Otome games. [snort] I was fascinated to discover via Crunchyroll the existence of another otome-game/isekai, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (Not fascinated enough to actually watch the entire thing, though. But maybe later.) It was the zany title that caught my attention; that, and a promotional image that shows the title character waltzing with another girl.
The main character recovers past-life memories from her life as a Japanese teenager, and realizes she's been reborn as an antagonist character in an otome game she played before. Specifically, as the completely unlikable aristocrat Caterina Claes, whose destiny in all the Good endings is to be stripped of wealth and titles, and exiled from the country. In the Bad endings, protagonist Maria Campbell's love interest will kill Caterina while defending Maria from the aristo-bitch's cruelty.
Naturally, Our Villainess doesn't want this to happen. So she begins training herself to earn a living when deprived of her riches, practices sword-fighting to protect herself from Maria's various love interests, and even carries a toy snake for distracting one of her possible killers (he's phobic about snakes). Through all of this, she fails to notice that, because her sweet personality from the past life effectively overwrote Evil!-Caterina, now nobody will want her dead or exiled, so she's wasting her time on the contingency plans ... but making lots of friends and admirers.
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“We’ve had our differences, but he’s seen the light … and I made sure he moved toward it, instead of coming back.”
The main character recovers past-life memories from her life as a Japanese teenager, and realizes she's been reborn as an antagonist character in an otome game she played before. Specifically, as the completely unlikable aristocrat Caterina Claes, whose destiny in all the Good endings is to be stripped of wealth and titles, and exiled from the country. In the Bad endings, protagonist Maria Campbell's love interest will kill Caterina while defending Maria from the aristo-bitch's cruelty.
Naturally, Our Villainess doesn't want this to happen. So she begins training herself to earn a living when deprived of her riches, practices sword-fighting to protect herself from Maria's various love interests, and even carries a toy snake for distracting one of her possible killers (he's phobic about snakes). Through all of this, she fails to notice that, because her sweet personality from the past life effectively overwrote Evil!-Caterina, now nobody will want her dead or exiled, so she's wasting her time on the contingency plans ... but making lots of friends and admirers.
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“We’ve had our differences, but he’s seen the light … and I made sure he moved toward it, instead of coming back.”