Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai shitemo Yoroshii deshou ka

Ever since childhood, Scarlet El Vandimion has preferred to deal with wrongdoers by using her fists. However, to preserve her family's image, she suppresses her instincts and tolerates the abuse inflicted by her childish fiancé, Second Prince Kyle Von Pallistan. Only Kyle's brother, First Prince Julius, is aware that there is more to Scarlet than meets the eye, but she cares little about his growing interest.

In the middle of a ball, Kyle accuses Scarlet of harassing Terenezza Hopkins, a commoner that has taken his heart. Scarlet's engagement to Kyle is nullified, leaving her outraged that all of her efforts to endure thus far have amounted to nothing. Scarlet dons her studded leather gloves, once again becoming the "Mad Dog Princess." Joined by Julius and werebeast Nanaka, Scarlet is ready to give filthy nobles a taste of their own medicine—one punch at a time.

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El Vandimion, Scarlet Main

Seto, Asami Japanese

Von Pallistan, Julius Main

Katou, Wataru Japanese

Vankish, Alphreim Rhea Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Hopkins, Terenezza Supporting

Kakuma, Ai Japanese

Nanaka Supporting

Tomita, Miyu Japanese

El Vandimion, Leonardo Supporting

Ishige, Shouya Japanese

Diana Supporting

Maeda, Kaori Japanese

Forgrave, Sigurd Supporting

Ura, Kazuki Japanese

Jin Supporting

Horie, Shun Japanese

Avelyn Supporting

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Nakayama, Nobuhiro Producer

Takahashi, Kanako Producer

Miura, Fumito Producer

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Dec 19, 2025

KANLen09

Recommended

May I Ask For One Final Thing? - May I ask for the old sweet villainess touch of punches? I don't mind being evil to receive love in the most freakish way possible.

For over 5 years now, the villainess theme has come around towards integrating itself into the whole isekai/fantasy schtick, and it has caused quite the trend for the anime/manga industry to find those series and produce them for the small screen. We've been served quite a lot of shows over that same time period. But yet, as trends go, they're insusceptible to variable quality, which, while featuring the elusive focal theme that has ... seen its ups and downs, for the most part, you can always be guaranteed that the majority of the Villainess series that have come and gone are at least decent and upwards trending on the good side.

It's also a very good thing that for some reason, though it can be said for as many works as you can find in the massive jungle of source materials out there, depending on their time of release, they can etch quite the influence to combine imitations with the authors' creative spin on the theme itself to give new skin and breathe new life into what is otherwise the oversaturatedness of conflicting themes and genres to output mediocrity (for the most part). Case in point, novelist Nana Otori's lone work, Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai shitemo Yoroshii deshou ka a.k.a. May I Ask for One Final Thing?, a series that may not have the Villainess title in its name but acts like one due to its unique competency.

Set in the stereotypical medieval setting (that most fantasy series always do), wherein the name of "justice," a false accusation rips apart a woman's pride to be lawfully wedded to her betrothed prince. The expose for the nobles of kingdoms to see who stands aloft and the other stands down in the name of politics charts quite the journey to experience betrayal at its worst and to be called names because of this, and the comeback fights...through punches and fists? If you're thinking what I'm thinking, this has got to be a ludicrous affair, right? But nope, you're seeing this all in real time, thanks to the affairs of the one who is framed to be the evildoer in the ever-so-sinister corrupt nature of the people and their empires that surround it, who goes by the name of Scarlet El Vandimion, representing one of the noble houses in the Kingdom of Pallistan. Known for her tendencies to act like a bulldog whenever people offend her, she's nicknamed the Mad Dog Noblewoman for her icy, expressionless exterior and exquisitely beautiful visage that creates the perfect facade for her true self: an uber-sadistic, ultra-violent, bloodthirsty, and fiercely confrontational woman who dares to deal with her enemies with brute force. And with her environment being given the freedom for the abuse of powers and principalities, the violent counterattacks from the red-dressed woman may be brutal, but you know what they say: "Karma is a cruel mistress," and Scarlet stands aloft amongst some of the most badass women in anime history. Heck, she could even portray the Avengers' character of Black Widow, a.k.a. Natasha Romanoff (acted by none other than the famous Scarlett Johansson), if she could.

