Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou.
I'm in Love with the Villainess

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This is one of the anime that can make a non-yuri fan into a yuri fan

the manga - it hits more different [more darker - coz anime mainly focus on comedy]
it adapts the light novel -in the 1st few chaps it was better than the light novel
like the adaptation of LN vol 1 was better in manga - & it was till it reached the middle of vol2 [LN vol 2] after that point, manga gets a bit different - really different [tbh it starts telling more side stories than continuing the main plot- and changed some major events too]
----and manga is ... not completed [it's only on LN vol last part as i write this ] + there is a rumour that manga is only going to adapt up to vol 2 [that means they skip the best part - but idk if this is true - i wish it's not ]

But the real masterpiece is the light novel - as it is completed [with 5 vols ] it's the best ever story u could hope for
-coz it goes to "rezero / steinsgates" lvl story by the 5th vol-

So if i rate it, it's gonna be like this
anime<manga<light novel

light novel - 10/10
coz it's one of the best yuri - with best storytelling]

manga -9/10 [this can change coz it's still ongoing ]

anime -8/10 [only s1- coz i'm still wishing for a s2/s3/s4]
it adapts only up to 1st part of vol2 [of LN] - it follows mainly the manga ver [it's ok coz it this part, the manga was better than LN] but anime ver. had limited the darkness of some parts of the story [it leans more into comedy] but if u read the LN or manga u can see the hidden dark parts too [as i watched anime before manga or LN i didn't notice them - but it rewatchs it became clear]

Day 9/30 of the Yurithon:
I was really struggling to continue reading this yuri. I think I only read thirteen chapters out of obligation; I probably would've only read like seven chapters if I wasn't just seeking for something to truly interest me. Nothing really stuck out to me in this manga; everything was pretty much just okay. I don't really care for Rae, Claire or anyone else, and there's nothing to me that indicates any semblance of chemistry between Rae and Claire. I think the isekai element of the yuri was just wasted, and Rae exploiting the game should've just been taken to an entirely ... different level; the story still works about as well if she wasn't reincarnated into an otome game. The art was good, but I much preferred the style of almost all the other yuri I read. I think the author was trying to go for a social commentary thing regarding sexuality in chapter whatever (I'm too lazy to check it again), but I feel like this topic was just discussed far more competently in "She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat". Hell, I think that almost every element of this yuri was displayed way better in all the other yuri I read (excluding "Yuru Yuri"). At least this manga didn't waste time with its early chapters; instead, I was too busy feeling indifference towards it. The author should've really leaned into the isekai and otome game gimmick, because "I'm in Love with the Villainess" has pretty much nothing spectacular without it. I don't know, maybe after all the bangers I've read for the Yurithon, my expectations were just set too high. Regardless, I'm likely never going to pick this yuri up again. But honestly, it feels good not having to complete/catch up to yet another yuri after finishing the Yurithon. I'll take that as consolation.

I will pose a rather strange question: what even is this manga?

I have read 23 chapters, and I legitimately cannot tell you what the central theme of this story is. It's not girl love, it's not civil conflict, it's not friendship, it's not a fantasy adventure, it's not a coming of age tale... it feels like an amalgamation of tropes from various genres married into what is, quite honestly, borderline insulting narrative.

There hasn't ever really been a clear direction letting you know how to read this story as, so you blindly try to figure it out only to be blindsided with, well, stupidity. ...

I don't consider this a love story, and if you do, then perhaps it's good that you're reading this review: what you have here is a borderline psychotic case of love-bombing. You have one character who is clearly not interested, and one who is desperate for attention, and even if it's played off for laughs and wholesomeness and as though it's sweet, it's... well, it's really not. While at the start it may have worked as I simply believed the chick was just hard-simping for her favorite character (where the comedy would work), when it became clear that she is legitimately, unequivocally *in love*, whatever little was working in the story just... stopped. It was no longer funny, it was sad. And then from sad it became depressing, and from depressing it became, well, worrying.

Then chapter 22/23 came, and I was just kind of done. Not only did we get introduced to a trope so boring it was outdated in 1987, it was the story's last chance to actually go back to the roots of comedy, and it just didn't. It fully embraced the melodrama, and whatever little it still had going for itself (which was honestly almost nothing at that point) was just... gone.

So, ultimately, what you have here is some psychotic, perverted version of a love story that, quite frankly, isn't even a love story (and it shouldn't be), with a set of simple, one-note characters, and a world beyond inconsistent and full of logical holes. You have a main character that goes from being a comedic self-insert into... I don't even know anymore, to be honest.

This is not a love story, this is not a 'villainess' story, this is not girl-love story, this is just... annoying tropes inked with increasingly inconsistent art.