#The Wicked Stepsister

[kannemeinelauthor]

La hijastra malvada (The Wicked Stepsister, in Spanish)

Un día, al regresar a casa de la escuela, Abigail se lleva una gran sorpresa al ver a tres extrañas que se están mudando a su hogar. Su padre se ha casado nuevamente y ni siquiera la invitó a su boda; y ahora las dinámicas familiares han cambiado drásticamente. Al tener que vivir con esas nuevas personas, ella estará dispuesta a aceptarlas en su vida, pero, ¿qué hay de que ellas acepten a Abigail…

[arataka-reigen]

hello!! i saw the tags on your pinned post abt how shoujo wasn't just romance and it got me curious bc i've read some nice shoujo but really dislike romance-heavy plots. are there any shoujos you like that don't have much or any romance in them? ty and i hope you have a good day! 💛

Oh, there are lots of mangas that are classified as shoujo and don't have romance!!

I am just now beginning my journey through shoujo as well, so I don't have a lot of recommendations for stuff I actually read, but the ones I did read or watch so far are:

Natsume Yuujinchou and basically anything else by its author, Yuki Midorikawa. Sometimes, her works do include romance, but the focus is almost always in the interpersonal relationships and the difficulties her characters go through in life. NatsuYuu is about an orphan boy who can see yokai, and for that reason he acts in "weird" ways and his foster families dislike him, so he keeps going from family to family. The story is about how he finds a good family who accepts and loves him, makes friends, and learns to make friends even with yokais.

There are currently 6 anime seasons out, and a 7th season is on its way, so you can either read the manga or watch the anime.

Akatsuki no Yona - i mean, this one does include romance, but i'll still put it on the list because as far as the anime went the focus is heavy on Yona's actual journey to gather the dragons of legend to be able to recover the kingdom that was stolen from her. It shows how Yona goes from a sheltered spoiled girl to a person befitting the title of dragon king.

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom - this one is the og villainess isekai and it truly deserves the hype. It is about a girl who wakes up in the child body of the villainess of her favorite otome game. She remembers that the villainess' fate in the game was always either death or exile, so she tries her hardest to change her fate. This one is classified as a reverse harem, but the main character is pretty oblivious and worries more about farming and eating sweets and generally being the best girl ever than actually worrying about romance. Aro ace queen tbh. And her harem is just happy to be with her and be dragged along for her stupid adventures. Plus, the female members of her harem are taken seriously as well, Mary is a raging lesbian and it is not subtext. I mean, it is a shoujo, so of course the female characters would be important lol.

Usagi Drop - listen to me. You will absolutely not look for anything related to this manga. If you like the premise you can watch the anime. But, please, do not look for the manga. You will only be extremely disappointed by it. That being said, I recommend the anime. It is about a man who returns home for his grandfather's funeral and then finds out his grandfather had an illegitimate daughter who has now become an orphan. He ends up having to take care of her because the rest of the family considers her a shame to the family.

Now, for the stuff I havent seen yet, I'll just write some that are on my "plan to read" list and put their genres next to their names so you can check it out if you think the genre's sound interesting:

7 Seeds (drama, horror, psychological, sci fi, survival)

Requiem of the Rose King (drama, historical, supernatural, gender identity)

Basara (drama, fantasy, adventure) (i think this one has romance, but from what i've heard, the main character's story is a lot deeper as she takes her brother's identity in order to fight against the king who killed her brother, it is pretty famous and considered a classic)

Ghost Hunt (horror, mystery, psychological, supernatural)

Helter Skelter (horror, psychological)

My Stepmother and Stepsisters aren't Wicked (comedy, historical, slice of life)

Ikoku Nikki (drama) (this one is the one i'm currently most interested on, i hear it's about a distant woman who's never had a good relationship with her sister and now has to take care of her teenage niece because her sister died)

Itsuwari no Freya (crossdressing, historical)

Limit (drama, psychological, school) (this one sounds incredible tbh, on a field trip their bus gets into an accident and only 5 girls remain, having to learn to survive and trying to assert themselves over one another because they hate each other.)

