#Endo and Kobayashi’s Live Commentary on the Villainess

[ladies-of-fiction]

Shihono Kobayashi

[maomaojinshi]

aileen ripping cedric’s pride apart😂

[saiyef]

All Volume Covers of Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte

[stormkitty97]

Show Themes I never Skip

Doctor who (any and every one is the best)

Guardian Chinese Drama ( the song is just such a vibe)

Endo and Kobayashi Live: Commentary on the Villainess Liselotte (the song is just soo pretty and so is the animation too)

Wonderland of Love Chinese drama (Very epic and cool)

[ladies-of-fiction]

Lieselotte Riefenstahl

[monthlymanga]

June reads 2023!!!

A bride's story

A world after the fall

Shiloh

Endo and Kobayashi's live commentary on the villainess

Dungeons and Artifacts

[weirdplutoprince]

what shoujo isekais have your favorite male leads? i feel like they're often my least favorite part of them, haha

This is genuinely such a hard one. Ok let me think.

The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass - Not too annoying, I don't remember the details but I distinctively recall liking him

Who made me a princess - Controversial because I mean Claude (PLATONIC SENSE) and not Luka. He's a shitty ass father but I think he's genuinely very charismatic in a way most shitty isekai dads can only try to be.

Endo Kobayashi's live commentary on the villainess - Didn't read much of this one but the prince was just constantly losing his shit over the tsundere hime-sama villainess type.

Is it a fortune or is it a woe? - Genuinely a pretty alright guy. They're a very cute couple iirc, funny story overall too.

Untouchable lady - not particularly interesting but the girl makes up for it and he does a good job of looking pretty and assisting her when she needs.

I'm a martial artist villainess but I'm the strongest - this one is kinda mid story wise but the guy I assume to be the male lead was genuinely kind and cute and pretty puppy like. I liked him.

I became the hero's mom - A decent father and husband!

The invincible princess is bored again today - Genuinely cute and has a sweet relationship with his girl. I quite liked him.

Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmother - First isekai man to have a believable, sympathetic not stupidly convoluted reason for his failings and becomes quite sweet as he makes up for it and grows

[freyalise]

isekai question! been really really enjoying From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated! and I'm curious if the particular twist/thing it does in episode 4 (being vague in case someone doesn't want to be spoiled) is [something rare/unique] or if it's [somewhat done a lot and I just missed/wasn't exposed to all the isekais doing something similar]

ok i am in the middle of watching this anime but I had an inkling of what you're referring to, so I figured I could take a stab at this ask. Anyways, this happens in Sword Art Online. Thanks for listening!

Being more serious, we can look at this from two angles: the "people from modern Japan interacting with someone in an Otome game" angle or the "person who gets isekai'd is actually still alive in the previous world." The combination of the two is unique (it happens twice in SAO, but Sword Art Online was completely walled off and I'm not sure if people from outside the game could interact with Kirito in the Alicization arc).

The former is one I've seen a couple times, with the most significant being Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte, which actually pre-dates From Bureaucrat to Villainess. That one is less of an isekai since the main characters are entirely interacting with the other world through their commentary of the game, but I would not be surprised if Michiro Ueyama didn't take some inspiration from it. The other one would be Isekai Tensei, Ore ga Otome ge de Kyuuseishu, where the main character is sent to an otome game by his sister and she gives him tips on how to progress the romance routes with the main boys. That one isn't a genderswap, so it ends up being very homoerotic. You could also interpret this as happening in Destiny Unchain Online (minus the Otome game angle), since Crim is able to play the game with his friends despite being trapped in the game, but that's stretching it a bit I think. You don't see this one as much in Korean isekai since the vast majority of the time they're being sent to a book; that being said, I think Pick Me Up: Infinite Gacha could count as another non-Otome example

The latter is something I've also seen a few times, but I've mostly seen it in Korean isekai as a punishment to the main character. It's meant to act as a supernatural threat to the happiness a main character is receiving in the isekai by pulling them back to their previous world where they had an unhappy life in some way (abuse/neglect/etc). Off the top of my head, I'm thinking of something like Being Raised By Villains, The Mighty Extra, and to a certain extent, I Raised a Black Dragon. I think the only one I've read where there hasn't been some sort of trauma in the previous world is The Kids Have Changed but honestly I don't recall because that manhwa was pretty bad! It's one of those plot points that requires an author to have a very clear idea of where they're going with the plot since it does take a lot of agency away from the character. There's just not a lot you can do with the main character going back to their non-magic world so they can be miserable. I think From Bureaucrat to Villainess has the possibility to handle it well since it has a clearly defined end point (that is, clearing the game), but considering the manga is still ongoing we'll have to see.

