My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X : Full Review

Second season of a show I never expected to get. Not at all, I am part of the group that really didn’t see much special or interesting in the first season. It was a pretty generic harem, expect this time it is a reverse harem. With a main character who is scatter-brained and silly, and along the way various comedic things occur. Honestly didn’t impress me in the end, so imagine my surprise when it got a sequel, and a movie now.

Now as for this second season, how does it do? In some aspects I do like it more than the first, but in others it doesn’t improve at all. It is a real mixed bag for me, and in the end I’ll end up giving it another average score. With an opinion of guess it is fine.

The harem has taken a backseat it seems like with this second season. Compared to the first season, many members of the cast barely got screen time and no real dedicated episode focusing on them. Instead it seemed like it wanted to focus more strongly on a few characters and grow them. With one aspect getting a decent amount of focus being the romance between Gerald and Katarina, if you can call the minor stuff we got actual progress. As with any harem show, you can’t have actual progress occur because that would ruin somebodies favorite ship. Instead you get hints of progress that get instantly disrupted and stopped before any more can happen. But once you realize it, you loose interest in that plot point completely. If nothing is ever going to happen, why bother getting invested?

The story of this season followed the first in a very similar way. Lots of small stories that are rather disconnected from each other. Events that don’t really have much of an impact on the characters or larger story progression. And than it all suddenly happens in a couple episodes. All the major story progression and character progress just happens, with no build up over the season or hints that it would happen. You suddenly get progress with Gerald’s romance and Keith’s attraction to his step-sister and Katarina’s ability to just stumble into objects and events that progress the plot. Side characters and members of the harem show up to play their role than fade away again. Expect, none of it feels well planned or crafted. In one way I am glad the movie is happening, cause it should solve this issue since you can’t spend the majority of a movie on completely irrelevant events. They will be forced to dedicate the entire thing to progressing the major story.

In general, my thoughts are largely the same as the first season. If you want some minor comedy show to pass the time, go ahead and watch. But don’t come into it expecting progress and developments that feel important. Instead you will find silly stories that feel more like filler than actual episodes focused on something.