My Next Life as a Villainess: All Roads Lead to Doom!

The Game Might Be Changing but not the Characters

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! v.9 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

February 9, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I have been a little desperate for the cozy; not only is the world (you know, gestures at the state of things), but there’s been some other unfortunately timed drama beyond my control in my life as well. Cozy mindless manga to the rescue! My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Is definitely cozy. The friendship angle always wins, and nothing bad lasts for more than a few pages. In volume 9 of the manga, Katarina is happily awaiting the end […]

It took eleven volumes but there’s some actual character development. Now if only it went somewhere.

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! v.11 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

June 30, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom is largely cozy isekai fantasy. Protagonist, a geeky gamer high schooler, dies/wakes up in the body of the antagonist of her favorite romance video game, and she has to avoid the bad outcomes for herself. Which she does mostly by being nice to everyone, and also clueless about the romance part. As in, noticing who is actually in love with whom. This almost active refusal to see what’s in front of her get annoying, […]

Why is it impossible to be both kind and smart for the lead character?!

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Roads Lead to Doom! (light novel volume 7) by Satorou Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

October 24, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Quick Premise review: a modern day Japanese schoolgirl dies after being hit by a car and wakes up as the villainess in her favorite romance role-playing video game. She uses her knowledge of the game to avoid the bad endings for her character, but now she finds herself in the sequel which did not get a chance to play during her previous life. Finally there is some actual worldbuilding and some actual characters develop in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to […]

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