Audience reviews
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noelpixel
As a yuri lover, I was very excited to watch this, but it's genuinely very disappointing and weird.
Rae is a creepy, there are multiple scenes of her crossing boundaries, manipulating and making Claire uncomfortable, specially towards the beginning. She's a pretty inconsistent character and her actions often don't match her statements. I don't like how she makes Claire feels powerless, the scene with her dad not listening to her was so hard to watch...
There's incest on the story, it's a side "couple" but It was still pretty unnecessary and the comparison of this to homosexual couples was gross and unnecessary. There's a sexual assaulter who's barely villainized for that. Very extra feminine rivalry. They seemed to wanting to criticized meritocracy, but in such a weird way... The main di…
Read at the sourceLoid_Forger_8002
This is one of the anime that can make a non-yuri fan into a yuri fan
But remember, this anime is good but they cut off the darker parts when they made this
like if u read the manga - it hits more different [more darker - coz anime mainly focus on comedy]
But the real masterpiece is the light novel - as it is completed [with 5 vols ] it's the best ever story u could hope for
-coz it goes to "rezero / steinsgates" lvl story by the 5th vol-
So if i rate it, it's gonna be like this
anime<manga<light novel light novel - 10/10
[coz it's one of the best yuri - with best storytelling]
manga -9/10 [this can change coz it's still ongoing ]
coz it adapts the light novel -in the 1st few chaps it was better than the light novel
like the adaptation of LN vol 1 was better in manga - & it was till…
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I was going to say this is an average guilty pleasure watch with a wlw/Yuri twist on the otome genre but all of a sudden in episode 9 they start saying incest is a forbidden love on par with homesexuality and act as if it's okay, that kinda spoiled the whole thing for me.
The portrayal of these common romance tropes was honestly very well done (even if I dont like the tropes themselves) Very cute and has an actual ending!! I do believe it deserves some credit for that with its genre well-known for not actually ending anything in a solid answer.
But yeah fun besides the incest tangent lol
Read at the sourceDauphin_
The anime adaptation of the first two arcs of Wataoshi, not surprisingly, has all the same problems as those same arcs in the manga. Rei's obsession with her titular "oshi", Claire, and total disregard for her boundaries still reads as more creepy than cute. Claire acting freaked out and violated multiple times every episode when Rei does or says something transgressive and everybody else laughing it off only makes me feel sorry for her and disgusted with the protagonist-- not to mention how unearned the first-act talk about homophobia feels when Rei acts exactly as creepy as she's supposedly stereotyped to be. In all fairness, their relationship does start to feel more natural and less skeevy in the latter episodes, and the metatextual knowledge that this is ultimately a yuri romance and…
Read at the sourceAlicePocky
As a girl who's been in love with other girls.. This anime really portrays the feelings and the complications that can arise from such a thing!
If you're someone like me who's been in love with another girl, Or just prefers girls in general, Like I do.. I feel this anime will really represent so many of the things you've felt/have been feeling.
I don't think I've ever found anything more relatable to it.. For years, And also, these past couple of months, I have been watching 1-3 episodes of an anime, Then dropping it, I just lose interest as it doesn't really speak to me and I feel I have seen the same thing so many times..
As for this anime, I binged watched it and finished it in two days (today being the day I finished it).
It's so rare I feel so connected to the characters that I…
Read at the sourceScarlettSkone
“I'm in Love with the Villainess” has some surprisingly good and enjoyable social commentary. This anime really took my heart by storm.
There’s an aspect to falling in love when queer that, at least for me, makes more generic love stories simply unrelatable and foreign. The tale of a girl and boy falling in love with each other is the expected experience, it’s a norm that’s pushed onto people. There’s an aspect in so many romances about how people feel this is their fate, and that it’s something they’ve always dreamed about. It’s inherent to the story, I think. But if, say, you’re a girl, and you’ve fallen in love with a girl, there’s pressure against you that simply isn’t present in a straight story. But, in this story, the self-hate and ostracization against trying to be openly gay is e…
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I didn't really like this anime. I found myself wondering what points this show was trying to make, and any that did come to mind I found myself not agreeing with.
I don't agree with the idea that overwhelming one sided affection can or should change someone's gender preferences, or the idea that overwhelming one sided affection can or should make someone love you who doesn't, regardless of gender.
