(CR) Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I'm Not the Demon Lord

[Kanon]

It wasn't until the fake OP that I realized what they were doing. I kinda thought I had clicked on the wrong show before that.

Yumiella's surname Dorkness seems to suit her. She spent literal years grinding and never once bothered to check what her level was. Yep, she can say goodbye to her peaceful life.

[nojay]

Originally Posted by Kanon

Yumiella's surname Dorkness seems to suit her. She spent literal years grinding and never once bothered to check what her level was.

Dolkness == Darkness. Same with Alicia, Enleiht == Enlighten. Otome games are rarely subtle about such things. As for knowing what her level was, the magic ball level enumerating tool is school property and she didn't know what it would read -- she hoped it might only be level 5 or so after all.

7/10 first episode. A lot of this story's charm is based in Yumellia's inner dialogues as she is simultaneously very genre-savvy and at the same time oblivious to how people think. This is difficult to do well in anime, of course...

The animation is barely adequate but that may be from a perspective of me being spoiled by excellent technical art and direction in recent series like Frieren and Kage no Jitsuryokusha.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by nojay

Dolkness == Darkness. Same with Alicia, Enleiht == Enlighten. Otome games are rarely subtle about such things. As for knowing what her level was, the magic ball level enumerating tool is school property and she didn't know what it would read -- she hoped it might only be level 5 or so after all.

7/10 first episode. A lot of this story's charm is based in Yumellia's inner dialogues as she is simultaneously very genre-savvy and at the same time oblivious to how people think. This is difficult to do well in anime, of course...

The animation is barely adequate but that may be from a perspective of me being spoiled by excellent technical art and direction in recent series like Frieren and Kage no Jitsuryokusha.

I think the animation is fairly solid and about what I would expect from this kind of series although I feel like 7th Time Loop had the more eye-catching visuals. But I think this is fine .

[nojay]

Originally Posted by Frontier

I think the animation is fairly solid and about what I would expect from this kind of series.

The horse-carriage CGI animation at the beginning was cringeworthy as was the Dullahan dungeon-boss fight. I presume there's computer software animation studios use to generate cel artwork for horses and carriages these days, same as fireworks and magic circles which at least aren't meant to represent living creatures.

I can accept that the early animation in this first episode was supposed to be reprising the visual novel animation in the otoge, but I suppose the story doesn't need god-level animation to carry the show. I can just rewatch Frieren to console myself afterwards.

[FlareKnight]

Yeah, I'm not sure about the choice of the main character not showing up for like half the episode was a good idea.

Honestly it would have been a bit generic, but just focusing on the characters we had probably would have been fine.

Honestly I've got plenty of questions. If she had no attachment to the characters or the story...why did she play that game in the first place? Plus why did she play it so absolutely fully to grind out to max level to take on the hidden boss? Even if she's a gamer at heart...was she so out of things to play she picked up a game she had no interest in?

Yeah, she definitely put herself into this mess. Way too much grinding.

Guess we'll see how this goes. Not sure about it after the first episode. It wasn't bad. But it wasn't amazing either.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by nojay

The horse-carriage CGI animation at the beginning was cringeworthy as was the Dullahan dungeon-boss fight. I presume there's computer software animation studios use to generate cel artwork for horses and carriages these days, same as fireworks and magic circles which at least aren't meant to represent living creatures.

I can accept that the early animation in this first episode was supposed to be reprising the visual novel animation in the otoge, but I suppose the story doesn't need god-level animation to carry the show. I can just rewatch Frieren to console myself afterwards.

Honestly I'm just use to CG like that so it didn't really bother me .

Originally Posted by FlareKnight

Yeah, I'm not sure about the choice of the main character not showing up for like half the episode was a good idea.

Honestly it would have been a bit generic, but just focusing on the characters we had probably would have been fine.

Honestly I've got plenty of questions. If she had no attachment to the characters or the story...why did she play that game in the first place? Plus why did she play it so absolutely fully to grind out to max level to take on the hidden boss? Even if she's a gamer at heart...was she so out of things to play she picked up a game she had no interest in?

Yeah, she definitely put herself into this mess. Way too much grinding.

Guess we'll see how this goes. Not sure about it after the first episode. It wasn't bad. But it wasn't amazing either.

She seems like the type where if there's any kind of combat/level system, she'll jump on it for sure .

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[SamCurt]

Originally Posted by FlareKnight

Yeah, I'm not sure about the choice of the main character not showing up for like half the episode was a good idea.

Honestly it would have been a bit generic, but just focusing on the characters we had probably would have been fine.

Honestly I've got plenty of questions. If she had no attachment to the characters or the story...why did she play that game in the first place? Plus why did she play it so absolutely fully to grind out to max level to take on the hidden boss? Even if she's a gamer at heart...was she so out of things to play she picked up a game she had no interest in?

