Mob na no ni Kahogo na Koushaku ni Dekiaisareteimasu

DNF - just couldn’t get far without completely losing interest

She faces struggles (bullying by other students), ML comes to save the day (as always), she blushes and cowers, explaining her concerns. He immediately says some reassuring thing about how great she is, and how he’ll always come to save her. And she blushes harder in his arms. (Oh and don’t forget the pining, obviously jealous, smitten 2nd love interest on the side) The End.

(At least so far)Note: what’s ahead may contain some spoilers.

——— MAIN CHARACTERS ———

📎 Leticia Lambert (FL)

• calm, kind, mild, cliche sweet pretty girl
• second daughter. Always compared to sister
• looked down on by public. No magic talent
• known for her beauty but doesn’t know it
• ”I’m going to change the story”
• perfect, adore by everyone

🍊Lionel

• antisocial but popular, besotted lover
• heir to dukedom
• talented magician at academy
• was ignored/put down before losing weight

🌹Alexia Lambert (OG villainess. Current FL’s sister)

• expressive, prone to jealousy
• eldest daughter. Adored by family and public
• one sided love for Loran

Love interests in Game

👑 Crown Prince Cedric

• popular,
• “I like her because she didn’t immediately like me”

🌿Chris - son of director of magic department

♟️Emilio - son of prime minister

🛡️Liam - son of knight commander

——— ASPECTS / TROPES ———

• He falls first
• The villainess has a story.
• FL mends relationship with villainess sister
• Born as a side character in game
• Love triangle
• The FL has no life of own outside of romance
• Relatively fast paced romance
• Secretly it seems everyone admired the FL
• Low stakes
• Befriending the OG FL
• The OG FL is also a reincarnated person
• ”Shadow” international spy organisation

CONTENT WARNINGSStrong fat phobia (while the story includes some criticism of the public’s sudden change in demeanour once he lost weight, they still have this underlying assumption that “he would be beautiful, IF ONLY he lost some weight” as if beauty is equal to skinny), bullying,

It had some pretty art and a good enough story concept. The standard isekai/reincarnated as side character. I honestly only got through chapter 27. It was alright. It had too many sudden time skips. It even skipped the majority of all relationship development. For instance; one of the antagonists, between the very end of one chapter and the beginning of the next, suddenly became the protagonist's best friend. The only indicator of any possible development was the last sentence the protagonist said to the antagonist at the VERY end of one chapter. Which was essentially, "you could have told me." That's it. Then suddenly they are BFFs at the beginning of the next chapter.

I can't, and won't, say more without spoilers for those still interested. For me it was a DNF.

Meh meh meh mehhhhhhh..... 😕 meh.