Machida-kun no sekai (school)

Mitarai-ke, Enjou suru (drama) (the main character wants to infiltrate the household of the family who blamed her mother for a fire, in order to prove her mother's innocence)

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (comedy)

Uramichi Oniisan (comedy, showbiz, workplace)

Usotoki Rhetoric (mystery, historical)

Don't Call It Mystery (mystery)

If anyone has more things to recommend I would also love to hear about it!!

[nathsketch]

It’s today!!

Here’s the cover art (and a little WIP) I did for ‘The Wicked Ones’, the first book in the new, villainous ‘Dark Ascension’ series that is being released today in bookstores everywhere!

I can’t wait to see it in person! If you’ve already received your copy, feel free to share some of your photos!

I hope you’ll enjoy this new story! I’ve always had a soft spot for misunderstood villains, so this will be just my cup of tea! 💚💜

[llama-aesthetics]

Ruby Step Sister 💘

The granddaughter of one of Cinderella's step sisters, Ruby was raised in a loving, but often judgmental household. She would be criticized for every little action, from her appearance to her manners, and her family would judge and compare her to her cousins.

Despite her seemingly selfish nature, Ruby is a romantic at heart, and dreams of meeting her One True Prince. And while Hawk may fit many girls dream of an ideal prince, Ruby is also a good judge of character and won't settle for anyone less than perfect.

[princess-ibri]

How do Anasasia, Drizella and their mother live out the rest of their lives when Cinderella left and did any of them make ammends with her?

Well, Anastasia for sure ends up with the Baker and becomes friends with Cinderella after Cinderella 3/the timeline gets back on track. They eventually have the Canon Descendants version of Anthony. She and Cinderella actually become real friends after all the drama.

Drizella per my Canon Descendants ends up with the Grand Duke xD per the instructions of the King as a reward to her after she (much more reluctantly then Anastasia but still) has her own redemption arc. They have the Canon Descendants versions of Dizzy and her sisters. It's not precisely a happy marriage, but Drizella gets to be rich and titled and the Duke got a new estate and he does love his daughters so it evens out. She doesn't really hangout with Anastasia or Cinderella though, its a relationship that works better as long distance.

Lady Tremaine likely finally has her Disney Villain Fall Off of Something Tall on her final attempt to get revenge on Cinderella in whatever scheme Drizella has her semi-redemption arc in, which I'm still working out an idea for xD Though it very likely involves the ghost in the castle crypts...

Anyway here's a link to the Canon Descendants Cinderella kids

[professionallydeadinside]

PHOTOS OF GUN-CHAN COMPILATION BECAUSE I LOVE HE……

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1D, MATCH 15 OUT OF 16!

*I found two titles for this webcomic, the first 'A Wicked Tale of Cinderella's Stepmom' and the second 'I Raised Cinderella Preciously'. Both of them did not fit in the limited characters of the poll option, so I wrote a note here. Any fans of the series feel free to correct me if I made any mistake.

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Ashley:

She is beauty she isn't grace and she just wants guys to stop hitting on her for her looks

Cinciarell:

[No Propaganda Submitted]

[myucornerorg]

After reading a couple nonfiction books from the library (one being the "clean living" book seen in the first pic), I decided to read some of the mangas downloaded to my Kindle.

The first one I read was Magilumiere: Magical Girls Inc, which I already posted about. As for the others in the first pic, I actually finished The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash first after Magilumiere, but since I finished it and My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked on the same day, Goodreads listed them weird. Then yesterday I started the manga in the second pic, My [Repair] Skill Became a Versatile Cheat, So I Think I'll Open a Weapons Shop.

The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash is one of those "reincarnated with a past life's memories in a fantasy world" kind of fantasy stories, which I think is an Isekai subgenre?? Usually it's used with "reincarnated as a villainess" stories, though, and this doesn't seem to be that kind of story (unlike other similar stories, we're not told where the main character, Ivy, came from or how she got reincarnated into this world at the beginning - only that she has memories of a past life...so that already is different). Anyway, in this story Ivy gets ostracized when she's identified as a "starless," basically someone who has magic but at a zero-star level, which makes her magic so weak she's basically useless. Even her own family rejects her, and later the kind fortune-teller who helped her learn how to survive in the forest dies because the village chief heard she associated with a "starless" and refused to provide her with the healing potion she needed. After this, she takes off, using the survival skills and basic magic bags the fortune teller provided her with to get by. Having no money at first, she's forced to salvage through town dumps for resources, or eat whatever animals she can capture with traps (she does have a monster taming ability, as the title suggests, but hers is so weak she can only tame super weak monsters). She eventually manages to make some money from selling field mice she captured, and even snakes in one chapter (those she sells to the apothecary). A few chapters in, she encounters a super weak slime that even she, with her weak power, can tame. After naming her Sora, they set off together, and Sora ends up being more useful than Ivy expected, since it can absorb both organic and inorganic matter (most slimes in this world can only do one or the other). It may even be able to heal, if the ending of the volume is any indication. (According to the bonus short story, though, Sora is not very good with directions lol).

