Muse reviewed My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 6 by Nami Hidaka (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (Light Novel), #6)
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3 stars
At this point in the series, I think it’s fair to say that it’s hitting a pattern. Katerina finds herself in A Scenario, she meets a New Person because of The Scenario, they underestimate her or take advantage of her, but then her personality causes the New Person to change their opinion of her. They get out of The Scenario, and then there’s a flashback about how much they now respect Katerina/want to be her friend/have spontaneously fallen in love with her.
Even with the start of a new arc with the twist being that Katerina doesn’t know where the bad ends are coming from this time, that pattern has yet to shift. I also continue to be a bit annoyed that the step-sibling romance is given more consideration than the possibility of Katerina being in a non-straight romance, but it is what it is. I have other books in …
Even with the start of a new arc with the twist being that Katerina doesn’t know where the bad ends are coming from this time, that pattern has yet to shift. I also continue to be a bit annoyed that the step-sibling romance is given more consideration than the possibility of Katerina being in a non-straight romance, but it is what it is. I have other books in the villainess sub-genre I can read if I want that specific kind of story, and complaining about it in this series feels futile. But on a similar note, I’m also not really amused at the clear joke character that gets introduced in this volume, but I’ve seen enough Japanese media to know that this is a problem I have with Japanese culture’s presentation of gay men and trans people in media in general, and not something that’s unique to this series.
I’m still more put off by the repeating sections, but I’ll give credit this time for the repeat covering parts of a conversation that we didn’t get to hear from Katerina’s perspective. The author continues to improve with each volume, and I’m hoping this new arc will be another step in that growth.