#The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior spoilers

[moontheoretist]

I started watching this anime last season, but didn't have time to finish it, so I decided to catch up now, and damn Pride is so badass. She reminds me now a lot about Erza from Fairy Tail. The very fact that she is a last Boss of this otome game makes her so awesome.

I love OP characters. I adore them. Give me more.

[tensei-ojisan]

Interview with Michiro Ueyama – Mangaka of From Bureaucrat to Villainess

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What I’m writing here isn’t a word-for-word translation of the interview. I just jotted down some cool stuff about the manga and the mangaka that I got from reading the interview using MTL. Heads up: there’s a minor spoiler near the end!

• Akuyaku Reijo Tensei Ojisan (From Bureaucrat to Villainess) is a manga by Michiro Ueyama and it's still on going. It actually started as a short comic on Twitter, where it got 160k likes, which led to it being serialized pretty much right away.

• Ueyama said Kenzaburo’s "old man" personality comes from his own experiences and memories, but Kenzaburo isn’t based on him. He’s more like Ueyama’s idea of the "ideal uncle"

• Kenzaburo’s design is based on what men in their 50s looked like when Ueyama was a kid in the 1970s

• To figure out what stories younger readers might like, Ueyama checked out a bunch of Isekai manga—not just the "villainess" type

• A lot of Isekai stories he read had a pretty dark vibe. He thinks that’s because most Isekai stories are about being super overpowered or having cheat abilities, which gets repetitive after a while

• Ueyama became interested in "villainess" stories because of their polite tone and beautiful art styles. He felt they had "soothing" vibes that made it easy to get into the story

• Michiro Ueyama: "In manga aimed at younger audiences, older men are usually the bad guys—creepy (sexually harassing teenagers), bullying, or just plain awful. But as an older guy myself, I know plenty of decent older men out there. I wanted to show more of those kinds of respectable adults."

• SPOILER: Ueyama plans to give the story a happy ending. He feels it wouldn’t be right for Kenzaburo to die and leave his wife and daughter behind

• He also finds it hard to write revenge-type stories where characters get what’s coming to them. He thinks Tensei Ojisan is so well-liked because people are tired of seeing negativity in real life and don’t want to see it in their entertainment either

• Ueyama hopes that Tensei Ojisan can be enjoyed by people who don’t usually read Isekai or villainess stories and maybe even get them into the genre

• Some Isekai villainess stories with "healing" vibes recommended by Michiro Ueyama:

1. My Next Life as a Villainess

2. Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte

3. The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior

Interview Link

[theanimeview]

[Recommended Watch / Review] The Summer 2023 Must-See Is "The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior"

Source: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-most-heretical-last-boss-queen-tenichi/1141360148

By Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting

The Summer 2023 anime season is starting y’all–and a must-see I’ll be recommending is The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior.

The premise of this type of story is pretty well established now, a girl finds herself reborn or transmigrated into the world of a game as the villainess character and must fight against their deathflags if they hope to make it to the end. However, this story comes with a twist.

Our main character, Pride, is the crown princess of a matriarchal society. Until recently, she’s been living a lavish life of near-exile by her mother in the countryside. The isolation and want for attention have made her a rather troublesome brat until a sudden headache brings back memories of her past life, more specifically, a game she played that is overlapping with her new life. After which, she gains what some believe is the power of precognition, or foresight, which is a royal-specific magical skill that only true heirs to the throne can gain. Thus begins her new life wherein she is constantly fighting against the perception of her bad behavior and villainess qualities of her childish past.

I’ll border the line of spoilers here and say that I rather dislike Pride’s family. Her mother perceived a vision in which Pride would be a terrible queen and sent her off to the countryside without further direct contact to be raised by servants who don’t know whether or not they can punish or control the princess. (In fact, they outright fear her tantrums.) Her father visits her infrequently and is the only parental provider of love throughout her life thus far, and he has either spoiled her near rotten because of that inconsistent visitation or out of quilt for keeping her so far away. From this, one can gather that Pride’s name and, by extension her sister’s name (Tiara), is meant to have a Puritan-like origin, in which the names remind the child of the future they’re parents see for them. “Pride” is a name meant to remind our leading lady of the sin she’ll likely fall to with Tiara being a sign that she has a gilded future ahead of her. Talk about harsh.

However, family issues aside–and in spite of her name–Pride becomes a relatively humble and good-natured leading character. She’s more than likable as a child prodigy and crown princess, with aims to truly guide the people under her down a much better path than her game counterpart.

It is an engaging and well-written story, with art and story that reminds me a lot of I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss while still remaining unique.

So, definitely add this one to your watch list if you like the isekai, female power-fantasy genre!

EDIT: 7/7/2023 Sorry, everyone! We noticed that the draft had not been edited and made spelling/grammar corrections. Thank you for your patience!