I’ll Become a Villainess That Will Go Down in History

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I’ve always dreamed of becoming a villainess, but I never thought that I would actually become one….!

This is the story of a young girl who aspires to become a villainous noble girl who’s capable of growing stronger through every confrontation that she is faced with.

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I'll Become a Villainess That Will Go Down in History ― The More of a Villainess I Become, the More the Prince will Dote on Me
I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History
Rekiaku
Rekishi Ni Nokoru Akujo Ni Naru Zo: Akuyaku Reijou Ni Naru Hodo Ouji No Dekiai Wa Kasoku Suru You Desu!
成为名垂青史的恶役千金吧!少女越坏王子越爱!
歴史に残る悪女になるぞ
歴史に残る悪女になるぞ 悪役令嬢になるほど王子の溺愛は加速するようです!
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I Reincarnated into an Otome Game as a Villainess With Only Destruction Flags… (2)
Green Tea Villainess Fails (1)
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Transmigrated Into a Smashing Asura Girl (1)
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aitakm1
aitakm1 rated it
May 11, 2021
Status: c230
For some reason, this is something I really enjoy reading. I understand the criticisms from the people who gave low ratings, I even relate to some of them, but I enjoyed it so much I even began to mtl.

Perhaps it’s because I enjoy the type of stories where the MC kicks the previous FL with the face of reality and how what she strives for isn’t the best approach to the goal she’s trying to achieve. Or that what she expects the outcome to be is straight up unrealistic. It’s... more>> enjoyable to see those who bowed down the previous FL get out of their trance and eventually side with the MC, listening to reason. That part reminded me of my favorite Wattpad novel “The Villainess Will Not Bring Dishonor to Her Family” by Bleezei so maybe I was kinda biased lol (btw that novel is a 9/10 for me, it’s actually really good. Both surprised and thankful I found that hidden gem in Wattpad. The fight scenes were so fun to read as well) <<less
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Hiero8
Hiero8 rated it
May 4, 2021
Status: c1
At first I was curious, I though this was a novel about a smart villaines but it ended up as an instant genius (reading books in just 10 minutes? And she spend 10 hours everyday for reading? Are you crazy) and I understand that this is a book about fantasy and I love fantasy but it doesn't mean that you can make things go by mambo jumbo without cause and effect (the heroine got a fever at 102 degrees and stil breathing? And its just a "bit" hot????)
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rcpsycho
rcpsycho
March 10, 2021
Status: c66
A mediocre premise propelled by a funny protagonist yet held back by poor writing.

If you're just looking for some lighthearted entertainment without thinking too much, this may be good enough.

The plot holes start from the author being bad at math and allowing her to read 100 books in a day but only 4000 in a year, go on to boys mysteriously falling in love with a seven year old, and proceed to railroading the story even though it was moving in the right direction without "help" anyway.

Overall it can still... more>> be an entertaining read at this point, but if you expect anything sophisticated whatsoever, look for a different novel. <<less
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Blackrosette
Blackrosette rated it
November 22, 2020
Status: c75
I seriously in love with this story. The story is great, the plot is consistent and it thickens too!

I love how logical the MC is criticizing how goodwill works with an intention to repay. MC is quite smart, she acts villianous when it matters and when it can be seen but acts nice whenever she isn't with anyone.

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Many criticize her actions as a kid who throws tantrums everywhere she goes, but her logic to whenever she does it seems to make sense to me. She was about to be an outcast from the start that was her goal, if she changes character in the middle of the school year I hardly believe that anyone would be convinced.

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Memory325
Memory325 rated it
November 10, 2020
Status: c66
Alright this a 4 stars for me. Its a pretty fun read if you like those isekai otome game novels. I enjoyed the slight twist where the villaness wants to be an actual villain. Most of the novels like this try to be a good person to avoid their death flags. She does her thing and gets pretty op but I mean that's to be expected from most isekais.

