In the isekai anime I'm in Love With The Villainess, Rei Oohashi and Claire Francois are not typical leads. Rei is transported into her favorite game, and instead of following the game’s story path and focusing on the male leads of the story, she decides that Claire is the object of her affection and must romance her.
Claire Francois is perfect for the role, as she’s also not the regular kind of tsundere. Many fans find her cold, unaffected front endearing, and the relationship that Rei and Clare develop is a delight to follow throughout the story's ups and downs. For fans of I'm in Love With The Villainess, who enjoy watching isekai with a twist, here are ten anime like I'm in Love With The Villainess.
10 Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest
| Studio | Asread, Whitefox (S1), Studio Mother (S2) |
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| Where To Watch | Hulu |
Hajime Nagumo leads this anime, with his inferior skill and relative bad luck. He and his classmates are all transported to a fantasy world and given the responsibility of saving mankind, but he receives an insignificant skill while his classmates get cool upgrades. Hajime then focuses on getting home, along with some allies he meets on the journey.
Arifureta usually leaves mixed feelings in anime fans. While the story and animation may not be objectively amazing, the humor and the experience of watching it make up for any other objectionable quality. It is simply a great option for Isekai fans looking to laugh and have a good experience.
9 The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior
| Studio | OLM Team Yoshioka |
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| Where To Watch | HIDIVE |
As the title implies, the main character of this anime, Pride Royal Ivy, is a villainess in an otome game called To a Beam of Light With You. When a high school girl is reincarnated into Pride, she decides to live as a good person and not the villain Princess Pride usually is.
This anime is a slow burn. It focuses heavily on character development and the relationships between Princess Pride and the people around her. After all, choosing to undo her evil doings and be good requires talking it out with the surrounding characters, and building better relationships.
8 I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss
| Studio | Maho Film |
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| Where To Watch | Crunchyroll |
In this anime, the main character, Aileen Lauren Dautriche, also refuses to follow the path outlined for her in an otome game. As the villainess of the story, she’ll be killed in the story's final act, and, understandably, she decides to avoid this.
To prevent her death, she must get closer to Claude Jeanne Elmir, the game's last boss. Because he doesn’t trust her, she has to help him reach his own goal of creating peace between demons and humans, in addition to her goal of preventing her death.
7 The Dungeon of Black Company
| Studio | SILVER LINK |
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| Where To Watch | Crunchyroll |
Kinji Ninomiya faces the biggest surprise and disappointment of his life when, after working hard to build his status and comfort in the real world, he gets transported to another world. Now he’s been stripped of everything he worked for and is totally defenseless.
He becomes a corporate slave in a company with a terrible work environment. Luckily, he meets an interesting demon girl and some other people stronger than he is. This group helps Kinji navigate this major life change, while he leads them with humor and charm.
6 Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs
| Studio | ENGI |
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| Where To Watch | Crunchyroll |
This anime is perfect for anime fans who like to get fully immersed in a fictional world because it has both manga and light novel versions. Leon Fou Bartfort, the protagonist, isn’t depicted as well as he is in the manga and light novels, but the quirks of his character still shine in the anime.
He completes a game only because of his sister, and now he finds himself stuck in the world of that game, with mechs and a matriarchal system. Leon loathes this world, but he has to survive it. It also helps that he knows the place quite well.
5 My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
| Studio | SILVER LINK |
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| Where To Watch | Crunchyroll |
This anime is another with a villainous lead in the form of Catarina Claes. From the real world, a girl is transported into a game world called Fortune Lover where she becomes a villain with only doom in her future.
Fortunately, she has a lot of knowledge about the game from the times when she played it. She uses this knowledge to try to avoid the doom that always meets her villainous character. She proceeds to be nice to everyone, making many friends along the way.
4 Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion
| Studio | Typhoon Graphics |
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| Where To Watch | Crunchyroll |
Some people dream of being transported into the world of their favorite books, but when Rinko Hanasaki finds herself in that sort of situation, it doesn’t turn out to be very dreamy.
In this fantasy world, she takes on the character of Raeliana McMillan, a woman destined to be killed by her fiancé, Lord Francis Brooks. To prevent this, she gets tangled with Duke Noah Wynknight. In the book’s original form, Raeliana is only a minor character. But after Rinko Hanasaki becomes Raeliana, she takes center stage.
3 The Rising Of The Shield Hero
| Studio | Kinema Citrus |
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| Where To Watch | Crunchyroll |
Naofumi Iwatani, while living his very average life in the real world, stumbles into a book about the Four Cardinal Heroes. Inside, he finds the story of the sword, spear, and bow heroes, but finds empty pages for the shield hero.
Suddenly, he finds himself in another world, where he becomes the shield hero along with the other Cardinal Heroes. But his weapon is the weakest and least respected. The Cardinal Heroes are tasked with saving the people from Waves of Catastrophe. But Naofumi’s fight is often not against the Waves, but the discrimination from the people.
2 KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!
| Studio | Studio Deen |
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| Where To Watch | Crunchyroll |
Kazuma Satou chooses life in a video game fantasy world over the option of going to heaven after he dies pathetically in the real world. He takes Aqua, the goddess who gave him those options, but discovers that she’s actually of no use to him.
He’s also accompanied by Megumin, an archwizard, and a night called Darkness, who are both next to useless. Because of Kazuma’s unique situation, KonoSuba is funny in many waysFa and also great for viewers who want a good experience over a unique storyline.
1 The Eminence in Shadow
| Studio | Nexus |
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| Where To Watch | HIDIVE |
The Eminence in Shadow follows Minoru Kagenou, who had always wanted to be strong but could never do enough to get that kind of power. But a truck accident changed his life.
On the brink of death, Minoru gets transported to another world, where he becomes Cid and finally has the power he so desperately wants. Minoru’s imagination is quite wild, so he takes on the name Shadow and forms the Shadow Garden to take down the Cult of Diablos, an enemy Shadow thinks is completely made up.