Read manhwa The Youngest Child of the Family Is Preventing the World From Ending / The Youngest Is Preventing the End of the World / 막내가 세계 멸망을 막는 중이래요
“The stupid youngest one, the one who doesn’t know how to do anything, but causes trouble with her cute face.” Exasperated, I looked in the mirror once again and exclaimed. “Why am I the ‘stupid youngest one’ Diana Cartier!” In the novel 「The Ending Can’t Be the Destruction of the World」, Diana is an evil woman who repeatedly commits evil deeds and is brainwashed by the villain, contributing greatly to the destruction of the world! If something could go wrong for the villainess, it will. But when something went wrong for me, I recalled my past life instead? As an ordinary college student in my past life, I made up my mind when I realized that I had been reincarnated as Diana Cartier, the villainess in the novel. “The world is going to end.” “But I’m not going to let it happen.” Yes, I will prevent the end of the world with my own hands! And save my brothers from the conspiracy at the same time! Wait a minute. What’s that pitch black thing on the floor over there? Wait. That face, where have I seen it before? ‘Is it Linus del Stein!?’ Why are you lying there, Mr. Protagonist of the novel that will destroy this world? Diana and her brothers are trying their best to stop the end of the world! And cute animals and other stuff? Our sweet youngest is preventing the end of the world, get out of the way!
LadyLombardy
positives: it’s an easy read, cute, heartwarming and generally consistent story. there aren’t too many crazy elements, and it mostly relies on common tropes and the usual hyper-competent FL, so it’s a no brainer. the art is also quite adorable, and the translation is not too bad, though there are definitely plenty of awkward wording for things that should be obvious (like “water cosmetic” instead of face cream or something similar).
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negatives: this story definitely suffers from simplified plotTM syndrome. in its haste to establish FL as hyper-competent and smart, it leaves plenty of plotholes that could be easily solvable otherwise. for example, the territory she lives in is poorer than most others, and thus she needs to revitalize it, specially bc there are no parents to take care of it, and her brothers are “not good” at management. Yet, it’s never explained how did the territory stay afloat (there isn’t a single mention of what kind of produce, or services it provided for the kingdom) before the mine, and it’s weird that FL wouldn’t make use of what was already there before, either to expand/improve it or to cut it off as an expense. it makes the whole thing weak, honestly.
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on top of that, it makes little sense that her father was a war hero, but got nothing but a few medals and commendations, when usually even common knights get appropriate compensation, and so does their family, specially if the person in question dies for the cause. This is specially weird because the Grand Duke who’s nothing but a regent in his nephew’s place would want the nobility specially to look up to him instead of his nephew, the actual Emperor, and properly compensating the loyal people that defended his land is an easy and direct way of doing that. Instead, his overly greedy personality makes him seem cartoonish, specially considering it’s beyond stupid to have a guy trying to slowly poison his own Emperor look bad from the get go. He’d want to have a good image so people wouldn’t jump to accuse him if his nephew did die and he really took over his position, that’s just common sense.
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It’s also unexplained how FL is so hyper-competent, when at the beginning she’s introduced as being just a “common” college student in her past life. college students r not that well versed in business, and tbh the story didn’t even specify she was a bussiness major, rarher it’s left undetermined, which makes things worse. in the vast majority of similar manhwas the author mention at least a feeble justification for her abilities, but we don’t even get that here. it’s just how she is, apparently. this, again, weakens her characterization a lot.
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another thing that is kind of annoying is that all male characters, specially the main ones (ML and her brothers) have similar “faults” which is basically being unable to properly communicate and demonstrate their true feelings to the FL (and most other people around them). I mean, it’s just lazy to use the literal same flaw for three different recurrent characters, come on now. At the very least they aren’t that close in personality, since the story does make clear how they differ, but still. it’s lazy.
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finally, there’s nothing outstanding about it. everything is very mid, and the story itself is so common u could find a dozen like it just on the few first pages of harimanga’s catalogue. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s worth the read, but it is at least quite cute and nice to follow if u got absolutely nothing else to do.
monsterbones
she’s so cute this entire story is so silly but it’s adorable
caca4269
is good?
Eveaustria
It’s cute, it’s funny, it’s surprising, plus the art is beautiful and unique, so I can’t help but like it.
Sure, it has some of the typical flaws that most isekai-stories have.
Still, I like that the fl has been properly incarnated into this magical world and only after hitting her head, she then remembers her past life in “modern” Korea and the content of a novel that told about her current life and future (much like in the funny Japanese isekai “My Next Life as a Villainess” about a young girl in an otome-like video game world).
So far (as of chapter 15), the story is really nice, eventful with a fast pace, and does NOT feature any flashbacks of horrible child-mistreatment nor any life-threatening serious events.
The only person who is currently suffering is the ml, the young prince. However: this guy has four mythical creatures at his side to help him out (so why the heck did he not stand up for himself to take the throne and get revenge already?), and luckily he’s rather just a grumpy boy instead of one of those many typical heartless traumatized blood-coated emo male leads out there.
flwerdaisy
i mean its alright, i need more chapters to make a judgement but so far so good!