However, one thing really gets to me about this novel and its a spoiler so be warned.

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Its the god damn 5 noble families. One of the families is the royal family and the 4 other ones are like high ranking nobles such as a Duke. They are bloody heartless people. Just because one girl is the Saintess (Heroine) which means oh so much to the kingdom, they plan to use a 12-year-old girl (MC) as a sacrifice. Like besides the father of the MC, the rest should not have ever had kids. They literally plan to use the MC to make the saint a better women. The MC would very likely be discarded by the end. The plan is to make the MC be a villain to the saint so she shapes into a stronger women. The MC is not allowed to tell anyone that she was tasked with this and was pretty much told to be hated by everyone. This is not what you do to a 15 year old (when she attends school). Imagine isolating a girl with hatred of everyone just because she was told to be hated. I dont care if its for the plot or something but those 4 other families should not have had kids. They had nearly no regard to her feelings at all. Honestly speaking, why not use one of their own kids if that was the plan. The other kids were older and attended the school at the same time as the saint. It would seem effective to me then only giving the MC 1 year to bully the saint.

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Read it if you like otome games, its pretty good but just some parts are kinda not great to me. <<less
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Absolute-Melody
Absolute-Melody rated it
July 25, 2020
Status: c26
Sweet Lord, this thing is giving me a sugar rush. ? But now I’m saddened by the fact ~> the story will darken and I’ll lose my precious, naive baby, Alicia. ? Thanks a bunch, ch235 readers! ? Sure, she might not die, but my sweet tooth will break when the atmosphere shifts from fluffy to serious ??.

DON’T TAKE MEH BABEH AWAY FROM MEH! ??☠️ *Ahem* Anyway, this has still been an amazing story so far. It hits me with just the right amount of sugar to fill me with endorphins.... more>> The characters have not been fully fleshed out and more “side characters” seem to pop out from nowhere, but the world building is concrete and the plot is sound. Again, I only read for my daily hit, but everyone could use some sweetness to their usual cup of tea. ? <<less
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Anything_Random
Anything_Random rated it
October 6, 2023
Status: c306
The story is pretty interesting and most of the characters are fine, I know a lot of people are complaining about the heroine's braindead followers but for the most part they just serve as set dressing for the sake of the MC, which I don't mind.

What I absolutely hate though is the romance in this story. I can excuse the actual pe*ophilia and kinda r*pey ML because that's pretty standard fare for a shoujo romance, but the romance is totally out of nowhere and completely derails the story, and the... more>> cool, powerful, intelligent MC just becomes a bumbling idiot as soon as the ML starts "teasing" her. And then the second ML gets introduced and the power dynamic with him is somehow even worse than just a five year age-gap with royalty. He pretty much owns her. And on top of that he's even more sadistic and short-tempered than the already brooding and capricious first ML. I'm dropping the story this chapter because

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he literally forces the MC sleep in his bed, and it's not even the first time a man has forced her to do this. I thinks it's very obviously some of the author's fetish leaking into their writing.

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So if you just want to see a cool, badass, intelligent MC becoming a villainess then drop this story around chapter 100, before the romance starts picking up. <<less
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yuefong
yuefong rated it
May 22, 2023
Status: c70
I don’t remember what chapter I dropped this on, but holy f*ck is it annoying. Up to where I read it, there are 3 types of people.

1. Those who have brains and aren’t ret*rdedly idealistic and ‘selfless’.

2. The people who have brains yet support party 3 because of their status.

3. Party 3. ‘Selfless’ was put in quotes because of this group. Their idea of selfless is to help others for absolutely nothing. Oh someone wants to kill you? Kill yourself and save them the trouble of doing so. Some country... more>> is completely broke because they passed idiotic economic laws? Repay their debts for absolutely nothing. No monetary benefits, not assimilating the country into your own, no alliance, just helping them for no reason like how you’d help your mom to bring the groceries in the house.

