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.
While it has an exact premise that has already been done before, I can appreciate that it is trying to treat it more seriously than other similar series. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior, head on down below.
Anime Like The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior
For Fans of Villainesses
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.
In so many ways, The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen and My Next Life as a Villainess are the same anime.
Both series are about girls isekai’d into younger versions of the villainess in an otome game that they love, stop being mean and evil immediately, start changing the lives of the love interests and characters of the game so that she won’t be an evil villainess that gets killed later.
The real difference between The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen and My Next Life as a Villainess is really the tone. Whereas The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen treats the situation quite seriously and addresses some darker things that she might have put characters through, My Next Life as a Villainess is more light-hearted and wholesome.
Essentially, My Next Life as a Villainess is a rather cheerful series where The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen has a little more serious drama and focuses less on wholesome moments.
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 The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen and I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss are, most obviously, isekai anime about girls isekai’d into the villainess of the otome game that they enjoyed.
However, whereas The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen focuses on improving the kingdom and not doing terrible things to the love interests in the game, I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss is more romance-focused. It ignores all the other “love interest routes” to explore only one with the man who, if left alone, would offhandedly kill the villainess as he rampaged.
I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss is definitely more for those that like the villainess theme, but want a more direct romance that doesn’t forget a little drama either. However, that drama isn’t quite as dark as the events shown in The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen.
Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieslotte
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.
Both The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen and Endo and Kobayashi Live are villainess anime where the villainess is actually quite nice. However, instead of being an isekai situation, Endo and Kobayashi Live are about the villainess being a tsundere in a world where no one knows what a tsundere and thus they interpret her actions as mean.
In essence, both series are very focused on manipulating the relationships that the characters form and the events that happen to them so they don’t die. It is just that there are players actually playing the game in Endo and Kobayashi Live instead of being isekai’d into the game like The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen.
For Fans of Otome Game Relationships
The Saint’s Magic is Omnipotent
Sei, a young office worker, is summoned to a new world. However, the people who summoned her to banish dark magic from the world only meant to summon one person they would call Saint. Instead, they summoned two, and Sei discovers that they actually like the other girl better.
Not really caring about that, she ends up making potions at a research institute using her newfound magic. Unfortunately, while she is unexpectedly talented at her work and happy doing it, she begins to think that she is indeed the Saint.
Although both series are isekai anime, The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent isn’t specifically stated to be an otome game. However, it is indeed an isekai world that feels like the world of an otome game.
Both series follow women in a new world as they go about their lives. While The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen tries to save lives and prevent bad events in the game to save her own life, The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent is more a standard isekai adventure where she finds her passion and starts a romance.
Both series enjoy some reverse harem elements, but also have a clear main romance. However, The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent does actually explore that romance more diligently, but it is not the main focus either.
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.
Unlike The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen that is about being isekai’d into an otome game, Romantic Killer is about being forced to play an otome game in real life even though you don’t want to.
While these series differ in setting and Romantic Killer has a main character that is significantly less idealistic, they both feature women who heal the main love interests with their interference. The main characters themselves don’t have a lot of problems, but they end up solving the problems of the men in their lives.
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.
Trapped in a Dating Sim puts a new spin on the growing trend of “in otome games as a villainess,” by having a male main character that becomes the love interest of the villainess instead.
Unlike The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen where everyone was nice until the villainess ruined their lives, Trapped in a Dating Sim shows how terrible the love interests from the game are to the villainess who is actually quite nice.
So while The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen plays things straight, Trapped in a Dating Sim is very much a subversion of the otome game dating sim. It also has more action than these settings typically have, but it isn’t so much as to make it an action anime either.
For Fans of Navigating Intrigues
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.
Unlike The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen that is the standard otome game-set isekai set up, Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion is set in a novel that has a world that definitely feels like it could be an otome game.
Both series are about main characters that are trying to dodge death flags, but while Pride is doing that through helping the love interests and manipulating events, Raeliana is using intrigue and politics to her advantage.
The biggest different between these two is that while Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion is awash in handsome men, it is a romance anime that explores her relationship with a singular love interest.
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.
While Bibliophile Princess is not an isekai anime, it is, like The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen, about the politics and expectations of royalty.
While Pride is manipulating events to avoid her death and keep her kingdom from suffering, Bibliophile Princess is more about proving that she is worthy to someday be a queen. She also happens to use her knowledge of history, culture, and politics to come to amicable solutions for several conflicts in the country.
Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts
After hundreds of years of war between the kingdom of beasts and the neighboring human kingdom, a peace treaty was signed. The conditions of this treaty say that humans must offer a sacrifice to be devoured by the King of Beasts every year on a particular night.
Sariphi is the latest sacrifice to be sent, adopted by her parents to specifically protect their true-born daughter. Despondent after learning that truth and feeling like she has no home to return back to anyway, Sariphi is fine with dying and unafraid of the King of Beasts.
Intrigued by her lack of fear, the King of Beasts begins to grow closer to her, and when the day of sacrifice comes, he defies his advisors and decides to takes this interesting girl as his wife.
While The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen and Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts have very different settings, both series are about young royalty that is trying to do what is best for their country.
However, as Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts features a new queen consort who is actually hated by her country, much of the series is also about her proving that she does actually care about them as well as love their king.
What Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts and The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen have most in common is the way the plot unfolds. A bad event happens, the main character comes up with a way that overcomes it while also showing how kind she is to the people involved. After the event is resolved, she comes out with another new ally.
However, Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts does have a main romance that it explores. However, it doesn’t put as much focus on actual romance as you would expect. Their relationship is important, but not as deeply focused since there is minimal drama or disagreement between them.
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