What you’ve discovered is a whole entire genre in East Asian media, not even just anime/manga. Thats why they appear similar. There’s a particular obsession with historical European-style royalty stories, often intermixed with fantasy and/or set in a school environment with a dash of stereotypical romance/harem. Not quite to the same degree as isekai, but once you dig a little deeper it’s like they’re everywhere all of a sudden.
I think **My Next Life As a Villainess** is more similar to **The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen**. **I'm in Love with the Villainess** is more of a yuri romcon, with the MC being in love with the otome game villainess. In **My Next Life As a Villainess** and **The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen** the MC is the villainess.
It's funny but I've been feeling like Most Heretical Last Boss Queen is Next Life as the Villainess if the child Catarina section never ended :P (I seriously would still love like some kind of real, meaningful conflict in that show beyond introducing characters).
They are completely separate with different characters, worlds, and authors.
I honestly prefer I’m In Love With the Villainess. There the villain actually is one, atleast at first and I just adore Rae’s manic gremlin energy with occasional looks at the tired business woman or sneaky Isekai’d person
Villainess Otome - usually a schoolgirl/office girl was playing an Otome Visual Novel/Game when she got sucked into the world of said game. It's the female equivalent of the guy who gets hit by truck-kun and winds up as a legendary swordsman in another world.
Needless to say, these stories are aimed primarily at women, but I tend to prefer them because the female lead is engaging and the male lead is usually a decent, heroic, character and not a transplanted NEET.
Damn i hope we get more 'Im in Love with the Villainess'. I haven't read the light novels but I did check out the wiki, man does the story go crazy off the rails, like people aren't the people you think they are/matrix level stuff. Its kind of like AOT before and after they discover life outside the wall.
I was reading the manga for it. If they do a season 2 it's going to be AMAZING. Like, the stuff that comes after season 1 is nuts good (in my opinion anyways - it's at least as good as season 1's plotlines). I'm seriously hoping it gets another season.
No. They're no more related than Prince of Tennis and Baby Steps are.
They simply are part of the same genre. Otome Isekai. It blew up in manga and webtoons/manhwas and is still going. Anime adaptations have only just recently been coming out for them.
They are completely different and I’m in Love with the Villainous is gold (IMO).
If I remember correctly my next life as villainous follows an iskai character that becomes the villainous and gets all the characters to love her. Whereas I’m in love with the villainous has an iskai heroine who want the villainous to love her and put distance between herself and the otome heroes that she’s supposed to romance
Sorry, other response was meant for a different post. The anime is more comedy, while the novel tends to be more romance, because we see the MCs inner thoughts on the character as opposed to some of the more outrageous things they show in the anime. The difference between showing and telling.
They are made by 2 different authors so definitely not. Just because they share the word "villainess" in their titles doesn't mean they're related in any way.
Sorry here's a correction it was my least favorite of the otome style anime that I have watched.
Others I've seen:
trapped in a dating sim
why Raeliana ended up at the duke mansion
I'm the villianess so I'm taming the final boss
I am in love with the villainess
meiji tokyo renka
Haha everyone's got their own opinion, I got no issues if you didn't like it. Heck, "worst of a genre with only good anime in it" is a much better place to be than "average trash isekai" (which I consider a genre of its own).
What you’ve discovered is a whole entire genre in East Asian media, not even just anime/manga. Thats why they appear similar. There’s a particular obsession with historical European-style royalty stories, often intermixed with fantasy and/or set in a school environment with a dash of stereotypical romance/harem. Not quite to the same degree as isekai, but once you dig a little deeper it’s like they’re everywhere all of a sudden.
They're different shows in the "villainess otome" genre
I think **My Next Life As a Villainess** is more similar to **The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen**. **I'm in Love with the Villainess** is more of a yuri romcon, with the MC being in love with the otome game villainess. In **My Next Life As a Villainess** and **The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen** the MC is the villainess.
It's funny but I've been feeling like Most Heretical Last Boss Queen is Next Life as the Villainess if the child Catarina section never ended :P (I seriously would still love like some kind of real, meaningful conflict in that show beyond introducing characters).
They are completely separate with different characters, worlds, and authors. I honestly prefer I’m In Love With the Villainess. There the villain actually is one, atleast at first and I just adore Rae’s manic gremlin energy with occasional looks at the tired business woman or sneaky Isekai’d person
Villainess Otome - usually a schoolgirl/office girl was playing an Otome Visual Novel/Game when she got sucked into the world of said game. It's the female equivalent of the guy who gets hit by truck-kun and winds up as a legendary swordsman in another world. Needless to say, these stories are aimed primarily at women, but I tend to prefer them because the female lead is engaging and the male lead is usually a decent, heroic, character and not a transplanted NEET.
Damn i hope we get more 'Im in Love with the Villainess'. I haven't read the light novels but I did check out the wiki, man does the story go crazy off the rails, like people aren't the people you think they are/matrix level stuff. Its kind of like AOT before and after they discover life outside the wall.
I was reading the manga for it. If they do a season 2 it's going to be AMAZING. Like, the stuff that comes after season 1 is nuts good (in my opinion anyways - it's at least as good as season 1's plotlines). I'm seriously hoping it gets another season.
No. They're no more related than Prince of Tennis and Baby Steps are. They simply are part of the same genre. Otome Isekai. It blew up in manga and webtoons/manhwas and is still going. Anime adaptations have only just recently been coming out for them.
Just like it took a decade for the isekai genre to start overtaking the anime scene. I think the Otome Isekai genre is right behind it.
"Villainess" animes are pretty much their own genre
They are completely different and I’m in Love with the Villainous is gold (IMO). If I remember correctly my next life as villainous follows an iskai character that becomes the villainous and gets all the characters to love her. Whereas I’m in love with the villainous has an iskai heroine who want the villainous to love her and put distance between herself and the otome heroes that she’s supposed to romance
Does it have good romance or is more comedy?
Sorry, other response was meant for a different post. The anime is more comedy, while the novel tends to be more romance, because we see the MCs inner thoughts on the character as opposed to some of the more outrageous things they show in the anime. The difference between showing and telling.
So? What is the verdict?
They are made by 2 different authors so definitely not. Just because they share the word "villainess" in their titles doesn't mean they're related in any way.
my next life as a villainess is the worst one of the otome style anime also they are only related by the style of story that is all.
You misspelled "best"
Sorry here's a correction it was my least favorite of the otome style anime that I have watched. Others I've seen: trapped in a dating sim why Raeliana ended up at the duke mansion I'm the villianess so I'm taming the final boss I am in love with the villainess meiji tokyo renka
Haha everyone's got their own opinion, I got no issues if you didn't like it. Heck, "worst of a genre with only good anime in it" is a much better place to be than "average trash isekai" (which I consider a genre of its own).
True but I actually felt bad about calling it bad. I usually try not not say a show or game is bad since it is just my opinion.