Rekishi ni Nokoru Akujo ni Naru zo

The kind and comionate heroine of an otome game may be as flawless as she is irable, but a certain young woman from Japan much prefers the villainess, Alicia Williams. She sees sense in Alicia's ruthless verbal abuse and values her discipline and fortitude. On the other hand, aside from always toying with Prince Duke Seeker's emotions, the commoner heroine seems to only spout lip service.

Given the choice, the young woman would love to be reincarnated as Alicia—and her wish suddenly comes true! Seven-year-old Alicia awakens with the memories of her past life, now aware of all the future events, outcomes, and the world's secrets. She has no fear; to outsmart the heroine and avoid a bad ending, all Alicia needs is hard work, mastery of her noble family's dark magic, and the determination to become the greatest villainess in history.

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Williams, Alicia Main

Nakamura, Kanna Japanese

Seeker, Duke Main

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Cather, Liz ing

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Mel ing

Hondo, Kaede Japanese

Williams, Henry ing

Ishiya, Haruki Japanese

Jill ing

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Smith, Finn ing

Murase, Ayumu Japanese

Rebecca ing

Ookubo, Rumi Japanese

Neal, Johnson ing

Hase, Norihito Japanese

Marika ing

Kawaida, Natsumi Japanese

Usukura, Ryuutarou Producer

Mukai, Yuuki Producer

Yanase, Yuuji Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation, Animation Director

Tsuchiya, Masanori Sound Director

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Apr 16, 2025

giyomimi

Recommended

Binged this show in one day. To preface, I am a girl who loves anime like Skip Beat, Lovely Complex, and Yona of the Dawn. I definitely recommend this show for anyone with similar tastes! I feel like modern shoujo anime (especially villainess ones) have a problem with being too on the nose though but this show was just unpredictable enough for me to keep watching. Also, the romance did have me giggling and kicking my feet a bit. The main character is great as well and comes off as very logical. There was not any frustrating parts. Reasons as to why its a 9/10 ... and not 10/10 is because the art style is nothing special and I wasn't moved to tears by anything but it was still an interesting and fun watch!

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 10, 2025

FallNatsukashii

Mixed Feelings

This show was an alright one. The plot points and characters would make it about a 7 for me, however there are some aspects that brought it down to a super average show for me.

First, the prince is a bit of a creep. He's extremely forward with the MC even when they're really young and that weirded me out a bit. But I guess that's the girl's romance side of it that I can't understand.

Second is the poor animation at times. It's very noticeable that the budget wasn't super high for it, but these shojo shows rarely have much of one, so I ... shouldn't expect too much.

The third is the use of CGI when it wasn't needed. The quality of the animation was already not great. I would have rather they just poorly animated horses and carriages and things rather than just shoving in a 3d model.

All of that brought it down a point for me, but the plot is original enough to consider if you like shojo dramas.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 29, 2025

Zeno_Artaxerxes

Not Recommended

An otome anime where the FMC actually tries to be the villainess she got isekaied as... or does she?

Even she questions the correct path to becomes a villainess, so how can someone follow a path that they don't even understand correctly? If the "villainess" part is just standing up for yourself and calling bs when you see bs, and being more bold than usual with your approach, not sugar coating stuff, then ig quite a few people are in the "villainess" category... This felt more like watching her finding the definition of what kind of villainess she wants to become and trying to stick ... to it the best she can, always calling herself as one...

Ig I was thinking a bit too much while watching this anime, so maybe that's why I found it pretty boring and uninteresting in of almost everything.

As a general view, the story is pretty generic, you got that FMC being isekaied in an otome game that she knows about and is happening in a kingdom. She starts at 7y old iirc, but there are time skips so you will catch most of the action happening inside their royal/magic academy... You have the typical characters that you find in almost every otome anime like the serious and icy prince, the blonde that's always aloof and etc.

But now let us talk about the problems I had with this anime and why I couldn't really enjoy it:
- very weak and small worldbuilding. You aren't going to explain barely anything about the place where the action takes place? Distances that barely make sense? You're going to introduce high ranking people and interests, but barely a few characters that are actually important in such a big kingdom that it has an academy for the nobles? Hierarchy structure? The king barely having any people near him? Where's the army? Guards? Ministers? Other people? Maids? So many students shown, but only a few that actually matter and do something? Where are the teachers?? Man, this felt like such an empty world to me while I was watching... Felt like only the characters that had something to say/do were shown and talked about, and the rest forgotten. Like I even forgot the FMC had a mother until the last episode... Such a small perspective that it just makes everything feel unnatural to me...
- magic system. where is it? this anime spent quite a bit of time hyping the magic system and powers like "not many reached level 100" and talking a bit about levels and that they are hard to reach and what a genius the FMC is that she can use magic at such a young age, even giving time skips for the FMC to learn it... all for it to barely be shown and then quickly forgotten :/... But the few times you see magic, you can see it is quite OP... and then you show me that certain things that seemed basic to solve in a world with such OP magic can be solved only like that??? Yea, I don't wanna spoil it, but I kinda found it hard to believe that was the best solution for a certain problem... whatever, it's not like they explain much about it...
- time skips... I think these time skips were the most empty time skips that I have ever seen. Barely anything happens in these time skips. Felt more like the author just wanted to rush the time and finally reach the ages where things can happen like enrolling in the academy at age 15 and etc... Also feels like these time skips were mostly for the FMC, and the rest of the characters/state of the world stayed somewhat the same.
- this story has a few parallel action points happening at once, but it sure is progressing a few of them without telling or showing anything. You just find out that something already happened... which leads to quite a bit of a problem, because when can you attach to characters when the action involving them is being skipped like that??
- the prince... every time he appeared on screen, things would just break the flow of the story and get really weird really quick, and I am not even talking about their age difference in certain moments... it felt like shoujo elements being forced and beaten into the story. It really made me feel awkward watching the scenes with the prince. It did get better more towards the end... but it still happened from time to time
- while they do give reasons why people act the way they act, it still felt pretty childish or artificial to me, especially the other FMC that is considered a "saint"... a lot of conversations felt unnatural af to me, even taking the reasons presented into
- the last episode was the most interesting one to watch imo, as it sets for a big change for season 2, but taking into all the problems I had with season 1 and the story it wants to tell in season 2, I have high doubts the author will be able to tell it in a good way...

Story: 4 -- Generic otome story, but the presentation is very lacking. Empty world, weird time skips, events not being shown, sometimes rushing stuff, small perspective, unnatural conversations and interactions....

Art: 7 -- Not many action scenes... But the art in general was acceptable

Music: 5 -- Nothing memorable or that strike me as "man, this music really elevated this scene"

Characters: 5 -- Generic otome characters + unnatural interactions + quite bad presentation of them = not good at all

Enjoyment: 5 -- Somewhat interesting at first, but it become more and more boring the more I watched... the last episode did set quite a nice idea for season 2, but I have high doubts it will be executed well enough when taking into the failures of this season... if it even gets a season 2

Overall: 5
Right now it has 7.33 from 51.931 votes Ranked #2717 Popularity #2134 108,106 as of 30/04/2025.
Tbh, I cannot really recommend it. Compared to all the other otome anime/stories that are on the market, this one feels like a really bottom tier one. Couldn't even present generic otome stuff in an enjoyable way... Watch it only if you want to the time ig

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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