Last week I mentioned that I don’t really read or look for anything new at the moment - this was not entirely true. I did in fact found a few new series recently, I just forgot to write about them. I’ll stick to two titles this time as I already purged all the other ones from my library during the recent cleanup and, truth be told, they weren’t really worth talking about anyway.

Over Rev!

Do you like Initial D? Take that but replace Takumi with a female student with no driving experience and WAY more irresponsible attitude (seriously, this woman should not be allowed behind the wheel, let alone get a license) - this is Over Rev! Even art style is pretty similar to Initial D.

I didn’t write about it before as I put it on hold for now but the few chapters I’ve read so far were pretty enjoyable. I’ll definitely post more informed impressions once I read a bit more. It seems promising at the very least.

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Princess in the Rough

It’s a manhwa series with an interesting premise (imperial princess grows up almost completely on her own after memories of her birth were wiped from everyone involved), confused execution and very fast pacing. The initial arc is exactly what you can expect and it’s done quite well - princess needs time warming up to people, doesn’t like large groups and has to be taught basic rules of living in civilised society. It’s good.
This arc is quickly followed by a time skip and a switch to a story about princess’ power and her solving problems which could endanger the whole country (if not the world), which in turn is relevant about two times as the story feels the need to go with another, this time longer, time skip leading to paedophilia ending. No, I’m not putting this in spoilers, it doesn’t deserve enough respect for that.

So, at the beginning I mentioned how our MC grew up “almost completely on her own”. She was a newborn baby so she obviously couldn’t make it completely alone - the truth is she was rescued and helped from time to time by a an ice spirit. In this world spirits are people with magical powers and extremely lengthened lifespan - while I’m simplifying a bit, this should be enough for you to figure out where this is going.
MC spent her early years with almost no human contact. She has limited understanding of social norms, doesn’t know the difference between familial and romantic love and see on problem with being in love with a dude few hundred years older than her who also took care of her as a baby. The final arc is about MC being in love with “Mr. Spirit” and him realising he’s also in love with her. It’s gross, it’s badly done and I hate it.

I could do a better write-up or at least clean it up to make it sound less like messy rambling but I wont. This story had multiple interesting ideas it could do something worthwhile with but it decided to sprint through them to jump straight into one of the worst possible story beats it could’ve taken. Such a waste of time and effort.