Trivia / My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

• Ascended Fan Nickname: J-Novel Club, the licensed publisher for the novels in the US, eventually uses "Bakarina," a Fan Nickname for Catarina, as a shorthand reference to the series, especially on their official forums.
• Completely Different Title: Downplayed. The official English title My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! contains nearly everything in the Japanese title, which translates to I Reincarnated into an Otome Game as a Villainess With Only Destruction Flags..., but it is arranged so differently to give a different impression.
• The Danza: In an example that doesn't apply to the series as a whole; Atsuko is the only character who is directly shown singing during the opening, which is rather appropriate considering the fact that it's also the name of the person actually singing it.
• Defictionalization: The Blu-Ray collection features a demo version of Fortune Lover, the game that serves as the setting for the series.
• Fountain of Expies: This series was the Genre Popularizer of the "Reborn as Villainess" Story Sub-Genre of isekai. As such, many of the characters have spawned carbon copies, in particular Catarina and Maria. One of the most noteworthy examples being the Beware the Villainess!, which copies the basic premise almost wholesale and even has expies of Geordo, Keith, Alan and Nicol as well. This actually led to a certain amount of dismissal of the anime adaptation when it first came out, since it seemed like "just another villainess isekai", before fans of the original novels pointed out it's what popularized the concept and had its own charms, and it found a whole new audience who hadn't tracked the trends that closely anyway and could come into it with fresh minds.
• The Other Darrin: Due to a mixture of health reasons and scandal, Yuki Ito will be voicing Alan Stuart in Tatsuhisa Suzuki’s place in the Bonus CDs despite Suzuki apparently still being listed as Alan’s voice in the 2021 game and the second season. This most likely indicates that he completed voice work for the character in those projects prior to the August 2021 issues.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Although not the first time, in the original dub, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka is known for playing harem protagonists to the point of being nicknamed as "Harem King" by the fandom. Here in this series, he's reduced to being a member of a harem (Nicol Ascart). This makes more sense, however, if one knows the real-life Matsuoka has a temperament quite similar to Nicol's.
  • In the English dub, Melissa Fahn is more commonly known for being either stoic or bitchy action girls, one of her more famous roles notwithstanding. Here, she plays Maria Campbell, who is sweet, nice, and as traditionally feminine as can be.
  • Kira Buckland is noted by this wiki to be typecast for Genki Girls. She voices Acchan and Sophia in My Next Life as a Villainess, neither of which are anywhere close to that trope: Acchan is a Shrinking Violet-turned-Proud Otaku, while Sophia is a Cute Bookworm.
• Portmanteau Series Nickname: Otome Gēmu no Hametsu Furagu Shika Nai Akuyaku Reijō ni Tensei Shite Shimatta… —> “Hamefura”
• Sleeper Hit: The show came out of nowhere to become the smash hit of the Spring 2020 season. At first, many people who read the synopsis before release dismissed it as just another Isekai with a really silly premise. However, after the show was released, fans began to fall in love with the wholesomeness and cuteness of Catarina's character, and word-of-mouth quickly spread about its rare mixed-gender harem premise. It became so popular that only a few weeks in, all of Catarina's ships were 7 of the 10 'best couples'◊ in a weekly survey by Anime Trending. It helped that it was one of very few anime that didn't get delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A second season was thus announced before the first had even finished airing, and a film adaptation was announced as the second season was wrapping up.
• Trope Codifier: for "Reborn as Villainess" Story.

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