Audience reviews
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electrowiz
The supposed reincarnated villainess "Catarina Claes", does not face any real challenge or anything being called worthy of a flag of doom throughout the entire series. Even the ending doom flag, feels like it was kind of forced. The antagonist had no real purpose of going against the villainess. Revenge is stated as a reason but the object of revenge was not the villainess to begin with, so it makes little sense as for why she was targeted.
The real problem of the series is the MC kinds of befriends every doom flag that is supposed to appear in the years before they actually appear. She wakes up at the age of 5 which is very early to harbor any kind of bad reputation or anything of that sort and proceeds to intentionally or unintentionally befriend anyone that will likely cause her to be…
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Otome Game Flag is quite a good comedy. It is fun, the pacing is okay, the characters are charismatic, the production is okay, the intro is good, and the jokes and comedic scenarios are mostly good.
That being said, I watched from episodes 1-7 in basically one sitting, but the second half of the show was much worse, because the comedy started to get stale and the focus from the series changed drastically to drama
And, unfortunately, Flag does not work well as a drama nor as a romance; mostly because of three reasons:
1st - The heroine's personality. She is just too dumb and it is impossible to take her serious;
2nd - How the protagonist achieves so much just because of her compassion. She does not work hard, nor smart, nor strategically. Instead she just solves all her problems by being…
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The concept of this show was quite refreshing, the MC starts as a villain, and she has to save herself from the impending doom. Well, at least that's what you would expect when you read the title right? Well, not really.
As for the main plot point. Well yes, the tittle is really misleading. I mean on paper our heroiness was the villainess, but she was never threated that way. (Honestly even the shield hero would have been better fitting for the title...) The thing is the show tried to sell her as a villainess, but she never was one (because of the usual isekai personality swap). She is the always smiling, dull, shallow, cute girl archetype. So she didn't do anything to prevent her doom. She gave only herself, and it was enough. I was expecting a redemption story, but this is not much more…
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The most disappointing thing about this anime is probably how the characters actually started out pretty fantastic. Having them all be around the age of 8 was a surprisingly ingenious idea. Instead of the entire cast just being harem troupes, the show throws us into an earlier stage in their lives which gave us the opportunity to see what kind of upbringing they all had as children that lead them into becoming the way they are as teenagers. We got to see how a guy that grew up to be the typical womanizer was overcompensating for how lonely he felt as a child who couldn't control his own power. We got to see how the silent broody ikemen with a sister complex developed such a condition due to the families around them treating his sister as a demon ever since they were young. The main charact…
Read at the sourceThisizaraisu
My Next Life as a Villainess is now my favorite anime of all time, and I honestly feel weird saying that. I've seen anime that are better in terms of objective quality, but I've never felt a connection to an anime quite like this one, and given that I'm not well-versed in the isekai genre AND I've never touched an otome game in my life, I think that really speaks to its strengths. One of Hamefura's greatest strengths is, of course, its characters, without a definitively unlikable one in the batch. The fact that there are so many great romance options for Catarina is great for a harem anime, but it's the fact that we get a firm understanding of why each and every character is attracted to Catarina that makes the story really shine.
This is the first anime to make me tear up after the FIRST…
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Ok this anime lot of female to watch this????(I'm just kidding)
I think this anime i don't know why my crying this anime hahaha
but i very recommend for you if you don't have any anime to watch
I really like this anime (Keith is so cute) ok I'm kidding. Ok back to
my review and drug label to my sister and my friends. I know lot of
female will watch this anime of of course me too.I really like this anime
beacuse i want to recommend for all female.
ok end review (If i use English world wrong I'm sorry)
Enjoy my review :)
Read at the sourceXerathi
I started to watch this cause I read somewhere it wasn't a reverse harem shitshow. It absolutely is a reverse-harem with extra steps. Be it girl or guy.
The main character "remember" her normal life in Japan and that she is living her life as it was in a game.
The main character is basically an 8 year old mentally throughout the series. The isekai genre is just for fluff to the story and doesn't add anything.
If you like good isekai/fantasy or romance series stay away from this trainwreck and dont be fooled to waste your time as I was. I kept thinking there's gonna be a twist. There is not. i repeat, there is NOT.
