From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated! • Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Oji-san - Episode 1 discussion

Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Oji-san, episode 1

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Already loving this.

This is entertaining. The question is how fast the basic premise wears out and if they can introduce new aspects to keep it fresh, but if it can manage to stay this way I'll definitively going to watch it.

The comedy bits of this were typically pretty good (not sure how much staying power they have), but I just can't really get over how much of the episode was devoted to the lives and backstories of the otome game characters. Either make the characters interesting and unique or let them be just tropes and let us already be familiar with them because they are tropes; don't waste time explaining the backstory of the copypasted commoner protagonist with rare magic powers going to a school for nobility as if we've never heard of that before.
I also may have made the mistake again of imagining a better anime and then being disappointed with the one I actually got (though I'm not wholly convinced I'm wrong - I'll explain in the spoiler below). If it does turn out to have an interesting twist, it might end up being pretty good, but just from what we got this episode, I give the premiere a 2/5.
- but I just can’t really get over how much of the episode was devoted to the lives and backstories of the otome game characters. Either make the characters interesting and unique or let them be just tropes and let us already be familiar with them because they are tropes; don’t waste time explaining the backstory of the copypasted commoner protagonist with rare magic powers going to a school for nobility as if we’ve never heard of that before.
  I think that was part of showing the protagonist's level of familiarity with otome games (a genre your average 50-something male Japanese bureaucrat isn't likely to care about) in general and the game he's stuck in in particular. They did spend more time than was perhaps strictly necessary on ramming that point home, but given how much of what's premiered so far this season has been trash, this show is still looking pretty good by comparison.

I have watched literally every anime with villainess in its title and so far all of them have been good. Some better but all at least good. SOONER OR LATER this will not work but until that day I'm enjoying one single word being a flag for a good time
- I'm in the same boat. They've all been good. I didnt hear about this one before stumbling on it last night and my wife and I laughed for like 5 minutes with it paused once we saw the show title and understood what it was.
  We feel that this show will be more enjoyable, the more familiar you are with the genre as a whole. Similar to how One Punch Man benefited from already having a high exposure to super hero/kaijin materials.

A man's worst nightmare: being reincarnated as a woman in a medieval world, poor guy.
- Periods would be a bloody nightmare.
- I was pleased that he didn't perv out, like so many other Hi-Dive shows are prone to do.

This was fun. The ending song was wild haha.
I read a good chunk of the manga and enjoyed it so this should be good.

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