First Impressions: My Next Life as a Villainess S2

 

This is mainly just a fun thing. 

Harems usually don't interest me since either it's too ecchi for my tastes and I read hentai with a stone face or it's just too boring for me. My brother used to be quite a harem anime fan. 

I can read hentai, to be clear on that front. I'm just stone-faced reading it that seeing real-life sex/porn is just so off-putting. That's why I don't watch porn that often. Ecchi definitely isn't my favorite genre as despite knowing there are sex scenes that pushed the story forward as I experienced that before, it's just not my kinda thing. I'm not looking to get off usually unless I am looking forward to it. I won't mind since I read sex not that often but a decent amount. 

Seriously, for a harem to interest me, do me good with a good story like in the case of Re:Zero or just plain going down to a love triangle like Ouran. You must do really good on the writing to even interest me on a slim case of a harem. 

So imagine my surprise when I came across this bi harem animanga. As a bi gal, this hits everything I would love in a harem. 

Now, this is what I kind of know about the series from the second season. 

The trailer got the kidnapping plot down as well as the confessions from Keith and Geordo. I haven't read too far since I was a bit distracted in another fandom but that's all I know so far relating to the light novel. I read a little tad of the manga too so I know just what is to come, just a little nugget though. 

My trailer reading for how the story would play out has been based on what I have seen of this Bachelor Fantake guy did. I began applying that to trailers I watch, especially if I know just a tad of the story. If you know the story of Hamefura, then you could guess what the story is gonna handle like the kiss Keith was obviously going to plant on Katarina right on the opening and I know for sure that Keith professed his love. 

I do have a question about the whole Sirius Dieke/Raphael Walt angle of the harem. I don't know much about the light novel but I read the manga. From what I have seen, the SD/RW side was never explored beyond being a secret route and Catarina seemingly helping the guy by being a confidante. Yet that didn't translate to romantic scenes at all. If anything, the guy bore witness and even help Maria in the festival. Like, even in the official anime stuff, the guy wasn't even seen in the harem or barely in harem official art or even would be part of the harem as we see one of the older princes try to kiss Catarina. Yes, I see him on the official part but the way everything is written seems like Sirius isn't even taken seriously as a love interest. I don't know if he even backed off or not since he seemed willing to help and perhaps entertained the suitors are trying so hard for Catarina's hand that it's better for his sanity that he doesn't pursue. 

Like, I know Nicol didn't bother to pursue as Sophia is on the main offensive. If Nicol did pursue, we would see more of his ends but mostly what Sophia did is to leave them alone or make wild things just so they could have more romantic moments. The recent play is all about pushing Nicol and Katarina. 

Hey, compared to Geordo and Keith, Nicol has romantic moments via Sophia while Alan got those romantic moments because he's on the same dense idiot wavelength as her. 

Keith got moments via using his brotherly connection while Geordo tried his best to use his fiance card for her and even then he imagined romantic stuff than having romantic stuff. From what I remembered, I know he confessed because the kidnapping incident combined with the hickey thing made him want to take her as his wife now before anyone can take her. 

Again, I know Geordo and Keith confessed to Katarina but Katarina didn't know how to take it and just ignored it willfully or it made a break into the dense brain but she didn't quite take it well. I know Alan discovered his feelings during the kidnapping incident. 

On a brief note, I can instantly recognize Yuki Kajiura and Yuki Hayashi anywhere now. It was pretty easy to identify their styles. I can recognize Shoji Meguro just as much as I can recognize Ryuichi Sakamoto. It's the same with John Powell since I can recognize his style since HTTYD. 

Like, I'm neutral about Demon Slayer since it's isn't a fave shounen of mine but I know Yuki Kajiura anywhere. 

I didn't exactly know Yuki Hayashi was behind the music of My Hero Aca but due to my previous exposure to Haikyuu, the style was too familiar for me to not say this sounds familiar. 

I skimmed info about the upcoming anime adaptation of Vanitas no Carte and saw Yuki Kajiura. I would have to be dumb to not recognize Yuki Kajiura's musical touch. I adore the Tsubasa track so much I have those songs in one of my BTS playlists. Seriously, you would see me giving streams to Japanese songs because I'm going to raise those streams. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about competition or even giving streams to competition in the USA. I would really like to pick my own songs rather than see artists I don't want to listen to when I hear them on the radio. If it was up to me, I would call radio stations to play Japanese songs but I know they really won't not when BTS is the clear example of this, only playing the English songs and even then they don't play it as frequently as the others do. That's why requesting playing the English songs is still crucial. 

Did you know I was quite surprised to see a meme referencing the Magiranger scene? Because while I am out of the loop regarding memes but I got through osmosis considering I do keep up with fandoms, I was surprised to see that. I saw it through an ARMYweeb account I was following so imagine my surprise to see that popped up. I recognized that scene so I was shocked how this meme even happened. 

It was funny the first time I saw Magiranger so it's not a surprise people do find it funny too. 

Still to see it at all after so many years was something I never thought I'll see. I don't know how long this meme will last since memes rarely ever last for a long time. It's just wild to see and I know these guys memeing it haven't even watched Magiranger unlike myself who watched way back in 2009.