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.
I love shoujo ai anime that is unambiguous with girl’s love, and this makes a wonderful twist to the growing stack of villainess-themed anime. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like I’m in Love with the Villainess, head on down below.
Anime Like I’m in Love with the Villainess
For Fans of Girl’s Love Isekai
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
When she was a young child, Princess Anisphia recovered the memories of her previous life. Despite her having disappointingly no aptitude for magic, she uses the world’s magical capability and her past life knowledge of technology to form the realm of magicology.
One day while testing an invention, Anisphia crashes into a school party where her older brother is publicly breaking his engagement with Euphillia, robbing her of her future as a queen.
Anisphia whisks her away and asks her father to let her have her as an assistant and secretly hopes to make her a lover as well.
Both I’m in Love with the Villainess and Magical Revolution are isekai anime that don’t mince the oft-minced message – the heroine is a lesbian that loves girls.
However, while I’m in Love with the Villainess is a standard “transported in an otome game” villainess isekai anime, Magical Revolution is just a standard isekai.
I’m in Love with the Villainess also differs in that its plot is built around her sheer dedication to the villainess who is slowly worn down by her affection. Alternatively, Magical Revolution is about slowly earning the love of a girl, but also has a plot surrounding the intrigues in the kingdom.
The Executioner and Her Way of Life
For years, the Lost Ones have come from the distant world of Japan to a fantasy land. Not even these Lost Ones know how or why they arrive there, but their immense powers only bring destruction.
In order to secure the safety of their world, Executioners are charged with exterminating these Lost Ones.
While on the job, Executioner Menou happens across Akari, a Lost One summoned by an ambitious king. However, she finds that the girl is immortal and cannot be killed. Traveling with Akari, Menou seeks a way to end her life.
Both I’m in Love with the Villainess and The Executioner and Her Way of Life are about women who are wildly in love with and attached to a girl that really doesn’t want anything to do with her. Of course, The Executioner and Her Way of Life has the added twist that she intends to find a way to kill this seemingly-immortal girl eventually.
While both series are girl’s love-focused isekai in their main character dynamics, The Executioner and Her Way of Life is a lot more focused on big magical action compared to the pretty tame school life otome adventure that is I’m in Love with the Villainess.
Otherside Picnic
After accidentally entering, Sorao finds herself in the desolate, and as she discovers, dangerous Otherworld. As she ponders whether to just die or not, she is saved by a girl named Toriko who is looking for her friend Satsuki who she believes is somewhere in this world.
After meeting, a friendship and partnership springs up as they explore the new reality before them.
Although Otherside Picnic likes to play a bit more coy with the shoujo ai relationship between its main characters, it is very much there. It just isn’t there in the very in-your-face way like it is in I’m in Love with the Villainess.
While I’m in Love with the Villainess does it more intensely, both series are about two girls bonding and slowly becoming closer. Otherside Picnic does this through frequent, sometimes life-threatening adventures into another world for fun and profit while I’m in Love with the Villainess does it through intense affection and frequent exposure.
While I’m in Love with the Villainess is quite cheerful, Otherside Picnic often aims at a darker story.
For Fans of Villainesses in Love
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.
Both I’m in Love with the Villainess and I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss are villainess anime, but they are also villainess anime with a singular love interest that they are pursuing.
Unlike I’m in Love with the Villainess that is a homosexual romance between two women, I’m The Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss is a heterosexual romance. However, both series have their plots fully surrounding a romantic relationship and actually takes steps to progress their relationship – a rarity in villainess anime.
Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte
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.
Unlike the other above selections of villainess anime, Endo and Kobayashi, like I’m in Love with the Villainess, doesn’t have the main character as the villainess. Instead, the main character is someone that really admires the villainess and doesn’t want her to meet a bad end. As such, they want to spend a lot of time with her, and want to prevent any flags that would make her unhappy.
Of course, the big difference is that Endo and Kobayashi are about two friends playing a dating sim where they can communicate with the prince. So they are trying to get the prince and the villainess together. While still a romance, it is a decidedly different romantic affair from the shoujo ai presented in I’m in Love with the Villainess.
For Fans of Manipulating Story Events
My Next Life as a Villainess – All Routes Lead to Doom!
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.
Both I’m in Love with the Villainess and My Next Life as a Villainess are villainess anime. They offer you a villainess, and make her lovable. However, the villainess herself is the main character in My Next Life as the Villainess while she is simply the love interest in I’m in Love with the Villainess.
While I’m in Love with the Villainess is dedicated to it girl’s love relationship, My Next Life as a Villainess eschews the typical dating sim male choices and instead has the main character pretty uninterested in romance. Instead, she just tries to be friends with everyone – male or female.
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen – From Villainess to Savior
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.
Like I’m in Love with the Villainess, The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen is a villainess anime. However, The Heretical Last Boss Queen isn’t really a romance. Like more traditional villainess anime, a woman is isekai’d into the villainess and is trying to prevent the doom flags of other characters due to her character’s previously evil actions.
I’m in Love with the Villainess is more focused on romance and trying to avoid romance events with the male love interests. The Heretical Last Boss Queen is more about manipulating events so the lives of the other character’s aren’t ruined. Those characters come to love her, but she has no particular romantic affection for anyone.
Trapped in a Dating Sim – The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs
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.
Both I’m in Love with the Villainess and Trapped in a Dating Sim are about main characters who are isekai’d into a dating sim and end up in getting very close to the villainess of that game.
However, while I’m in Love with the Villainess is a shoujo ai romance, Trapped in a Dating Sim is more an otome game from a male perspective. This means he is a nobody character who doesn’t want to get involved in the story, gets involved anyway, and ends up endearing himself to the actually quite kind villainess as well as others. Essentially, he is the good guy and the male love interests are the jerks.
Trapped in a Dating Sim also has more action than otome game isekai anime typically have.
The Reason Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion
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.
While The Reason Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion is about a woman isekai’d into a murder mystery romance novel instead of an otome game, the plot, like I’m in Love with the Villainess, is about manipulating events to get specific results. In this case, the result is to not be murdered.
Although I’m in Love with the Villainess is more dedicated to building the relationship, both of these are romance isekai anime where the romantic relationship plays a large role in the plot.
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