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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Dec 24, 2024

Marinate1016

Recommended

When I think about the best villainess characters of all time, I’ll have Alicia in that list. Rekiaku is a pretty straightforward otome style story, but Alicia is what really makes it enjoyable. She’s determined to go down in history as a legendary villainess in a world where no one’s ever heard of the role. This was a fun watch from start to finish thanks in large part to Alicia’s antics and the way she genuinely wants to make a difference in the world. It had some issues, but I was overall very pleased and will miss this one a lot!

Like I said, Alicia ... was the main draw here for me. She was just such a cool lead, full of energy and ambition, while not being stupid. Whereas a lot of otome leads want to lead normal lives out of the spotlight, Alicia embraces her abilities and wants to improve her country. She recognises the inequality that’s rampant in the country and actually stands up for the voiceless in society. While she tries to be an edgelord at times, she’s got a heart of gold and throughout the show we see everyone she comes into contact with’s lives drastically improved. Whether it’s helping a poor village out or stopping bullying in school, Alicia just seems to know exactly what to do!

As we’ve come to expect from otome shows, the world Alicia gets reincarnated into doesn’t end up going the same way as the game she played on Earth. Particularly as it relates to her role and relationships as the villainess. This leads to conflict between she and the saint and that’s where my first big issue with this show is. The Saint is the most annoying character ever. She has this superficial holier than thou gimmick that just made watching every scene with her such a chore. It’s so obvious that it’s fake and not who she really is, leading to a lot of conflicts between she and Alicia throughout. But even when she got fleshed out at the end of the series, I just couldn’t bring myself to care about her. She’s annoying and a weak antagonist. My other issue is the male lead in the show who’s like 4 years older than Alicia and has been into her since she was 7. Very creepy relationship dynamic that the show tries to play off as a cute, but it never landed with me. In fact that’s one of the major reasons I can’t rate this as highly as I want to. The story is solid, Alicia is a great character, but man that romance is bad.

Production wise, nothing really to speak of here. Art is solid, animation is mediocre to passable and the voice acting is decent.

I’m kind of met with a conundrum when evaluating this show because I love the MC, but dislike the romance and conflict with the saint. For me personally this took it down a little bit, but it’s still worth checking out if you like well written female characters. Alicia is badass, beautiful and competent. While the story has its flaws, I still really enjoyed watching it when the prince wasn’t on screen.

Rekiaku gets 8 out of 10

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jan 7, 2025

Kamitori

Mixed Feelings

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Mid, watch only if you have read the original or love the genre and have watched almost every anime about "vileness something."

---A brief review from me---

The first episode felt underwhelming, with weak art, mid-tier animation, and a mediocre OST. However, from episode 2 onward, the series starts gaining momentum, becoming increasingly interesting until around episode 7, when it completely loses its pacing, similar to Dahlia in Bloom. After that, it drags on with repetitive, pointless content. At least Dahlia offered something engaging past episode 6, but here it's just boring. The final episodes weren’t too bad, but the disappointment from earlier ones left a bitter ... aftertaste.

Would I recommend it? Not really. Should you watch it? Perhaps if you’ve read the original or are a fan of the genre. It’s disappointing, considering it was one of my most anticipated anime from the previous season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 20, 2025

Jet_Suzuyaki

Not Recommended

The anime is the embodiment of boredom at its most boring, with nothing to shake us out of the ambient monotony that runs through these 13 episodes. What I mean by this is that everything is seen over and over again, without ever adding anything to the already hackneyed scenario of the young girl reincarnated as a romance game villain. And from there, every clichéd event unfolds exactly as you'd expect it to, so you're never surprised or invested in any way, and so you just endure the scenario and nothing more.

But what pushes me below the average is that in execution it manages the ... feat of messing up what it does! For example, the heroine behaves like the most evil villain of all, and for that we get 0 subtlety, because she repeats it 20 times per episode, and worse than that, she never actually behaves like a villain, despite what she keeps saying, every one of her actions is that of a lambda big-hearted heroine, the only difference is that she makes a villainous laugh and says she is, but I'm sorry, saying an event is bad doesn't automatically make it bad, it doesn't work like that!

So the basic promise alone is screwed up, but you can extend that to this season's central twist, which is pathetic in its execution, to the romance, which has no chemistry and comes out of nowhere, and overall to everything the anime undertakes, it's sad beyond belief to see such a result.

I'll say one last word about the feat of transforming Alicia's only bad deed, namely harassing Lize when she hasn't asked her to, into a good deed, since at the end you're made to believe that Lize is a manipulator, when formally she isn't. But then, it would have been too much to ask that Alicia be allowed to do what she wants. But it would have been asking too much to actually make Alicia mean in even one relationship.

But the bottom line is that I'm not even annoyed by this level of pandering, I'm just indifferent. In short, in the end I won't retain anything from this anime other than a vague boredom, but did it ever try to be more than that? Unfortunately, I don't think so.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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