Though I May Be a Villainess, I'll Show You I Can Obtain Happiness! - Vol. 12 Ch. 4 - Villainess: 36 Hours Before Condemnation

[MangaDex]

 

[l0liconn]

Sorry for the wait, besides the enormous page count, I was also very busy with my IRL work. I'll finish this manga, no matter how long it'll take, so please patiently wait for it 🙏

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Ah normal romance story, but certainly not a villainness story.
Like, even in the original it was plain as a day that the accusation was fraudulent.

 

[hanfeizi]

Looks like the mangaka is the same one that drew this manga: https://mangadex.org/title/c7a10d9f...e-ni-doryoku-shitetara-oozoku-harem-ga-dekite

 

[IMACOP]

The term villain is thrown around all over the place these days.

 

[ALLxISxLOST]

The term villain is thrown around all over the place these days.

I mean, its clearly quoted several times showing noone but the prince and the queen are actual villains here.

 

[riflow]

I really like this one, a very unapologetically sweet dad with a major role in the story too is pretty uncommon. It felt very akin to a fairy tale with the hair aspect to being a noble woman.

I guess in the original series while the "villainess" was recovering, Rudolph went and murdered the prince triggering a domino effect of the royal family and country imploding on itself?

MC really did her dang best to prevent anyone innocent from being harmed as much as she could.

The prince's other woman losing her cat and finding out he ordered it is very sad though. :c she wasn't a good person but gosh that's evil to do that to a girl you supposedly like.

 

[pachingching]

Based Father

 

[CrimsonWarden]

The story was a blitz but its still nice and sweet.

 

[quicksilvir]

The term villain is thrown around all over the place these days.

Imo there's two types of villainess stories:

1. Novels where the villainess concept is easy to discard. Maybe the protag arrives before she did anything evil, maybe she's easily forgiven, maybe she takes care of it before the main story even starts, maybe it's an excuse to go off and enter a contract marriage with the Cold Duke of the NorthTM. Maybe even in-story none of the readers believed she was a villainess at all. Sometimes it's just a normal Romance Fantasy with the titles of villainess and heroine swapped.

2. Novels where the villainess' past or reputation continues to affect the protagonist and her actions well into the story. Stories which have the villainess regress herself often fall into this category.

I feel like the most egreguous examples of villainess-in-name-only come from authors copying the setting of the genre codifiers like the "condemnation scene" without actually thinking about what the originals did to make it work.

Late edit: It's not even like type 1 stories are inferior. My Next Life as a Villainess helped create the genre and it's clearly a type 1. But it remembered that the OG story is supposed to be appealing and the villainess needs to have some villainy.

 

[OrichalonHades]

man that Gulda girl is sad
she doesnt seem that bright and would probably believe everything the prince said
but bro....specifically killing her cat and blaming other people for it? and im like 100% sure he killed the cat because Gulda loves the cat, the prince looks like someone that want total and complete devotion and and would 100% be jealous of acat enough to have it killed.

fuck that guy, honestly. i've read a lot of villainess manga and anthology and i can say for sure that guy is pretty up there among the worst of the worst.

 

[cryum]

Father was a G, and Rudolf my boy, you're pretty committed.

 

[JamesMoriarty]

I liked it, but I'm a bit disappointed that the monarchy remained in the new timeline, even if the King got rid of the idiot Queen and Prince, and is supposedly going to do better. I just like to see monarchies overthrown, you know, power to the people.

 

[Ceiye]

The only thing "villainess" was the condemnation scene. But that's like. 90% of "villainess" series anyways. Tbh the guy was kind of useless and didn't need to be there. But unlike the other Why Are You Even Here "love interests" in this anthology, he was useless specifically in the way that shounen manga will write a female love interest as supposedly important, and then she does nothing in her job description. So I'll take that as somewhat unique!

If this weren't a villainess story and just focused on the The Royal Family Are Bastards angle, with more than just hints of romance (or less), I'd read a full series

Actually, there is a message that could be made about how a woman's value is in how well maintained her long hair is (gender roles, value through surface level femininity, class, etc), but I am not entirely sure the author is fully aware of it

 

[zephyroths]

I liked it, but I'm a bit disappointed that the monarchy remained in the new timeline, even if the King got rid of the idiot Queen and Prince, and is supposedly going to do better. I just like to see monarchies overthrown, you know, power to the people.

that would require the majority of the common folks to be aware that they don't need a King to be their leader anymore

 

[someunregpunk]

congrats on getting a job.

 

[Bananimal]

I liked it, but I'm a bit disappointed that the monarchy remained in the new timeline, even if the King got rid of the idiot Queen and Prince, and is supposedly going to do better. I just like to see monarchies overthrown, you know, power to the people.

Now I want to read a villainess story where the "evil" thing she does is overthrowing the monarchy. Maybe some guillotines 👀

 

[HaikenEdge]

The father is awesome. Don't get enough of those in these kinds of stories.

That said, the art is rough and not nice to look at and this isn't a villainess story; once again, another author misunderstands what a "villainess" actually is—plotting your own survival is not villainy when the other option is being married to fucking Joffrey! Nobody called Olenna Tyrell a villainess for poisoning Joffrey.

 

[Reydrago]

If you like this, there is that girl who can do this in 24 hours

 

[WhimsiCat]

The term villain is thrown around all over the place these days.

Because the term, at least in these context, has become its own archetype.

Not to mention there's a certain nuance to the term in JP that's lost in the translation to 'villainess'