Audience reviews
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missbjray
I'm typically not a fan of the "villainess" style stories, but this one was a pretty fun watch. It takes a lot for me to actually binge a show in 2-3 days, but this one hit the mark for me. The main character Alicia is very likeable and relatable, and the general story is easy to follow and has some unique beats. I wouldn't say this is the best show, or even the best "villainess" show, but it's still worth watching if you love romcom anime!
I'd say others are harshly judging it because of the typical romcom issues, but personally I find a lot of those things charming. The main character is funny and has a unique way of viewing herself, so even if the story hits some predictable moments, the way she reacts is always fun to watch. It's a pretty good show, easy to watch and has a feel good m…
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I think that in a market where there is a bit of an oversaturation of "otome player reincarnated as villain with bad fate but resists yet doesn't ever realize they have escaped being a villainess", this anime is such a breath of fresh air, especially Alicia as a character. Instead of avoiding being a villainess, she actively strives towards it. By no means is it the holy grail of anime, but it was very enjoyable and the plot was more interesting than i would have thought. Altogether, i think it's worth a try even if you're burned out on otome game villainess reincarnations.
Read at the sourceSammyHunnyBear
She wants to be a baddie but in reality she's got a heart of gold.
I have re-watched this anime so many times and I never get tired of it, Alicia is such a perfect FL, she thinks of herself as a really intimidating bad girl when in reality she is super cute and sweet. She is always up to something and will take you by surprise with what she puts her mind to.
Her relationship with the ML puts these two at one of my top favorite couples. Prince Duke is just *chef's kiss* - he is an extremely capable ML who is just always two steps ahead of everyone else (except Alicia who keeps him on his toes). One of the things I love about him is how he views Alicia, he knows her goals and aspirations and is willing to protect her and do whatever it takes to get her closer to where she wants to go.
I…
Read at the sourceSiegfriedcel
The only reason to watch this series is if you have some certain attachment to reincarnating into Otome games as the villainess or Himederes when they laugh. I happen to have such a condition, so this review will be rating it in comparison to series of the same nature. If you do not care for this genre there is no reason to watch it. The "RealPolitik" present functions better in Tanya, LoGH, or Code Geass. Medieval fantasy with haughty women trying to teach you moral lessons/political ones are better in spice and wolf. And if you purely want Otome Villainesses then watch Lvl99 villainess (atleast then you'll get a satisfying ending) or read "Chounin A wa Akuyaku Reijou wo Doushitemo Sukuitai"
WHY DOES IT FAIL: What successfully drives these types of shows is an overarching plot that culm…
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Truly a good “Villainess” isekai, where she actually wants to be a villain, that already makes it a little unique. They even critique the plot armor and naivety of the usual otome protagonist. Story is funny, with cute characters, plot twists, character growth and if you don’t think too much about the ages it can be a cute romance.
It is very novel-like that we can see some episodes where they are growing up, the time skips feel earned and everything progress quickly, its a good storytelling. Instead of flashbacks we can see the protagonist actually grow up.
Too bad the art is inconsistent and you can tell they it has a low budget or were rushed, if you enjoy otome isekai this is a breath of fresh air. Hope they make a S2!
Read at the sourceAeroGunz
“I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History” is what happens when you have an interesting idea but have no idea how to execute it.
Cambridge Dictionary’s definition of the word “Villain” is:
1. A bad person who harms other people or breaks the law
2. A criminal
3. a character in a book, play, film, etc. who harms other people
4. Something or someone considered harmful or dangerous
Obviously, none of those apply to Alicia — The MC — (and to be totally honest most of the “villainesses” in those types of shows from the last few years). She does harm people but only in self defense (I am not counting hurting their feelings, that would be idiotic) and never does any sort of irrecoverable or long lasting harm. She doesn’t break the law in any meaningful way. She does break a lot of rules…
Read at the sourceRasly2
The animation in this anime is decent, but that's probably its only real strength. Everything else is pretty disappointing. Watching an adult woman behave like a child pretending to be a pirate is just awkward. In a world where monarchs can execute even their own people, the main character suddenly decides to turn everyone against her just for fun. There's hardly any logic behind her actions.
