@bunny-k1m The few titles I can think of which have good heroines friendly with the villainess include Bakarina and Daughter of House Albert Wishes for Ruin. But otherwise nowadays the "heroine is actually crazy/evil" trope is more prevalent nowadays (I think Accomplishments of the Duke's...
Reminder that you can read the official novel translation on J Novel Club.
https://j-novel.club/v/the-magician-who-rose-from-failure-volume-1/search?curFilter=%7B%22order%22%3A%22title+ASC%22%2C%22keyword%22%3A%22magician%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22Novel%22%7D&curModel=series
The manga is still...
@SuperOniichan Maybe it's a mix of both. Something like how titles such as Kuroko's Basketball was aimed at male readers, but attracted a good amount of female fans too.
Bishounen syndrome allows for further expansion of the marketing circle to cover both male and female readership.
Latest raw manga chapter is Chp 5, so there isn't too much of a backlog to catch up with.
J Novel Club is officially translating the source novels (they are on Vol 2 now), so you can check them out if you want to see how the story goes.
Chp 21.1 of the raws just got uploaded.
@JWChibi From what I recall of the source WN, Eliana was never training to be a ruler. She was only training to be a noble wife, but that's about it. Acting as a monarch is a new thing for her.