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My Next Life as a Villainess Anime Film Opens in Hong Kong on May 16
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Hong Kong film distributor Neofilms began streaming an English- and Chinese-subtitled trailer for the the movie of Satoru Yamaguchi and Nami Hidaka's My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (Otome Game no Hametsu Flag Shika Nai Akuyaku Reijō ni Tensei Shiteshimatta...) light novels last Friday. The trailer reveals that the film will open in Hong Kong on May 16.
Original light novel author Satoru Yamaguchi wrote the original story for the film. Returning staff members include director Keisuke Inoue, writers Megumi Shimizu and Megumu Sasano, character designer Miwa Ōshima, and animation studio SILVER LINK.
The new cast for the film includes (character name spellings not confirmed):
- Kenshō Ono as Ahkil
- Ayumu Murase as Kumit
- Akari Kitō as Nasheet
- Reina Ueda as Hati
- Yōko Hikasa as Aruks
- Rie Kugimiya as Piyo
The anime premiered in April 2020. Animax Asia aired a simulcast of the anime as it aired in Japan. The second season, titled My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X, premiered in July 2021, and Animax Asia again aired a simulcast for the anime.
J-Novel Club is digitally publishing the novels, and it describes the story:
After hitting her head particularly hard one day, Duke Claes' daughter, Katarina, suddenly recalls all the memories of her past life: that of a teenage Japanese girl. Just before her untimely death, this girl recalls playing an otome game... that is exactly like the world she's living in now!She is now Katarina Claes, the antagonist of the otome game, who nastily hounded the protagonist until the end. Knowing all the possible outcomes of the game, she realizes that every single possible route ends with Katarina being murdered or exiled! In order to avoid these Catastrophic Bad Ends, she has to use her knowledge of the game and her own wiles, starting with breaking off this engagement with the prince...
Will Katarina survive while making her way through this world, where bad flags trip at every turn? Find out in this reverse-harem rom-com, led by everybody's favorite villainess!
