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"I could take my subjects' hard-earned tax money and throw it around on whatever I so desired. If that wasn't evil, I don't know what was."

"Liam Sera Banfield" (I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire #3 by Yomu Mishima)

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“Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu!” The Light Novel For Gets TV Anime for Spring 2025

The Overlap Bunko's 10th Anniversary Memorial Festival Part 5 event revealed Yomu Mishima's light novel Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu! (I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!) would be adapted into a television anime.

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Liam Sera Banfield is a reincarnator. He was reincarnated into a fantasy universe of swords and magic, but at a time that civilization was already making advancements into outer space. The setting takes place in an intergalactic empire, a space opera-like universe where humanoid weapons and spaceships do battle. Liam, who had incarnated into an aristocratic family in a monarchic society, has the ambition to one day become an evil lord. In his previous life, Liam had unfortunately lost everything and died in despair. — It’s foolish to live for others. — I will live for myself. Holding those feelings in his chest, he starts towards his second life, but is instead worshipped as a virtuous ruler from his difference in values. Will Liam be able to safely become an evil lord?

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I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!

I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! Liam Sera Banfield is a reincarnator.

He was reincarnated into a fantasy universe of swords and magic, but at a time that civilization was already making advancements into outer space.

The setting takes place in an intergalactic empire, a space opera-like universe where humanoid weapons and spaceships do battle.

Liam, who had incarnated into an aristocratic family in a monarchic society, has the ambition to one day become an evil lord.

In his previous life, Liam had unfortunately lost everything and died in despair.

— It’s foolish to live for others.

— I will live for myself.

Holding those feelings in his chest, he starts towards his second life, but is instead worshipped as a virtuous ruler from his difference in values.

Will Liam be able to safely become an evil lord?

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"I know that if I dare to dream again, I'll only be setting myself up to fall harder when betrayal comes again."

"Rosetta Sereh Claudia" (in I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire #3)

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Book Review: ‘I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire’ #3

I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! (Light Novel) Vol. 3 by Yomu Mishima My rating: 5 of 5 stars Compelling in its thoroughness and entertaining in its simplicity, this novel series' cavalier invocation of randomness and gullibility for the sake of Liam's evil lordship fits together quite nicely. I'M THE EVIL LORD OF AN INTERGALACTIC EMPIRE v3 wields another academic sprint as its general backdrop, but during the next span of three or four years, Liam accidentally creates another mortal enemy, stumbles into romance with an ice queen, and sort of sets the stage for rerouting the power balance within the empire itself. EVIL LORD v3 routinely triggers these and other narrative events by way of happenstance. Liam is an overachiever. He's bored. He wants to hunt stronger pirates, he wants to engage a woman who adamantly refuses his advances (on moral grounds), and he wants to amass a fortune and military worthy of crushing all other nobles. Does he get what he wants? Maybe. But definitely not in the way he thinks. This book's charm rests in how superbly the author weaves the story's secondary and tertiary characters into motion to nudge and support Liam's fantastical view of the universe. House Claudia, for example, has been in ruin for close to 2,000 years (due in part to the empire's negligence and due in part to other noble's malfeasance). But Liam doesn't see a house in disrepair, he spies a dukedom without a leading man. Similarly, Liam's tendency to attract women of an exceedingly violent and overconfident caliber should be a problem. Except, these women are military specialists, infamous mercenaries, or noble adjutants. Every single one of them is willing to die for him, if for all of the wrong reasons. Not the he'd know the difference. It's all a matter of perception. And as readers of EVIL LORD v3 will come to find, the puzzle pieces clarifying which nobles support pirates and which puzzle pieces show corruption in the higher ranks of the capital all require a bit of sorting to make out the final picture. And as readers already know, Liam always finds his way to the final picture. Characterization is one of this novel series' highest qualities. In EVIL LORD v3, readers encounter a lazy imperial prince, a mage assassin with a grudge, a female knight with a mean streak, and a duchess-to-be. The lattermost, Rosetta Sereh Claudia, is an incredibly sympathetic character who loses almost everything, yet keeps pushing through. She's icy, sure, but only so as to better focus on what matters to her (and her declining house authority). Rosetta is reserved, tactful, and chooses her allies carefully. Liam falls for her because he wants an ice queen for a wife, but as everyone knows, for better or for worse, all ice queens thaw. Her character is less lovable at the end than she is closer to when she is introduced, but Rosetta's internal struggle is genuine. Another notable character is Marie Sera Marian, a female knight who awakens when Liam's scientists pull her and others out of stone. Marie is a bloodthirsty fighter. She's also loyal to a fault. Better to have her on the side of an evil lord than to leave her running about without a leash. Marie's demure façade hides a bevvy of hilarious curses and spit-takes that typically pour from her frothing mouth the second someone gets the better of her. One would think it's a tired trope, but somehow it works perfectly here. The fact that she wields dual chainsaw-lightsabers might also have something to do with it. In EVIL LORD v3, the cast is impressive, both in size and scope of integration. And its this cast of awkward, bitter, slyly vengeful, and outright humbling personalities that nudge everything into its proper direction. Liam isn't the only one making weird assumptions. For example, Serena, the spy maid for the prime minister, scrutinizes the young man everyday but sees nothing untoward in his actions. And so, when Liam skulks the battlefield piloting an upgraded Avid mobile suit and wipes out hundreds of pirates, readers may correctly assume the guy may is a bit ridiculous, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know what he's doing.

