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どうしても破滅したくない悪役令嬢が現代兵器を手にした結果がこれです (Light Novel) #1
Villainess: Reloaded! ~Blowing Away Bad Ends with Modern Weapons~ Volume 1
Astrid von Oldenburg is no ordinary four-year-old. She’s a child prodigy with a passion for military technology who now finds herself reincarnated in the world of an otome game she played during her past life. But not as the heroine! As the game’s villainess, she's born with wealth, power, and a fearsome talent for magic. The only problem is that every route leads to her inevitable destruction. Or does it? What if averting her destruction was a simple matter of amassing enough firepower to annihilate anyone who dared even attempt to bring her down?! In a bid to resist fate, the young villainess embarks on the reproduction of all of her favorite weaponry. Whatever it takes, Astrid’s determined to blow away her bad ends with superior firepower!
- GenresLight NovelFantasy
254 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 2, 2018
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July 17, 2021
Story starts with a bang, then settles into more of a standard Villainess story pace with some occasional monster defeats ("battles" would be too generous). Story pays homage to and is influenced by the villainess girl genre, with specific homages to Bakarina at times (her personalities getting together in her mind to make decisions for one). This one is carried by the lead, Astrid, who is the first person perspective lead, a little girl of 4 who grows to be 8 by the end of the volume. Essentially sees the little girl regain conscious thought at 4 years old when she realizes she's a reincarnation of a Japanese gun Otaku who also was familiar with the world from an Otome game where she plays the villainess (and her family gets exiled for her bullying of the heroine). No heroine in sight, we get to see Astrid try to avoid her destruction flags with her wit... And guns!
Half of the book is Astrid with her instructor learning blood magic / elemental magic (then using that magic in secret to protect herself and others) and half is her at the academy, learning from instructors while also dodging destruction flags in her social life. Astrid's status and her connections to royalty force her to interact with the men and women who may mean her destruction in the future. Most of the story is Astrid being forced to do things she doesn't want to, though there are instances where she shows some genuine glee (gym class mud dodge ball, her visits from her cousin), and she learns to use some unpleasant things to her advantage (learning further magic studies from her upperclassmen at their hoity-toity roundtable discussions).
The magic system in this world starts kind of interestingly, particularly how magic takes time to cast, but there are parchments you can buy to store magic spells for use later in the field of battle. But then the author pretty quickly breaks it or changes the rules at times (deus ex machina "new research into magic" discovery makes some storage method that was impossible possible later). Take it as an OP Fantasy tale, not as a "working within the confines of the magic system to succeed" kind of thing. Her interactions with her instructor and the cute magic folk (fairies and spirits) are fun at first too, particularly the little ground spirit that has to do all the heavy lifting for her gun concepts.
The supporting cast is rather weak. Only two characters that may be real interesting down the line in Astrid's mother (who may know more than she lets on) and Freidrich, the son of the emperor of the Plussen empire where Astrid's dukedom resides. Freidrich also has a skill that can see the flow of Mana, and so he can see through her lies and parlor tricks just as well. He's not doing it nefariously so far, he actually wants to get close to Astrid as he feels she could help his kingdom maintain peace. His friends in class, Adolf and Silvio, are fairly forgettable, especially the latter (at least Adolf gets to do a few things late in the story, like learning blood magic from Astrid and going to a ball / party with her). Astrid's girl friends only get paper thin representation so far too, her seeing them as romantic bomb diffusers for the love interests that will attach themselves to her rival heroine in the future. I think this suffers in not having the perspective changes that a Bakarina does. We don't get to see any other character's true thoughts or feelings, just Astrid's guesses.
In terms of skeevy stuff / content warnings, the leads are all kids but Astrid is a 20+ year old reincarnated into a 4 year old's body, and she also sees the young leads of the game world as "husbandos" to an extent because she played it before. She says some occasional weird stuff that is acknowledged as weird (saying about the silver haired boy that people that young "have no business looking that hot"... uhhh). And then she's a teacher con fan too. In addition, Astrid likes to curse in her mind pretty frequently, so yeah, if you like to do Text To Speech maybe wear some headphones.
I hope that the plot goes far enough to see Astrid as an adult at some point (or 16+ at least). This author seems to have a thing for aging down adults in the reincarnation (see Majesty's Swarm where the main girl is needlessly made 14 or something for no real reason that I can recall). It works in this volume decently, but if it continues too long it feels like an attempt to cash in on the loli / Tanya type vibes, a cute little girl using military arsenal, which is fun but I want to see if she can continue to evade the destruction flags as an adult / when the heroine shows up.
Half of the book is Astrid with her instructor learning blood magic / elemental magic (then using that magic in secret to protect herself and others) and half is her at the academy, learning from instructors while also dodging destruction flags in her social life. Astrid's status and her connections to royalty force her to interact with the men and women who may mean her destruction in the future. Most of the story is Astrid being forced to do things she doesn't want to, though there are instances where she shows some genuine glee (gym class mud dodge ball, her visits from her cousin), and she learns to use some unpleasant things to her advantage (learning further magic studies from her upperclassmen at their hoity-toity roundtable discussions).
