Rekishi ni Nokoru Akujo ni Naru zo

The kind and compassionate heroine of an otome game may be as flawless as she is admirable, 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 Supporting

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Jill Supporting

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Mel Supporting

Hondo, Kaede Japanese

Williams, Henry Supporting

Ishiya, Haruki Japanese

Smith, Finn Supporting

Murase, Ayumu Japanese

Rebecca Supporting

Ookubo, Rumi Japanese

Neal, Johnson Supporting

Hase, Norihito Japanese

Marika Supporting

Kawaida, Natsumi Japanese

Usukura, Ryuutarou Producer

Mukai, Yuuki Producer

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

Tsuchiya, Masanori Sound Director

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Mar 15, 2025

mrfried

Recommended

This is a good series let down by a final episode, which, without spoiling anything, only existed as a setup for a potential second season, and actually would have been better served as the first episode for said second season so season 1 could have a complete and clean ending.

As the last episode only exists to get you watching Season 2, I will base the contents of this review on only the first 12 episodes

To sum it up this series is best described as Tsundere The Anime, if you've been watching what should now be called the 'Villainess anime genre' this offers nothing new, there ... are no surprises and many events within the story are predictable
So why would I recommend it?
Easy, because if you are a fan of the genre you will enjoy this, it actually works and avoids many of the traps other series fall into, competency is often better than trying to stand out by trying to be unique, which can often lead to a series jumping the shark where it them promptly crashes and burns. A well crafted story with good pacing, likable characters and actual character development can carry you far, even if those story beats are already well trod by other series before, tropes exist because we know they work.
Characters are given depth, they aren't flat reduced to having just one character trait, and many are given character growth throughout the series
This is not a flawless series, it's not amazing, it doesn't reinvent the wheel, it just does what it does well, it's a good solid series and an enjoyable watch
Definitely one for fans of the genre

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 28, 2025

cowboysquid

Mixed Feelings

The mc isn't anything crazy but I liked her, and I do this this is on the more unique side. I always love when they're good with swords and can save themself!

The first episode felt underwhelming and I watched it all on 2x speed which might sound crazy but it works if you want to get through an anime.

But the prince is weird... and I cant get behind them making her 5 years younger. You guys just had to make it weird... 15 y/o finding a 10 y/o attractive??

Art style is fine.

There's not much more to say. I looked past the weirdness ... cause it wasn't always in your face. but if you cant I 10000% understand.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 27, 2025

havrak

Not Recommended

Just another compilation of motives we have seen hundreds of time done worse than we seen hundreds of times. Author clearly had a checklist off all tropes he needed to hit and well he certainly did.

First of all the world building is a mess - you've got the standard European-esque society with magic being nobles only -> this necessitates a standard discrimination sideplot. Except this time everybody thinks it's bad - noble families heads agree, king agrees but that doesn't matter since that is a genre trope and therefore needed. Also there is this poor village made up of criminals, except no criminals are there ... and for some reasons this village made up of like 5 houses is constantly on mind of every aristocrat.

Worse then world building are characters, chief among them the main antagonist Liz. She has the standard trope of having magic she can't control that makes everyone like her. Except we know that day one leading to an incredibly shallow character and all drama that leads from this also doesn't have any depth. She doesn't evolve a single bit trough the whole show, till the "OMG I didn't know I was manipulating everyone" realization which makes here picture perfect ideal whatever. Author could have setted her up as genuinely sinister person - and for a brief second it looked like that (episode 6) but the author was too scared to commit and it went nowhere.

Our protagonists is just slightly better. the concept of here actually wanting to play out the role of villanes could have been refreshing. However it went essentially nowhere - she doesn't make any person dislike her (except the Liz's drug junkies, which doesn't count) and for a "evil" person she is full lot of unnecessary compassion. Probably would have helped if they decided to drop all the stuff with common folk. Or she could have done the same things not out of compassion but in order to create a more efficient exploitative system. Currently we have a protag who is "playing" as character, leading to her not being a one in a first place.

Ending was partially spoiled in like a first episode (I cannot phantom why would the author done this since it added absolutely nothing. ) and cemented in 10th (I think). Not to mention, as is common in anime, it ended up with sequel baiting.

Animation is simplistic tough workable, soundscape is fine.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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