Overworked Blorbo Battle Round 1 Poll: 51
268 notes
·
View notes
"My Next Life as a Villainess" is hetero actually... 😅
I really appreciate that we got a reverse harem anime that includes female love interests and I hope for more queer anime like it but MNLAAV (making this easy for myself lol) does not do the sapphics any justice. Not to rob any girls or queers of their enjoyment of the anime but for myself, I was pretty let down with just how straight the series actually is.
Fewer female love interests
Especially as the roster expands, no new women have been added to the list of romantic options and it's overpowered with male love interests. The switch game only lets you pursue the male characters and the upcoming movie seems to center around a new guy.
The female characters honestly just feel like supporting characters after their initial introduction which is the height of their romantic endeavours. After that, they kind of just exist to fill up the harem but never make any progress. The male characters get to assert themselves romantically and it's treated with significance but the girls have been doing that since the beginning yet it's waved off for comedy. In the pajama party scene, Mary directly states she wants a woman as a partner and says she likes Catarina but Catarina says it should've been given to talk about a man??? She ends up being coded as straight which defeats the whole purpose of a bisexual harem.
Sexist Writing
Besides Catarina, the girls designs and personalities are super feminized that appeals more to straight men than queer women. Mary is the most assertive of the three but it's portrayed comically and ultimately futile. Sophia prioritizes her brother pursuing Catarina, putting herself second despite her special connection to her. Maria feels like the most important candidate out of everyone as the videogame's protagonist but she's the most stereotypically written and ends up getting sidelined too. All three of them are also written to always need help from Catarina or the men when the guys never need help from them back.
On top of that, a lot of the conflict in the series are perpetrated by women. Only female classmates harass Maria but we hardly ever see men being antagonistic. The only time we do is the male love interests doing it to each other which is framed more romantically, unlike the vapid portrayal of women's jealousy.
The same goes with the trope of girls flocking around men that the anime uses handsomely. Why do none of the girls have a swarm of men? They're canonically attractive and popular but it's never shown unless it's through jealous women.
Even Catarina's mom is usually the character to scold her despite in the beginning of the anime, the mom and dad came off as equally doting. It just feels sexist to portray the mom as the nag and the dad is just basically uninvolved unless we need a "good parent" moment.
What we need
I want a reverse harem bisexual anime that doesn't have questionable dynamics (like incest and age gap considering Catarina is technically in her 20's surrounded by 15 year olds). It needs an equal amount of male and female characters and it should have gender queer/gender nonconforming characters too! The girls should be just as much romantic options as the guys, just being there and being attracted to the heroine isn't enough. I need to see her get flustered with the girls and have genuine romantic moments! They should get to kiss and hold each other and have their feelings taken seriously! And the protagonist should actually be queer?? Even if she's oblivious, she can't dismiss women's advances based on heteronormative assumptions. And all the love interests should still respect the heroine's boundaries.
3 notes
·
View notes
4 notes
·
View notes
I'm gonna cosplay as Katarina clase from my next life as a villiness this weekend at San japan :3c
1 note
·
View note
People say that Geordo is a manipulator, though I low-key headcanon that he gets relentlessly bullied by his friend group.
Then again, it's hard to take Geordo seriously as a manipulator, schemer, and possible heir to a kingdom if you saw said prince screaming at the sight of a small garden snake or being left behind by his duchess fiancee to cook fish.
You cannot change my mind.
154 notes
·
View notes
Have any of you watched my next life as a villainess or carole and tuesday bc i am thinking so hard abt them rn
5 notes
·
View notes
Maria Campbell
Age: 15
Home: Unnamed border town (Fortune Lover My Next Life as a Villainess)
Likes: Sweets, Catarina, (most of) Catarina’s friends
Dislikes: Bullies, dark magic
Magical affinity: Light
Maria Campbell was an ordinary girl from an ordinary village, until she discovered her incredibly rare light magic. This discovery alienated her from her peers and drove away her father (who assumed Mrs. Campbell must have cheated on him), but it also opened the door to the Magic Academy. Things look tough at first, with the low-class girl being bullied by the cruel Catarina Claes and her army of aristocratic agitators. But if she finds the right route, perhaps she could win the heart of one of the 4-5 hot guys she runs into…?
Such is the story of Maria Campbell…but not our Maria Campbell. Our Maria Campbell has the same tragic backstory, but instead of running into Catarina, she runs into Bakarina, who is familiar with Fortune Lover, terrified of following one of the routes where Catarina dies or gets exiled, and too ditzy to realize there’s no way that’ll happen. She is also nice, and a combination of her paranoia and basic human empathy leads to Bakarina intervening in the same sort of bullying which Catarina spearheaded.
Going from otome protagonist to anime co-deuteragonist doesn’t just give her a new friend; it also gives her personality beyond being a cipher for the audience. She’s a kind-hearted, hard-working attention-seeker, one who is finally moving from fake self-defensive happiness to sincere joy.
Not to be confused with Mary Hunt, also from MNLaaV. In fairness, Maria is written in Japanese as “ma-ri-a” and Mary as “me-a-ri,” so they sound more different in their original language…but still.
What does Tumblr have to say about Maria Campbell?
The Cinnamon roll of today is : Maria Campbell from My Next Life as a villainess : all route lead to doom
…there are not a lot of text posts in this fandom. At least, not text posts about individual characters.
15 notes
·
View notes
The idea that each character in a dating sim has two routes is a statistical error, Catarina Claes, who has stolen everyone else’s routes giving her over 800 routes, is an outlier and should not have been counted
362 notes
·
View notes
I saw the Keith headcannon, can you do a Geordo one^^
(This took a bit longer than expected and it’s pretty short, sorry anon)
• Geordo is a possessive yandere
• He hates when others touch you, to the point where he will push away anyone who touches you for more than 3 seconds.
• His status lets him get away with all his yandere actions, so there’s no way you’ll be saved. What servant would dare go against a prince?
• He will act overly flirtatious with you when the two of you are alone. It makes you uncomfortable because he is engaged to someone else, but because of his status, no one will believe he does that to you.
• He tends to be a bit manipulative (whether it’s intional or not, you’ll never know). He will use the fact that he’s engaged to Catarina/Katarina to make you think you’re imagining his romantic advances. If he’s already engaged, why would he be in love with you? It’s obvious that it’s just your delusions, you’re the one who wants him.
• You can never truly be afraid of Geordo, he’s just so charming that all his actions don’t fully seep in. He will use this to his advantage, every detail you ignore is one step closer to Stockholm Syndrome.
• When you first become his darling/prisoner, he will bathe you to cleanse you from others’ touches. Then, you’ll finally be pure again. This is will happen every time you are in contact with someone other than him.
• If shock collars exist in the Fortune Lover universe (which I doubt they do), I can see Geordo using one to train you.
• His punishments are usually mental/pyschological, but he’s not against using physical punishments.
• Danger level: 5/10
107 notes
·
View notes
A Maiden Doesn't Have Just One Route!
This was supposed to be for a thing, but that thing was cancelled so I’m just posting this as it is. Please appreciate this, it’s doodle-y but this took me days qwq (its a hamefuRAINBOW)
Whose flag do *you* want to raise? :DD (Light Novel Spoilers, obviously)
416 notes
·
View notes
So I’ve finished watching my next life as a villainess and I was.. inspired? Literally any character behind Katarina would be suitable.
322 notes
·
View notes
Nicol Ascart is really out here seducing the student body with his student body.
50 notes
·
View notes