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Originally Posted by arkhangelsk
Bakarina does have something over this though. Bakarina establishes that the villain is indeed the villain and thus in the original story deserved her dastardly fate.
It makes you question whether you really would have rooted for the protagonists in this game. Is that the vibe given off by the Light Novel original?
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every villainess or josei reincarnation story is like that though. The person the lead reincarnates/transmigrates into is always misunderstood or driven to rash actions in their emotional grief and turmoil. The situations are immediately reversed because they have some foresight in where their reactions will lead them (invariably death).
Bakarina is an exception, but ultimately no longer the best of the genre because it methodically deflates its own tension in exchange for harem comedy.
What sets this one apart for me even in the first episode (not a LN or manga reader) is that the villainess is actually still quite
haughty in her demeanor. The majority of villainess stories reverse themselves by having the lead become either super-kind or super-brilliant. Aileen is still largely arrogant, dismissive, domineering, and not-particularly cautious about what she's doing in her survival scheme.