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Good karma isn't worth shit. It's all a lie. And if that's the case, then I wanna live for myself [..] I'll live for myself as a villain who tramples other people underfoot.

"Liam Sera Banfield" (I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire #1, by Yomu Mishima and Nadare Takamine)

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Book Review:  ‘I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!’ #1

I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! (Light Novel) Vol. 1 by Yomu Mishima My rating: 4 of 5 stars Outsmarting the devil by way of the benign. Saving the galaxy from bloodthirsty pirates with a little bit of luck. Amassing allies equally heartfelt and tenacious due in large part to naïveté. Liam Sera Banfield is the heavily indebted heir to a tiny planet on the outskirts of the Intergalactic Algrand Empire. I'M THE EVIL LORD OF AN INTERGALACTIC EMPIRE #1 is one guy's eager attempt to turn House Banfield into something respectable. If, perchance, in doing so, the Banfield name becomes synonymous with fear, lust, greed, sensational violence, and wealth beyond compare, then why not. It can't be that difficult to become an evil lord can it? Master Liam is thrust into a mishmash of enviable and unenviable predicaments. Abandoned by his parents at age five? Bad. Bequeathed the title of Count and a whole planet to rule on his own? Good. Zero political retainers, knights, and qualified men at arms? Bad. A motherly android girl, named Amagi, and a reliable old butler, named Brian? Good. EVIL LORD #1 is the ultimate novel about a man in dire straits making the best of a crappy situation. Liam desires to trample the weak and make his name feared and respected throughout all of the cosmos. However, to do so, he must first get his house in order. Debts to the empire. Regional construction. Consolidation of the defense armada. The more and more Liam learns of the intricacies of ruling his own planet, the farther and farther down on the to-do list goes the quest to become an evil lord. A handful of light novels thrive on pursuing the counter-expectational; that is, encouraging the reader to root for the protagonist, but counter to the narrative, in spite of the obvious storytelling clues dictating the story's apparent progress. Liam, spurred by the deceit and ego of others in his past life, desires little more than to turn things around and to trod on the weak and innocent in his new life. His rage is genuine and his intuition for what qualifies for worthy vengeance is good enough, if imperfect. It also turns out that Liam has a mind for high-level statecraft. He's good at assessing layered situations, aggressively pursuing rational solutions, and standing unafraid in the face of mounting difficulty. Liam doesn't quite realize it yet, but his new philosophy isn't to pursue ego at the cost of others' happiness, it's to guarantee a better life for anyone and everyone capable of making a difference. He is, in short, very busy en route to being "evil" (Liam: "Is it really this hard to be an evil lord?" p. 193). EVIL LORD #1, for the most part, delivers. One shouldn't read into the book's loglines too closely. "Evil" is a shifty, ineffectual term, and the novel's sense of scale and statecraft orientation is so awkward (and awkwardly massive) that the title's various storytelling tropes and oddities rarely appear as such. For example, in this universe, humans are slow-aging, living to be several hundred years of age (e.g., Liam looks like a 13-year-old boy by age 50). It's an interesting factoid that receives little to no formal explanation. How, indeed, would one go about living his life, as the ruler of a planet, knowing he had centuries to make it his own? For another example, one might dig into how or why a whole planet could be inherited by a five-year-old child. The political shenanigans behind the ordeal are awkward and forced. But then again, this is also a universe with redundant imperial weapons manufacturing facilities, highly adaptable artificial intelligence, and innovative technology for intergalactic transport and regenerative medicine. A bit of gnarly red tape should come as no surprise. This novel also rests rather comfortably in the niche array of titles that dabble more in the domestic sphere than they do in the areas of protracted action and adventure. Readers who want Liam to ram his understaffed armada down the throat of the empire will be sorely disappointed. Instead, readers will get a naïve and shifty, brooding teenager who is too smart for his own good. He can't smash the empire because his armada is in derelict shape. And he can't build up his armada because he doesn't have any money. And he can't accumulate any wealth until he manifests a serviceable world economy. And so on and so forth. This is how EVIL LORD #1 often goes. Liam is always three or four degrees off-center of what he truly wishes to do; he is abruptly sidetracked, and ultimately finds satisfaction in each minor achievement along the way. The guy wants to grow stronger, so he recruits a swordsman he doesn't realize is a stone-cold charlatan. However, because Liam is such an earnest student, he shows impeccable growth despite his instructor constantly feeding him absolute nonsense. Similarly, the young count desires to make an outdated and oversized mobile suit his vanguard mecha. And yet, despite the fact that the old tech requires numerous repairs, adjustments, and sweet nothings from an attractive mechanic, Liam's earnestness turns the lumbering old suit in an undeniably deadly force. Again, this is how the novel goes. What begins as a timid inquiry into something serious, even macabre, twists its way into the peculiar and the humorous. Because, it would seem, even for an aspiring evil lord, nothing ever really goes as planned.

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