There is no real depth to any characters, no real story besides taking turns fawning over MC. The MC is a dense moron that's all about eating sweets and enjoying her own hob…
Read at the sourceAlexPaulLEWZ
Before I start, I want to say that there will be mild spoilers in this review. Worry not, these spoilers will be interest-catchers one way or another.
As far as the clichés in the isekai genre and tensei category goes, when the protagonist dies and gets reincarnated to another world, he/she becomes a protagonist of some sort. It's the same with the game genre—when the main character logs to the game, he/she becomes the main character for that game.
Not for this anime, though. This anime, "Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta...," takes the tensei isekai game genre into a perspective different from the usual: what if we spice things up a little and reincarnate our main character into the bad guy… well… bad girl?
That's exactly what this anime did. O…
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I really wanted to love this show.
There is so much potential in the concept of being reincarnated into a romance game that you know as the villan. Bonus points for it having a female lead, something not very common in Isekai’s and harem series.
But, after finishing the season, I can only think about what could have been more than what actually was. By this I don’t mean that the content was bad, but that it ended up being so average that I needed to look over the episodes to even remember what happened throughout the 12 episodes.
After the pretty solid first 4 episodes or so, it becomes almost a slice-of-life show where nothing really happens until the final 3 episodes. Now, I don’t hate slice-of-life shows, but I need to at least enjoy the characters (or at the very least SEE them a…
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When talking about this show, it seems the natural place to start is the premise. I’m sure it’s what drew most people to the show initially, myself included, and I really think it’s quite good. The synopsis of the show is that Catarina hits her head and remembers her past life (I’m not quite sure how that works). In doing so, she comes to the realization that she has been reincarnated into her favorite otome game (again, I’m at a loss), and that she is none other than the antagonist of the game, Catarina Claes, who is doomed to a terrible fate of being either killed or exiled. Despite my nitpicks, I personally haven’t seen anything quite like this before and I was excited to see how Catarina would deal with this predicament. I was anticipating an uphill battle where Catarina tries to alter…
Read at the sourceUnNamed_Beast
If I had to describe this anime, it would be overrated. Don't get me wrong, it's quite enjoyable but I feel as if people are overhyping it.
It's similar to last season's Bofuri (incidentally, same studio) where the story is quite generic but it was somehow thought to be extra funny that the character was OP. In this case, Catarina AKA Bakarina is ultra dense and while that is funny at times, it goes overboard.
The character is just plain stupid and the whole story goal of "avoiding the doom flag" seems kinda pointless since it should be obvious from the start that she already has avoided it. I mean, she could have simply not got in the way of any relationship and everything would have worked out.
TLDR, it feels kinda forced that she doesn't realize the doom has been avoided. I would p…
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Not gonna lie, I went into this thinking this is going to be yet another shitty reverse harem show. I’m glad I was proven wrong.
Not only Hamefura isn’t a mindless reverse harem, it is also one of the rare actually original isekai shows. It does have a female protagonist, sure, but that isn’t that much groundbreaking (Honzuki is airing during the same season, after all). What’s different is that instead of being put into the role of a hero and getting tasked with saving word or something like that, the protagonist is instead thrown into the role of a villain and it is her self-determined goal to deflect the fate of villainess. What’s more, this goal isn’t some end game that the protagonist gets to eventually after having their deal off side adventures – it is something the Katarina, the…
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Notice: My review will contain a few little "spoilers", though they have little connection to anything and spoil nothing. However, proceed with caution.
"My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom" is mediocre at best. This is your usual pleasant casual romance, fun to watch but when it comes to the story this anime drops flat.
Story) Katarina is reincarnated as a villainess in an Otome Game and she has a simple goal in mind: avoiding her preestablished destiny of death. There is nothing extraordinary about the story, and whenever something serious happens, the mood doesn't fully adjust. When most of the main cast got trapped in a book the only two characters that can save them aren't taking it seriously. It is considerably unorganized how the story can jump back and forth l…
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An awesome isekai that implicitly teaches about the limitations of one's choice within a game and in reality. How dating simulators have only several choices in contrast to reality where unlimited choices can be made freely.
