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

Villainess Level 99 had and idea, a good one too... but around the half way point it got ditched to follow the well traveled generic road instead. Our "villainess" is the usual /I got Isekaied into an Otome game and I'm the villainess/. As the title suggests she's the hidden boss of the game so very much post game content rather than the final boss... why would an Otome have that?!? The hook here is that she's indifferent. She's not trying to change the route, be the number one villainess, hack the game...etc. Her focus is literally just leveling up and being strong, That's it. TheOtome game can play in the background for all she cares with it's cardboard cutout characters.

At first this is interesting as the tropes of the genre are thrown to the side as "boring" and our MC simply does her own thing, which in this world takes things to funny extremes.

Around the midway point however the allure of the well traveled road was too much and the whole thing gets ditched so as to follow the generic beats of the otome game, with said boring cardboard cut outs, only with the addition of the super OP MC that can easily one punch the final boss to make it easy.

It's rushed, the side characters get the depth of a teaspoon, the 3D is distracting.

Overall it's a fun little show but I wished it carried through with it's promise instead of shifting attention away from the MC to characterless NPCs.