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

This is just a chill slice of life/comedy-ish drama. Very hit or miss. Good things: Yumi's fun to watch, the magic is cool (nothing special but pretty flashy), animation does it's job. Overall, it has some wholesome themes (though very tropey) and decent execution. The fight scenes are...okay. Like...if you enjoyed Saiki and Saitama one-shotting enemies you'd enjoy this too. There's not much else in terms of action though. I mean, honestly this is like the many many overpowered reincarnation animes just that this one is female-led and without a harem. So yeah. I did like Yumi and Alicia's relationship, she seems to have the most organic reactionto Yumi. Yumi and Patrick's cute too. Alicia and her trio of admirers less so, mainly because the 3 boys are reduced to brainless animatronics in her vicinity, bound to fawn over her and attack whoever she's interacting with without the least provocation. The show needs to understand that just because the premise is an otome isekai, doesn't mean you can write your entire secondary cast like otome characters.

More flaws: Edwin is annoying as fuck. Like I get that Yumi's terrifying, not to mention a new phenomenon to them and everything but I feel like Os and William had much more tolerable and reasonable reactions to her. I'm glad he got over it eventually but it really overstayed its welcome.

Also, the ending is...kind of cringy...but I liked that they remedied everything (unlike the other versions of this story) because I really did like Alicia quite a lot.

SO: you'll probably know if this is for you within 1-2 eps