Yarinaoshi Reijou wa Ryuutei Heika wo Kouryakuchuu

Jill Savelle—fiancée of the crown prince Gerald der Kratos and known as the "Lady Goddess of War"—is being hunted down by the same country she swore to protect. Betrayed by her betrothed, she is framed as a traitor and imprisoned. In her last moments, Jill is filled with regret, but just as death approaches, she awakens six years in the past. This time, she will not be a mere pawn.

Now as a 10-year-old girl, Jill resolves to escape her imminent engagement to the prince. To this end, she jokingly professes her love to the 19-year-old dragon emperor Hadis Teos Rave, who will one day stain the land in blood due to madness. But against all expectations, he accepts!

In contrast to the tyrant from Jill's memories, the Hadis of this time is a kind albeit unfortunate emperor. Can Jill prevent Hadis from descending down the same dark, villainous road, or is he bound to an inevitable future?

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Savelle, Jill Main

Uchida, Shuu Japanese

Rave, Hadis Teos Main

Toya, Kikunosuke Japanese

Camilla Supporting

Hino, Mari Japanese

Rave Supporting

Izawa, Shiori Japanese

Mihari Supporting

Sugawara, Shinsuke Japanese

Hugo Supporting

Ishiya, Haruki Japanese

Marquess Beil Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka Japanese

Goddess Kratos Supporting

Gotou, Saori Japanese

Marton, Lawrence Supporting

Uchida, Shuuichi Japanese

Rave, George Teos Supporting

Kusunoki, Taiten Japanese

Nishimae, Shuka Producer

Fujishiro, Atsushi Producer

Matsumura, Nao Producer

Shibayama, Chiho Producer

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Feb 21, 2025

happa_hana

Recommended

Gonna take a huge controversial opinion on this big platform for "The Do-Over Damsel Conquers The Dragon Emperor" anime — if one can just look past the (justified) problematics of a minor betrothed to a teenage-adult, the series is a treat.

And I mean what I said. Cautionary disclaimer follows: it's *okay* to not take fiction as fact or reality. This is quite literally a safe space where no real-life actors on screen are being paid for acting out characters. It's creative - it's as fictional as it can get so let's not dwell too much into it.

So, should you pass this up even if ... it's absolutely not up to your palate? - well....yea, please watch what you really want lol.

For those who can conform, here's my review.

The story this anime has BY FAR makes up for the romance issue. I definitely agree that, although setting & plot-motivated, it could have still been remedied. Okay let's get past this already. Moving on–from the time you meet Jill on screen, you're in love with her, and hooked. There is no return until you click on next, next, next episode, and it's over and you're feeling left with "wait! what?? How is this over?? They have had to greenlit this for S2 right? right??"
It's such a rollercoaster of a ride - the myth-and-magic infused dark political upheavals and dynamics of this show just has you by the throat. I'm not gonna lie but Jill kept giving me flashbacks of "Youjo Senki" - she is just that powerful! scary? no not really, but truly a great soldier character. Her character is also well-complimented with Shuu Uchida's voice acting (my 1st time hearing her) & it's a great combo - the talent really shines and you just cannot help but love Jill! (My only wish was to see more of her 16-yo self because that's badass too)
Next, we have our love interest the Dragon Emperor voiced by Kikunosuke Toya (can you believe that this VA had voiced Chouji in "Windbreaker"? the difference is contrasting, but an easy fan fav VA for sure) - feared by all, definitely has unresolved abandonment and abuse issues (with a lolicon complex maybe), but to Jill, he is the one looking after the house, waiting for her to return from the battlefield with the dining table set with sweet bakeries and pastries, meat, veggies, and a whole heart of love and bashfulness. He still has hope for a happy ending because of her. Can you tell I enjoyed his character? (of course you can) - I also liked his 'dark moody' character whenever he's pressed and angry too. I think the spectrum of his emotions are well-done in his character that it doesn't feel 'cringy' or too 'try-hard' and that is definitely a praise.
Jill and the Emperor's relationship grows, albeit a little strenuously and somewhat at a disapproving pace for Jill. But the latter is just trying to survive and marrying the emperor is her trump card. So what can be done, the least is to fall in love and make sure that the dark future of the kingdom does not repeat itself and she, once again, doesn't end up dying.

So far, it all should sound a little like "7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!" And you'll not be wrong. "The Do-Over Damsel Conquers The Dragon Emperor" would be if "7thTime Loop" and "Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion" had an adopted daughter and "Youjo Senki" was an influential aunt (minus the isekai)— it makes a lot of sense to me so that's why I wrote it. It's a very good senin-jousei rom-com that has you seated throughout. And speaking of the 'comedy' in the romance - it's alright. it's at times pretty funny and other times I was neutral about it (the only 'comedy' that i nodded my head to was probably when the adults in the anime also wanted to punch the Emperor for pushing himself onto a minor)

Okay (this is already pretty long so) a few quick good points:
- animation - JC Staff is cooking in their kitchen when the cooks are good. 10/10 no notes
- overall voice acting - good stuff 8.5/10
- music/song - OST is pretty good; Shuhei Mutsuki is the composer and there are some pretty solid A+ in the album

so, TL;DR - should you watch it? - Yes. Absolutely. You should. If you're one who understands that fiction is not real-world, this can easily be a higher-mid story series for you

Overall rating - 7.85 out of 10 (someone please fix the Review radar for this anime)

ty :)

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 27, 2025

red-artist

Mixed Feelings

Good:
* great setting and lore. A goddess that believes in emotional love and a dragon god who believes in logic/reason is a cool concept.
* silly comedy with fun lead characters. I love how badass and active FL is. And the ML has some good character development towards the end of the season.
* wholesome romance (except for the age-gap thing, which is weird, but anime gotta anime).

Bad:
* predictable plot with lots of plot conveniences. there's not tension at all.
* Garbage animation and production.

Overall
Despite the low budget, I was able to enjoy the show. If you don't like the main characters though, you should just ... drop it early on.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 2, 2025

ThiccRaspberry

Not Recommended

This had so much potential and that makes me want to give it even lower score.

The story set up was pretty decent, definitely better than most anime in this genre. Same goes for the animation - it was okayish nothing breathtaking but it was not a literal slide show - for the most part. But both of them get so much worse as the story goes on. We get extreme expositions dump at the start of the show. I dont understand why they didnt pace out the story more so we get to know all the characters better. The story would be also ... less rushed and we wouldnt need these pathetic info dumps. I personally believe that the first six episodes couldve been the whole series if it was written better. This way the goddess looks so pathetic - but thats not really surprising since all the villains are extremely cartoonish. The main protagonist is also very confusing. Its like the authors cant decide what her character should be - witty, tsundere, funny, serious,... it is important for characters to be complex but this she isnt. She is a mess. Its really sad that the story had potential but it was ruined by laziness and lack of planing.

Now. For the elephant in the room. The age gap. I dont understand why so many anime are affraid to have characters older than 20. Like its so easy to fix it - goddess can poses anyone who is 18 and older, make the main girl 16 and the guy 18 meaning they were in their 20s at the start of the show which would make so much more sense??? They are really pulling that "iN ThE oLd TimEs", "iTS noRMaL fOr RoyALty" and "hE iS AlsO juST a cHiLd" like please. What is the point of it if you are not going to use the insane age gap for anything like... the curse could have any age, the characters dont act their age (mc does not act like she is 16 anyways), we dont see the mc being comflicted about suddenly being in prepubescent body, we have nothing. So again, why? And what makes it so disgusting is that it is not just a platonic love - like bro why are you kissing a 10 y.o. when you are 19 six episodes in? Yuck.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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