My Next Life as a Villainess by Satoru Yamaguchi

It would make for a more interesting character. While I appreciate that this feature of Katarina allows her to be kind to everyone and everything, there’s no reason why someone more observant and emotionally sensitive couldn’t be nice as well. When other characters fight politely in front of her about her, she can tell there’s something off, but has no clue beyond that. Katarina is confused about things most of the time because she’s apparently really dense and emotionally incredibly immature this gets old, and not just for me it frustrates most of the other characters as well. There’s some magic and some adventure in the world, but not much in this volume. This is largely fluff, basically innocent childish romance and friendship. Volume 5 of the light novel series is a set of shorts, taking various perspectives set roughly around the time just following the precious installment with one main exception where we get the story of Katarina’s mother and how she met her now husband. She’s just starting to realize this about her current fiancée, Prince Jeord, but is oblivious to the fact that the rest of the cast feels the same way.

She does this by being super nice to everyone so that they don’t end up wanting or trying to destroy her as a result, unbeknownst to her, Katarina ends up making everyone in the game fall in love with her. A bump on the head at the age of 8 causes Katarina to regain her memories and how the game goes, and she wants to avoid the villainess fates. The premise is that a high school girl obsessed with a certain kind of video game dies, and is reincarnated as the antagonist of her favorite dating video game. This is a light novel series that has been turned into both a manga and an anime. So certain times of year coincide with heavier professional workloads, and when that happens, I tend to gravitate towards much lighter reading, things like My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (volume 5).

My Next Life as a Villainess by Satoru Yamaguchi