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---TLDR: The MC makes a really great fairy, and a really terrible isekai protagonist. It's a good fairy story and really just doesn't belong in the isekai genre at all, it's clearly more like an old school fairy tale/bedtime story. Entering with the correct expectations of what you're getting into will greatly help you enjoy it. You're about to read Snow White, not Attack on Titan.---It's good, I've got no problems with it? The MC is perfectly fine, the things she's criticized for are all flawlessly in line with how a fairy is supposed to be. Fairies are: cute, really dumb, easily distracted, oblivious, and really like to play. Basically, childish. After all, her head is about the size of a walnut? There's really not a lot of room in there for brain matter, y'know? "Doesn't understand the consequences of her actions for the humans" is VERY in line with fairies. Half the myths about the evil kind of fae, they actually just really like to party and play and they're "evil" because they straight up don't understand that their idea of "playing" kills people.I think the key thing to note is that this is quite literally a "fairy tale". Like. In the most literal possible sense, it's about a fairy. It's not a shounen manga where someone gets superpowers and then there's blood and gore and suffering and they fight god. It's an honest to goodness legitimate fairy tale, like the kinda thing you tell a small kid as a bedtime story. It is structured like "Oh no, the evil witch locked Cinderella up in a tower, but it's okay because a fairy came and magicked Cinderella a dress so she could go to the ball!" and NOT structured like Sword Art Online or whatever.Tbh I think the isekai protagonist premise is completely unnecessary and creates misleading expectations for how the protagonist is going to act. The isekai element has truly zero contribution or influence, in every practical way she's not a normal person "reincarnated" as a fairy - she might as well just be a totally native, newborn regular fairy. She doesn't remember anything about earth, she doesn't remember anything from a previous life, her personality isn't even a little bit influenced by previously being a different person. She's just a fairy and acts like a fairy and does fairy things. At the very most, "from another world" means that her fairy play-time has a tourist theme.I would describe the "isekai" mention as a vestigial trait? Like how humans have tailbones, which are utterly useless to us without a tail, but we still have them anyway because we're descended from monkeys with tails. This story has an isekai protagonist for literally no reason, it's utterly useless, but it's still got it since it's descended from actual isekai stories.There's also the part where she decides that the princess wants to keep her as a pet, and decides to go along with it. This is easier to swallow if you understand that she's a fairy, she doesn't take pretty much anything seriously, *everything* is a game to fairies. At that part she isn't saying "Oh, okay I'm your s*ave" She's saying "Oh, we're playing puppies now! Okay~! Yay, woof!". She's completely capable of leaving and doing whatever she wants whenever she wants, and nobody could even try to stop her. She's a "pet" because that's the game they're playing, and she can and does just up and leave whenever she gets bored or distracted, much to the distress of the royal family. She especially likes this game because they give her frilly dresses and cookies...The story is better if you just ignore the word reincarnation. It's a story about a confused newborn fairy that happens to wander into a random kingdom, where she meets a sad princess and she decides to play together because the princess's hair is pretty. And then good things happen because she's made of pixie dust and giggles, and "good things happen" is just what pixie dust does, y'know? Fairy tale, dude.