Webcomics can fall pray to seasonal rot like any television show, even if it has the same writer. In the overall series, I initially had an issue with child characters acting & talking like they were significantly older, but Kids Baking Championship & cringe NEETs have taught me that maturity is a result of experience & motivation rather than age.
Season 2: Shin, the pessimistic self-loathing workaholic finance minister whom is the brains of the kingdom, & is ill from being drugged during an attemped coup, so king Wolfgang, the emotionally smothering, endlessly optimistic, loyal dog puppet king, sneaks out of the kingdom with a few loyal soldiers to obtain a cure from a seedy foreign kingdom known for human traffiking & drug manufacturing. They spend their time figuring out how to cut a deal with the local ruler, who bears a strong resemblance to Sha Gojo from Gensoumaden Saiyuki & who's androgyny threw the unofficial translators for a loop for half the season.
Ulysses (Sys) gets some background story, & Dame Gareth, who looks so boyish that the comic has to constantly remind us is a girl, is the only one capable of moving the local leader into making a cure for Shin. Meanwhile back in Goldenleonard, Shin is overworking himself & starts hellucinating a slightly antagonistic version of himself second-guessing everything he does.Wolfgang returns home, & author decidedes to laser-focus on getting him & Shin together in the sappiest way possible.
Season 3)After an entire season of suggesting Wolfgang would take a political bride for the sake of procuring an heir while continuing his romance with Shin in secret, Wolfgang already ruined the plan with his bluntless & total lack of shame, & now they have a magic baby girl clone of Wolfgang & the series is no longer about them. It would have arguably been more serious & dramatic to have just gone along with Shin's original plan, after all, what good is a will-they-won''t-they romance if the relationship is never threatened?
This season feels a bit disjointed due to all the subplots overlapping each other. The first half of this season is a huge tonal shift to comedy fluff. The early chapters focusing solely on Epsilon feel like a terrible doujinshi made by a fan. The princess is a clone of her father in every way except sex & hair color, inheriting all his best & worst personality traits. She is hung up on the fact that 8 years after Wolfgang proposed, he & Shin never got married, & she's hoping that their marriage will result in her father's immediate retirement so she can ascend the throne.
Perhaps the author recieved complaints of not chosing to focus on expanding on the story of pre-existing minor characters, so 3 noblewomen introduced in the previous season start to take some of the focus away. Continuing the story of Yuri & her wife Yoosung, as well as a coming of age story for Rosalia, whom is now in her teens. Mid-way through the season, Shin & Wolfgang become regular characters again, & it finally starts feeling like a sequel instead of a spinoff when they go on a diplomatic mission to another kingdom.
Shin & Wolfgang go to Depennia, where they work with the children of lesser noble families to figure out the key to winning over the kingdom as trade allies & supporters of the new monarchy. Wolfgang uses his noteriety of being a manchild to his advantage & plays hard into the immaturity to convince the kids that they are smarter than him. Back home, Epsilon in on a mission to recruit loyal retainers who will make up for all her shortcomings, & makes it a priority to win over Johan, who took an immediate dislike to her as a baby.
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