The show didn't seem to provide the love interest with any qualities deserving of the MC's love, aside from a sad backstory and the MC's fragile mental state before her reincarnation.
Nor did it provide much tension or challenges at all, since the MC knows everything from her deep knowledge of the game and powerful magic, and no character was given anything more than trope personalities, with…
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Recently, I wanted to complete my bibliography on the subject of Yuri anime and I realized—Oh gods, forgive me for this outrage—that there have been a few notable Yuri anime released recently that I simply hadn't seen. Probably because they were perceived as "average" at the time and I passed on them.
GRAVE MISTAKE!!
I'm in Love with the Villainess is one of those forgotten anime, so I'm correcting my mistake. The concept is rather simple: a Japanese woman, overwhelmed with work, gets, um, transferred? Reincarnated? It's not really clear ... into her favorite game: a classic Japanese romance game. The little twist is that the heroine, who has played this game dozens of times, is not at all interested in the handsome knights that make up the game's "official" routes, but instead in the ga…
Read at the sourceXanWasting
It's an anime with a good source material.
Now for the bad parts: Ray is turned into an annoying retard, and the 20 years behind the times art style of "Tehe-pero~~" makes her even more infuriating. All male cast look like sloppiest otome game parodies.
Source material goes slightly into politics, and while nothing truly in-depth is touched upon there, it is way beyond what 12 episode anime can convey. So they just cut it down into "greedy church is inciting commoners" and "foreign nation bad". And since all but Claire of the story characters stand at the center of the political upheaval, this bid for screentime to showcase Ray's hard-on for Claire makes those involved characters incredibly shallow.
I'll join the novel nerds on this one and say: Don't bother with the anime, read the novel…
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The MC is a simp who spends all 12 episodes harrassing her romantic interest. That's it, that's the whole show. The girl who's being lusted after is treated like a prize to be won from beginning to end -- often literally, via dumb contests. None of the characters have any depth, and there isn't much of a story. It's all contrivances to force the target to stay in close proximity with her pursuer. The magic stuff is all filler, it could lift right out. Not only does the MC never learn to take no for an answer, enablers convince her that backing down would mean handing the prize over to a worse party. This is not a queer romance, it's incel culture with a bow on top.
Read at the sourcethisismello
I didn't start watching this anime with high expectations because sometimes you just need something fun to watch, you know? This was a fun watch if you ignore the incest trope and its tasteless comparison to gay relationships. 👍
The power system feels basic and isn't fleshed out but I enjoyed most characters, except the perfect superhuman, I forgot her name. She was perfect in every way which was kind of the point I guess? But I didn't enjoy it.
The story isn't anything special but it was enjoyable. If you are looking for a fun watch, I would (hesitatingly) recommend it.
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"I'm in Love with the Villainess" offers a refreshing take on the popular villainess genre, introducing a unique spin that adds depth to the traditional isekai narrative. However, while the series succeeds in certain aspects, it stumbles in others, making for a mixed viewing experience.
One of the standout features of the anime is its departure from the typical villainess storyline. Instead of following the predictable path of a protagonist trying to avoid their inevitable bad end, the series takes a different route, injecting creativity into a well-trodden genre. This departure from the norm is a breath of fresh air, giving viewers something new and exciting to explore.
However, the characters in "I'm in Love with the Villainess" are a bit of a double-edged sword. On one hand, the prota…
Read at the sourceBadGuyBoog
Is this show good, no not really. Did I have fun with it, yeah absolutely, I enjoyed it from beginning to end.
I said in my Warehouse 13 (not available on this website) review that the reason I watch so much anime is because now matter how bad it is, or how cringy it gets, it is always energetic. Unlike western media, where bad tv shows are just boring and forgettable, bad anime is memorable, cringy as fuck, annoying, and fun as hell to talk about. I don’t actually start to dislike shows until they reach 3/10s, the rest are just shows I admit are bad but had a fun/ok time with or just didn't care for. This is one of those shows. This is full of anime cringe, but I had a blast with it. It was so energetic I couldn’t help but have a good time. In fact it felt like a 7/10 when I was watching…
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Honestly I wasn't sure what I should have expected coming into this. Having read the original source material (which had ended a few years before the anime adaptation was announced), I should have known in hindsight that there was no way the anime would adapt the more interesting parts of the novel (the revolution, married life, or the controversial batshit insane finale which I actually liked), but I was still left disappointed at the end.