It sucks ass. And apparently, Rising of Shield Hero has even worse characters than whatever the f*cks in group 3 are. Just makes me relieve that I never watched that, because at the time of reading this, I really felt my killing intent being cultivated without even killing. I’ll kindly protect your sanity and advise you not to read this. <<less
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FTTN
FTTN rated it
October 20, 2022
Status: c179
I read through 179 chapters of this, first out of sheer spite and then because I was curious about the politics, but with where it is now, it's giving me a major headache. Maybe I'll pick this up again in the future, but for now I just can't anymore with Alicia (and Duke's entire existence. I get that the author wants her MC to end up with the prince, but he couldn't have been not creepy? Come on).

Gilles, Henry, Uncle Will, and Rebecca are the only characters who deserve rights,... more>> tbh.

edit september 2024: at the time I wrote this review, I gave it three stars, but I'm dropping it down to one (edit 2: novel updates isn't letting me do this but know it's a one in my heart) because this novel has consistently haunted my nightmares over the past 2 years. The internal logic is horrific, no decision ever made makes any kind of sense, but if the romance is good, I am willing to overlook a lot of flaws in other places. The romance in this, however, is not good, unless you're into an 18 year old acting r*pey as hell towards a 13 year old at every single interaction (of which they barely have any, how am I supposed to root for a couple if they're never in the same place????). However, worst of all:

yall. If your 9 year old "sidekick" and your 15 year old brother have more romantic chemistry than your main couple, you've messed up. In hindsight, I think it was mostly just because they were the only characters who had anything close to 1) brains, 2) character development, and 3) actual personalities, but I genuinely read as much of this novel as I did for them. Waving my gilhenry flag in the air and hoping that they ditch alicia + the entire kingdom of idiots and run off elsewhere to get married when they're adults and no longer children with a creepy age gap

(i can't believe this is getting an anime. Like i'll admit the concept is really promising and the manga art is super pretty but it goes downhill so fast 😭 good luck to all the anime watchers who come here in hopes of finding a good novel, I guess) <<less
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Eisvarith Devirea
Eisvarith Devirea
August 9, 2022
Status: --
conclusion of reviews rated 3 or below.

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what you should know and expect before reading this novel is the fact that the very premise is already ridiculous, unrealistic, dumb and just pure meh in other words it is mediocre.

the world building already goes beyond s*upid and pathetic. If not idiotic then the author must be a 13 year old, very incapable, inexperienced, flawed, incompetent, lazy, pitiful, and a disappointment.

common sense goes out of the window, and MC each and every character that are in the story having any semblance of roles are just a bunch of a far gone lunatic if not delusionists, had some sort of disorder and ret*rded.

the story to be terribly horribly poorly written. Absolutely no logic, irrelevant whatsoever. Things go by mambo jumbo without cause and effect or without incentive or fear of power (iykwim). It attempts to be intelligent, but it isn't. The plot is horrendous and has too much over-exaggeration and is all over the place. Absurd and hill-thinking-story full of very toxic ideals, no point and beyond silly.

lastly, words to live by.

"Being blind isn't a feature, but a problem." -@Brasdf

If your response now is, "what nonsense is this?" I'm with you.

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yurikahime1011
yurikahime1011 rated it
June 19, 2022
Status: c350
Although the MC have some screws loose in her brains, she is quite the interesting character... a really hard working protagonist that despite already reaching the peak, she still continued to do her best to improve and not stopping to reach her questionable goal of becoming the most evil (lol) the most hated (funny) the most notorious (not in the way she think of) Villainess she could ever be.
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chickenthigh
chickenthigh rated it
February 22, 2021
Status: c130
I liked it at first, because it was alright for the typical villainess-turned-actual-heroine trope. She's trying to become a villainess, and people end up liking her because she's cute, determined, hardworking, whatever. But recently I don't know what it is, maybe the writing style has always been this way? But it's become quite difficult to read without cringing. There's a lot of Alicia's thoughts, which is fine, but too many words are getting bolded or highlighted to add emphasis, and the dialogue and scenarios read like a Wattpad story written... more>> by a 13 year old. I'm gonna keep reading when I'm bored, but I'm honestly disappointed. I feel like there was a lot of potential, but after she
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goes into seclusion to train herself

