#HameFura Anime

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Doodles

[x] by Nami Hidaka ( @hidakanami )

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My next life as a villainess all routes lead to doom movie : Akil

Translation :

A merchant boy from the Kingdom of Mutrak. He meets Katarina, who wanders into the caravan's tent. He has the ability to communicate with animals.

My !!! He is so handsome !

[princessbakarina]

#Prince Geordo vs the never-ending list of suitors that his fiancée collects

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i finished the first season of My Next Life As A Villainess last night (first time ive watched anime in a while) and holy shit Katarina is so oblivious it's adorable, after seeing her reaction to the love confession in the last episode i had to draw this

[sophieinwonderland]

Catarina Claes and Low Self-Esteem - A Ramble

Here's a draft I was saving for after I wrote my Plurality of Catarina Claes post, but I haven't done that and don't feel like it, so I'm posting this anyway...

I was thinking about Catarina while scrolling through the Crunchyroll comments describing her as denser than a black hole, which while funny the first time, and the second, starts to wear on you by the hundredth.

I mean, I get a community having running jokes, but I'm talking literally every episode has at least one person saying this, and sometimes multiple.

The thing about these comments is... they're not wrong. Catarina can be really dense and oblivious. It's one of her defining character traits. Everyone knows it...

But... I think there's more to it than this where it concerns her love interests.

Catarina, in my opinion, doesn't recognize that people love her because she sees herself as unlovable.

Putting Ourselves In Catarina's Shoes

Imagine for a moment that you've always been the strange girl at school.

You have one close friend. You've never had a romantic partner. You're a disappointment to your parents who see you as just some lazy girl. And then, at 17, you die completely unaccomplished. A failure.

You get a new life though. You're reborn with no memory of who you used to be.

And the person you are now... is a brat. A spoiled rich brat who hurts everyone around her. Then you get hit on the head and have memories from your last life flood your brain.

Now there are two very different lives in your head, but there are common themes in them.

In both, you have a mom who puts you down at every turn. In both, you haven't really known love before.

And on top of all of that, you realize that your new life is as a villain. A rival who is supposed to compete with the heroine for a man who doesn't love her. Someone who only agreed to be engaged with her to avoid other offers.

This is your destiny.

And it confirms everything terrible your parents told you about who you are across two lives.

By the time she enrolls in the magic academy, she's had over 30 years to internalize her sense of worthlessness, and nearly a decade to internalize her destiny as a villain who exists only to be a rival in someone else's story.

Catarina Isn't Just Oblivious. She's In Denial.

She's built an entire self-concept around being the unlovable villainess that she literally cannot fathom anyone having genuine romantic feelings for her.

Even while she loves her friends (platonically), she's still convinced through the series that they're going to kill or exile her in the end.

No matter how many times people drop hints or even outright tell Catarina they love her, she can't accept that.

All in all, I feel dismissing Catarina's obliviousness as her just being dense (which again, she is) does a disservice to the character.

[madame-helen]

[herbivorinne]

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! S1xE10

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[thecottagecorebisexuals]

Can we talk about how the manga somehow made the marikata moments in the end of their first year even cuter?

The manga decided to depict "Catarina sticking even closer to Maria, more than she normally would" as Catarina gripping Maria's arm, it isn't the same in the anime and the book doesn't say exactly how close Catarina was.

Look at those two!!

Since it's canon that Catarina sees Maria dating someone else as being taken away I'm interpreting it as Catarina subconsciously getting her snuggles while she's still can.

The marikata moment in Chapter 22 of the manga is more shippy than the already shippy moment in Chapter 5 in vol. 2 or ep 12 of the anime but aside from interpreting "sticking close" as walking arm in arm there's also Catarina kind of sneaking out with Maria just like the FL1 endgame couple!

The book leaves it to open to interpretation if they were with the others/within earshot or sight at all times after giving Nicol his veggie bouquet, which is the route the anime took while the manga adds a panel of Mary and Sophia looking for Catarina while those two are together without the group.

Since they don't sneak out together, in the anime the only part of the confession that was like the original were the words "Let me continue being with you from here on out".

