#next life as a villainess

[cherrysphinx]

Just finished this show.

Season one was so cute and wholesome. Season two was a bit questionable, but it was still entertaining. (I kinda wished it ended at season one honestly.)

[southrobin]

Katarina & Marina for an old Hamefura zine! 🍰 (merch)

[baltharino]

Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) R.O.D - Read or Die (2001) Soul Eater NOT! (2014) Izetta: the Last Witch (2016) Love Live! Sunshine!! (2016) My Next Life as a Villainess (2020) She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2020) Honkai Impact - Lament of the Fallen (2021) Otherside Picnic (2021) Love Live! Nijigasaki (2022) Love Live! Superstar (2022) Tokyo Mew Mew New (2022) Yuri is my Job! (2023) I'm in Love With the Villainess (2023)

[thanakite]

This panel is so funny to me, they are all so jealous and it's just like fair

[princessbakarina]

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

[popsartattic]

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

[utopikia]

 take you for a ride on my big green yellow tractor

cr. tribute illustration by kazuya minekura, posted on her official twitter

[shionsky]

happy pride 💖

[baka-rina]

Doodles

[x] by Nami Hidaka ( @hidakanami )

[miscellaneouscutestuff]

[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.

[bakarinaknowsbest]

Vol 14 is out.

[mythfanite]

I can't remember if I've posted this but it's been weighing on my mind for the past few years

Top tier fail girl extremely relatable my favorite idiot sandwich with a maximum of 5 brain cells at any one moment the one the only Katarina Claes

Ladies and gentlemen...

She.

[danshive]

One of my biggest disappointments with My Next Life As a Villainess is Katarina not doing more sword stuff.

Like, no, I don't want to see her stab anyone. I want her to defeat her enemies with kindness, love, and the raw power of an army of people who adore her.

I just want the fact that she insisted on learning how to use a sword to come up more. A bit of sparring, a bit of "wow, she's pretty good", a bit of "she picked up a sword! Is she going to duel that bad guy? Wait, no, she's complimenting him. Annnd he's in love."

[extantformoflife]

[princessbakarina]

seeing 'new' female isekai-ed characters like katarina, yumiella, aileen and etc get dunked on online by twitter and reddit is so disheartening. dudebros making fun of them for being dumb, dense and idiotic when the male isekaied characters that they like are blander than white bread yet the most gorgeous women still fall on their feet for them. yeah so realistic. sure katarina and co aren't perfect characters but at least they have flaws and faults unlike their op conqueror bland ass printer paper looking male mcs. let women enjoy their female fantasies without being needlessly mocked by men who aren't even the target demographic. give me a break and a gun