Summary
How to Survive a Romance Fantasy breaks the mold of formulaic isekai series, standing out as a blatantly subversive manga. The series combines villain conventions and “slow-life” narratives in a unique way, with characters running away from their destined roles. The manga focuses on a unique plot in which the characters work together without knowing each other’s true identities, setting it apart from other isekai series.
Although the genre is overly criticized for being formulaic, isekai The series completely breaks the mold, much like isekai morning, How to survive romantic illusions, stand out because they are blatantly subversive. Many critics ignore the fact that there are a large number of isekai that have, in fact, found their own ways to innovate overused tropes in the genre, but very few have done so. achieves this completely like How to Survive a Romance Fantasy.
How to Survive a Romance Fantasy can essentially be loosely defined as a blend of the very popular villain convention and the “slow living” saying of many isekai today, except that it not just a combination or subversion of both.
Regarding the former, many main characters are reincarnated as villains in a game or novel where the character is destined to die. Usually, they try to escape their unfortunate fate by using their unprecedented knowledge of the Isekai world to their advantage. However, it is always within the limits of games or novels. This is not the case for Ji-eun in Sing-Nanda’s How to Survive a Romance Fantasy. She runs away and tries to live a completely different life that has nothing to do with the plot. And she’s not the only one doing so.
The villainess hides her identity along with the Prince and the heroine
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Ji-eun is joined by Cheolsu, who becomes the crown prince of the royal family, and Yeonghui, who isekai becomes the novel’s heroine and destined queen. Like Ji-eun, Cheolsu and Yeonghui don’t want to face what their characters go through in the novel and try to live a completely different life. From this description alone, some might say that this is a setup for isekai’s famous “slow living” story. There are a lot of series like this where the main characters just want to quietly level up in the woods or pursue some random skill. Aside from the fact that the series doesn’t have any leveling up and none of the main characters actively dedicate their lives to what their character is naturally good at, How to Survive a Romance Fantasy focuses on A unique plot drives the story: they end up working together without knowing who the other is.
Although Cheolsu and Yeonghui quickly discover that they are both reincarnated from the real world, they refuse to share the fact that they are the novel’s heroine and prince due to understandable fear. that this knowledge could naturally create events that would draw them back. into their respective roles. By chapter 7, neither of them knew that Ji-eun was also reincarnated, but since Ji-eun was also keeping her identity a secret, they also didn’t know that she was also the villain in the novel. Many series have main characters who want nothing to do with adventuring, as in I’ll Survive on Poison!, but in that story, the main character’s identity is revealed and she’s constantly swept away. into unexpected adventures. This hasn’t happened since chapter 7 of How to Survive a Romantic Fantasy. And since it’s mostly told from Cheolsu’s perspective, the story only really explores his efforts to keep his identity a secret, which are complicated by the sudden presence of Soldiers can recognize his face.
Like the first seven chapters on WEBTOON, it is very possible that How to Survive a Romance Fantasy continues to innovate the Isekai genre. Manhwa However, fans who want to read the previous chapter 7 will have to download the app to explore other ways How to survive romantic illusions continues to completely uplift mesekai category.
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