Summary
HIDIVE: From Villainess to Savior’s most heretical final boss queen turns the isekai genre on its head by having the main character, Pride, embrace her royal status and make decisions that could lead to death. her death, all for her kingdom. Pride is fueled by a strong desire to do right by her people, even if it means sacrificing her own life. She believes she is trapped in a defined timeline and has contingency plans in place for when she returns to her original villainous self. Despite following several isekai villain archetypes, OLM’s adaptation of Most Heretical Last Boss shows a greater impact that Pride’s choices have on her world than similar series other.
The most heretical final boss queen: From Villainess to Savior is an adaptation of the light novel series The Final Boss, Ultimate Villain and the Cause of the Tragedy, Is the Queen Who Does Everything for Her People by Tenichi.
The eponymous reincarnated villain Pride Royal Ivy in the completed first part of HIDIVE’s Most Heretical Final Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior pursues the exact opposite of what most of the main characters undertake. received in the isekai genre. So even though she treats various characters like her reincarnated villains do in other series, the results are much larger in scale when compared to the effect amazing.
In popular series such as I’m the Villainess So I’m Taming the Final Boss and My Next Life As A Villainess, the main character, who reincarnates as the villain in an otome game or romance novel , often trying to avoid the same tragic fate. their original characters always have to face, whether it is death or exile. This often results in these protagonists completely removing themselves from positions of power or pursuing very specific goals that have much lower implications. The second tendency is more likely if the villain’s status depends on a very profitable but aborted engagement.
None of this happens to Pride Royal Ivy in HIDIVE’s adaptation of Tenichi’s original novel series, The Final Boss, Ultimate Villain and the Cause of the Tragedy, Is the Queen Who Does Everything for Her People.
A wise female villain realizes there are worse things than death
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Pride is a princess who never held her original royal status after her reincarnation and was more traumatized by the actions her character often took in the game than by her death. In fact, Pride makes many decisions throughout the first season that she knows could increase her chances of death. And because she’s in a position of power, her every action creates a massive ripple effect that spreads throughout her kingdom, unlike other villainous isekai.
Arrogance is fueled by a strong desire to do right by those she rules, especially those she would wrong if she were never reincarnated. In the case of a character named Arthur, what she realizes will be best for him will actually stick to a specific timeline in the game that results in her death if he follows it. Pride is so haunted by the way Pride initially manipulated Arthur that she grants him royal blessing to follow this path at the risk of her own life.
Pride’s actions are also influenced by the tragic belief that she is trapped in some determinate timeline, which will inevitably lead to her returning to the original Pride, so she She had made many contingency plans in hopes of killing her when it finally happened. Ironically, it is the pursuit of that goal that drives her subjects and closest friends to devote themselves to her cause and her constant protection, which naturally complicates the situation further. this surprise. More importantly, her people’s oath ultimately strengthened Pride’s kingdom.
Of course, this anime adaptation still fits many of the isekai villain’s tropes. In fact, the loyalty that Pride’s kindness commands from her closest friends has a very similar effect on them as that experienced by the protagonist’s companions in My Next Life As A Villainess . Regardless, while some critics may say that the changes made by the most heretical Final Boss Queen of HIDIVE: From Villain to Savior are too small, there’s no denying that the choices Pride makes have a greater impact on her world than most..
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