For what its worth, at least it was nice to hear the characters actually voiced in the show, though outside of Rei and Claire everyone felt like they were phoning it in, Hikasa especially. And the parts that were actually adapted were just fine if boring, if animated very mediocrely.
I suppose if you're already a fan of the series it's worth watching…
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To the point, people will review things and don't even finish the show. Like you missed all the developments and even some characters so to give a review seems completely unfair. This is a top-tier lesbian anime, which means a lot since I prefer gay ones lol. Funny and inspiring, the main character doesn't even use prior game knowledge to win the girl until forced into a corner when she has no choice at the end. can't wait for season 2. Also, I felt so strongly that even with all my anime entries I've never written a review until now.
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I wanna preface this by saying I have no clue as to what constitutes for a good BL/GL show. I usually don't watch those kinds of shows unless under recommendation by a friend, and even then, chances are it'll stay stuck on my never ending pit of planned shows to watch.
That said, this show has other tropes on top of being an Isekai-GL show, and I feel at least qualified to judge the show based on those tropes, and other general stuff that is included in the contents of this show.
And these contents are...pretty half-baked.
The setting, while good in theory, feels pretty sloppy in practice. It's not inherently bad, but everything it does is placed under the context that it's an ikemen dating game, and presumably, a visual novel one. That in itself is fine, but then it does worldbuilding…
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Before i start, i gotta say, WataOshi is my favourite yuri LN so i might be a bit biased, but with that:
Rae Oohashi, a typical 21st-century office lady, experiences an unexpected twist of fate as she wakes up inside the main character of her beloved Otome game. But, instead of chasing after the conventional romance with the main princes, Rae takes an unconventional route – she's set on winning the heart of the villainess, a side characterod this game. It's a refreshing take that immediately sets the story apart.
Because of Season 1 primarily adapts Vol 1 in full and Vol 2 Chapter 1 from the light novels, this means the plot hasn't fully unfolded. Yet, subtle hints scattered throughout the season suggest that there's a significant and intriguing background story waiting to be unveiled. W…
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This story was absolutely delightful, undoubtedly engaging, and downright fun and wholesome! Truly loved watching it!
Seeing the protagonist Rae continuously profess her love to Claire, and watching Claire’s reactions to Rae being goofy yet endearing was so perfect! Their interactions and chemistry warmed my heart, and had me laughing every episode!
I also really enjoyed how they twisted the stereotypical reverse-Harem Otome game plot line. But with that, I also liked that they didn’t get rid of the “love interest Princes,” but had them become friends instead. To me, that was a nice touch!
I think the other characters in the story were also fun to watch, and I feel like they all played a good role in this show.
Just a few critics, I was sort of hoping that when Rae became friends wit…
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2023 has been an amazing year for anime in general, but Yuri fans in particular were well fed. With series like Tenten Kakumei, Watayuri and Hikikomari, this year has been stacked with quality Yuri releases. I believe Wataoshi stands head and shoulders above the others, and is the best fantasy girls love story to date.
Unlike most otome isekai, Rae Taylor says “fuck the hot guys, I want the girl.” Rae’s rejection of many pre-existing tropes otome tropes is really what makes this stand out to me. She and Claire’s gradual progression from unrequited crush, to friend, to best friend and ultimately to lovers is so well done and you can’t help but get giddy every time you see the two of them together. The romance is pure, but also logical. We as the audience get a front row seat for Claire’s i…
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I'm in Love with the Villainess — the combination of the usual tried-and-true tropey Isekai Otome Game rom-com genres...with a dash of Yuri? Colour me surprised.
I feel like I need to pose this question to everyone: since the start of HameFura back in the COVID times of Spring 2020, has the Isekai Otome Game genre really evolved in the 3.5 years since its inception? In one word: nope; in more words: nadda. But for one author going by the pseudonym name of Inori, the work that became to be the 5-volume long LN that is Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou. a.k.a I'm in Love with the Villainess, it at least made me relieved of its one sole defining feature that makes it stand out from its similar contemporaries (other than myself irking that South Korean manhwa/Webtoon series are ABSOLUTELY flo…
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