bentgaidin 's review for:

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (Manga) Vol. 1 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

5.0

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'My Next Life as a Villainess' is a show I've been really enjoying the anime of, so I wanted to pick up the manga as well, and that's been great fun too. It's basically the same story, of a girl who finds herself the doomed villain of an otome game and is trying to escape her fate. Luckily for her, it turns out being friendly and encouraging is enough to change the lives of those around her - now if only she could figure out who's going to end up falling in love with the heroine and get out of their way... The manga covers her growing up and meeting each of the four boys (and most of the girls) before going off to school, while being completely oblivious to how much all of them now adore her. It's great fun, and I really love its take on a genre-savvy character who isn't trying to be the center of the story.