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Anime Like I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons

Leticia Dorman has been betrothed to the Crown Prince Clarke since she was seven. As a rambunctious and spirited child, Leticia was forced to endure stern lessons that would shape her into the perfect princess and future queen.

As these lessons prevented her from doing all the things she loved, her only hope was that the prince would lose interest someday and she would be free.

Years later, she is delighted to find that Prince Clarke has broken up with her for another woman—and then devastated to find out he was just trying to make her jealous. Now, still his fiancee, Prince Clarke continues to try to make Lettie fall in love with him.

If at first you don’t succeed, kidnap her with her brother’s help and keep her captive in a fancy house. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons, head on down below.

Anime Like I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons

For Fans of Romanced By Nobility

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Bibliophile Princess

Ever since she was a child, Elianna Bernstein has preferred the company of books to people. As such, when she is proposed to by Crown Prince Christopher, she believes that she is just a temporary fiancee to protect the royal family from the schemes of other noble families.

Yet, when Christopher appears to be getting closer to another girl, Elianna looks up from her books and realizes that she is not as indifferent to him as she thought. What’s more, Christopher was never anything other than in love with her either.

Similarities Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Bibliophile Princess

  • A girl is engaged to the prince as a child, but convinced he would lose interest
  • As the story starts, she discovers that the prince is actually really interested in her, starting their romance

Differences Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Bibliophile Princess

  • Bibliophile Princess is what I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons would be if it wasn’t such a comedy and it was more of a serious romance.
  • The prince in Bibliophile Princess features less stalking behavior
  • Bibliophile Princess, when not being a shoujo romance, has a plot more focused on kingdom politics.
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7th Time Loop – The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!

While being reborn after death once is a magnificent chance at a new life, for Rishe Imgard Wertsner, she is on her 7th reincarnation!

After the crown prince breaks their engagement and she is banished from the country, Rishe always explores a new career. From making a living as a traveling trader to healing people with medicine, she has honed a number of skills in her lifetimes. However, every time, she gets caught up in a war five years later and is killed.

One her seventh loop, she has a clandestine meeting with Arnold Hein, the heir-apparent to a neighboring empire and the man that starts the war that kills her every time. Instead of being enemies, her actions as she is going through the start of her new opportunity at life capture his attention and he proposes that she become his wife.

Similarities Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and 7th Time Loop

  • Starts with the heroine being broken up with by a prince, and none too bothered by it
  • Heroine uninterested in romance ends up engaged to royalty
  • The heroine lives in her fiance’s house, trying to do the things that interest her

Differences Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and 7th Time Loop

  • 7th Time Loop is a serious story and romance.
  • 7th Time Loop is a regressor story about a girl that is broken up with by the prince, goes to learn a profession and live her life, gets killed, and loops back to the start of those events.
  • 7th Time Loop has a linear plot outside of romance that it pursues. In fact, it pursues it more than it does romance.
I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss royal romance anime

I’m The Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss

Being constantly ill, a girl passed her time in the hospital playing otome games. However, one day she wakes up in the world of the game she was playing. What’s more, she wakes up as Aileen Lauren Dautriche, the villainess of the game.

After childhood friend and crown prince Cedric publicly breaks up with her for the game’s protagonist, Aileen makes moves to avoid the tragic future that results in her death.

She decides to propose to Cedric’s half-brother, Demon King Claude who, if left alone, would transform into a dragon and off-handedly kill her in the game.

So begins her quest to tame him.

Similarities Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming The Final Boss

  • Starts with the heroine being broken up with by a prince, and none too bothered by it
  • Plucky heroine pulls herself up by the bootstraps
  • Both series are often more comedy than romance, approaching the story in a similar light-hearted, lackadaisical way.

Differences Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming The Final Boss

  • The breakup at the beginning of I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons was not for real and only playing off the trope. It was for real in I’m the Villainess.
  • Prince Clarke is the relentless pursuer in I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons while the heroine is the relentless pursuer in I’m the Villainess, eventually wearing down the brooding man she is trying to romance.
  • I’m the Villainess does progress the romance even if it takes plenty of breaks for silly comedy.

For Fans of Heroines Who Don’t Want to Be in This Romance Story

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Romantic Killer

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.

Similarities Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Romantic Killer

  • Heroine is happy without romance, but has romance thrust at her by everyone around her
  • Strong-willed, red-haired heroine is trying her best to get back to the activities she enjoys, which do not involve any romance.
  • Occasional moments where you see the heroine lightly charmed by her love interest
  • Both shows are more comedies than satisfying romance stories

Differences Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Romantic Killer

  • Romantic Killer is set in our modern world with the story formulated to be play off an otome dating sim set up
  • Romantic Killer features three love interests, none of them as clingy as Prince Clarke, and all of them pretty normal and easy to like.
  • The heroine in Romantic Killer, what with its modern setting where women sometimes have rights and autonomy, has more of a backbone and stands up for what she wants.
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Murai in Love

Tanaka Ayano is a teacher at Takebe Gakuen High School, and she has a problem. Her second-year student Murai, who is enrolled in her college preparatory course, has declared that his plan for the future is to marry her.

