Akuyaku Reijou Level 99: Watashi wa Ura-Boss desu ga Maou dewa Arimasen
Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss But I'm Not the Demon Lord

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OP female lead villainess with cute deadpan expressions

This story is very light and fun. The focus of the story is a bit wishy washy but its an entertaining read nonetheless. The fl is very OP with skewed sense of priority due to her memory of past life. The story is deviating from the branch genre inorder to spread its wigs, its a bit early to say its bad but i am avidly awaiting for more :)

the style is very average, the character design feels mediocre.

This story is actually excellent on love, because the male lead is not suddenly obsessed by the charm of the fl, ... he actually harbors interest and is confused by his own feelings in a realistic growing boy way.

This story is generic OP 'otome game' isekai. If you're tired of such isekai, I doubt you'll love this.
OP MC? Yes
MC doing grinding? Yes.
Discriminated MC due to her power? Yes.
People hating MC due to idiotic other reasons? Yes.
Idiotic "capture target" princes? Yes.
So far the story is taking the same route most isekai manga go (chap 5 at this point)

The good points of this story are:
- The MC. As a character, I find her quite interesting as she's the "don't give a fuck" super introvert type. She trying to finish conversation with as few words as possible is cute in a way. In the end, she ... might be what introvert people find relatable. And yes, she's cute indeed.

The art is good, but not extraordinary.

Somehow it's always a bit strange as a man to say that you've read a shoujo manga - aka a story for girls. But somehow they scratch that very special spot and so I looked into “Villainess Level 99 I May Be the Hidden Boss but I'm Not the Demon Lord” after seeing the anime years ago.

The story is about the young Eumiella, who was reborn in a video game she knows. Her character is actually the secret final boss of the game. So when she realizes that her parents have given up on her and her maids discriminate against her because of her black ... hair, she decides to spend her life doing the same thing she always liked to do in the video game: grind! So she quickly becomes the first person to ever reach the maximum level 99...

I just have to compare anime and manga.
There are two big differences here: While both are adapted from the light novel (the written out book), they are at different stages. To my surprise, the anime is further ahead, estimated the manga ends at about episode 10 of the anime. It also doesn't provide much more detail than the anime, so I wouldn't recommend reading it after watching the anime.

The second difference mentioned earlier is the focus. The anime focused much more on the story and the problems experienced by the protagonist. We have everything from discrimination because of her hair color to her parents' antics to accusations of falsifying her level. Much of this is also present in the manga, but it feels far less present here. So while I criticized the stupidity of some of the characters in my review of the anime because they kept bringing up the aforementioned problems, it's not noticeable here at all. Instead, a rather relaxed story about Eumiella is delivered here, in which she finds her place in the world despite all the adversities - or rather, she starts to, because the manga really isn't all that advanced.

As a result, you get a very relaxed, laid-back story here, which I personally found better than the anime (5 stars vs. 6 stars ), but it's still far from the yellow of the egg. In general, everything is missing here except the relaxed mood and the unworldly character of the protagonist, which makes some scenes a bit funny, amusing or cute.

As I said, this absolutely deserves 6 out of 10 stars , but if you haven't read stories like this before and would rather read a really good one from this category, I'd advise against this one. Especially because “Villainess Level 99” is quite an outlier, which dips very heavily into the 'op-protagonist' genre, of which there are also much better ones.