What? I've transmigrated into a galgame as the male lead's childhood friend, Hitomi Toda?
Hitomi Toda: "Don't get cocky! You've only been a galgame protagonist once, while I've played over a hundred galgames. In other words, my masculine charm is a hundred times greater than yours!"
Once a man, Hitomi Toda has transmigrated into the world of a galgame. Naturally, the first thing she plans to do is push the male lead far away, then conquer every heroine she can and build a yuri harem!
...Or so you'd think?
The estrogen and her once-male rationality force Hitomi Toda's two brain hemispheres to fight it out.
"The male lead is pretty good, too..."
"Ha! I'm a guy. How could I get close to another man?"
Now, with her estrogen taking charge, Hitomi Toda is trying to date the male lead.
But she'd already ruined his affection for her!
"I was here first..."
Stop the other heroines from stealing her man, while building his affection back up from scratch.
Making your husband suffer is fun for a while, but winning him back is hell!
(Not a harem story. It's one-on-one.)
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The subject matter is interesting, and the setting is good, but the plot arrangement and character development are not very mature. [Sfem:22:753]
In my opinion, this is a heavy story, a story of a broken soul searching for meaning in existence.
Compared to the chapters featuring other female characters, the chapters for the female lead feel too bland.
If this were a palace romance novel, many plot points wouldn't matter so much. But it's a pure love story, which makes it hard for me to bear seeing the male lead's affairs with other girls, the female lead and male lead barely interacting, and considering the female lead's abstract behavior in the early episodes. The thought of them getting together and having sweet moments later is really unsettling.
Ever since the female lead realized she wanted to pursue the male lead, she seemed like a completely different person, losing all sense of self. The entire story then focused on other female characters, making it feel like the female lead was sidelined. It's a far cry from the beginning.
The subject matter is quite interesting, but something just feels off.
I finished reading it in one night. The subject matter seemed quite interesting, and I'm curious about the development of the female lead's storyline. To be honest, the beginning felt a bit strange. From the premise, the author seemed to be aiming for a pure, one-on-one romance with the female lead; otherwise, there wouldn't have been the element of the female lead losing her memory after the events, and the female supporting character being turned into a pure friend to prevent any romantic involvement. But the writing is odd. Two chapters, 200,000 words in total, and the male and female leads' relationship still feels like the female lead's own internal struggle, creating abstract scenarios that lower the male lead's favorability. The resolution of the predicament caused by Shigure Rin is almost entirely separate for the male and female leads. If the goal was to write a one-on-one romance, the progression is far too slow...
The male lead wasn't much better. Although he initially had some feelings for Hituna, I didn't sense any genuine concern from him. A kind childhood friend you've known for a long time and spend every day with suddenly undergoes a drastic personality change; normally, you'd worry about what's happening to her and take some action, right? But I didn't see the male lead doing anything about investigating or paying attention to Hituna's sudden personality shift. His later attitude even seemed to suggest that Hituna had gone astray?
Estrogen probably can't force a soul to fall in love with a specific person; it feels like the female protagonist never really had the concept of a "original self." It's just that the addition of 20 years of male memories caused a huge cognitive confusion.
I subscribed to the whole thing and finished reading it. To be honest, it was surprisingly good. However, the female lead at the beginning was really off-putting. I clicked in four or five times and was deterred by her early behavior and the somewhat childish writing style. I only picked it up because I was bored. Also, this book is a bit of a "street style" read; the author seems to be sticking to the visual novel format, to the point that the other supporting characters are practically nonexistent in other characters' routes. For all these reasons, it's understandable that the book's performance was only average.