My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 6

eBook, 195 pages

English language

Published June 28, 2020 by J-Novel Club.

ISBN:: 978-1-7183-3210-2
ASIN:: 1718332106
Goodreads:: 54318410

(1 review)

After being reincarnated as the villainess of an otome game, Katarina has now successfully cleared not only the end of the game's storyline, but also graduation from the Academy of Magic, without meeting any Catastrophic Bad Ends!

...Or so she thought! Get ready for... Fortune Lover II! In the sequel to the original otome game, the evil character of Katarina Claes returns full force, and faces even more disastrous endings!

As Katarina joins the ranks of the Magical Ministry to avoid being swept off to the castle by Jeord, she may have jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire! With bad ending flags everywhere, will she ever be able to lead a peaceful life?

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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)

Review of 'My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 6' on 'Storygraph'

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 …

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 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.

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Light Novel