The Great Wish - Reviews

The Great Wish is about a princess that lived all her life trained to become empress, by getting rid of her facial expressions, learning about everything she needs in order to become the empress that brings peace like her father. But.. life is neither all black nor all white and she learns it starting from a dream that "could" be from the future. First, she's happy about her dream but after the other ones, she starts doubting her kingdom, her relationships, her truth. She doesn't break through, and learns what she didn't know, recreates good relationships, and accepts the change of the future all for her dream of becoming an empress that will bring peace everywhere.

I'm quite proud of her, when she learns that not everything about her was peaceful and good, she started wanting to learn more about the real world and reality. I admit she was slow to find correlations between different things at the start (since this was new for her) but as she knows more, she doesn't disappoint us at all and understands more quickly the meaning between events. She's quick-witted without any doubt.

There is also the romance that is entertaining (a little too fast I think but no big deal) and that creates interesting scenes. Some dreams can prove she's done a different choice when others seem to contradict and make her doubt her actions.

I don't know why but I want to put 10 in the drawing because it's really good despite it not being the best I've seen (and maybe I don't want to put 8-9 because of the fact that I was literally drawn into the Webtoon?)

P.S: She makes me think of Adonis in Reminiscence Adonis because of the lack of emotions despite the fact that they are completely different and we can't really compare them.

The romance comes in super quickly with no build up, so if that's why you came, you will be disappointed. If you look past that, the storyline of the FL trying to figure out her prophetic dreams and what they mean is really interesting. Watching her try to improve her limited knowledge of the world outside of royalty while also uncovering the hidden agendas the people she thought she could trust hold is why I'm reading. Despite the lack of build up there is some chemistry between ML and FL. I think as time goes on they'll have some cute moments even if it's debatable if the couple earned them. The art is also really beautiful so that's another plus. (Read up to chapter 28)

"The great wish" innovates on the "nobility/past life" genre. It introduces dreams instead of shenanigans like reincarnation and time travel. It produces a sensible and in my opinion realistic portrayal of a princess. But it has a fatal flaw. There are no stakes. I'm unable to invest myself in this manga, everything is set to be there are no obstacles, and it is immensely frustrating. The protagonist basically achieves nothing in a hundred chapters. There's no battle for succession, there's no saving the kingdom from ruin, there's nothing! This manga feels like a slice of life. Did I mention that it's way too long? It feels like a story that'll conclude after at least 300 if not 500 chapters. I think there's potential for more in the future and hopefully, it'll get better.  

(spoiler warning!) 

I'm currently on chapter 134 but i just know that the ending would disappoint me. the story was actually interesting because of the fl's dreams and how she changed her future, not to mention how perfect the art was and how the ml and fl's love was described. HOWEVER, solely because of that, the story towards the ending got REALLY REALLY RUSHED. long story short, they dragged the story and then when the ending got nearer they said "let's rush this shit, ion wanna do this anymore." overall though, it's still a good read especially THE ART!! but it's a slow burn so it can be quite boring.

Good start and middle, disappointing end. The comic must've been getting the boot, because the author tries to wrap up what should've been another 100 chapters of plot resolution into 15. I'd still recommend it, and for you to just pretend it didn't end as awfully as it did. 

Also, just a side note, there was a bunch of accidental incest. The royal family can only have an heir with 1 of only SIX duke houses. That gene pool is SHALLOW. Didn't seem to be thought through that much. 

8.5/10 would read again

Trigger warnings: drugging, incest