Maria: The Deposed Empress · review
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This review may discuss plot details.
What a ride that was. Never read a manhwa bad in every possible aspect before, well until now. It starts bad and doesn't get any better. Plot feels like different ideas put together with just a single thing in common - to make Maria suffer. Start is generic, with a twist: She was doing her best for the kingdom, yet she gets betrayed, expelled, saved by someone. That someone used to be her slave. He still loves her, that's why he sends her to labor camp.(???? Why.) Then lets her get beaten. It's a loop of giving Maria a bit of hope and torturing her kindof plot.
Art is decent. About what you'd expect in romance manhwa.
BUT there's a small, tiny problem. It's inconsistent - it varies from panel to panel, sometimes characters look very different, anatomy seems off at times.. and ears - they're "drawn" on Every Single Panel differently.
That said, I'd rate it AI/10
(At this point I wouldn't be surprised if AI was used in the writing too)
Experience one of its kind, very recommended if you look for absolute dog*hit.