Y’all have no idea how jazzed I was to see that this is an anime. I’ve read the manga a few times, but the manga stops right after she successfully stops the Demon Lord from changing. Imagine my surprise at the second half of the series!!
And I also am collecting the light novel series to read at some point… perhaps when I’m less busy.
You know, I think that the uprise of villainess media is because we get an underdog who is not really an underdog so much as an outcast finding the way to break out of expectation and the role she has been cast in to further her own interests… and she’s admired for it. We don’t have perfect heroines, but perfect villains. Being “bad” is painted as being someone of a counterculture, who opposes the majority to fight for what she believes in. Literally someone who opposes her fate as someone who is supposed to die pathetically, sometimes for a shit reason. It makes catharsis bigger when the viewer watches someone like this succeed, the feminine antihero.
Which is why I like it.
Oh, right, the trailer:
I got Karen to watch it with me and she adored it! You know that means it’s excellent for the girlies out there.
