Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou.
I'm in Love with the Villainess

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Brief summary:

The story is about Rei, a girl who, after dying, is transported into her favorite otoge (or dating game) where she's a student at an extremely exclusive school with magic and the like, and she has to choose between the three princes that fall for her throughout the game.

Except, Rei has no interest in these princes, Rei's true goal is the game's villain, Claire who is supposed to act as a love rival/bully to her but she ends up trying to get together it *her* instead.

Review:

The manga is a parody in it's truest form and I think what makes it so funny is how ... relatable it is for those of us that, while playing a game, are forced to choose between uninteresting male love interests though they'd rather just go for the much more attractive and appealing antagonist.

The jokes are all hilarious, its filled with references and jokes avid videogame fans will get and the art is absolutely beautiful.

This story is one of those things people on the internet joke about "wanting to see" not expecting to actually see it so I'm EXTREMELY excited to see how things pan out

Day 9/30 of the Yurithon:
I was really struggling to continue reading this yuri. I think I only read thirteen chapters out of obligation; I probably would've only read like seven chapters if I wasn't just seeking for something to truly interest me. Nothing really stuck out to me in this manga; everything was pretty much just okay. I don't really care for Rae, Claire or anyone else, and there's nothing to me that indicates any semblance of chemistry between Rae and Claire. I think the isekai element of the yuri was just wasted, and Rae exploiting the game should've just been taken to an entirely ... different level; the story still works about as well if she wasn't reincarnated into an otome game. The art was good, but I much preferred the style of almost all the other yuri I read. I think the author was trying to go for a social commentary thing regarding sexuality in chapter whatever (I'm too lazy to check it again), but I feel like this topic was just discussed far more competently in "She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat". Hell, I think that almost every element of this yuri was displayed way better in all the other yuri I read (excluding "Yuru Yuri"). At least this manga didn't waste time with its early chapters; instead, I was too busy feeling indifference towards it. The author should've really leaned into the isekai and otome game gimmick, because "I'm in Love with the Villainess" has pretty much nothing spectacular without it. I don't know, maybe after all the bangers I've read for the Yurithon, my expectations were just set too high. Regardless, I'm likely never going to pick this yuri up again. But honestly, it feels good not having to complete/catch up to yet another yuri after finishing the Yurithon. I'll take that as consolation.

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▶LGBTQ+ themes: -----------------------------------------------------------------
⚠️I will only address the LGBTQ+ aspects of this manga⚠️

It appears at first glance to be an unusual pro LGBTQ+ yuri Otome Isekai out of Japan.
But it is sadly tarnished by some twisted comparisons. Where the author compares homosexuality to incest, and promotes the idea that gay people are predatory by nature.

Throughout the first 30 chapters. The author equates a homosexual relationship to that of an incestious relationship. The protagonist (from our universe) is sympathetic to the incestious siblings struggling with their hidden incest romance. Something the protagonist supposedly can relate ... to as a gay person.

Another person the story wants us to feel sympathetic to is a boss who raped their employee.
The manga shows the boss in a sympathetic light, due to them having to repress their gay sexual... urges? The manga is losely implying that it makes sense that they snapped and raped their employee.

This feels like another case where gay people are being portrayed as perverts and deviants.

I have been told that the Light Novel (which the Anime is adapted from) is much less egregious than the manga, but as I have not read it, I can only comment on the manga.