Title: My Husband, My Sister, and I

Author/Story: muso (original story), PISTACHIO (adaptation)

Artist: WOOSA

Rating: Teen (with a dot of spice)

Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Drama, Marriage and Divorce, Revenge

Hosted On: Manta Comics

Official Link(s): English

Official Summary:

“I taste her on your lips.”

On the night of our fourth wedding anniversary, I witnessed my husband having an affair. “I love you,” he told my twin sister as he laid on top of her. This can’t just end easily with a divorce. No, I’ll make them pay for this.

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Title: Beware The Villainess

Author/Story: Berry and Soda Ice

Artist: Blue Canna

Rating: Teen (Light Suggestiveness)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Isekai/Transmigration, Romance

Hosted On: Tapas (ENG), Kakao (KOR)

Official Link(s): English, Korean

Official Summary:

Sit back and take in this romantic tale of an angelic heroine and her devoted suitors as they vie for the depths of her love… or not. This story’s about to go through some edits! After an accident, a modern-day college student awakens as the story’s villainess, Melissa Foddebrat. She’s far from anyone’s favorite, but she IS the daughter of the duke. Determined to live it up, this new Melissa is doing things her way — antiquated society, be damned! All idiots, prepare to step aside or perish!

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Title: The Remarried Empress

Author/Story: Alphatart (original story), HereLee (adaptation)

Artist: Sumpul

Rating: Teen

Genre: romance, fantasy, drama

Hosted On: Webtoon/Naver

Official Link(s): English, Korean

Official Summary:

Navier Ellie Trovi was an empress perfect in every way — intelligent, courageous, and socially adept. She was kind to her subjects and devoted to her husband. Navier was perfectly content to live the rest of her days as the wise empress of the Eastern Empire. That is, until her husband brought home a mistress and demanded a divorce. “I accept this divorce… And I request an approval of my remarriage.” In a shocking twist, Navier remarries another emperor and retains her title and childhood dream as empress. But just how did everything unfold?

My Thoughts:

If you’re ever wondering what series sparked the catalyst for my webtoon obsession, I think the closest we can come is Alphatart, HereLee, and Sumpul’s The Remarried Empress on Webtoon.

This is the series that I come back to all the time, and it’s given me a lot to think about when it comes to storytelling, misogyny in the narrative, and internalized misogyny in the reader. And it all starts with how Navier’s callous husband Sovieshu (known in the fandom as “Sovieshit”) brings the wide-eyed naif Rashta (who fandom calls “Trashta”) into the castle and installs her as his mistress without any thought of what that would mean for Navier’s public reputation.

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Title: Tricked into Becoming the Heroine’s Stepmother

Author/Story: MOKGAMGI

Artist: HARIHEEN

Rating: General/All Ages

Genre: transmigration/isekai, romance, fantasy, family, comedy

Hosted On:  Webtoon

Official Link(s): English, Korean

Official Summary:

After her death, Daisy Heidi is reincarnated into the world of “Why Did the Duke’s Daughter Roll Across the Pumpkin Patch?”, a so-called “tragedy” novel where the beautiful heroine Pierta indulges in reckless lust and hedonism with ten ardent suitors to a bitter end. Though Daisy is reborn as a poor commoner in this world, she has one distinct advantage over others in her second chance at life — she’s the author of the original novel! When fate brings Daisy into the lives of the novel’s heroine Pierta and her dashing father Duke Henstone, Daisy vows to do everything she can to prevent Pierta’s future of despair.

My Thoughts:

A huge reason why I’m focusing on Tricked into Becoming the Heroine’s Stepmother this week is because I needed a light and cute transmigration series for my agonies.

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Title: Surviving As A Maid

Author/Story: Cloud Whale Soap

Artist: Heeseo

Rating: Teen

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Isekai/Transmigration, BL (Sort of)

Hosted On:  Tapas, Kakao

Official Link(s): English, Korean

Official Summary:

Ash Tolkayn was an ordinary office worker before she somehow became a maid in a BL novel with a scandalous love triangle between the King, his mysterious male lover, and the jilted Queen. But everything changes when the King appoints Ash as the crown prince’s new nanny… after murdering the previous one! Now, on top of juggling the duties of childcare, she finds herself smack dab in the middle of the cutthroat royal drama. Can Ash rise to the challenge and survive as a maid?

My Thoughts:

Surviving As A Maid for being one of the series that gave me trust issues when it came to a new-to-me subgenre of isekai series: girl gets transmigrated into a minor female role in a Boys Love series.

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Title: For Better or For Worse

Author/Story: Noh Hueda

Artist: Eunren

Rating: Teen

Genre: Villainess, Transmigration/Isekai, Rom-Com, Drama, Fantasy

Hosted On: Tapas (EN), Kakao (KR)

Official Link(s): English, Korean

Official Summary:

The spunky Lady Dillion didn’t realize she was the villain of a romance novel until she encounters Marquess Cedric. Seeing him jogs a dormant memory of the novel’s plot, in which her beloved younger sister dies in childbirth after marrying Cedric. Determined to prevent this, Dillion marries him herself, but what fate awaits her when she knows he’s meant to fall in love with the real female lead later? In this marriage of convenience, it seems nothing turns out quite how either of them expects…

My Thoughts:

One of the things that I love the most about the villainess transmigration genre is the way that characters come to own their space in the new world.

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