Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Sujipon
I was hooked on the first episode, but that feeling quickly fell off. I thought "Wow! This actually looks like one of the much better villainess anime." And to a certain extent, it is. One of the best parts of the anime to me was the true villainy they portrayed, something that's ironically rare in the villainess genre. Even though that isn't portrayed as character development but rather character motivation I can forgive that since it's common that the villainess "transforms" into a likeable girl (even if its sudden).
The drama leading up to the male interests being added to the harem is when the show started to become a bit boring. It just wasn't that interesting or romantic. Watching the main lead make decisions and act like a ruler was far more interesting and what got me to like her…
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Pride easily carries the Anime on her own.
She’s a likeable and strong lead that keeps things engaging.
The music is great, especially the opening, which instantly earned a spot on my playlist.
The pacing is fairly balanced not too fast, not too slow.
The supporting cast is solid, though I would’ve liked to see more extended backstories for them.
The overall tone leans toward adventure and works well for fans of the genre.
Overall, it’s a pleasant and enjoyable anime, and I’m looking forward to continuing with the next part.
While the story follows a familiar formula, its execution and characters make it enjoyable overall.
It may not be groundbreaking, but it delivers a solid experience that fits the adventure tone and leaves a good impression by the end.
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Unpretentious Reviews
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior scratches the isekai itch. It has some fine highlights that make it worth a watch, but as with many isekai, it also presents some serious flaws that prevent it from ascending to a universally good anime.
The story? Mostly good. It follows the My Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom template. Except unlike Catarina Claes, the protagonist of this anime, Princess Pride, plays it straight. She's not the adorable goofball Catarina is. But she still possesses the extreme charisma that results in all around her adoring her and wishing to protect her. For some reason she also possesses a cheat skill that makes her nearly instantly master any skill she tries which I actually found a bit off-putting. So mu…
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I think this one is my fav out of all the “villainess” anime I have watched, Like I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss, Tearmoon Empire, 7th Time Loop, My Next Life as a Villainess, Villainess Level 99, and I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History.
the female lead is incredibly strong, kind. She’s not typical “villainess turned good” trope; her character feels genuinely human, with conviction and empathy that make you root for her every step of the way.
I also absolutely love the art style. It’s beautiful, expressive, and really enhances the tone of the story, the supporting males look super nice too.
Another thing that makes this series so special is how the supporting characters actually matter. They don’t just fade into the background after their introduction, th…
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Villainess otome isekai with an overpowered, perfect MC and no real stakes.
MC changes her personality completely, is stronger than her own kingdom's knights, and manages to save everyone. All characters including her family, siblings and love interests end up simping for her while also feeling frustrated that they can't protect MC. Villainess being overpowered and knowing all future events is a given, but the plot's pacing is awful and there is no real stake when MC can overcome everything on her own.
I expected to see a timeskip from MC's childhood to her being a queen, but at the last episode she was still an overpowered child and I felt like I wasted my time by watching this anime. I expected something fun like Villainess level 99 but was really disappointed.
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Recently, I've been having anime fatigue and haven't watched any in half a year. I'm not sure if I hate this show because of that, or because I've grown tired of anime over time. With that in mind, here's my review anyways:
Last Boss Queen isn't THAT bad when compared to other anime in the otome genre. There is so much media out there that it feels pointless to praise it. It is slightly better than the average otome anime. However, it still sticks to a very safe formula, which makes its advantages a technicality you're forced to admit, rather than something you genuinely enjoy.
It's mostly the same old stuff. Girl is reincarnated into a video game/story where she is the villain and will die. The setting is, you guessed it, boring medieval "European" fantasy. There's the king, queen, orde…
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This is objectively not very good. The animation is average, as is the writing and much of the music. It's a retread of the most basic tropes of isekai/villianess anime.
That being said, it just makes you smile for some reason. It's so unapologetically melodramatic and just rolls with it. Characters make utterly stupid decisions just to set up needless drama. It takes itself way too seriously in a way that's just kind of fun.
This is probably the least objective review I've written on here, but give it a chance. Especially now that they somehow greenlit a second season.
