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BrosefAmelion



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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2025 3:16 am Reply with quote
Back to back otome game anime announcements huh?
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Wow they really nerf her tits.
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Finally Bertia will have an anime!, I never understood why it didn't have an anime already.
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I checked out the moment I read Junichi Yamamoto’s name. Fare thee well, ogre.
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2025 9:08 am Reply with quote
I'm a sucker for Villainess romances and I've actually heard good things about this.
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2025 11:20 am Reply with quote
So this is a villainess story from the perspective of the prince? Interesting.
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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2025 9:16 am Reply with quote
Shoujo/josei "Villainess"-type stories are quite popular these days, as planned adaptations of Webtoon titles. What exactly is the appeal besides they can also fall under the isekai category?
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Lily Garden



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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2025 9:40 am Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
Shoujo/josei "Villainess"-type stories are quite popular these days, as planned adaptations of Webtoon titles. What exactly is the appeal besides they can also fall under the isekai category?



the great strength of otome isekai light novels is that they are driven in the most part by the character of our leading lady, either through their knowledge and talent (such as in Ascendance of a Bookworm) or through their personality and charm (like My Next Life as a Villainess). This makes them far superior, in my humble opinion, to isekai light novels that just uses an OP ability to mow through their new world. That being said, this can also be an issue if you do not enjoy the main character.

Villainess stories also have a “fight against fate” element that makes them more interesting. The protagonist finds themselves in a world where the original chain of events will lead to their demise and they have to rewrite the future to avoid this
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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2025 12:30 pm Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
Shoujo/josei "Villainess"-type stories are quite popular these days, as planned adaptations of Webtoon titles. What exactly is the appeal besides they can also fall under the isekai category?


I think it is partly because "iconic character is not actually what you assumed" is a common way to flip tropes on their head in general.

In anime and manga you have plenty of stories along these lines in the form of stories like Way of the House Husband where a really tough character turns out to also be very nurturing and domestic. In fact we already have stuff like Maleficent and Wicked as major hits about looking at popular villain characters and trying to look at their world sympathetically, I would argue even Paradise Lost was about making the bad guy into a sympathetic hero or anti-hero.

Villianess stories are just a common way to apply this idea to tropes anime fans already understand so that they can jump into the narrative with little to no explanation the same way people do with isekai stories.

I will also agree with everything Lily Garden said about why they are popular, though I also think stories about people who are typically the villain are really having a moment in general right now.
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