[hitsuyou-fukaketsu]

also do you have any villainess manga recs you have been reading?👀

(rubs my hands mischievously)

My preference for villainess manga is very particular, I mostly enjoy the ojou-sama type more than reencarnations of nice girls!

Okay, first! The shoujo villainess manga!

With One Day Left I'll Break All the Destruction Flags: "Serves You Right!" RTA 24 Hour Record

Alexandra recovers her memories from a previous life 24hours before she's denounced! She learns she's the villainess and only has 24 hours left to fix her future! This was an interesting pick, the protagonist is very interesting and although its very forward in the beginning everything starts to be more complex as the hours pass by.

Also she has rly nice boobs

The One Within the Villainess

Emi, a nice girl, is reincarnated in her favourite character in her VN! The villainess Remilia! Remi however didn't disappear, she existed trapped in her own mind, seeing how Emi lived her life through her body. She came to like her a lot! When Emi is inevitably condemned Remi takes control of her own body once again, the story is about how Remilia takes revenge of everyone that wronged Emi. She even kills various gods, she's amazing.

Some other shoujo mangas that are also interesting!!

The Beloved Daughter of a Crime Family Was Reincarnated as the Daughter of a Gangster in an Otome Game. ~ Highest-Ranking Villain, That Doting is Unnecessary! ~

The Condemned Villainess Goes Back in Time and Aims to Become the Ultimate Villain

Endo and Kobayashi's Live Commentary on the Villainess

(this one had an anime recently!! The girl is a huge tsundere it's cute <3)

Now!!! One of my favourites! Yuri villainess manga!

I'm in Love with the Villainess

(this one will have an anime next season!)

This is everything I want in a villainess manga, OHOHOHO ojou sama tsundere lady with blond hair and ringlets and devoted reincarnated heroine that absolutely loves her! There's also discussions about sexuality, classism and magic tournaments!! their relationship is very cute and i absolutely love them with all my heart <33

The Fed Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess

This villainess is on the colder side but she's still quite charming!

This one below is on hiatus right now... But the anime comes out soon this year too!

The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen Who Will Become the Source of Tragedy Will Devote Herself for the Sake of the People

This one has an interesting setting, it really sit out to me! At first glance it's your typical nice girl villainess manga but with a twist! I really liked it... The found family is strong in this one

[ghostess-with-the-mostess]

Here's a few more! (Granted god knows other posts mention these)

Cheating Men Must Die - A chinese 'system' manhua where a once-spurned rival/villainess character becomes an OP agent who dives into the worlds of third-rate novels to grant justice to other secondary character spurned to downfall by shitty male leads

With One Day Left I'll Break All the Destruction Flags: "Serves You Right!" RTA 24 Hour Record - the reincarnated villainess regains their memories of earth only 24 hours before the condemnation event; she proceeds to completely decimate everything before then ALSO THIS ONE IS COMPLETELY FINISHED

The One Within the Villainess - imagine Hamefura but with two key differences: the heroine is also isekai-possessed by an absolute two-faced bitch that completely reverts the progress the reincarnated villainess made - but also, the original villainess was still conscious in a mindscape where she was comforted by the life and presence of the reincarnator - and once the condemnation occurs and the reincarnator's personality is traumatized away, leaving the original personality to return? She is hellbent on using what she's learned from the reincarnator to completely obliterate the reincarnated heroine in the ultimate revenge.

Endo and Kobayashi's Live Commentary on the Villainess - kiiiiind of skirting the line but two japanese high schoolers find out they're able to talk to the male lead of an otome game and help him understand how cute his tsundere villainess fiancee is and it's GETTING AN ANIME!