Alas, in quite the situation that Scarlet found herself being tacked onto, with so many noblepeople that she could imagine herself to clobber the pigs and punching bags on her own dime, allies are strategically severe in the fight to rid the world of much of the pride and egoistic corrupted nature of her surroundings. Having dealt her woe against her initially wedded prince of the Kingdom of Pallistan's second prince, Kyle, the first prince of Julius keeps her company instead to keep her up to task... and also tease her in the process? Yeah, not one single person in this fantasy world is sane, alright, as while Julius is set to be the kingdom's main figurehead in the long run, his free-spirited personality gets a lot of flack from Scarlet herself; even more so, it is his attraction to her beating people up that he finds rather amusing. Needless to say, with the graceful amount of people Scarlet has to deal her punches with, not even her attendant-cum-best friend Leonardo (who is also Scarlet's older brother) can stop her infamy in the hopes that she would turn her ways and live like a proper noble. Sorry, dear brother, but given the eclipse of evil around the minority of the good guys, your sister has to do the glee and the glamour of bouldering the masses to her and Julius's excitement. That's what makes the relationship work between Julius and Scarlet, and while there are hints of romance here and there, it's never the main focal point of the show.

Add in the numerous side characters that have to bear the brunt of the brutality, for better or for worse. that always gets the disdained look of "what the hell's going on? Why is this happening?" to just simply live with it, it also creates an action comedy that's all sorts of hilarious to "let go and let loose." This aspect is why I've really come to enjoy and let the WTF jokes grow on me. It's all sorts of messed up, but in a cleverly put arrangement.

As for everything else, it really lives up to the hype of why this show is one of the (somewhat muted) season's best. Almost every show that's produced by Aniplex will always look great, even if the animation can be somewhat lacklustre, and in this case, with Liden Films's Kyoto Studio division handling this project, it may look like it's animated by the parent studio in the flesh, but there's something that just marks the quality up to competency. Even the music itself gets a leg up interpreting the show to a T, with CHICO with HoneyWorks's OP and Shiyui's ED perfectly encapsulating the show both in name and in great quality.

When it all comes down to it, Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai shitemo Yoroshii deshou ka a.k.a May I Ask for One Final Thing, is more than just a villainess show; it, a.k.a. proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it knows how to stand out in blood, sweat, and tears...more blood, perhaps. I've never had quite the joy watching something like this in a while, and you should too, because Girl Power is the name of the game, and it gives the show its appeal to marry both the villainess theme with a shonen-esque story, which makes for a rare combination that is, in spite of a fist bump, a breath of fresh air to expect the unexpected.

If I may...may I ask for one final thing? What is gender "equality"? Nuke that out and enjoy getting punched in the face, for the show is a true fighter, by hook or by crook.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Dec 19, 2025

Petorachan

Mixed Feelings

The start of this anime is solid, captivates you for 1-3 episodes but then it falls short afterward.
The story is very dull and repetitive. Every episode is about the FL punching someone in the face, which I get it, it's the premise of this series. The comedy is non existent in my opinion, the action scenes are average at best, the animation is good but nothing mind blowing which is fine I guess considering this type of anime.
The story is extremely repetitive, if you skip an episode it won't be a problem, you'll get the gist of what's happening.
The characters have no depth or ... growth not even a bit of development and are poorly written. The FL and ML have no chemistry, I don't understand how they are together it was so forced and the romance is lacking. The villainess has no purpose tbh and her reason for being one is the most childish I have ever seen. The side characters don't have much going on either. The characters and plot of the story are overall boring.
If you don't have anything to watch and you want to pass the time go ahead and watch it otherwise you can skip it as it doesn't bring anything new to the table with how overused the plot is anw.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 31, 2026

Gentle-Madman

Not Recommended

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“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. […] The object of power is power.”
- O'Brien, Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)

Watching power fantasies is probably my very own special hell: I deeply despise most of them. The majority are soulless and cheaply made, and their predominance on the market reflects the current popularity of low-effort entertainment. They demand almost no narrative care, consistency, or restraint on the author's part ... and little investment—be it emotional or intellectual—on the recipient's side, which is why they are unchallenging to write and to watch. Just like the Party in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, they understand and portray power not as a means but as an end. Instead of actually discussing and contextualizing power, they romanticize it, no, fetishize it. Their main appeal, as far as I can see, seems to lie in their promise of easy escapism from a complicated world that evokes feelings of being overwhelmed and powerless in many people. It's pretty much junk food for the mind: immediately gratifying but narratively empty.

