What’s it about? After a tragic accident, a scholar is reincarnated as Yumiella Dolkness, the extra-tough secret boss of Mild magic and the hero. Her unique aim is to keep away from heroine Alicia Ehnleit and her love pursuits altogether, coaching in secret in case she must defeat the Demon King himself. However all her coaching will get her is that every one eyes might be on her on the academy’s entrance ceremony.
We’re nicely into villainess anime oversaturation at this level, I would say. It is inevitable with any standard development, and the world of manga and lightweight novels has been overfed for years, however it’s nonetheless a little bit of a disgrace as I actually benefit from the higher entries of the microgenre. Badness stage 99 is not a horrible present, however it’s firmly caught in the identical uncreative slog that the broader wish-fulfillment isekai has been caught in for years.
The primary failure is one in all tempo. The primary half of this episode immediately follows the opposite heroine via her introduction and that of her three love pursuits, pulling again to inform us about our precise protagonist as soon as the 2 first meet. Alicia is doing high-quality in a boring method, however the villain isekai is so useless drained at this level that I am unable to consider a single one that would encounter this as their first introduction to this e-book. There may be initially a touch that there’s a parallel construction at work, with Yumiella proven a la within the background of Alicia’s introduction. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are useless, however it’s deleted after a single scene. It simply looks like a waste of the viewer’s time, filling up the operating time earlier than the precise starting.
The opposite downside is our true heroine herself. Yumiella Dolkness – who I assume initially grew to become evil not out of nominative determinism however out of sheer disgrace – is an brisk void. Fairouz Ai is a particularly gifted voice actress, however it looks like she’s been tasked with giving a efficiency so deadpan that it takes the life out of each scene.
Yumiella muses that the unique recreation character in all probability grew to become a chilly villain because of the social stigma surrounding black hair and darkish magic, or that she hyper-fixated a bit and actually spent day-after-day of her childhood grinding ranges, however the visuals are so uninspired that the comedian hole between story and picture is just not there. There is a good little second the place Yumiella giggles about how her creepy powers are literally extraordinarily cool, however it’s a considerably remoted second of power. Mixed with the shortcuts of characters utilizing recreation jargon in dialogue, it is arduous to get invested.
There’s room to develop this if it could get higher visible timing and have Yumiella from her extra energetic castmates. She appears to have a pleasant love curiosity of her personal, however at this level I am rather more interested by her try at injury management in her interactions with Alicia. As for first impressions, 7e Time loop is the straightforward winner if you happen to’re searching for a villain story this season. Villainess 99 is just too generic to beat the manufacturing limitations and the path is sadly not competent sufficient to convey out the nice concepts. Narō of all this.
