Akuyaku Reijou no Tsuihougo! - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - You weren’t supposed to have so much fun after being punished

[GruntZone360]

+1 Seems interesting so far (always welcome a new slice of life)

 

[MasterPannya]

MOAR OTOME ISEKAI, BABY.

 

[Nk9bjP4A]

He's more like a stalker.

 

[Odessakun]

So far it’s cute lol

 

[migh]

pretty nice hope you'll do more, thanks for it

 

[amaranthia]

when i read the name elizabeth and a nun/sister too, all i remember is Sound Horizon's song from Nein Album lol.
Quite funny if i imagine it is the same Elizabeth.

 

[Roiya]

I think these stories prefer the villainess because the protagonist usually has got it too easy. If you are the villainess then you have more challenges to overcome and more complexity than the usual mary sue otome heroine.

 

[irmaars21]

I love so much!! It's seems so fun and I love isekai with food. Thanks so much for translating!

 

[Paru]

why do the villainess's look the same in every single otome game

 

[talisay999]

nope

 

[woodrabbit]

Whoa a stalker.
The premise is too cliche and the MC is too bland has no interesting characteristic, but I want to join that church.

 

[Psychronia]

Yaaas. Moar Otome Isekai. We don't have 50 billion anime adaptations of this format, so there definitely aren't enough. Well, Bakarina's adaptation is probably gonna change that though.

@xyzzy I think Lady Rose Wants to be a Commoner is actually a heroine? I might be mixing it up a bit. Nonetheless, you're right that villainess stories are more common. I assume it's because writing a story where you follow a plot is boring, but breaking it is easier if you're someone with an extremely well-defined roll like "antagonist".

I can think of a lot of ways to make a good heroine-MC Otome-Isekai though. One that's a shipper who wants to pair the rivals with the conquest targets, one that doesn't like the various conquest target archetypes because they're realistically kinda awful people, one that starts young and derails the story so extremely that it becomes something else, or maybe one that prefers to romance an NPC (though this one has been done with villainesses already).

Actually, one of my favorite stories in this format (though I would've preferred it was written differently) has the MC be reincarnated as a conquest target and love the villainess over the heroine.

 

[Sola]

What in the hell did that poor tree ever do to him?

 

[sunshineeee]

:)

 

[twinklecake]

He's putting the pussy on a pedestal.

 

[Zephyr247]

Even though the sudden death scene is needed to kick off the story in isekai, this one just seems really sad to me. I mean...she overworked herself and then fell asleep and drowned in her bathtub. I kind of want an isekai that deals with how it feels to remember your own death. I would read that.

 

[Sancturil]

@Psychronia I think that in some cases there's also another possible reason for the focus to be on the Villainess rather than the Heroine, though I think that this possibility likely arose as this genre progressed.
At first, most Villainess Otome isekai stories had the villainess be a bad person, but then the reincarnation led the plot in a different direction.
However, there's been since then more and more stories in which the "Villainess" isn't actually a bad person. Either she is framed, or she is only trying to keep away the Heroine without being malicious, and things end up with the Villainess in a bad role in the eyes of others.
After all, it makes sense considering that the Heroine is essentially seducing someone who already has a fiance, and that someone(prince in most cases) chooses to spend time wooing that Heroine even when he has a fiance.
And then, it's either the Heroine is the schemer or she's innocent(but still going after someone who already has a fiance) and other nobles who bullied the Heroine then blame the "Villainess". Moreover, in some cases, the Heroine even woo to her side many men(reverse harem), most of whom also have fiances.

And now, most Villainess Otome isekai stories follow this new format that focuses on the tragedy of the Villainess and how she rises afterward to make her life better. (Or how she changes events before the point in the game where she's be punished, and in those stories she is often still depicted as acting like the noble woman she was in the game, just also having hindsight and making different decisions.)

As such, in the evolution of this genre, we're currently in the stage where the Villainess is humanized rather than demonized as someone needing to be changed to the core to become a good person, for she is acknowledged as a genuine person from the get go rather than as a bad jealous person.

EDIT: Oh, and there's also how the "Villainess" is actually often someone more prepared and able to become a good Queen than a commoner or lowly baron daughter would be. Education to become Queen is also important. Furthermore, there's even more and more focus on how the prince who chose the Heroine is more incompetent precisely because he doesn't think in terms of the country but rather being more interesting in wooing a cute girl.

 

[Sancturil]

@definitionofinsanity That's a very interesting way to look at it. Your comment made me appreciate his character more. Thank you.

 

[mimicking]

wait HE'S ACTUALLY PRECIOUS OH MY GOSH

oh and i like that it starts after she has received punishment/ended her role in the story. haven't read a story like that before i guess

 

[esp]

I'd like to see one of these with the circumstances reversed. 8 year old noble wakes up in the bath in another world.