Commonly, you have those edgy shows like Solo Leveling, expecting the viewer to grovel and partake in the glorification of whatever omnipotent protagonist there is. While the prototypical Sword Art Online at the time was criticized for the Kirito worship, even though that was by all accounts very tame compared to the present brainrot slob, nowadays such vainglorious excesses are being encouraged, with the cringeworthy concept of ‘aura farming’ regrettably having gained traction. Some shows, like this specimen right here, try to exploit the protagonist's omnipotence for comedic purposes, maybe even as a parody like One Punch Man or—to name a particularly awful example—the horrid Cautious Hero. As the power fantasy premise is quite primitive by itself, you have to be really clever to draw humor from it. From my experience, many of those comedies lack that cleverness and fail because they still gleefully operate within the same basic logical framework using the same exact tools, with May I Ask for One Final Thing? being no exception.

To my surprise, when I watched the first episode, I actually rather liked it and would have given it maybe a 6 or 7 had it stopped right there. Sure, the setting is generic and the premise extremely simple, but the princess heroine, Scarlet El Vandimion, is actually not one of those bland protagonists this type of show usually has; her design is pretty good, and there was definitely some charisma, courtesy also of the good voice acting. The duality of elegance and crudeness works well, and I did find her whole demeanor to be quite refreshing; they also gave me enough reasons to understand and support Scarlet's actions. From her almost pathological obsession with beating up people and how over-the-top the whole punch-up session was, I would have expected it to become some sort of parody.

But in truth, I was grossly mistaken to think that this could be something of quality, because—good god—I try to use that term sparingly, but Scarlet really is a Mary Sue among Mary Sues. Beautiful, dominant, and freakishly strong, she serves as an ideal vehicle for the aforementioned fetishization of power, trying desperately to be a badass powerhouse waifu. They really went for broke here, pulled out all the stops, and cranked it up to 11 because she pretty much dominates the entire story, never breaks a sweat, and always has a witty remark on her lips as she marauds through the lands, brutalizing and pulverizing everything in her wake like a maniac. Moreover, she is naturally highly intelligent, but you would not know that if the show did not tell you. There is also never a real need for her to grow as a person, because no conflict ever forces her to, as the story always submits to her and her modus operandi of just beating the crap out of everybody. The story never bothers to explain why she is given so much leeway and how she can be so inhumanly powerful, and there is no clear feel to the rules that concern her powers, or any rules, for that matter. She is more of a force of nature than a real human character.

The series tries way too hard to build up that idiotic ‘girlboss’ aesthetic around her, therefore she is a good example of why that stereotype is obnoxious as hell. I know I’m being generous here, but even if we gave this show the benefit of the doubt and read it as an aggressive take on female self-assertion in a patriarchal surrounding, the show actually adopts pretty much the same old masculine power aesthetics and revels constantly in shallow dominance gestures, with Scarlet savoring her superiority decadently in an almost sexual manner. That is not to say that you cannot do overpowered female characters. Take Yor Forger, for example: she is brutishly strong and pretty much invincible as well, but her character is much more well-rounded, and Spy × Family knows how to keep a certain balance (at least most of the time; Season 2 overdid it a little for my taste), and the show is not centered solely around her. Whereas Yor can switch between two vastly different personas (demure, awkward mother/wife/office worker vs. unstoppable, cold-blooded assassin), allowing her to be employed in a more flexible role, Scarlet, while she can switch between acting refined and coarse, pretty much keeps the same aura of untouchability all the way through, restricting her narratively. If she occasionally had to hide her power like Yor, she would already be considerably more variable.