My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked is, as you might guess from the title, a take on the classic Cinderella story. Except in this case the Cinderella character, Miya, is the illegitimate child of a rich man, and that man's wife and daughters (the titular stepmother and stepsisters) take her in when her mother dies. But while she expects them to be really mean, they're actually really nice! But the mother is still stern and intimidating, and the daughters are spoiled and always trying to one-up each other, so their kindness kind of comes across in a comedic tsundere sort of way. Miya constantly worries that she's offended them, only for them to respond completely positively, no matter what happens. It is funny, but at the same time I feel like such a gag might get old after a while. Not sure though.

As for the last one, My [Repair] Skill Became a Versatile Cheat, So I Think I'll Open a Weapons Shop, like I said, I just started reading it. It's a fantasy about dungeon exploration, much like the Delicious in Dungeon series I've been watching on Netflix recently. But this one obviously has a different story. The main character, Luke, is a seasoned adventurer with 15 years of experience under his belt, but since his only skill is [Repair], a skill which has next to no usage in combat, he's still an E-rank adventurer (the lowest rank that is allowed to do dungeon raids). He finally got recruited by a powerful hero to join his dungeon raiding party, only to be treated as their pack mule and ultimately betrayed by the hero over a relatively minor issue (that doesn't even seem to be his fault). Left by his former party mates in the dungeon to die, he resolves to at least find a way out, even if all he has is his [Repair] skill and an old sword the hero gave him out of pity. Fortunately for him, he's able to make his [Repair] skill evolve seemingly subconsciously (hence the "cheat" part of the title, I guess), which, combined with finding a shortcut by punching a hole in a rock wall with his sword (something even the hero in his party couldn't do), allows him to finally escape after 2 weeks. He then helps save a samurai girl named Sakura who is cornered by a dragon by lending her his sword, and then using his [Repair] skill to heal her (he's not sure he can at first, since the skill doesn't usually work on living things, so when he succeeds he's as surprised as anyone - also doing so DOES make him pass out for half a day, so he's not crazy OP, like heroes in these stories often are). After making it to the settlement where Sakura and her friend Sylvia (daughter of the local innkeeper) are living, he decides to take a break from adventuring (at his level, he can't re-enter the dungeon he came from by himself anyway, as adventurers can only enter dungeons that are at their level or below, unless they're in a party with a leader of the right level, which Luke was before) and use his [Repair] skill to open a weapons shop, since the town doesn't have one currently (probably because the forest where Luke found Sakura and Sylvia just recently got classified as a dungeon). And, as far as I've read, this seems to go well (the fact that he helped kill a dragon certainly helps bring in customers). He does get into a bit of trouble with some local knights, though, because the members of his former party have gone missing, and since he got out alone, he's a prime suspect behind their disappearance. Also, he harvested mithril from the wall he broke, which only certain people are allowed to harvest (though to be fair he didn't know it was mithril, so he gets a pass there, though the knights still make him replicate how he broke the wall as proof of his story). And that's about where I'm at in the story.

Definitely enjoying my reads so far!

[lauraagrace]

I recently passed on this super cute josei series to a friend, but I wanted to share it here too because this manga is SO cute! 🥹

If you're looking for a VERY fun twist on Cinderella that has a lot of humor and slice-of-life, I would highly recommend checking this out! 🤩

[engshoujosei]

My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked

Volume 1 releases in English on May 2nd, 2023. Ongoing.

