Oohashi Rei, who like Akira in ZOM 100 worked for an exploitative company, would unwind after work with Revolution, her favorite otome (dating sim) game. But one night the TV screen gets all glitchy, and the next thing she knows, she’s being dressed down by none other than her favorite character in the game, who is not of the designated hot guys, but the villainess Claire Francois. And Rei couldn’t be happier.
Rei, now “Rae Taylor”, has somehow been transported into the world of the game. Now occupying the same three dimensional space as her digital crush, she wastes no time taking her hands in hers and declaring her love for her. Claire…doesn’t know what to do with this, but one thing’s for sure,it throws her off! She’s supposed to be an effective bully, but none of her bullying works on Rae. It only makes Rae love her more.
Honestly I was surprised how up my alley this show turned out to be. Serizawa Yuu is a hoot as Rae, who is unabashedly head-over-heels for Claire, and while I’m not too familiar with Claire’s seiyu Nanami Karin, she knocks it out of the park with a suitably haughty performance, complete with enough robust ojou-sama laughs to give anyone using them for a drinking game serious alcohol poisoning!
I also love how Rae, when she was Rei, didn’t give a shit about the prescribed dating routes in the game, but interacted as much as possible with Claire. She does the same when thrust into their world, only remembering the three hot princes existed when they show up in the middle of Claire trying and failing to psychologically abuse her. Rae even gets Claire to neg the sensitive second priest she actually likes, a tremendous self-own!
This show may only work if you like both Rae and Claire, and get why Rae loves her. Claire may be a rich bitch and a bully, but Rae points out how Claire never goes too far in her bullying, and she’s also cute as hell when she’s flustered, which is constantly in Rae’s presence. But like a bug to a bug light, she just can’t resist trying to put a commoner in her place.
To that end, she challenges Rae to a duel involving their upcoming exam scores. If Claire wins, Rae will leave the school. If Rae wins, Claire has to do something, anything she wants. And while Rae isn’t that confident in her table etiquette, she’s extremely confident in the written exam since she did exhaustive research on the setting of the game when she wrote a doujinshi in her world. She’s also above-average to exceptional in magical abilities.
On the morning the exam scores are posted, Claire thinks Rae has bags under her eyes because she’s nervous about the results, but she’s wrong. Rae simply stayed up all night thinking of what she’d ask Claire to do for her after she won. And win she does, scoring higher than Claire in two of the three exams. Only two of the three princes scored higher than Rae in the written exam, while Rae takes the top spot with her “unmeasurable” magical power.
I’m in Love with the Villainess has a simple, fun premise that’s a great twist on your standard otome isekai story. Where past villainess shows I’ve watched make the villainess a tragic or sympathetic character, Claire is portrayed as advertised: she’s a real piece of work with drill curls. But love comes in all forms, and not only does Rae love her, but it’s totally understandable why she does. We’ll see if Claire ever comes around to accepting those feelings.
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