# My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (2020)

> A wealthy heiress who wakes up as the villainess of her favorite otome game sets out to dodge her doomed fate.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/80170

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 24
- Episode runtime: 24 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, comedy, fantasy, romance
- Network: MBS
- Cast: Maaya Uchida, Shouta Aoi, Tetsuya Kakihara, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Saori Hayami, Toshiki Masuda, Takehito Koyasu
- TMDB rating: 7.1/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11821792/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: breezy, witty, comforting, playful

## What critics say

Audiences rate the series as mixed-to-positive, appreciating its comedic take on the villainess reincarnation premise while finding the formula familiar.

## Synopsis

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (2020-2021) is a Japanese anime isekai comedy produced by SILVER LINK. and Nichion for MBS. Wealthy heiress Catarina Claes, voiced by Maaya Uchida, wakes from a head injury with the memories of her previous life and realizes she is the villainous rival in Fortune Lover, an otome game she once loved. Her goal is simple and urgent: avoid the disgrace and ruin that the game has assigned to her. Obstacles arrive in the form of the protagonist's romantic routes, a crowded magic academy, and the princes around her, including Geordo Stuart voiced by Shouta Aoi and Nicol Ascart voiced by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka. Across two seasons and twenty-four episodes, each installment is built from scheming, social maneuvering, and comic misreadings of the romance plots she is trying to sabotage. The tone is breezy and self-aware, a parody of romance-game conventions that still has warmth and fondness for its cast. Fans of Ascendance of a Bookworm and Re:Zero will find resonance in its isekai premise and lighthearted romantic stakes.

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