Otome Game is hands down a good anime. Despite being an isekai, our totally beloved genre. The show shone brightly and eased our minds with its relaxing and tranquil story development and pacing along with a mix between Shoujo & Shoujo Ai to appeal to both genders. Accommodated by a fucking catchy Opening, I could proudly say that this is possibly the best isekai of Spring 2020.
The concept of this anime caught me ever since it was released. As this is according to the extent of my awareness the first dating simulator isekai. I was always interested in this show an…
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Please note this review is intended to be read by those that have finished watching My next life as a villainess: All routes lead to doom and while care has been taken to minimise story related spoilers there may still be spoilers within character analysis. You have been warned.
Based off a popular light novel series of the same name Otome Game No Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta which is better known by its much shortened English title My Next Life as a villainess All routes lead to Doom is a comedy, romance, school and fantasy genre anime that gives us the unique opportunity to see what will happen if one day a teenage girl were to after meeting an untimely demise be transported and reincarnated within the world of her favourite Otome game Fortune Lover.…
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When I first heard of My next life as a villainess: all routes lead to doom! I thought it was a pretty good idea at first and to be honest it had a very good first two episodes or so. The setting is in an otome game---which is like those story-telling visual novel games that appeal to young women---and I thought this could possibly be the next big thing for isekai anime because of its two major differences as compared to all the other generic isekais every season, that being:
1. It is a story-telling type game with multiple potential endings that all end in hell for the villainess (MC), and
2. It appeals to both men and women instead of just the men being showered with anime tiddies
To my disappointment, this series was only good at the beginning. It was really funny seeing the MC despera…
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when i first saw the title of this anime and trailer i thought this is going to be one of the mandatory isekai of the season. but out of curiosity i tried the first episode and i got hooked. every time i watch this anime it makes makes feel good and happy and you cant expain it why. also what is not to like about this anime. stories great, art is good and the main characters voice actor is doing a very fine job and she's hilarious and she makes this whole show even more awesome. the jokes are good and its a awesome show and its keeps getting better episode after episode. overall i love this show very much and hope everyone loves too.
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An entertaining isekai, based around an otome game, with a rather simple narrative.
Although the romance/harem side of the show doesn't really progress, if you came for the comedy, you are here for a ride.
The story about our otaku main protagonist in school, who one day awakes as a small Katarina Claes, the villainess of a dating game, and decides to avoid all her doom flags, quickly becomes a show about "How dense can Bakarina possibly be?". That is, most of the comedy comes out of our protagonist spending so much of her time monologuing, which is represented by a council of Katarinas arguing in her head, that she doesn't even notice how much all of her friends, and I really mean "all of them", want to be in a romance with her.
With that said, you shouldn't expect many school elements n…
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It’s time. And by ‘it’s time’, I mean it’s time for an otome isekai to take the world by storm. We’ve had so many different types of isekai these years that this was destined to happen. A show of this nature requires not just a colorful story but a character cast hammered to their roles. I tend to think Hamefura as a gift that any fan of isekai would be grateful to receive. It’s Bakarina time.
The original novels gained a fan following and I’d assume popularity would surge more after this adaptation. Hamefura is based on the light novel of the same name featuring female protagonist, Katarina Claes. She is reborn as a villainous character in a game known as ‘Fortune Teller’ and fate has it that she will die by destruction flags regardless what route she takes. Sounds eerie, right? Not quit…
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It was the first time I watched the Reverse Harem.
This story about Katarina Claes, a nobleman's daughter who has bad behavior especially to the maid who helps her. One day when meeting with Gerald Stuart, one of the princes in the country. Katarina tripped and hit her forehead on the ground. That's when memories of Katarina's previous life appeared. Katarina was previously only a high school teenage girl who had an ordinary life. She has a hobby of playing otome games, games targeted at women. At that moment she realized that she was now inside the enemy body of the Heroine. These figures are usually called Villainess in the game.
With that in mind, Katarina immediately confirmed that it was true that she was currently in the world of otome games. She unpacked the books in his home libr…
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