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Honestly, when I first started watching, I thought the main character was a boring, weak, tearful, and annoying person. After watching the whole anime, I realized what a great female protagonist Pride Royal Ivy is. After all that she has shown, Pride is the ideal model for intelligence, strength, femininity, beauty, and above all, kindness; she is like a newly born angel.
The things she does bring a lot of meaning to this anime. Those actions make me feel moved.
Rating
Story: 8/10
Art: 9/10
Animation (battle scenes) : 7/10
Music (OP, ED,...) : 7/10 The voice actors also did a really good job.
I have to say that I am very satisfied with the pace of the story. I have almost no valid reason or unreasonable point to criticize in this anime, unless it is not to your taste. This series is bas…
Read at the sourceKimuraTheHatoru
Well, this one's a mixed bag if anything. The short description is that it's very basic to the genre. Now to get into details.... It's far too overdramatic. It feels more like a telenovela then an anime . In a real bad way. I only got a little emotional when they got into Val and the orphans, since it's rather realistic.
The plot is very meh, further pushed into that middle ground and below by the MC. I always thought this whole reincarnated into a game sub-genre of isekai is rather intresting , but it's always poorly executed, more so then basic isekai is. The MC is always "it's gonna happen, imma become the evil villain" and all, even though they are clearly fully in control of what they do. And even when they change the story from the first chapter they still keep themselves into that…
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First of all the good points:
- The instances where characters interact with one another instead of completely centering on the mc
- The mc focusing on self-improvement
- The scene where it showed that the character was positively influenced by mc and it was executed nicely
The main reason I think its a waste of time
- The implications of the sexualisation of a fkin 13 year old
- THIS ANIME WOULD HAVE BEEN A 7/10 IF MC WAS 18
- WHY ARE YOU SHIPPING A GROWN ASS MAN WITH A 13 YEAR OLD
- STOP PUTTING A 13 YEAR OLD IN SITUATIONS WHERE HER BEING AN 18 YR OLD WOULDVE MADE IT 10000000% BETTER
- ABSOLUTELY UPSET I FINISHED IT, I COULD NOT EVEN WATCH THE LAST EPISODE PROPERLY BC I WAS SO DISGUSTED
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This is the absolutely worst kind of anime. I'll try to break down what a piece of garbage this is, as best I can, without spoilers.
First, and most importantly, the ENTIRE premise of the show makes absolutely no sense. I'm not talking about the whole reincarnation issekai thing, I mean the motivations of the MC. The TL;DR of the plot is the MC is living a game she previously played and is now the antagonist in that game. The original antagonist and protagonist in the game had some sort of premonition power but now the MC just has her knowledge from having played the game. Within the first 5 minutes of the first episode that the MC drastically alters the game world by her actions, and understands the implications of this. Take that in. Literally 5min in we are given this information, yet…
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I think this might one one of the few villianess shows that breaks the mold enough to recommend to people outside of the subgenre.
Regarding out protagonist, Pride. She is being terrified of turning into everything she hates. Early on its clear she has nightmares about what her 'character' will do, but unlike most other shows of this kind she really believes she's fated to bring tragedy to the kingdom and people she loves. Large chunks of the show are her setting up ways and means to protect people against her. It's an interesting twist and creates a number of flaws in her character. Personally I got the idea she was almost driven to madness by this, but this is up to interpretation (and really not a spoiler).
The supporting cast are excellent, with both siblings being adorable and prop…
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So this is the thing about this anime. **some spoilers***
I am SUCH a sucker for isekai, villainess, reincarnation stories (as evident from my anime and manga lists, that's all I read these days) and I had heard about this one even before it got an anime adaptation so I was like hey, that's cool! And I tried to like this, I swear I did. It's a great villainess reincarnation story, the soundtrack was fitting, voice acting was great, and the art and animation were all nice to look at. You know the problem I had with this anime? Everything was just so c r i n g e y-- like all these lines Pride says to her adopted brother (also what was the deal with that? bro got kidnapped and forced to be a prince and he was sad for a little bit but i'm confused why he was okay with it later), her knight, t…
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I agree with the other top reviewer here. It is a severely underrated show. To the extent that I feel obligated to write my first ever review to help it along. I'll break it down upon four bases: Story (Plot + Characters), Aesthetic (Artstyle + Soundtrack).