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the new character, Mel, gets introduced as some kind of quirky, half-crazy servant of Duke

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everything just started going downhill. I'm honestly kind of upset. Thanks to the translator for all your hard work, but maybe the author's writing is just not to my taste. I have seen many villainess stories that worked out way better with a more solid plot. <<less
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Dandielion
Dandielion
November 7, 2020
Status: c50
When I started reading this as a manga I was distraught at the lack of chapters, then I found it was from a light novel! Absolutely a fun read, it’s super fluffy and the MC’s character growth can warm your cold dead heart.
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Faithyuna
Faithyuna rated it
November 6, 2020
Status: --
I personally can't really review the story so far cause I only read a tiny bit of the story.

So..I'm going to rant about how I love the MC's character. I personally love selfish characters. Really love it. They're so confident and pompous and unique and I love it. I hate those characters where they're way too nice and everything is easy for her. I loathe those things.

But I must say that the most important part is for the author to develop the character tho, so I really hope they don't... more>> ruin her. <<less
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vapor
vapor rated it
October 10, 2024
Status: c85
Starts off well enough, I'm sure many are checking this out since it got an anime. There are weaknesses to the writing even then but you can excuse a lot of it because she's young and it seems to be played up as comedy. But then she starts getting aged up, "plot" or rather the excuse of it tries to be serious, but it just doesn't make sense. There are so many random jumps, things get brought up and then ignored and forgotten. Often it feels like chapters are missing,... more>> there's an event where they talk a bit, it feels like it has more to go, then suddenly it jumps to something else entirely and you wonder how MC is in that situation even. None of it logically makes sense, she randomly forgets all her powers at (in) convenient times, the characters aren't consistent and don't make any sense.

There's an underlying plot of brainwashing or something going on, but everyone seems to just ignore it the entire time. I don't care much about the age gaps, it's fictional and in that setting they make sense, so I won't complain about that as others do, but you probably should be aware of that too. I've been reading hoping to get some answers but they just don't come. The anime (and maybe LN) are most likely edited to make more sense, but I'm not even sure about that either. It would take so much work to fix this that you might as well not even bother.

This is a weird one to rate for people I'm guessing. The start does seem much stronger, maybe it recovers at some point, but I can't recommend this one at all around 90 chapters in. It's been bad for awhile now, and I don't know how much longer I can take it. Some reviews indicate more things happen soon, but others seem to indicate it gets worse. <<less
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NTsukihana
NTsukihana rated it
July 2, 2022
Status: c273
Really like MC character. Kind of "Want to be bad guy but end up be a good guy" Story

Story keep me going want to know what next? MC is not too OP but she clearly smarter than Original MC in game who head fill with flower garden.
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BigimeReadz
BigimeReadz rated it
April 14, 2022
Status: c187
I think this story is quite interesting. Alicia's personality has me constantly smiling, and her interactions with the other characters are great as well. I was worried if she had what it took to be a proper villainess, but she manages just fine on the surface. The problems mainly start after she enrolls in the academy. 80% of the male characters become completely hostile towards her and are practically brain dead. The main heroine's philosophy is extremely naive, and she doesn't appear to learn anything from any of the encounters... more>> she has with Alicia. Alicia herself shows no signs of character development outside of the very, very weird romance with Duke. Her desire to be a villainess is so strong that she would willingly burn everything to the ground, including the people close to her. I have yet to learn a single reason behind her burning desire besides, "it's cool, so I want to do it." I refuse to believe that the entire reason for her realistic thought process and lack of interest in her family's feelings is that she thinks it's cool.