Now, I get that in regard to Scarlet's strength, you have to take into account that this is supposed to be a comedy. Even then, my suspension of disbelief has its limits, because this show at least suggests a plot and stakes, so I expect the show to respect those a little bit more, alright? Don't get me wrong, though; the plot is trite and tries way too hard for something this absurd, with a lot of generic political talk, religious disputes, and pseudo drama, and the show's artificial worldbuilding drops information not even the narrative itself pretends to care about. Speaking volumes about the quality of the writing—or rather the lack thereof—is the laughable twist that the main antagonist unironically turns out to have been isekai'd into this world; seriously, isn't this creatively embarrassing? This all underlines that if this was supposed to be a parody, it would be a particularly witless one.

The comedy doesn't really work because Scarlet beating up everybody is not intrinsically funny, as it (ironically) lacks a real punch line (haha) aside from her being unrealistically strong, the visual humor becomes repetitive really fast, and the dialogue is mostly occupied with milking from the premise whatever little comedic value there is, which often results in some stilted and unnatural lines. There are only so many times that Scarlet can casually obliterate whatever irrelevant adversity there is—accompanied by a cheeky one-liner (she likes to describe her victims as meat for her to devour or compare the beatdown to a dance—underscored by classical music, of course—or do some other drawn-out nonsense that shows how effortless and trivial everything is for her)—before it gets tiring and, frankly, just a slog to watch. While I found her attitude entertaining at the beginning, I was stone-faced by the end, as she more and more lost charm and just seemed like a bit of a sadistic sociopath.

As an action show, this fails too, because for a show with such an action-loving heroine, the animation is decidedly average, often lifeless, which I'm not surprised by, as LIDENFILMS does have a certain reputation in that regard. Truth be told, even if there was the budget for elaborate fights, Scarlet wouldn't allow any of them to unfold, so I guess they just said, “Who cares?” The soundtrack, which gets recycled over and over, is similarly unremarkable, even though I found the OP and particularly the ED to be quite good.

Apparently, this also bills itself as a romance, but that aspect is so incredibly barebones, as any possible love interests are just as undercooked as most of the characters here, and their dynamic is incredibly clichéd as well, serving mostly as a tool for the comedy. As is typical in such a series, the side characters mostly serve as cheerleaders for Scarlet, catering to her every whim just like the story does, while the villains are one-note bad guys for her to humiliate and vanquish. The show constantly mocks and neglects its supporting cast: “Is there even a point to us being here?” is what one distraught side character says in the penultimate episode during another completely meaningless display of Scarlet's power. This adequately mirrored what went through my mind as well, because this show feels unbearably empty; aside from Scarlet pretty much breaking this world, there is almost nothing else.

What a miserable experience; I'm very, very disappointed and did not expect that I would have to rip this thing apart like that. I tried my best to like this anime after the first episode and gave it so many chances, as it tricked me into thinking it might be any good, but after suffering through 13 episodes of this vapid drivel, I find it to be one of the most insufferable and frustrating shows I've ever watched. Had the heroine been better used, she really might have become one to remember. She is simultaneously the best and worst thing about this series—she makes the show and breaks it too. But in this state, it is a thoroughly dismal comedy and reads as little more than female wish fulfillment of the absolute lowest kind, trying to cash in on the Villainess trend. For me, this doesn't even succeed at just being a really wacky and dumb show. It showed its hand in the first episode and repeats the same gag ad nauseam without subversion, consequence, or wit. Brute force is no punch line on its own, and I simply cannot see why I should be bothered to be in awe of or laugh about some Herculean dominatrix who has not earned an ounce of her strength. Maybe the secret lies in getting a kick out of the sadomasochistic undertones permeating the whole thing; it clearly plays into that kink. Had it not become this obnoxious over time, I would have rated it higher; maybe I would even at some point call this ‘so bad, it's good’, but I doubt I could ever call this genuinely fine. This show definitely did not hit the spot, but it does make me wish I was punch-drunk.

May I Ask for One Final Thing? Please let it rest here—do not give this another season.

3/10 (26%)

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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