The plot is hard to take seriously. It's disjointed, and many scenes feel absurd and poorly directed. The character's behavior is usually explained by some kind of magic she supposedly can't control, and the entire story leans on that. It feels like the author wanted to do something original and tried to stick to a plan, but the plan clearly doesn't work.
The whole point of the anime seems to be sho…
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This show was an alright one. The plot points and characters would make it about a 7 for me, however there are some aspects that brought it down to a super average show for me.
First, the prince is a bit of a creep. He's extremely forward with the MC even when they're really young and that weirded me out a bit. But I guess that's the girl's romance side of it that I can't understand.
Second is the poor animation at times. It's very noticeable that the budget wasn't super high for it, but these shojo shows rarely have much of one, so I shouldn't expect too much.
The third is the use of CGI when it wasn't needed. The quality of the animation was already not great. I would have rather they just poorly animated horses and carriages and things rather than just shoving in a 3d model.
All…
Read at the sourceZeno_Artaxerxes
An otome anime where the FMC actually tries to be the villainess she got isekaied as... or does she?
Even she questions the correct path to becomes a villainess, so how can someone follow a path that they don't even understand correctly? If the "villainess" part is just standing up for yourself and calling bs when you see bs, and being more bold than usual with your approach, not sugar coating stuff, then ig quite a few people are in the "villainess" category... This felt more like watching her finding the definition of what kind of villainess she wants to become and trying to stick to it the best she can, always calling herself as one...
Ig I was thinking a bit too much while watching this anime, so maybe that's why I found it pretty boring and uninteresting in terms of almost everythi…
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Binged this show in one day. To preface, I am a girl who loves anime like Skip Beat, Lovely Complex, and Yona of the Dawn. I definitely recommend this show for anyone with similar tastes! I feel like modern shoujo anime (especially villainess ones) have a problem with being too on the nose though but this show was just unpredictable enough for me to keep watching. Also, the romance did have me giggling and kicking my feet a bit. The main character is great as well and comes off as very logical. There was not any frustrating parts. Reasons as to why its a 9/10 and not 10/10 is because the art style is nothing special and I wasn't moved to tears by anything but it was still an interesting and fun watch!
Read at the sourcecowboysquid
The mc isn't anything crazy but I liked her, and I do this this is on the more unique side. I always love when they're good with swords and can save themself!
The first episode felt underwhelming and I watched it all on 2x speed which might sound crazy but it works if you want to get through an anime.
But the prince is weird... and I cant get behind them making her 5 years younger. You guys just had to make it weird... 15 y/o finding a 10 y/o attractive??
Art style is fine.
There's not much more to say. I looked past the weirdness cause it wasn't always in your face. but if you cant I 10000% understand.
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Just another compilation of motives we have seen hundreds of time done worse than we seen hundreds of times. Author clearly had a checklist off all tropes he needed to hit and well he certainly did.
First of all the world building is a mess - you've got the standard European-esque society with magic being nobles only -> this necessitates a standard discrimination sideplot. Except this time everybody thinks it's bad - noble families heads agree, king agrees but that doesn't matter since that is a genre trope and therefore needed. Also there is this poor village made up of criminals, except no criminals are there and for some reasons this village made up of like 5 houses is constantly on mind of every aristocrat.
Worse then world building are characters, chief among them the main antagoni…
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I think there are two very valid takes regarding this anime. If you get bored halfway through and drop it that's completely valid. It's a slow burning, slightly directionless anime that's promising a future payoff while progressing at a snails pace. Then in the second half things start happening, so if you break through that and finish it you'll enjoy it.
The characters are, in the first half, stereotypes and unsuprising. I forgot who was related to our protagonist and whether we'd been introducted to certain characters of if they appeared randomly. It's a very standard villianess anime in a school in the first half.
Again though, in the second half things start making more sense as things become more unstable around the school and that particular plot thread gets tied up. This makes a…
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The anime is the embodiment of boredom at its most boring, with nothing to shake us out of the ambient monotony that runs through these 13 episodes. What I mean by this is that everything is seen over and over again, without ever adding anything to the already hackneyed scenario of the young girl reincarnated as a romance game villain. And from there, every clichéd event unfolds exactly as you'd expect it to, so you're never surprised or invested in any way, and so you just endure the scenario and nothing more.