The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess - A woman gets fired from her OL job, only to be summoned into an otome game as the Villainess' familiar, to which she makes it her goal to save her from her fate of villainy (though the arc is unfortunately already underway)

Milday Just Wants to Relax - A "reincarnated villainess embraces the condemnation to gain a commoner's life" story where the MC hides away in a small village working a cafe and gets entangled with the beastmen mercenaries that the rest of the town fears while dealing with her own fear of being found by her controlling, horrid family

The Villainess' Slow Prison Life Began with Her Broken Engagement - only a couple of chapters of the original novel were adapated into manga sadly, but its SO GOOD - the villainess gets condemned and locked away in a cell - that she's already filled with every worldly desire she could imagine, and from there she proceeds to absolutely troll and fuck with the male leads in every which way possible while enjoying her newfound freedom to be lazy

May I Ask for One Final Thing? - This villainess is only interested in one, single thing - punching the most punchable of the corrupt nobles, and she has every ability to do so.

Though I May Be a Villainess, I'll Show You I Can Obtain Happiness! - one of various anthology series that do small single-chapter stories with the theme of Villainesses obtaining their Happy End through their lowest point - some are amazing, some are good, and of course some are awful. My personal favorites from this are

- The Tale of the Noble Girl who will go to a Monastery after her Engagement Annulment

- Shall We Walk Hand in Hand Down the Flowery Path of Evil? (this one has been serialized)

- The Villainess Laughs Innocently

- The Art of Rebuilding a Nation Begins with a Broken Engagement!

- You Were Set Up, You Know?

- My Betrothed's Personality is Way Different from the Game!

- It Would Seem You've Broken Off your Engagement in Order to Marry Me, But I have No Intention of Marrying You

- I'm a Survival Gamer Reincarnated into an Otome Game

- Overthrown for My Younger Sister, but She's a Ticking Time Bomb

- Villainess gets Dumped, Doesn't Care, Lives Happily Ever After with her Super Masochistic Childhood Friend

- The Jilted Villainess Becomes a Lady of Justice

Isekai with male protags: "I was a loser on earth but now I'm super fucking strong and gettin mad bitches"

Isekai with female protags:

Reincarnated princess uses earth knowledge to make magitech a thing and romances sad girl

Girl romantically pursues her video game waifu

Girl is tasked to teach actual fucking gods to be more empathetic to humans

Woman reincarnated as the daughter of a magic item crafter uses earth knowledge to advance her trade

"Straight" girl is sucked into a world with zero men and lesbians everywhere and finds out she's sapphic (there's like actual plot but the gay is what matters.... to me)

A ghibli film. Need I say more

Woman reincarnated in video game as doomed villainess desperately tries to change her story

Girl reincarnated as a tiny baby spider kills monsters to level up

Like the male protag one but the lame guy's mom got isekaid with him and she's the op one.

Two normal girls fight urban legends in terrifying danger dimension

[oshi-spam]

Sauce:

Endo and Kobayashi’s Live Commentary on the Villainess

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Endo and Kobayashi live commentary on the villainess

౨ৎ 🍓｡˚🍰♡ ˚₊‧ ︎ A very short but sweet ride. The concept of this one had me intrigued since it was a fresher take on the villainess stories and vol. 1 kept up with the tension very well with some sappy thoughts inbetween. Unfortunatly vol. 2 didnt deliver as much and felt very rushed in the end. The relationship of endo and kobayashi could have been explored more and especially how they got together shouldnt have been as forced as it felt. Not to mention how they even ended up in the over world for the wedding. I am sure that the extra volume clears some of this up, but it should have been delivered in the final volume itself. I binged this one in a night and had very high hopes but got rewarded with a more mediocer piece. It is still worth reading if you are looking for a sweetness overload. ౨ৎ 🍓｡˚🍰♡ ˚₊‧ ︎

[talenlee]

Story Pile: Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte

I, for one, would not recommend building a fantasy universe around characters surnamed Riefenstahl.

Spoiler Warning: I’m going to spoil a bunch of stuff from this anime.

Content Warning: I’m going to mention offhandedly some of the things in this series, but none of it is particularly worrisome. I’m just putting a content warning here because it’s a nice tryptich with the other.

Tone Warning: This anime sucks, and I’m going to say that. Like I just did. You might be upset by seeing me talk smack about it. I’m even going to compare it to the most obvious alternatives in its space, and you might be sick of that.

Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte is a light novel series that was then made into an anime, in the proud tradition of anime being made about cultural hallmarks that google well and somehow manages to convince me, a casual viewer, that the people making this show have never even looked at the thing they think they’re talking about. But wait I’m getting ahead of myself. Long Name I’m Not Typing Out Every Time tells the ‘thrilling’ ‘story’ of a novel idea where two people play a videogame together, and commentate on the game, and as they commentate on it, that commentary changes the story of the game. You may recognise this as like, Mystery Science Theatre or the long and well-considered history of Lets Play media that’s been uh, the bedrock of internet and comedy content for an entire generation of millenials.