The magic system in this world starts kind of interestingly, particularly how magic takes time to cast, but there are parchments you can buy to store magic spells for use later in the field of battle. But then the author pretty quickly breaks it or changes the rules at times (deus ex machina "new research into magic" discovery makes some storage method that was impossible possible later). Take it as an OP Fantasy tale, not as a "working within the confines of the magic system to succeed" kind of thing. Her interactions with her instructor and the cute magic folk (fairies and spirits) are fun at first too, particularly the little ground spirit that has to do all the heavy lifting for her gun concepts.
The supporting cast is rather weak. Only two characters that may be real interesting down the line in Astrid's mother (who may know more than she lets on) and Freidrich, the son of the emperor of the Plussen empire where Astrid's dukedom resides. Freidrich also has a skill that can see the flow of Mana, and so he can see through her lies and parlor tricks just as well. He's not doing it nefariously so far, he actually wants to get close to Astrid as he feels she could help his kingdom maintain peace. His friends in class, Adolf and Silvio, are fairly forgettable, especially the latter (at least Adolf gets to do a few things late in the story, like learning blood magic from Astrid and going to a ball / party with her). Astrid's girl friends only get paper thin representation so far too, her seeing them as romantic bomb diffusers for the love interests that will attach themselves to her rival heroine in the future. I think this suffers in not having the perspective changes that a Bakarina does. We don't get to see any other character's true thoughts or feelings, just Astrid's guesses.
In terms of skeevy stuff / content warnings, the leads are all kids but Astrid is a 20+ year old reincarnated into a 4 year old's body, and she also sees the young leads of the game world as "husbandos" to an extent because she played it before. She says some occasional weird stuff that is acknowledged as weird (saying about the silver haired boy that people that young "have no business looking that hot"... uhhh). And then she's a teacher con fan too. In addition, Astrid likes to curse in her mind pretty frequently, so yeah, if you like to do Text To Speech maybe wear some headphones.
I hope that the plot goes far enough to see Astrid as an adult at some point (or 16+ at least). This author seems to have a thing for aging down adults in the reincarnation (see Majesty's Swarm where the main girl is needlessly made 14 or something for no real reason that I can recall). It works in this volume decently, but if it continues too long it feels like an attempt to cash in on the loli / Tanya type vibes, a cute little girl using military arsenal, which is fun but I want to see if she can continue to evade the destruction flags as an adult / when the heroine shows up.
July 1, 2021
Otome with a lot of firepower.
It's a fun short read. Don't expect anything serious from it as it's clearly satirical. It does get repetitive near the end, but I'm still enjoying this series.
It's a fun short read. Don't expect anything serious from it as it's clearly satirical. It does get repetitive near the end, but I'm still enjoying this series.
January 28, 2025
Too violent, it shows what she's going to do, then it goes back to how she got that way. From day one, she is planning to destroy everything in and about the kingdom just for being exiled?
The only thing that would possibly justify that kind of violence is if her whole family had been executed and she had been tortured and then killed. It is too much, considering what happened in the otome.
The only thing that would possibly justify that kind of violence is if her whole family had been executed and she had been tortured and then killed. It is too much, considering what happened in the otome.
March 17, 2022
Hilarious
This book is a great way to have a nice laugh! A military nerd gets reborn into a world of magic and starts creating modern weaponry with every intention of starting a civil war if any of the "bad ends" start playing out. Astrid is highly adorable and deadly! Isekai stories really bring out an author's character and interests, which is really nice for making every story unique even with the same tropes.
This book is a great way to have a nice laugh! A military nerd gets reborn into a world of magic and starts creating modern weaponry with every intention of starting a civil war if any of the "bad ends" start playing out. Astrid is highly adorable and deadly! Isekai stories really bring out an author's character and interests, which is really nice for making every story unique even with the same tropes.
June 14, 2023
3.5 Stars
This was pretty fun. A bold opening for sure. I’m interested in seeing where this goes.
This was pretty fun. A bold opening for sure. I’m interested in seeing where this goes.
February 19, 2024
I started and stopped it a couple times.
It was not for me. I don't think they really created a justification for why the MC thought guns would solve literally anything, and everyone's reactions to her having weaponry was not realistic. It was clearly written with no real plot in mind, and it ends with nothing resolved.
It was not for me. I don't think they really created a justification for why the MC thought guns would solve literally anything, and everyone's reactions to her having weaponry was not realistic. It was clearly written with no real plot in mind, and it ends with nothing resolved.
November 11, 2021
She’s pretty disagreeable, and not in an entertaining way.
September 1, 2024
The story is funny in some regards and I like the premise well enough; it's different and I like the characters well enough. I'll how it is. be reading the 2nd volume to see
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