Licensed by Seven Seas

Fairy tale tropes are turned on their heads in this award-winning and comedic reimagining of the classic Cinderella story! Miya is the illegitimate child of a prominent family. When her mother dies and her father's estate agrees to take her in, she's convinced she knows what awaits her in her new home: a life of servitude and misery at the hands of her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. Yet when she finally meets the women she expects to treat her like dirt, they actually end up being...sweet?! A hilarious and heartfelt comedy that's sure to put a smile on your face!

Status in Country of Origin 

4 Volumes (Ongoing)

Tags:

Appearance Different from Personality

Family

Stepmother/s

Stepsister/s

[faline-cat444]

Average Tuesday expectations

[thegeekyartist]

I'm tipsy and watching the 2011 Into the Woods and I'm having Thoughts™. Truly the best version.

Changing the narrator from the Bakers dad to a CHILD?? A kid who ran away from home?? Acting out and directing the whole thing with his toys?? I'm insane thinking about it.

A small boy, scared and alone in the woods, telling himself the story of an entire village of people scared and alone in the woods...The witch's lament about keeping children home and protected hits even harder when told through the lens of a child who ran away, who probably heard all the same words from his parents. "Stay a child while you can be a child."

AND THEN! The story starts to fall apart the longer our narrator stays away from home (Act 2). He realizes that running away doesn't solve anything. A main theme of Into the Woods is what you think you know vs. what the world teaches you. This boy is learning things he wasn't ready for, things his parents were probably trying to protect him from. Even early on, we see him standing close to the Bakers Wife when she says "maybe we should go home".

And he tries to escape the consequences! He wants out of the narrative - "I tell the story, I'm not part of it!" - and is forced into it by the witch anyway, immediately leading into (part of) her song, "no matter what you do, children won't listen".

And then we don't see the child again until he wakes in the woods!! And (spoilers) we see that the Baker - the one struggling with his role as a father for the whole play - is actually the NARRATOR'S father, who is just as distressed as his son and has (presumably) spent the entirety of the play looking for him.

We see a lost and scared little boy trying to make sense of the world and the relationship he has with his father, and a father who feels like he cant be the person his child needs, reconciling at the end and telling the story together.

It is a PERFECT change and I love it so much.

[chadsuke]

Books Read in 2022:

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady Vol. 1 by Piero Karasu & Harutsugu Nadaka (2021)

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady Vol. 2 by Piero Karasu & Harutsugu Nadaka (2021)

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady Vol. 3 by Piero Karasu & Harutsugu Nadaka (2022)

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady Vol. 4 by Piero Karasu & Harutsugu Nadaka (2022)

A Wicked Tale of Cinderella’s Stepmom by Kiarne & Sunset (2022)

A Wicked Tale of Cinderella’s Stepmom by Kiarne & Sunset (2022)

A Wicked Tale of Cinderella’s Stepmom by Kiarne & Sunset (2022)

Roxana: How To Protect the Female Lead’s Older Brother by Kin, Juniljus & Ji-Yeon Baek (2021)

She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat Vol. 1 by Sakaomi Yuzaki (2022)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned manhwa and manga. End ID.]

[jeshaisabookworm]

If You Give a Girl a Viscount by Kieran Kramer| Book Review

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Rating: 3.5 Title: If You Give a Girl a ViscountAuthor: Kieran KramerSeries: Impossible BachelorsIssue: 4 If fairytales were true then Daisy would be Cinderella. She checks all the boxes with a wicked stepmother and wicked stepsisters. All she needs now is to meet prince charming. Enters Charles, Viscount Lumley, a playboy who is currently in a jam himself. The two…

[freshfromhell]

fucked up life update: the stepsister i've been alienated from since the age of like 10 is naming her first child after me

[cmrosens]

Cinders and Glass (Book Edition)

This post has a lot of folktale versions, some very dark, and book recs for retellings collected from around the wide green internet. Next time: #Cinderella in Cinema 1898-2024! #fairytale #folktale #folklore #fairytaleretelling

Fairytale and Folklore Catch up on the whole series of these here. There are A LOT of retellings and reimaginings of that, but the tale of Cinderella – essentially a wish-fulfillment rags-to-riches story that gives poor, downtrodden people the hope that they might be raised above their station and find a measure of affluence and good fortune and love – is such a universal one that there are…