Yeah, she definitely put herself into this mess. Way too much grinding.

Guess we'll see how this goes. Not sure about it after the first episode. It wasn't bad. But it wasn't amazing either.

I'm under the impression that the gal who isekai'd as Yumiella was a big RPG nerd (and I mean the word "nerd" literally here), which would explain many things in this series.

(As I mentioned in the Hoshikuzu Telepath thread last season, I'm kinda interested in this type of character, so at least I'll pay some attention to it.)

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by SamCurt

I'm under the impression that the gal who isekai'd as Yumiella was a big RPG nerd (and I mean the word "nerd" literally here), which would explain many things in this series.

(As I mentioned in the Hoshikuzu Telepath thread last season, I'm kinda interested in this type of character, so at least I'll pay some attention to it.)

She actually had an FF14 poster on her wall, I think .

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Guess people don't know how to scroll up two posts?

[Alchemist007]

I can appreciate a decent fakeout. Will be interested to see what shenanigans she gets into while trying to 'lay low' as it were .

[SamCurt]

I'm not familiar with video games that much, let alone those that aim at girls... Hikayū sounds more like a JPRG with reverse-harem maintext rather than otome-dating-sim. Butv does games like that exist in real life?

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by SamCurt

I'm not familiar with video games that much, let alone those that aim at girls... Hikayū sounds more like a JPRG with reverse-harem maintext rather than otome-dating-sim. Butv does games like that exist in real life?

I guess so? It's exactly the same premise as Hamefura: a commoner heroine with unique light magic gets enrolled into a royal academy and meets princes and other high ranked people.

[SamCurt]

Originally Posted by Kanon

I guess so? It's exactly the same premise as Hamefura: a commoner heroine with unique light magic gets enrolled into a royal academy and meets princes and other high ranked people.

But at least Hamefura's Fortune Lover is a dating sim, and thus plots from shoujo romance can be applied nicely in games like this. As I mentioned, Hikayū looks more like a RPG game to me, and I wonder if there exists RPG games that are written for girls and contains reverse-harem elements. I assume it's a yes, but I want to be sure.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by SamCurt

But at least Hamefura's Fortune Lover is a dating sim, and thus plots from shoujo romance can be applied nicely in games like this. As I mentioned, Hikayū looks more like a RPG game to me, and I wonder if there exists RPG games that are written for girls and contains reverse-harem elements. I assume it's a yes, but I want to be sure.

I'm reminded of Lieselotte where it seemed like the game also had stats and levels for the cast despite being an Otome game.

[Zolton]

Originally Posted by SamCurt

But at least Hamefura's Fortune Lover is a dating sim, and thus plots from shoujo romance can be applied nicely in games like this. As I mentioned, Hikayū looks more like a RPG game to me, and I wonder if there exists RPG games that are written for girls and contains reverse-harem elements. I assume it's a yes, but I want to be sure.

I managed to find a few on VNDB. Only 11 of them are translated in English though.

[larethian]

Confused for 13 minutes by what I was watching because I didn't look up any info prior to watching it. I thought it was a reverse harem VN show except for the title, which was the one that confused me and kept me watching on. At least, thanks to the start, I did not mind the standard reincarnation exposition, which would have made for an utterly boring start if they just did it at the beginning.

Though it was hard for me to fathom why she would play this game if she's not interested in the dating sim part. I'm sure she could find other games if she was just interested in RPG stuff or a broken hidden boss mechanic.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by larethian

Confused for 13 minutes by what I was watching because I didn't look up any info prior to watching it. I thought it was a reverse harem VN show except for the title, which was the one that confused me and kept me watching on. At least, thanks to the start, I did not mind the standard reincarnation exposition, which would have made for an utterly boring start if they just did it at the beginning.

Though it was hard for me to fathom why she would play this game if she's not interested in the dating sim part. I'm sure she could find other games if she was just interested in RPG stuff or a broken hidden boss mechanic.

I imagine she picks up any games with RPG system and just hunkers down and clears them as quickly as possible .

[stray]

Originally Posted by SamCurt

But at least Hamefura's Fortune Lover is a dating sim, and thus plots from shoujo romance can be applied nicely in games like this. As I mentioned, Hikayū looks more like a RPG game to me, and I wonder if there exists RPG games that are written for girls and contains reverse-harem elements. I assume it's a yes, but I want to be sure.

VN + RPG hybrids are definitely a thing but generally (sadly) otome isekai aren't really representative of many actual otome games.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by stray

VN + RPG hybrids are definitely a thing but generally (sadly) otome isekai aren't really representative of many actual otome games.

Although they sure are getting adapted more .