Because I’ve Been Reincarnated As A Girl I Just Want To Do Yuri Things, But Things Aren’t Going Well Chapter 180 Discussion

I can say I'm really liking the story. It's not perfect by any means, but it's very entertaining, and quite a surprise in many aspects. So let's start with a big warning for those who may not like this surprise: If you are expecting a mellowed or dramatic yuri story with girl times and so on... Nops, this is not for you.

The "But Things Aren't Going Well" of the title is no joke.

First, the chapters are longer than average. about 9 minutes read per chapter. The translator is also really good, and as he already read the novel fully, he is fast and he knows the context. The only sad thing for me is that it has some localization signs, so no japanese suffixes (san, kun, chan, sama), so they are localized into Mr/Mrs and so on, which is a big sad, but at least, it's overall consistent.

So, as I warned, if you are expecting a light read with girls doing yuri, stay away from here.

This story is essentially a shonen story with a female protagonist...

The story starts a little before the MCs death, and then his reincarnation starts early in life, while being breastfed by his new mother, thus take note of the Age Progression tag here. By chapter 180 she is 15yo, so considering there are over 500 chapters, I do wonder how old she will be by the end of the story.

The MC is a young girl from a simple but powerful family from the frontier, so the family is mostly neutral in political matters, and considered like country bumpkins. The family is that of a Margress, and although above average in the rankings, they are not really well treated by others, although they don't really mind much. (I'm used to the usual Baron < Viscount < Earl < Duke, but this novel adds Margraves and Marquises, and a bunch of extra details like "a family that protects the borders will be relevant even with a lower title", so this point can be a bit confusing.)

In regards to surrounding characters, at the start we get basically no heroines... Even when MC is to get a personal attendant and expects to get a young pretty maid around her age become friends she finds out that her older siblings already got the good stuff, so she, the third daughter only got to chose from the remainders (a good looking efficient young butler, an old and strict maid, and a shady one (who was not chosen)).

Her strict father gets her a tutor to teach her magic after finding her reading books on it, and as she made progress with some good male old tutors, she even got taught the sword while still a small child, and even the MC finds that weird weird at first... So she is a bit OP, but far from being the most OP in the story (Her father is very strong, so he holds back for training).

I do think, however, that the magic element here, although nice and somewhat balanced for the most part became completely broken when in regards to her family (And I'm not talking about MC here).

Spoiler

MC creates cannons, showing strong firepower for distance, and even her father is astonished at how much things will change with such a weapon. Her bloody crazy mother? She picks up her Halberd out of nowhere, semi teleports to the target, and asks to shoot at her, because she wants to "fight" it... And she does fight a whole barrage of cannonballs with a Halberd. Yes, the mother is the most feared opponent.

Demons are supposed to exist, but how powerful is the Demon King, who may be the, or one of the, most powerful of the Demons, supposed to be? Because compared to normal people, MC's family are monsters way above the average, although in regards to Magic in itself, MC is the strongest, if it's about buff/strengthening magic, her parents are much crazier (and unrelated to the Demon War).

So what sort of human could have stopped the Demon King who should be even stronger?

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She is told that she will meet the 3rd prince for marriage and he is visiting, the prince has received many candidates but he, who is good at everything (for a child), has already refused every candidate prior to MC, and as she doesn't want to marry a man (she wants Yuri), she tries to humiliate him to get it cancelled too. It backfires, and the prince becomes crazy about her.

And finally the heroine candidates start to appear, but events and misunderstandings happen, and they are separated.

So yeah, the Title is not joking around.

If you think this is a trope on the otome game villainess going good genre, I would say it's the opposite. The isekai here is not that of a game, nor does it game a game system, so there is no MC predicting future of events, nor are there levels and numerical values.

So if I were to describe, as much as she may look and act as a villainess, if this story were to be an otome game, she would undoubtedly be in the heroine role (she is the bullied one).

Now, as I described, this is more of a shonen story, with much of its problems: MC gets strong, MC falls in love with heroine, and when MC finally is able to become close with heroine... Nothing happens. Yup, she may want something to happen, the heroine also wants it, but something will intrude in the way, or nothing will happen in the end.

So very, very shonen.

This also has all the "modern knowledge" tropes imaginable: MC makes new inventions, revolutionizes the Kingdom, get money, gets territory, becomes rich, has subordinates and all the stuff... And she hides it all under another persona. The MC, named Flora, gets another identity as Floto, who usually appears as a male.

So when I say the MC is OP for a high school girl, it's not just her super magic or her super physical prowess, it's also her own resources unrelated to her family, and the fact that everything is hidden, so she can go to school... To be bullied for being the 3rd Prince's fiancee even though she is a "country girl".

But nonetheless, it's an enjoyable read, the characters and jokes are nice, so if you are in for the plot rather than for pure yuri, you may have fun even with the male characters.

At first I wondered about the politics, the author seems well educated, explaining quite a bit too much about the settings, ideas and possibilities, comparing them with IRL quite well, so even if you don't know much on these matters, you may learn quite a bit from here.

I did had some worries at first, specially considering that the King appears quite a lot, and he is the one pushing for the marriage, meanwhile the Queens do not, so it felt like political marriage for plot convenience, so even with the 2 Queens having their bickering which does have effect on the plot later on, I was wondering what was one main queen doing when the 2nd queen was doing something so drastic against her son, but as the plot progressed, things made quite a bit of sense, and I felt that the author did had a grasp on the world rather than just writing and making characters on the fly.

Thus, although there is very little yuri time, seen as our female MC is well desired by a handsome prince blindly in love, a super butler who is very loyal, and other much older figures of both sexes in her life that are clearly out of romance range, she does get a "stable harem" of 5 girls who want to monopolize her (although one of them is a lesbian, so she also fine with having everyone)

But the political plot, as in, relationships with other nobles, for good and bad, or with other nations, besides MC's own territory building and stuff, seems to be the main point after some point.

I take this as a positive, but others may not. Hence, this was a good surprise for me.