Miman

An unlikable protagonist sinks this slow and silly book. Hime starts out bragging about how she is a gold digger whose main goal is to become a trophy wife. To accomplish this, she pretends to like everyone so they will like her back. A minor accident causes her to become a temporary waitress in a cafe where the staff pretends they are students in an all girls school. Between orders, they act out soap-opera scenes between their characters to entertain the clientele. None of the side show more characters are interesting enough and the situations aren't humorous enough to offset the the dreariness of the wait for the main character to become a better person. show less

Oof.
Hime, the protagonist, is really annoying. I totally get why her “Schwester” hates her, I would too! Especially because she’s so fake. Although I kinda do get her motives, and who wouldn’t want to marry someone rich... but nevertheless, I hate fake people so much. Having them as a protagonist makes the read pretty difficult at times.

As much as I dislike her, it is throwing me off how much pressure the others putting on her. First of all, Hime didn’t choose this job, she was show more pretty much forced to do it. (Which is karma and I don’t mind.) However, she’s never done this and secondly, it’s a cafe in another language. Well, the theme is at least. With dishes being in a language someone doesn’t understand, that’s hard. They could at least be more understanding regarding that and especially give her maybe a list of all the dishes that are served there? How should someone write down an order of a dish name they’ve never heard of?

What I also really hated was the sister-bond thing.
I don’t know why people love sexualizing & romanticizing siblings, mostly sisters, but it’s so annoying. Japan or probably Asia in general has a serious problem with that.
Not saying it doesn’t happen in other continents too, but the fact that this is one of the most popular tropes in anime & manga, does say a lot.
Look, if the characters genuinely like each other (platonically), I wouldn’t mind. But forcing it on people? Nah, man, not with me. show less

I thought I’ll give this series one more chance, as I’ve heard that there was the backstory here and I was kinda curious on how they met.
I really must say, I love young Yano! She’s the best.
Hime isn’t any different from her present-self – just as annoying and fake as ever. And that victim trope is making me throw up.

Can’t believe Yano is always made as the villain by everyone, even though Hime is the jerk.