Anime Like Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I’m Not the Demon Lord

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

After he was promised to be reincarnated into a new world with cheat-level powers, a man is reborn a royal baby named Reinhart. Unfortunately, his powers are so OP that they can’t be measured by traditional means.

Not wanting a weak member of the royal family, his parents abandon him in the woods. Luckily, the king’s brother seeks him out and takes him home to raise as his own, along with the demon that pledged her loyalty to him after getting a taste of baby Reinhart’s powerful magics.

With endless power at his disposal, Reinhart makes his way through this dangerous new world of adventure.

In ancient times, those who saved humanity settled outside of the infamous Last Dungeon. Their descendants have all been strong enough to survive in the area by building a community.

Lloyd is one such descendant, but the weakest in the village.

Hoping to grow strong, he heads to the Kingdom of Azami to enroll in their military academy. However, in this starter zone, Lloyd’s powers seem otherworldly to everyone around him.

After countless wars, Demon Lord Anos Voldigoad decided he would reincarnate into the future.

However, 2,000 years later, he has found that his descendants have become too used to peace and their magical powers weakened because of it.

Reincarnated with his full strength, the sheer magical power of Anos makes him a misfit at the Demon King Academy charged with educating the next generation in waning magical prowess.

When a person is born, they bear a distinctive mark on their face that denotes that they have magical abilities. To maintain the magical integrity of the world, those without the mark are swiftly exterminated.

Mash Burnedead was born without a mark or magical ability, but he was taken in by one weak mage and raised away from society in the forest. While he lacks magical skills, Mash has honed his physical strength to superhuman levels by working out everyday.

When Mash was discovered in the forest and his peaceful life was upended, he decides to go to magic school to become a Divine Visionary, a person that the whole world recognizes for their supreme skills, in order to protect his family.

However, while being magic-less in a magic school seems like a pretty indomitable obstacle, Mash’s muscles are capable of feats that seem just like magic.

After being hit by a truck and killed, a young man was reincarnated into a new world as a baby. He was found and raised by a legendary sage named Merlin and given the name Shin.

However, while Merlin taught him his skills and Shin grew into an extremely powerful mage, living in the forest failed to teach Shin common sense and other people skills.