Jishou Akuyaku Reijou na Konyakusha no Kansatsu Kiroku.
An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess

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TLDR; A sweet manga romance manga revolved around subverting a painfully overdone trope

Im bored to death with these types of stories, its so overdone i'm sorry, but this manga is an exception. Its fun its sweet its not too heavy on drama. The manga really shines on its subversion of tropes. Most of these stories follow the MC try to keep the cannon while portraying the cannon as a bad outcome or worse scenario, but our female lead in this manga actively strives towards it. Its a refreshing take on the genre. Like most subversive genre stories though, it heavily benefits from the reader having ... a base knowledge of the genre its subverting. Its like any 4th wall breaking video game, if that's someones first video game the effect isnt as ground breaking. Either way its a fun and easy read, easy recomednation.

I agree with another reviewer, 7/10 overall manga but 9/10 for the genre

I've read a lot of villainess otome game mangas and novels, and this one has the best execution so far. Usually the fact that the world is a game and the routes stop mattering not even mid-way through, but this manga actually thoroughly explores all the possible routes, even though they don't come to be, making the reader feel that they're actually playing a game at times.

What struck me as particularly unique was the insistence of the villainess to get the male lead and main protagonist, prince Cecil, with the heroine. Both the heroine and the villainess treated him like an NPC, and at certain ... points it made me feel uncomfortable because both of them were convinced that Cecil couldn't escape a bad ending unless he ended up with the heroine. Since the villainess and female lead, Bertia, loves the character so much, she was especially obsessed with getting them together, which meant that prince Cecil had to scheme and strike down a lot of flags from the shadows to change the "plot" of the "game" to make Bertia finally accept him and start treating the characters as human beings.

Overall, it's an enjoyable and interesting read. 8/10 in general and 9.5/10 as far as otome game manga/novels go.

This manga has ruined yandere male leads for me, because they always compare so poorly to Cecil. He’s affectionate in a fun way, and I love how literally everyone isn’t afraid to call out how he’s a pretty big weirdo. He’s really unique in that while he is super intelligent and “powerful”, he does seek to improve himself and chooses to do a lot of stuff that doesn’t exactly come naturally to him.

All the characters are a ton of fun, and I like how it distinctly avoided the harem route typical to these types of stories, and made all the actual pairings really cute ... and fitting. While they’re relatively minor I would genuinely want to read a story (or at least oneshot) based on any of the given couples.

The villain isn’t great but she’s acceptable, and is probably the only actually poor start of the story. The manga probably would’ve been about to same if she was or wasn’t there.

Probably best read if you’re familiar with the otome isekai genre of stories, since a lot of the appeal is a subversion of really common tropes. But ultimately even if you haven’t read any it’s just really cute.