Simply Good Taste for a Duke's Daughter

This manga adaptation is really nice. It expands on what I recall were short, descriptive narratives in the webnovel into more substantive, expressive scenes, giving the orphan brigade much-needed screen time to develop, build chemistry with Iris and with each other.

I don't know if this is because a light novel was (re-)written with these expanded scenes, or if the mangaka themselves added them in; regardless, it is a good improvement. I just hope this isn't one of those many "promotional" manga that ended in a few volumes with the main story barely even starting, like most of them have been.

P.S. #FreeImouto #YesLolitaNoTouch

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I agree 100% and I hope she really is something more because as of right the only real antagonist at the moment is the 2nd prince and (kind of) her little brother

Who is Yuri lol? I haven't seen her.

Who is Yuri lol? I haven't seen her.

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personally I find it hard to believe she really is as airheaded and naive as she seems. Since she's an illegitimate child, I'd say she grew up among commoners and has tasted the difficulties of poverty so it seems unbelievable that she has not common sense, which is the feeling you get when you read about her actions and the silly things she says, things only a sheltered girl would say or do. Something's definitely off about her.

You guys should read the novel; I am absolutely obsessed with it! 

Ok stop talking about the light novel and how far it is... matter of fact comments are open on Japtem so you guys can chat it up there but here let's keep the manga discussion going instead of spoiling the story for others.

SIDE NOTE: The guys translating the manga also have light novel stories I really recommend reading.

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Not that far off, it has the same effects on people, just depends on the dosages. That's why it's somewhat regulated, so that you won't find anything processed with 100% cacao.

I think cocoa is more useful for chocolate before that.

Interestingly, cocoa was originally used in a coffee-like beverage. It was only in the mid-1800s that solid chocolate was invented.

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I think it was also stated in the novel that she used to live in a neighbouring country.
Since most of things she wants to do seems nice on the surface but will ultimately make the country poorer and weaker, I get the feeling that she is some sort of super spy/temptress/demon sent to destroy the country from the inside.

Discovering that the sons of some of the highest people in the country were so stupid and easy to manipualte probably made her job easier.

 

Poor imouto.

She doesn't have a single ally.

She is just a prey and everyone else is the hunter.

I'm still not entirely sure whether I'm following this series for Iris, or the concerned Imouto's diary. She might be able to escape the immediate danger by manipulating her two closest threats into liking Onee-sans and Otoutos...

So it's like saying "deeeesu" or "-maaaasu" at the end? I'm even more curious now haha. I kinda want to see the raws and see for myself.

You should. I did a terrible job in replicating it.

It's actually not.

 

The way she talks is just a bit breathier, and she has a habit of elongating certain sentence endings.

So it's like saying "deeeesu" or "-maaaasu" at the end? I'm even more curious now haha. I kinda want to see the raws and see for myself.

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I think it was also stated in the novel that she used to live in a neighbouring country.
Since most of things she wants to do seems nice on the surface but will ultimately make the country poorer and weaker, I get the feeling that she is some sort of super spy/temptress/demon sent to destroy the country from the inside.

Discovering that the sons of some of the highest people in the country were so stupid and easy to manipualte probably made her job easier.

 

Poor imouto.

She doesn't have a single ally.

She is just a prey and everyone else is the hunter.

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I think it was also stated in the novel that she used to live in a neighbouring country.
Since most of things she wants to do seems nice on the surface but will ultimately make the country poorer and weaker, I get the feeling that she is some sort of super spy/temptress/demon sent to destroy the country from the inside.

Discovering that the sons of some of the highest people in the country were so stupid and easy to manipualte probably made her job easier.

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personally I find it hard to believe she really is as airheaded and naive as she seems. Since she's an illegitimate child, I'd say she grew up among commoners and has tasted the difficulties of poverty so it seems unbelievable that she has not common sense, which is the feeling you get when you read about her actions and the silly things she says, things only a sheltered girl would say or do. Something's definitely off about her.

Poor imouto.

She doesn't have a single ally.

She is just a prey and everyone else is the hunter.

she dun discovered coffee.

I think cocoa is more useful for chocolate before that.

she dun discovered coffee.

i love this manga version, its give me Dida X Tanya vibe

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I hate Yuri primarily because she is/was a Mary Sue, she was the protag of the game if you remember. Without a player to control her she is simply some air-headed idealist spouting ideas that have no basis in reality and she has the ear of the 2nd prince. She may not even know it but Yuri is fucking dangerous.

We already pointed it out: that's pure conjecture and IMO the idea isn't THAT bad, only that it needs temperance: instead of disbanding the military reduce its size to a more rationalized volume and use the money to organize a series of "soup kitchens" that will serve as a bottomline method to avoid starvation. It's part of welfare state, to ensure that your population, should things be dire for'em,  doesn't die from hunger.

The problem is that in the Royal capital where they want to institute the soup kitchens, there aren't that many that are so poor they need a soup kitchen. Even Iris' father and brother(who loves Yuri) could see that it was purely a popularity grab to open the soup kitchens. They also can't reduce the military because they are still officially at war with a neighboring country. They haven't gone hot in a few years, but there is no official treaty or ceasefire. It can go hot at anytime.

Yuri always ask for expensive gifts. So much so that between Yuri and the second prince's mom, they are squeezing the royal treasury.

Yuri is either incredibly selfish and naive or is actively trying to sabotage the country through some elaborate honey trap. And some of the more recent chapters point to the second option.

Well, Yuri did intentionally pursue a relationship with an engaged guy. And when the MC tried to fight back against it she was shamed publicly by having the prince break the engagement, and having her brother side with her opposition.

 

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Also Yuri talks like an airhead and seriously proposed getting rid of the military to fund soup kitchens, even though the country is just in an unofficial ceasefire with a neighboring country. So either Yuri is an airhead, or she is intentionally trying to ruin the country.

We already pointed it out: that's pure conjecture and IMO the idea isn't THAT bad, only that it needs temperance: instead of disbanding the military reduce its size to a more rationalized volume and use the money to organize a series of "soup kitchens" that will serve as a bottomline method to avoid starvation. It's part of welfare state, to ensure that your population, should things be dire for'em,  doesn't die from hunger.

She adapted a little to easy, instantly I would say, to the whole situation that is a little mood breaking in the first chapters.

Even if she is fast thinking,  self-confident and change mentality towards the new persona (like in Overlord) don't be a little confused and surpreside is very weird.

 

Anyway I love main characters like Iris, so its fine before a few chapters...

She adapted because her personality is not Tokyo tax accountant with a memories of her life as a duke's daughter. Her personality is a gestalt of Iris and the previous life. So she has a perfect understanding of the culture and how to act as a nobility because her personality has been nobility for 1x years.

It isn't a comparable situation to Overlord, where Ainz was a salaryman but is now trying to be what he thinks an Overlord shoud be. Iris is both a teen noble and the knowledge and feelings of her past life.

She had to make quick adjustments because she knew that saying the wrong thing would end up with her in a convent.