this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2024
35 points (100.0% liked)
anime
10996 readers
107 users here now
Welcome to c/anime on Hexbear!
A leftist general anime community for discussion and memes.
Simple rules
-
Be nice.
-
Use spoiler tags.
-
Don't sexualise underage characters, including 1000 year old loli ones.
-
Don't post hentai here. This is an anime community.
High quality threads you should definitely visit
Gigathread: Good Anime Talks, Presentations, Conventions, Panels, etc
Piracy is good and you should do more of it. Use https://aniwave.to/ and https://4anime.gg/ for streaming, and https://nyaa.si/ for torrents. Piracy is the only means of digital protest that audiences have to fight poor worker treatment.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Pretty sure I'm In Love With The Villainess isn't bait but I don't think it's done yet.
I've read the novels that covered the initial Rae/Claire story and it's 100% not bait, and I think the story itself is good even though its protagonist is sort of a piece of shit.
I'm in Love with the Villainess light novel spoilers
Rae and Claire end up not exactly married but effectively so, raising adopted daughters in the aftermath of the revolution. The story itself is run through with explicit discussions of queer issues through both Rae's self-reflection (which acknowledges that she's kind of a piece of shit whose actions are selfish and bad, regardless of how she tries to rationalize them) and plot points like the story arc where one of the characters is a trans allegory that's actually ok as such allegories go. One thing I did like about it was the explicit acknowledgement that unrequited love is a poison that eats you alive even if one thinks one can handle it, and that it's unfair both to oneself and to the target of it, even if it then turned around and basically went "but that's ok, because this an escapist fantasy story, so the protagonist actually gets to win the affection of her unrequited crush thanks to accumulating enough official Good Girl points through doing good deeds to redeem her as a prize."I started reading the first novel of the second major arc, but didn't get too far before getting distracted with something else, and it's on my old computer so I haven't picked it up again.
spoiler
okay but the 'incest is complicated and they love each other' arc was not okayLmao I forgot all about that, yeah that was weird.