I thought i had learned my lesson... The highest ive ever rated anything from this ominous theme was 6/10 and that being rounded up. The bar is low. As a chair of the Isekai Binger Foundation each season at least one of the shows from the worst subgenre of isekai piques my interest You can of course imagine why such a show beamed brightly on my radar an elder bureaucrat man who apparently dies by the fanfavourite multidimenional agent/hitman/assasin is then warped into in a new fantasy world into the body of the complete polar opposite type of indivdual the spoiled rich girl. This girls duty is to make everything she touches suffer then we explore how the mind of this modernday japanese senior man contrasts with the nefarious dealings of an uptown girl in mysterious world filled with magic. Doesnt such a depection just fire neurones rapidly into the curiousity centres of your cerebrum? School setting and Isekai in my opinion the worst combination for isekai shows. However for the Otomegame route it isnt so bad and can work quite well as shown here. You know what 9 episodes in i was positively surprised. I thought what a blast what a refreshing take on this genre. The author the direction the animation the soundtrack it all weaved together such a stunning experience for me. It played like a parody of sorts but instead of trashing the medium they rather brought out the best ive seen so far for this subgenre. The strategies employed in the orchestration of its ideas allowed the viewer to engage into the world with the brain activated aswell as providing a wealth of nuance and knowledge. What i found endearing was the added touch of immersive detail at every turn a true rarity in this medium amongst the modern works. I loved how much you could learn from the dialogue as well as the intelligent discourse on display. There was no Mary Sue trash every action the MC took eminated with such a charming and irresistable sense of humilty selflessless and only served to edify the people around her. What was funny was the stark but very evident truth of how much better a woman would behave wired with the brain of a man. They demonstrated a part of the true purpose of women as a bridge between men every problem required her inspiration of others to solve diametrically opposed to many of the less captivating and sloppy Villainess stories which feature an MC which in effect does everyones job for them and better than them. The character was overpowered but there was no immoderate use of power for superfical effect. Her new found powers were used when necessary consequently hammering home the idea of restraint and selfcontrol the perfect way a woman that position should behave. Another very irratating thing i noticed about other Otomegame shows is this perpetual wholly excessive praise and glorifcation with shallow exposition of charactersprimarily female without showing anything on screen on the contrary in this show that kind of nonsense was absent. I would never recommend a single villainess show to anyone but this show was becoming the exception. I dont know what it was that made me enjoy the show the fact that it went off the rails with the concept of the villainess or the production values references humor and little details that spiced it up. Either way its just different from the norm for this abstract but in a good way. There is a major twist early on which accentuates its status as more of a parody which to be honest i wasnt too fond of and it basically made any meaningful romance utterly impossible socially. There was of course a lack of tension or a lack of some big bad overarching threat but lets be honest is that even needed? I never missed anything like that. If you put yourselves in the shoes of a teenage rich girl is there anything that can realistically adventitiously harm a person like that apart from God? Those people are so bored with safety and security that they surreptitiously invent their own problems and fantasize about precarious affairs they are involuntarily put in. Thankfully there was none of the classic obligatory randomderangedpervertrapist jobber rehashed subplot here to bore us just a focus on simple but heartwarming dialogue based on everyday problems for teenagers from a highclass academy to deal with. There was minor character development and you wouldnt be wrong to critique many of the side characters as plotdevices or onenote it did seem that way at times. As this is a dating game theme you probably expect a bit of romance but youll be looking for that like a needle in a haystack. Romance in this scenario/premise is always extremely awkward and once you find out the truth behind his isekai experience it becomes probably the most awkward thing imaginable while its a shame that theres barely any romance in a OtomeGame show the argument against it wont have too many supporters. Lets picture the intial premise of a mans soul inside a womans body. We have to understand that if thats the case he will now have to think through a womans brain then experience hormones that are native to the female body that she because hes a woman now because souls dont have sexual character no such thing as soulmate etc. She will experience extrinsicto his soul attraction to the male sex completely out of her control if we are completely logical about it. However setting up any romance in such perilous waters requires a break of a social barrier which is far too great for most writers and not many will chastise them for not going deeeper. Its quite the hopeless conundrum. Youre thinking now hes going to give this show at least an 7 or 8 possibly more. But here youre dead wrong Look back to my statement of 9 episodes because after that we enter into the valley of the shadow of death. Amongst the worst of the abominations the sign of the end of any great civilization ever. They had me hooked baited me like no other i had already prepared a favorable review and an outstanding scorefor this subgenre then they ambushed me as i opened the door to episode 10. An episode named CrossDressing you can imagine what ensues. I have a zero tolerence policy with such things. What initally drew me to anime was the lack of these kind of things slowly but surely were nearing perdition. No final ranking like i usually do. 5/10 for first half traps 4/10 for 2nd half traps 4/10 Yes its another trojan horse another sad day for isekai enthusiasts. Perhaps im a fool and oversold the first 9 episodes if you do watch it i hope youll cut it short there as I did.. Hope this helps.