But what pushes me below the average is that in execution it manages the feat of messing up what it does! For example, the heroine behaves like the most evil villain of all, and for that we get 0 subtlety, because she repeats it 20 times per episode, and worse than that, she never…
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tl;dr
Mid, watch only if you have read the original or love the genre and have watched almost every anime about "vileness something."
---A brief review from me---
The first episode felt underwhelming, with weak art, mid-tier animation, and a mediocre OST. However, from episode 2 onward, the series starts gaining momentum, becoming increasingly interesting until around episode 7, when it completely loses its pacing, similar to Dahlia in Bloom. After that, it drags on with repetitive, pointless content. At least Dahlia offered something engaging past episode 6, but here it's just boring. The final episodes weren’t too bad, but the disappointment from earlier ones left a bitter aftertaste.
Would I recommend it? Not really. Should you watch it? Perhaps if you’ve read the original or are a f…
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This is an isekai-otome-shoujo. Look at me flexing this fancy vocabulary after watching like thirty titles, huh?
So basically, it’s a girl-for-girls kind of story about an isekai’d protagonist who ends up in the alternate reality of a dating sim. I’m not a huge fan of this subgenre—I’ve only seen Villainess Level 99—and while on the surface these titles seem similar (same setting, same starting point for the MC), they’re actually very different.
This anime has plenty of solid dialogue. Most of it wasn’t too painful to sit through (and that’s saying something coming from someone outside the target audience). Sure, there were some blatantly dragged-out or straight-up dumb moments, especially when the characters should say something but don’t for no reason, causing unnecessary problems. I s…
Read at the sourceMoonwalk69
Another villainess anime with white lotus OGFL and an obsessive ML. DID CONSENT NOT EXIST IN THE SHOW. I could count at least 2 times where the FL did not consent to the ML action. FIrst time is when the FL got sick becasue she practiced magic and couldnt drink the medicine. Guess what the ML did. He HELP HER BY FORCE FEEDING THROUGH A KISS WHILE SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS. SHE WAS 10 AND HE WAS 15 AT THAT TIME. Another time was when FL was rescued by ML from a knife attack and the FL woke up to the ML SLEEPING NEXT TO HER NAKED?? She was 13 and him 18?? The plot of the show was pretty standard and so predictable. 3/10 wont recommend
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Definitely a masterpiece of the "Villainess" sub-gender! The highlights of this anime are the dialogues between the main character and her antagonist, the saint. I can't pinpoint a downside of this anime, except for the fast that the last episode was a hook to introduce the second season, and it went really far away from the main story so it was all over the place.
Art and Animation: 8/10.
Characters: 9/10.
Plot: 7/10.
Overall: 8
Alicia is reincarnated as a villainess, but instead of avoiding the bad ending that follows her role, she decides to be "a villainess that goes down in history". She works very hard to be a suitable rival to the Saint, which is a stereotyped heroine with strong plot-armor that makes her very overpowered. Everyone loves the saint and hates Alicia, but Alicia doe…
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premise - 5/10
nothing special, not bad either, you've seen a variation of it countless times in other shows, but it has it's own flair to it that makes it ok
story - 3/10
starts out ok, could even say i had hope for it somewhere in the first episodes, but then quickly devolves into shojo romance with a bland story that goes nowhere and ends without any closure, just setup for a sequel i hope never comes
artstyle and animation - 2/10
the only reason i won't give it a 1 is because i've seen a few shows with worse than this. the animation is so low budget, it's inconsistent from scene to scene with characters looking completely different from a different angle, and most of the time it's just still images with just the mouth changing between open and closed, and the rare times there's ac…
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When I think about the best villainess characters of all time, I’ll have Alicia in that list. Rekiaku is a pretty straightforward otome style story, but Alicia is what really makes it enjoyable. She’s determined to go down in history as a legendary villainess in a world where no one’s ever heard of the role. This was a fun watch from start to finish thanks in large part to Alicia’s antics and the way she genuinely wants to make a difference in the world. It had some issues, but I was overall very pleased and will miss this one a lot!
Like I said, Alicia was the main draw here for me. She was just such a cool lead, full of energy and ambition, while not being stupid. Whereas a lot of otome leads want to lead normal lives out of the spotlight, Alicia embraces her abilities and wants to impr…
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