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Indeed it is. And I LOVE this FL. She is so hilarious. Rather than being naive, as some have said, she seems to think that it is impossible for the original capture targets to fall in love with the villainess no matter how much the paths in this realm have diverged from the ones in the otome game.

true! Also, the bad ending is so bad she's really just trying to buckle down and get shit done so she doesn't get killed. If she ends up loving someone, it makes sense that she would stick to someone that won't get her killed lol

My thoughts exactly! She doesn't have time to think about other, extraneous, stuff. She also doesn't think about actually changing the routes but if they do get changed it's just a bonus to her. And that's what I find so awesome about this character. She doesn't automatically think that that means she's completely safe. To me that means she is the complete opposite of naive, therefore there is more going on than being oblivious OR naive.

Plus, Nicole and Alan are the two capture targets that didn't originally end up with her being killed or exiled but even when she asked Nicole if he had someone he liked she never even considered that his response to that, that the one he liked was someone who was not at school and he was not allowed to like, might mean her, despite she, herself, wondering if he had fallen in love with a married woman (which could have, perhaps, been a certain woman with a princely fiancee?).

I think that's not only because she had very little or no interaction with either Alan or Nicole in the game (after all, she hadn't even played Nicole's route) but also because she IS the only villainess in the entire game, since the other two rivals in the game were very kind and sweet people originally.

so true, there's no way she's naive! People saying she's naive probably just don't relate to her character and can't empathize with her circumstances. They're probably just hungry for fan-service and ships, but there is waaaay more satisfying wish-fulfillment happening in this story, in my opinion, and it involves power in knowledge and empathy. She is definitely a better person than she should have been if she didn't remember her past life, she's more influential, magical, popular, and more loved than she should have been. It's so much more appealing in a way that the average shoujo manga fan hasn't seen done a billion times before.

Yes! This encapsulates the very reason why I so love Kyoko from Skip Beat, too, BTW. She grows as a person apart from a focus on romance or love, as most typical shoujo heroines do.

Also should note that I also agree that the president would probably be the first person she could possibly recognize as someone who's fallen in love with her since he is not a capture target and thus has no rival for his affections. But I don't think she would recognize those affections unless she got the second impediment to realizing that out of the way: specifically her attempts to avoid her destruction end; which can only be achieved when she can be 100% assured that none of those ends will come to pass.

I think she would have a harder time seducing the president than she did the capture targets because she doesn't know as much about him, but that could also be why she might catch feelings. The capture targets might not be on her love radar because she knows she had an unfair advantage on them that will prevent her from further romantic pursuit which, it makes sense that she's a desensitized to their flirting. Not only because they may cause her destruction, but because they never had a leveled playing field since she already knew the chinks in their armor. When she actually chooses someone, it should be someone she has an even playing field with, like the president. The only capture target that might have a chance is her adoptive little brother, because she turned him into a completely different character than the game version, but like I said, it wasn't because she loved him, but because she knew that if she made him less lonely, he might not kill her later.

low key, I just want to see how upset everyone gets if she chooses the president lol

A couple interesting theories (not saying that this is a deep thinking manga, despite the absolutely amazing character development, but rather just providing some ideas that have been rolling around in my head): the president and Sophia are also reincarnated (Sophia might be her friend from her past life. The president might be a popular guy she liked in her previous life). And this is not the game, but a past that the game is based on, from Katarina's own notes in this realm.

I mean if this were the game, it's interesting that no player has tried to alter the path thereby pushing her back onto the destructive ends she faced before.

Also, why does she seem like a less dreamy girl than your typical girl that plays otome games in the present world? I'm not talking about ignoring the destructive ends she was forced to contend with, because even before she realized where she was she was a bit more practical than a person who had lived for seventeen plus eight years (as she puts it) partly as an otome obsessed school girl but also partly as a selfish boy obsessed Victorian styled Duke's daughter.

that IS an interesting theory! I never would have made the connection between her notes from the past and the otome game in the future...but that would mean people in the past had magical abilities. It would be amazing if there was another reincarnated character, I think that would be really cool. As for her character, it seems like she is treating her world a little like a video game. I saw this theme done in a different story, and the lead doesn't take the world or her game character lightly (she pretty much uses her knowledge of modern society, accounting, and general maturity to build up her character's reputation after her destructive ending and rule her faction with modern reformation and creature comforts...it's called Koushaku Reijou no Tashinami btw) and in comparison, this character is much more comedic, lighthearted, and fun. She lives in a smaller world and focuses on her own problems and the problems of people around her. So IS she less dreamy than your typical girl that plays otome games? idk, but if she is, we can probably mount it up to her having a special character and the fact that this is a form of entertainment meant to make us, the readers, feel more capable than the average girl by making the reader relate to a special girl and in turn making the reader feel special.

Warning: a bit of a rant ahead. Although I went on a much bigger rampage, I admit, under the story, itself, you may want to avoid both of these posts, instead of just the one, that is as long as you haven't already read the other one before reading this preamble.

I tried reading that other title but I found it very hard to stomach. Unfortunately, all I see is the bully winning. I think that's clichéd, which doesn't interest me, at all. In short the female lead is very classist and refuses to take responsibility for her bullying. It almost makes me sad that the female lead didn't get reincarnated into Yuri's body instead. Maybe the author would have realized then how her characters don't seem to grow because it appears that they can only remain hypocrites throughout the story. I mean helping the poor but still treating them as less than is the worst kind of hypocrisy I can imagine. The author's bias against anarchism and fondness for capitalism in this story is also very obvious. Yet capitalism kills, anarchism does not.

Sorry about what might seem like a rant but I had to read more than twenty chapters before I realized why this story made me so mad. So I wasted some time that I now, unfortunately, wish I could get back.