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Her father asked her to stop monitoring the heroine because he worried for her safety after the kidnapping incident. She disregards all his worrying and insists that "she must finish what she started." That leads her to go through 2 years of solitude and fracturing her family in the process. Another instance is with the whole exiled thing. Just so she could be known as the first person in decades to be exiled, she ignored Gilles's feelings and could have said, "f*ck off."

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Another problem is the romance. The romance between the main heroine and male characters is just terrible. They lose all semblance of their original personalities and become braindead freaks that do nothing but spout slander towards Alicia, and praise for the heroine. They never even question why Alicia had such a drastic change in character within so little time.

The problem with Duke x Alicia is the age gap. It's seriously gross. 5 years. A 5-year age gap is just too large. When she was 7/8 and he was 12/13, I could handle it... barely. But when she was 13 and he was 18, I hated every time he appeared. It was so creepy and off-putting. Now that she's 15 and he's 20, the situation is a little bit better though. At the same time, the romance feels extremely forced for no apparent reason.

My third problem is worldbuilding. I haven't the faintest clue as to what this world's geography looks like. I can't tell if everything is going on within the same city or if they live in different regions. There's also a major issue with the magic system. All that is known is that commoners can't use magic, there are levels to magic, and if you skip any of those levels you can lose your ability to use magic. The issue is that there is no other explanation for magic. It's unknown if there's only one spell per level, or multiple. It's unknown how one advances these magic levels. It's unknown if magic can be used limitlessly or if there is an element that restricts it's usage. There are too many uncertainties about magic, and it's simply become a convenient tool for the story.

Overall, 3/5 story. Get rid of the romance and give a proper reason to Alicia's desire, and it'll easily be 5/5. <<less
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MusicFromMiles
MusicFromMiles rated it
March 29, 2022
Status: c172
It's a fun read for the most part. I got hooked by her personality. Honestly this story would have been better without the romance. The romance is not only creepy but feels forced and was put there for the sake of having a romance tag. It almost makes me want to drop it. Actually I dropped this novel before I just don't remember why. I'm currently re reading this (around chapter 97 rn) so I'll update this comment on a later date. Overall there are parts of this novel that... more>> makes me want to read it at the same time there are parts that make some want to drop it.

For all its flaws my favorite characters in here are the Arnold (MC's father) and Grandpa Will. They are the most sane, reasonable, and relatable characters in here

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Well the new arc of her flying solo in a different country is making things more interesting

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paputsza
paputsza
February 12, 2022
Status: c415
So the weird thing about this is the ages of the MC and ML. The ML kisses the MC when she is 10 and he is 15. Also, he likes her since she's like 7 or something. This is so weird to me. The rest of the story is pretty good. The plot is very eventful and the real villain in this story, the saint" is pretty intense, and the MC becomes interesting in order to catch up with her. Basically being a Mary Sue is just the first step... more>> in catching up to the Saint. A lot of things that other people complain about are needed for the plot.

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For instance, someone thinks that some of the other characters have dissasociative disorder with how irregular their behavior is, but that's because they do and the Saint causes that with her magic. There is also someone complaining the female lead is op, and this is a girl vs god type of book, and with all her op-ness she is actually barely strong enough.

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MajorGPuff
MajorGPuff rated it
November 22, 2020
Status: c16
Japanese isekai villainness stories are so standardised, they could all get the same ISO.

What made one better than the other would be the plot.

This one falls riight into ISO905000, (OP FL, super naive, trying her hardest to become the best villainess but she becomes super protagonist instead), thus it gets old. FL reminds me of Bertia (lol, at least bertia is not OP).

The first person narration is so tiring, and how come she is from a noble family, close enough to be granted audience by the king, yet dresses... more>> herself & picks her own accessories on her own (she was woken up by a maid, so where did this maid run off to after waking her up?), furthermore, staying for 10 hours in library without seeing any soul??? It's too much, I give up. LMAO <<less
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