Plot: 10/10
Doubtless one of the best stories for a villainess reincarnation story. I'm not going to make unrealistic comparisons with anime that have god-tier stories like Death Note and so on because the genre is different. Higeki, despite using a generic isekai trope where the female protagonist reincarnates into a villainess with prior knowledge of the story doesn't fail to entertain. More importantly, it doesn't fail to move. Pride is undoubtedly powerful, but the strength and OP-ness of the MC doesn't deduct any points from plot…
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It has a HUGE promise in the first episodes and then disappoints us with lack of plot related to the Princess Ivy herself. The heroine is always terribly scared/worried/careful not to become the vilain of the game that she played, but there's absolutely no plot that indicates that a bigger unknown force will turn her into someone she isn't. Throughout the anime we are shown different characters within small arcs that describe their current story, and there's a lot of focus on comparing the current story X story of the game she played while alive in Japan, and feel like her personal plot develops less and less throughout the anime. Basically she loses too much screen time to the other characters, and the plot of anime is totally focused on "how she makes Boy A happy now that she's not the v…
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Its a simple show. At around age 6, MC gets her memories from past life and realizes that she is a villain princess who will bring this country to ruin (does lots of evil stuff in the process). And she wants to somehow try to save her kingdom from herself.
It does resemble bakarina in regards to villainess + harem + not realizing that everyone loves her + saving the love interests etc.. But this show is much darker with basically no comedy/romance.
Right now, we are still in the harem gathering phase. It basically loops through a plot that roughly goes --> "introduce sad boi, MC does something nice for him and saves him, sad boi become happy and join her fan club". MC saves 4 bois by the end of the season.
1. In the supposed game, the villainess was really fucked up and felt like a tr…
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Honestly, I was going into this with low expectations given how the villainess genre has been very piss poor when it comes to being entertaining, but this one blew my socks off with how it was excecuted. The visuals were pretty meh: what you'd expect from your average anime, but the story was absolutely amazing. From trying to change the your own fate by doing everything you can to be the best person you can be is honestly refreshing. The sound was also quite well done, a lot better than most series' this year overall, and the atmosphere if gave off was something that kept me hooked. Easily one of the most underrated shows out there this year if this kind of stuff tickles your fancy.
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A classic josei isekai, where the main character is reincarnated as the villainess. This time with a twist of a darker theme to it.
The anime follows Pride, the first born princess of the kingdom, who suddenly gets the memory of a Japanese girl. She realizes she is reborn as the future villainess of a game, and decides to change her destiny. You then follow her going through scenes related to the original story and see her try to change it for a brighter future.
One of the things that differs from similar animes is that the main character has strong abilities and the anime keeps a darker tone. Where you see in small bits how the story would originally have unfolded, with all its dark and evil twists to it. This is often seen through different characters, which helps shape the characters…
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I’ve spoken at length about how much I love this trend of Otome/villainess style anime we’re getting lately and I really think Lastame is one of the best of the bunch. If you’ve ever watched fantasy shows and cringed at how stupid the main character acts or the usual anime shenanigans like not being able to communicate properly which would solve 90 percent of issues, good news for you. This series actually addresses those things. In fact, that’s the bulk of the show. The characters communicate and talk through their issues like normal people. It was such a breath of fresh air and I will miss it greatly. If you’re a fan of good worldbuilding, fantasy, shoujo, otome or just cute anime girls, this is a great watch that you won’t regret.
I’ve always felt that the best fantasy shows are the on…
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You know that very new MAL feature that allows you to see your own statistics in a fun way? There is this section called "MAL Score vs Anime Score", and to me, this show in a nutshell belongs to the criteria of "They loved it, I didn't". Now you know, thanks.
We've had like the Isekai villainess/Otome game sub-genre for like what, 3 years now? HameFura was a lot of fun (and still is to this day); AkuLas was kinda OK in spots; TsunLise was really fun mashing both real life and virtual reality at the same time; and the most recent of all, Kanojo ga Koushaku-tei ni Itta Riyuu a.k.a Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion easily takes the cake for being one of the best Shoujo Isekai reincarnation stories of recent times. Yeap, you might ask why I put Raeliana on there, knowing full well t…
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