Review of Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I'm Not the Demon Lord

An isekai where the protagonist is reincarnated as the villain of the story and tries to change her story but is too naive to do so, shut up and take my money. The story of Yumiella Dolkness is one that can easily become your comfort anime. The protagonist is the face of the work and she doesn't need anyone else to make it entertaining. To exemplify what the dynamics of this work is like, let me use as a reference a game that we can all know, Pokemon. Imagine for a moment that you are already champion of the league, that you have all your Pokémonat level 100 and you decide to return to route 1. On this route it occurs to you to look into the eyes of a small bug catcher who decides to challenge you to a duel. . He takes out his best combatant which is a level 5 Caterpie and you can't do anything except take out your level 100 Charizard. The only thing that will happen is that you will mop the floor with the poor rival. Yumiella is the level 100 Charizard and the rest of the characters are level 5 Caterpies, the only thing Yumiella can do, even if she restrains herself, is make fools of the rest of the characters who dare to challenge her.

Jumondo is a studio that I didn't know about but I liked how they worked on the work, especially with the chibi models of the characters. It is what gave more charisma and personality to the work because they contributed a lot to that trait of naivety and innocence of our protagonist. The work may have negative aspects such as not using other characters in their entirety, but its intention is not to tell a story with them, the true intention is that they are cannon fodder to make Yumiella look good. The story is not trying to be ambitious so it can be forgiven for these kinds of details.

In conclusion, Akuyaku Reijou lv99, if you let yourself be carried away by the atmosphere it proposes, if you are convinced by the humor they use and if you get attached to the protagonist, it can easily become a comfort anime. One of those animes that you would like to revisit even once a year. Because both the novel and the manga are still airing, it is unknown if the anime will decide to continue the story. Even if they decide not to do it and leave it as a single season, the ending is round and closed enough to be satisfied with what they gave us until the last chapter. So far this theme of a girl who is reincarnated as a villain has not disappointed me and I hope that future stories continue along the same lines.