Anime Like From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated

As a lifelong otaku, 52-year-old salaryman Kenzaburou Tondabayashi is well-versed in reincarnation stories. As such, when he is hit by a truck and finds himself himself in a fantasy world, he is not too shocked. However, what does shock him is that he is somehow in his daughter’s favorite otome game as Grace Auvergne, the villainess of the story.

Having watched his daughter play through the game many times, Kenzaburou is already quite familiar with the events, and does his best to keep the story flowing. However, between his kind nature and his fatherly disposition, he struggles to fill the role of villainess in the story.

While otome game heroines are designed to be beloved by all, one woman from Japan much prefers the villainnes, Alice Williams, in her otome game. Whereas the heroine only offers pleasant lip service, she sees the value of Alicia’s verbal abuse and admires her discipline and fortitude.

When the woman passes away, she is given the chance to reincarnate as Alica. Now a seven-year-old Alicia, she takes immediate steps to become the best villainess she can be. However, while she hones all her skills, Alicia somehow can’t shake the growing affections of what should be the heroine’s main love interest, Prince Duke Seeker.

In the otome game Light Magic and the Hero, a common girl let into a magic school for nobility and her handsome love interests that she meets at school level up together and eventually defeat the demon lord. Afterwards, players can even fight the hidden boss – the villainess of the game and wielder of rare dark magic, Yumiella Dolkness.

For one unlucky girl, she finds herself reincarnated into the world of Light Magic and the Hero as a young Yumiella Dolkness before the events of the game. In order to not be killed as the hidden boss, she spends her childhood leveling up in dungeons, eventually reaching an unheard of max level of 99.

While everyone doubted her max level status at first, Yumiella is indomitable, which has consistently gotten in the way of her wanting to live a quiet life and not be the hidden final boss of the game.

After having to quit baseball, Aota Endo ends up joining the broadcasting club and becoming increasingly closer with Shihono Kobayashi. One day, after listening to her gush about a game called MagiKoi, she convinces him to play it with her to work on his speaking skills for the broadcasting club.

However, when they boot up the game, they discover that Prince Siegwald can actually hear them as they are playing.

Thinking they are gods, Endo and Kobayashi use their commentary to help avoid the tragic ends for many characters through advising the prince on his dealings with the tsundere villainess Lieselotte.

All high schooler Anzu Hoshino loves is video games, chocolate, and her cat, Momohiko. She has shunned everything else, especially a romantic life.

However, one day a magical creature alters her reality where she can’t have any of those three things that she adores and is told that in order to return to her normal life, she must indulge in the dating sim situations that have been set up around her involving the new troubled transfer student Tsukasa Kazuki, her childhood friend Junta Hayami, and a wealthy sheltered student named Hijiri Koganei.

After starving himself to beat an otome game for his sister, office worker Leon falls down the stairs and dies. When he awakens, he is a young son of a minor noble that wasn’t featured in the game.

Looking to live quietly as a nobody “mob” character, he is soon saddled with an arranged marriage he is against where he decides to use his knowledge of the game to get out of the match and reach for his own happiness.

Takafumi’s uncle has been in a coma for 17 years after being hit by a truck when he was 17. However, after all this time, he has woken up.

As Takafumi discovers, while his uncle was in a coma in his world, he was transported to a fantasy land and became a great hero despite constantly being confused for an orc due to his appearance.

Now, Takafumi has to room with this man who needs to catch up on 20 years of gaming and anime culture while still possessing literal magical powers.

Unfulfilled and lonely by the corporate grind, middle-aged salaryman Sasaki decides to get a pet for some companionship. He settles on a buying a small bird who, much to his surprise, reveals itself to be a reborn sage from another world who still has his memories – and magic – intact.

Transporting Sasaki to his home world and bestowing some of his magic to him, Sasaki hopes to use his magic and the ability to travel back and forth between worlds to start a new life of peace and comfort.

However, after getting involved economically and politically with the fantasy kingdom and his new magic powers attracting the attention of the government in modern Japan, Sasaki escaped his dull corporate life and now faces endless excitement no matter where he goes.

On their way home from a mixer, average guy Tachibana and his handsome best friend Jinguuji are attacked by a naked goddess.

When they wake up in another world, she tells them that they are heroes and tasks them with killing a demon lord.

However, much to the chagrin of woman-hating Jinguuji, Tachibana has been transformed into a super cute girl!

On his deathbed, Hero-King Inglis is visited by the goddess who gave him her blessing in his youth. He used it to build a mighty empire, but regrets that leadership had to take priority over his martial training.

Offering him a wish, he wishes to be reincarnated in order to devote himself to the life of a warrior.

She grants it, but when he awakens, he finds himself in the body of a baby girl.

Despite the setback, Inglis still maintains some power from his previous life as well as his memories. With his body growing stronger each day, he continues to hone his blade skills.