Catarina asking Maria who she liked in the anime played out with Maria being within sight (and earshot apparently) of Catarina and the group but not with them when Catarina started to wonder why nobody was sneaking out with Maria, after which Catarina just heads to where she is, in plain sight, to ask.

While I can't confirm that Mary and Sophia (and presumably the rest) lost Catarina because she and Maria hid on purpose...as if Mary would lose Catarina that easily...they were laughing together, away from their friend group before the confession happens (and gets hijacked).

With what's described in the book you could do either scenario, sneaking out or not being really alone* together ever (book just contradicts Catarina straying from Maria's side), they're kind of both extremes in interpretation though, being the anime more out there with the "she knowingly asked her with the capture targets in plain view and possibly (certainly) within earshot" than the manga's "they were alone after congratulating Nicol and people were searching for Catarina at some point". It doesn't suggest either one, there's undescribed windows of time before and after giving Nicol his bouquets (in which they might not have been with the group or always been with them) and then it's question time where apparently it's only Maria and Catarina there and then there's the canonical event of the confession being heard. Was Catarina thinking they were alone or just that there was enough space between them and the group that they wouldn't be heard? Both but each in a different universe.

*Alone not counting the party NPCs, those are everywhere.

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Going from Apothecary Diaries to HameFura is a WILD 180 turn in female protags

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My next life as a villainess all routes lead to doom movie : Kumito

A member of a merchant caravan from the Kingdom of Mutrak, and a friend of Akil since childhood. She appears on the show dressed as a woman, taking advantage of his beautiful appearance.

[princessbakarina]

hamemesfura

[revolver115]

Genuinely, All Routes Lead to Doom had two PERFECT endings. Season 1's/FL1's ending, and the Verge of Doom ending.

Add some Marikata stuff, maybe more of the "friendship route" stuff, and BAM. best ending ever.

Raphael's redemption is 10x more powerful as the FINAL story beat. The literal essence of Katarina's "doomed by the narrative" philosophy. She is just the villainess, destined to forever be doomed to death or exile. Raphael is literally the secret final boss. The true evil mastermind. Redeeming him isn't just saving her friends, it's letting herself let go of a DECADE of pent-up anxiety, thinking any wrong move will kill her.

Verge of Doom's the same way, but I think the wider angle of Katarina redeeming HERSELF is amazing. Verge of Doom needs a movie adaptation or something. It's too good of an idea.

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“I’m exhausted just from greeting everyone.”

[augerer]

I think there’s a remarkable way in which the isekai doomed villain aspects of my next life as a villainess and the bisexual harem aspects gel together to create a metaphor for queer childhood. to me the most interesting way to view katerina is as a girl who is convinced from a young age that people around her are eventually going to subject her to a fate beyond her control and she’s going to be cast out, and this colors her entire perception of the world around her.

it feels very gay experience (though ofc not universal) to be like i have to overcorrect for the fact that one day everyone is going to hate me and exile me for something i can't help through being so kind and helpful to them.  i have to heal everyone around me.  or i will DIE.  they will KILL ME. i need to make myself essential to the people around me because something is inherently wrong with me that only i know about.  and then of course she self-conceives what is in large part her earnest desire to help the people around her as like "i am masterminding a dastardly plan to change my fate"  (read: feelings of duplicity and monstrousness as a gay child).

i also think there’s a way in which her revelation of her past life’s memories could have given her an uncomfortable or even predatory power over the people around her but it does not.  instead she reads very much as a child but like a child with an adult's sense of responsibility for the other children around her (in a world with horrible real adults)?  + mildly related point on the game mechanics aspect, i also like how neatly katerina’s backstory solves for some of her oblivious and quirky tendencies.  like of course she doesn’t think her friends are in love with her, she’s worried about them killing her.

anyway, on katarina/maria: it’s also soooo interesting that everyone is in love with her by the time she meets maria and the possibility she is going to be the "villain" who "dies" is 0 but she just doesn't know it.  but she meets her and is like she is so beautiful and charming and cool, that's why i'm so sure to meet an evil fate. . it’s so on the nose for like, the evil anvil that is going to fall on me which is proof that i’m doomed. . . is how wonderful and captivating this other girl is!  because of course it is, the crux of the issue is gay childhood.  [astronaut meme] “wait it was all about gay feelings?” “always has been”