Tanaka firmly rejects him, stating that she could never be interested in a boy with long black hair. In truth, Tanaka-sensei is a secret otaku who only has eyes for her 2D love, Hitotose, a character from an otome game.

The next day, Tanaka is shocked to find that Murai has not only cut his hair and dyed it blonde, but that in doing so, he now looks exactly like her love Hitotose!

Similarities Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Murai in Love

  • Heroine is involved in a romantic comedy, and doesn’t really want to be
  • The male love interest is incredibly attached to the heroine, and very persistent in his affections despite her constantly pushing him away.
  • Both work with the inadvisable concept that pursuing a woman long enough will make her love you.

Differences Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Murai in Love

  • The male love interest in Murai in Love is persistent, but does give the heroine space at times unlike the ultra-persistent Prince Clarke.
  • Murai in Love is set in our modern world and is otome dating sim-themed.
  • The roadblock to romance in Murai in Love is that the heroine is an adult teacher and the boy in love with her is one of her her soon-to-graduate students.
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Koikimo – It’s Too Sick to Call This Love

Successful businessman Ryou Amakusa is used to being the target of women’s affections despite never asking anyone out himself.

One day, after feeling dizzy from a lack of sleep, he nearly falls down some stairs at the station. He is saved by high school otaku Ichika Arima, a girl who gives him her own lunch for energy and runs off.

He later finds out she attends his little sisters’ school, and after offering his body in thanks, he falls in love with her and her disgusted reaction.

Similarities Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Koikimo

  • Both work with the inadvisable concept that pursuing a woman long enough will make her love you.
  • The heroine isn’t interested in the male love interest, but he is very, very interested in her.
  • The male love interest persistently stalks the heroine as comedy in the series

Differences Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Koikimo

  • Koikimo is a modern-set series
  • Koikimo is an age-gape romance between a high school girl and the handsome adult playboy that is relentless pursuing her after a clandestine meeting despite the heroine frequently telling him she is not interested.
  • Koikimo does put more emphasis on romance unlike the more comedy-focused I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons.

For Fans of Overly Attached Male Love Interests

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Love of Kill

Although a novice bounty hunter, Chateau Dankworth is confident in her skills. However, one day she is overpowered by a man who wasn’t even her target, and worse yet, he takes an immediate romantic interest in her.

She soon learns that the man who continues to pester her is Song Ryang-ha – a former assassin and wanted by the Asian underworld organization he turned against. This leads them to constant run-ins with members from both of their pasts.

Similarities Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Love of Kill

  • Stalking women who you have known since they were children is romance.
  • Overly attached male love interest pursues a woman that has no interest in him
  • The heroine is eventually worn down into love.

Differences Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Love of Kill

  • Love of Kill is modern-set, following the romance between an icy female bounty hunter and a difficult to read male assassin.
  • Love of Kill is more action-focused and a bit sinister in tone at times, even in the romance.
  • Love of Kill has a slowly unraveling intrigue plot outside of the romance.
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Yakuza Fiancé

After years of tension, the Osaka’s Somei and Tokyo’s Miyama yakuza families have called a truce, one built on the engagement between the grandchildren of their leaders. For 17-year-old Yoshino Somei, she is forced to move to Tokyo to live with Kirishima Miyama where she will attend school with her new fiance.

While Kirishima is handsome and polite, he eventually reveals his true nature to Yoshino. Not only can he hurt people without thinking twice, this masochistic maniac wants an arrogant and spoiled fiancee who will ruin his life.

When Yoshino fails to meet his expectations, he insults her. However, Yoshino, not one to back down, decides to make him fall for her so she can ruthlessly break his heart.

Similarities Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Yakuza Fiance

  • Heroine is engaged to a man she has minimal romantic interest in
  • The male love interest is obsessively in love with her
  • The heroine is eventually worn down by his affection

Differences Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and Yakuza Fiance

  • Yakuza fiance is modern-set and about a romance between two people that belong to different yakuza families.
  • Yakuza Fiance, as it follows the children of criminals, is not wholesome and is occasionally accents the psychopathic side of both its main characters.
  • The clingy nature in Yakuza fiance is, at times, a bit justified by the fact that children of yakuza leaders are occasionally in danger.
I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History anime

I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History

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.

Similarities Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History

  • Heroine is just trying to live her life, despite a man increasingly falling in love with her.
  • The male love interest makes his romantic interest clear, bamboozling the heroine.
  • Despite everything she does, he keeps pursuing her

Differences Between I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons and I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History

  • The male love interest in I’ll become a Villainess isn’t a stalker, he just goes to the same school and they are in the same social circle.
  • I’ll Become a Villainess is a “isekai’d into an otome game as a villainess” anime where the main character is just trying to be a good villainess, but ends up inadvertently wooing the prince with her actions and words.
  • I’ll Become a Villainess does have an actual plot going on that it treats seriously.
  • I’ll Become a Villainess has both parties open to romance, whereas I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons has the heroine firmly against it for much of the time.

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