[as of chapter 20]

Despite the garbage title, “The Way to Keep an Older Brother of the Heroine Safe” is a breath of fresh air for a sub-genre stultified by a lack of imagination and breadth. It takes the isekai’d novel reader with a nobility fetish and combines it with a world harbouring the over-the-top violence and mental instability of stories like Mirai Nikki, Deadman Wonderland and Elfen Lied. The moral degeneration on display is shlocky (practically a trope of this genre), but it’s all the more entertaining for it. A dark, gothic twist on the fairtale asesthetic then melds this package together. It forms a reading experience that is a bit more sultry and “naughty” when compared to the innocent whimsy of, for example, “Who Made Me a Princess”. I look forward to the continuation of this story and hope it can find a way to integrate the larger themes and backstory introduced so we aren’t just left with a male damsel occasionally visited by our butterfly villainess. Stone walls and entrapment can only be entertaining for so long.

if you know the Manhwa and Novel is quite good

alas this will never comeback,

I mean come on,
the Editor who is also Pregnant Force the Artist who is also Pregnant to Work non-stop
The Editor Made a Leave and Delivered her Baby Safely while the Artist was force by the editor to work non-stop
enough to make her miscarriage

note: she's also the one who kept on rejecting her leave.
thus make her miscarry

that's the reason why it's on hiatus

now imagine coming back to the manhwa that forced you to miscarried.

see?
That's impossible,
so rather than Hiatus this is Full Drop.
She will never come back to this.

By far one of my favourite visual stories across all platforms so far. The artwork is absolutely stunning giving you a gothic vibe that haunts my soul. Very along the same wavelength as Kuroshitsuji with the dark, gory and tragic storyline all laid out via magnificent artwork that captivates niche readers like myself.

Art style is good and the MC is part of a family of evil psychopaths (most of them). To protect herself and those she loves (the mother), she has to be sorta evil, and I can see people like her character.

Will continue to read

- read up to all avail officially translated ch

- at first i didn’t think i’d like it bc of the neg reviews but i was wrong. i’ve seen a lot of ppl complain abt various things, incl fl’s family with a lack of depth (sort of true, they are all supposed to be evil but there’s a deeper individual characterization than that) and roxana (fl) as being too morally corrupt to root for (sort of true). y’all can determine that for yourselves but as someone who’s read a shit ton of oi, that is precisely what makes this so much better than the other ones. i will remind - we don’t necessarily need to moralize the fl, and we aren’t really here to judge arbitrarily whether or not roxana is a good person to base our reviews.

- i’m actually rather intrigued by the plot. magic system and world building go hand in hand with tensions, and i’ve become pretty invested in her relationship with the ml (cassis). development is unique and interesting; only complaint is the ml hasn’t showed up too much so descriptions/development r very narrow.

- the incest stuff was yucky. there’s nothing explicit, no kissing, it’s just that roxana’s brothers r obsessed with her in a non-sibling way (except jeremy) but otherwise nah yeah that would be a general tw

- ART IS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS. this is among one of the few manhwas i feel guilty for not paying the artist like $10 for each chapter it’s one of the prettiest webtoons - comics, really - i’ve ever seen. such attention to detail, amazing color palette. artist took advantage of paneled webtoon format and as a result it’s rife with tension and the art flows well. some panels with illustrated narrations take my breath away.

- narrations are surprisingly well written, and i’m genuinely intrigued to the point of finding novel spoilers. writing so far has been pretty good, nothing too exceptional. yes characters can be kind of one dimensional but it’s still young

overall: 7/10 i really quite liked it! i’m looking forward to more before giving a higher rating

... Last updated on June 19th, 2023, 1:33am

First off the art is some of the best ive seen so its very easy to want to continue reading it if for no other reason then to continue being able to see the art. The story is very exciting. I get thriller vibes. Ever single chapter im anxious for the next wondering how the story will unfold. I love the intrigue. I love mangas surrounding crime familys and this gives a similar vibe but cranks up the intensity a notch; and honestly its very welcome. Im very tired of low risk predictable isekais. Im excited to see how the romance aspect of the story will unfold. I guess to sum it up im just excited about this story in general and looking forward to seeing how it unfolds

... Last updated on June 12th, 2021, 5:28am

Really love this art style and MC.

Definitely one of the darkest webtoons I've read. But I loved it because the bad guys felt like bad guys. They weren't the overdone "the evil duke/tyrant killed me in my past life but this life he's a misunderstood sweetheart" nor the cliche step-family who is cruel to make the next adopted family seem that much better. The Agrece's are BAD people and I never once doubted it. This series is currently on hiatus and I'm getting kind of worried because I desperately want more.

Although the female leads moral compass is kind of defunct, I think that is natural. If she was always good & never did anything bad then that will be just the author giving us a false fairytale. I wouldn't believe it.

She's not just surviving in Agriche, she has power & standing. Plus the start she saves the male lead & purposely tries to gain his trust because she wants to survive not because she was a good person.

... Last updated on February 8th, 2022, 12:00pm

MC reincarnated into light fantasy House of the Edgelords, who think being edgy is the ultimate expression of power and cunning. Her family is so over the top evil, psycopathic, and edgy that its enjoyable in bad junk food sort of way. Don't get me wrong, it makes absolutely no sense, they are treated with respect because apparently they can murder people good, instead of you know being put down by their peers for being complete and unrepentant bloodthirsty psycopaths. But they apparently "know where the bodies are hidden" and no one has come up with the idea that they would stop knowing if they did the world a favor and wiped them out. I'm secretly holding onto hope that ALL the noble families will be equally crazy in different ways. Story is overall standard fair; Art is great, story is generic (But that's expected).

If you'd like to trade in the standard generic friendship and flowers , for blood and butterflies its an okay read.

... Last updated on March 11th, 2021, 8:09pm