But no, not like that.

No instead, Who Cares And Now What play Big Deal focuses on the idea that Endo, and Kobayashi, our protagonists, normal everyday Japanese students with mutual anxiety conditions (hey, is it possible the high school system in Japan is bad given all the really messed up kids they present as ‘everyman’ characters in the media) play a otome game called Love Me Magically! which is straight up the best name of anything in this entire bog. Endo has a crush on Koboyashi and Kobayashi wants to play the game with him, and they put together a plan for her to play it and he to commentate on it as part of the Broadcast Club at their school. This club is so important there’s an entire scene dedicated to them bailing on this entire enterprise in the name of getting Our Protagonists to wind up together and absolutely not do things like provide context or texture or demonstrate any relationship to the Broadcast Club.

Nope, they’re there to present the premise and get the hell out of the way, which is a good demonstration of all the other stuff in this anime. Because this anime’s framing device (a couple of human lets players with metatextual information engaging with the narrative of a game) is just there to present another premise and get the hell out of the way.

See, the idea here is that this game has a story that’s interesting because of how there’s this villain character that Girlbayashi wishes was involved in the plot differently, but don’t worry, we’re not going to see that, we’re not going to learn about the story of this game and then learn about how this player wishes it was different. No modding, no fanfiction, no Instead, ep 1, turns out that actually, these two can magically communicate with the universe inside this game.

Okay, that’s something, I suppose – are they then going to use the information they have out of the game to influence events in the game?

Nope!

They’re just going to tell the characters what they think should be done, and because they’re disembodied voices with access to actionable information they have no means to learn, they instead assert themselves as gods, and what follows is the most boring, tedious predictable playthrough of a otome game with exactly one, one single idea that I thought was fun or cool. The narrative that follows from this point has all the terrible depth of writing of a slushy Otome game, as filtered through a fictionalised version of some extremely bad streamers all wrapped up in the package of an anime that contributed to my ongoing thesis that 2023 was a year for terrible anime.

Alright, so this wasn’t fun, this wasn’t good to watch, but don’t worry at the end, they reveal that actually there’s a multiverse, there are ghosts from transcendental universes and this game, and just this game (as far as you know) is actually a window into another universe where we can do nothing but play with the pieces for our sport (hey, does this mean other videogames are like, moral evils to play because your actions can do things like enact war crimes or torture animals, weird, I wouldn’t introduce that idea into your narrative about videogames but maybe you don’t think about those things if you’ve never played a videogame), and therefore by getting over these youths’ individual emotional problems and exorcising the demons that are actually why they’re sad (kinda, but not really), they can wind up as a couple and then they finish the game and also banish an evil spirit.

This show sucked.

I had planned to talk about this anime because hey, I thought it’d be interesting to talk about different ways to talk about videogames or games and how they’re presented or fandom art as a creative experience or how we make paratextual readings of games and therefore create fandoms for underdeveloped characters, but the thing is, get this, this show is so bad that I don’t want to. I would respond to what this anime has to say about its subject matter but it doesn’t have anything to say about it.

Still, I did promise there was a thing in this anime that I liked, and here it is:

One of the characters has healing magic. She has power to be a great healer. In response to this, she proceeds to make herself an intensely powerful fist-fighter and heals herself after every time she punches people hard enough to break all the bones in her arms. That? That I liked. That’s great. Hey, can someone from a good anime steal that? I’d love to see that.

Watch My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! instead. It’s a great show. I liked it a lot. Even when it gives up on its premise of being about an isekai story in season two, what you get out of that is a fairly mid show about characters I already like which is more than I can say for this show which is about what if the worst fanfic author you know was emdowed with the powers of god.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[saccharinescorpion]

we’ve finally got word of an official English translation of the manga adaption of  Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte... and you can read the first chapter right now!!

[saccharinescorpion]

Kobayashi's favorite route being the Fiene/Sieg route because it's the most tragic for her favorite character >>> every writing decision in every light novel written by nerds who have never actually touched an otome game

[murasaki-cha]

I keep seeing the anime memes of Endo and Kobayashi Live! and I feel so old because I still use the manga the ones since I’ve been following it when it only has like nine chapters or less🤣