is decent enough, but not exactly “good”.
The story starts fast, then slows down jarringly, giving us no context for most of what’s happening. We get a one paragraph explanantion that an Aleph defeated a demon, but are left to piece together what that means in the current context.
It follows the generic “neglected girl saved by prince and raised as royalty” trope, but I do give it credit for her former master actually being a good dude who tried to save her at the start, instead of the source of misery.
Characters are dropping in without any idea of who they are or why they are; we get their names, and then they just start doing their thing. This is not a bad thing, per se; it follows from the perspective of the main girl to a degree, but it feels rushed here and we seem to be shown characters to establish that they’ll be in the story later, but not because they’re currently involved.
Pacing’s inconsistent and story is unspectacular; a firm 5/10 for doing nothing new, but not exactly doing it badly.
Goaties
Update: it starts to get a good pace going by about the mid-teen chapters and develops extant characters a bit more.
Content is very standard for the genre, nothing special or unique as yet.
Art is consistent, drama is pretty mild.
Granting this a 6/10 as the characters have not done anything ridiculously forced or stupid to make plot drama occur.
Goaties
Update 2: Improves greatly as it goes on. Around 30 chapters in I’m going to rate it a 6.5/10.
Art is not special, but consistent and clear.
Characters are not particularly deep, nor is the story particularly exceptional, but it stays on track and keeps things relevant.
FL is not too bright, but is overly kind to everyone and invites trouble because of it.
ML is very smart behind the scenes, but often does stupid shit in scene.
PizzaParty
Why are there no reviews. Is it bad?
AshCast
Anybody read this yet?