Anime Like 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.

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.

In the To a Beam of Light With You, the final boss and villainess Pride Royal Ivy committed a number of atrocities against everyone around her to the detriment of her nation.

However, one day a student from Japan wakes up in the body of Pride Royal Ivy when she is eight years old, just after she awakens the power of precognition that gives her the right to inherit the throne.

Not wishing to meet a grisly fate or to see her subjects suffer as they would if she were the villainess, this new Pride uses her knowledge of the game to change events that would lead to suffering in an effort to instead become a benevolent ruler.

Overworked office worker Rei Oohashi is thrilled when one day she wakes up as the protagonist in her favorite otome game, Revolution.

She is thrilled, not to meet the three handsome princes that serve as the love interests in the game, but rather she sets her sights on Claire Francois, the villainess! Instead of romancing the male leads, Rei is determined to court Claire instead.

At eight years old, Katarina Claes, the only daughter of a duke, hits her head and suddenly remembers she was once a seventeen-year-old otaku that got isekai’d.

She realizes that she is now in the world of Fortune Lover, the otome game that she had been playing before her death.

Unfortunately, she is not the heroine, but rather the villainess who usually ends up dead or exiled at the end. As such, she endeavors to change her fate and avoid all doom flags.

As the people rebel against the royal line that lead to famine and suffering, first princess Mia Luna Tearmoon is imprisoned and eventually publicly executed. After her death, Mia wakes up several years prior when she was still just a child.

At first, she thinks it was all just a terrible dream until she finds the blood-spattered diary she kept in her cell next to her. Using the knowledge of the future, Mia seeks to escape her fate by preventing the poor governance and economic strife that is to come. However, tireless efforts are not something this pampered princess is used to or particularly good at.

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.

After being executed in her past life for her evil deeds, Elise was reincarnated into our modern world as an orphan where she dedicated her life to becoming a master surgeon. However, after being involved in a plane crash, she treats as many people as she can before succumbing to her own injuries.

Suddenly, she finds herself back in the younger years of her previous life where her precious family is still alive and her kingdom has yet to slide into despair and bloodshed like it did after she became empress.

In order to avoid the deaths of her family and her own execution, Elise breaks off her engagement with the prince and decides to become a doctor instead.

Jill Savelle is the fiancee of the crown prince Gerald de Kleitos. However, after being betrayed by her betrothed, she is hunted down by her own countrymen and imprisoned as a traitor. As her last moments approach, Jill awakens to find herself six years in the past, and is determined not to become a pawn again.

Although now a 10-year-old girl, Jill still has all her skills and memories intact. She uses the knowledge of her future to escape a betrothal to prince Gerald by accidentally proposing to Hadis Teos Rave, a young man who would become the fiercesome Dragon Emperor and stain the land with blood six years in the future.

To her surprise, Hadis accepts their engagement, but can Jill escape her bloody fate while keeping Hadis off his own villainous path?

After being pushed off a building to her death, office worker Rinko Hanasaki is reborn as Raeliana McMillan, a minor character in a novel she had once read.

While Raeliana is the eldest daughter of a nouveau-rich baron, Rinko knows that her new life isn’t exactly blessed. Having knowledge of Raeliana’s fate in the novel, she knows that her fiancee, Lord Francis Brooks, kills her to kick off the plot of the book for the actual heroine.

Determined not to die, Raeliana makes moves to break her engagement and save her life. This leads her to the mysterious Duke Noah Wynknight, the male love interest in the novel and general manipulator of politics among the nobility. She ends up blackmailing him, threatening to reveal his secrets, if he does not pretend to be her fiancee so she can break things off with Brooks.

However, while this saves her life for now, Raeliana’s relationship with the Duke grows more complicated by the day.