78 were impressed!
12 weren’t wowed by the plot
10 though the jokes got old
This was a show I wanted to check out for awhile after seeing the OP on Japanese cable. It seemed like it had an energy like Watamote which is funny because I had no idea Silver Link did that very same adaptation. I really had no idea what the show was about, but I liked Katarina the MC’s character designs and I wound up surprised, but not entirely upset with what I got.
Just knowing the base concept of the show, I expected Katarina’s character to play her part. The title being “My Next Life as a Villainess…” I was really hoping for a kind of fresh take on isekai or a romance show. The most important thing anyone can read before going into this show is that after about one or two episodes this anime becomes as typical a reverse harem otome anime as you can get. It’s competent and delivers a fun experience, but it definitely doesn’t really do anything special.
The shows OP lured me in and I watched it every episode. Probably not everyone’s cup of tea, but I like weird lyric delivery. Music and sound design otherwise were serviceable, but we don’t get any Youjo Senki explosions or anything. Some of the character interaction I liked a lot, but a good bit was also very caricature-ish and left me wanting a bit more substance for the investment involved.
Katarina carries the show with an overall loveable personality and quirky behavior, but she will definitely need the rest of the cast to have some depth in the upcoming second course. Mary Campbell and Sophia Ascart both got great character development so when the time comes you feel invested in what’s going to happen to them in the story. If they keep that sort of thing up going into the next season with other characters, I hope the show can graduate for “pretty fun” to “pretty good”
