the dark history of the reincarnated villainess vol 1

Iana has written herself into quite the pickle. So, to avoid confusion, I’ll be referring to the main-character of this manga as Iana going forward and to her sister – the one who is meant to be the heroine of this fantasy adventure – as Konoha. The story that Konoha wrote as a teen was a clumsily melodramatic, self-insertion story where she had named the lovely lead-character after herself. Some people are going to need a lot of convincing! What’s worse, in the original story, Lady Iana is killed by a servant, who’s in love with her sister, while she’s serving out her sentence! Can our heroine use her knowledge of the story to convince everyone that she’s turned over a new leaf and is no longer a threat? Or will she share the fictional Iana’s terrible fate? Konoha, unfortunately, awakens in her body after Iana has already committed her many misdeeds and will now be placed under house arrest as punishment for her crimes. Years later, Konoha is killed in a traffic accident and is reborn in the body of Lady Iana, the villainous younger sister of the heroine of her old story! Iana was a jealous and spiteful character who had attempted to murder her sister because she wanted her fiancée for herself. But, no matter how much she dreamed about this scenario, her life remained ordinary. While she waited for her destiny to arrive, Konoha devoted countless hours to writing an “epic” tale where she was reborn in a magical land as a kind and gorgeous girl who overcomes every hardship and saves the world. When she was young, Konoha was convinced that she would one day be summoned to a fantasy world where she would go on many adventures, becoming a powerful heroine who is beloved by all. The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess throws in the added twist that the fantasy world that the lead finds herself reborn into is actually from a story she wrote as a teen! As it happens, I’m very familiar with the special brand of awkward yarn that young and inexperienced writers can spin, having penned more then a few in my day, and I was looking forward to seeing how the lead character in this manga dealt with living through the weird scenarios she herself had concocted as a teen. I’m quite partial to shojo isekai (a genre where young ladies are either transported to or reborn into magical worlds) and I find the stories where the main characters are reborn in the role of the villainess, instead of the heroine, to be the juiciest.

The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess is a shojo isekai manga by Akiharu Touka and it’s one of the series that I’ve been most looking forward to checking out in 2021.

The dark history of the reincarnated villainess vol 1