“I'm in Love with the Villainess” Yuri TV Anime Releases Claire Version Visual
The official twitter for the “I’m in Love with the Villainess” TV anime released a new Claire Version visual to tease the upcoming anime. The Yuri anime is set to be released in October 2023.
The anime previously released the Rei Version (below) back in May 2023.
In addition, it was announced that “I'm in Love with the Villainess” will be premiere episodes 1 and 2 at Anime Expo 2023 on July 4, 2023 as part of Crunchyroll’s Simulcast Premieres. It was previously announced that Crunchyroll will stream the anime as part of their Fall 2023 Anime Season. The publisher will also hold an autograph session with “I'm in Love with the Villainess” manga artist AONOSHIMO on July 1, 2023. To celebrate the anime being a part of Anime Expo, a special visual (below) was released by AONOSHIMO.
Based on the light novels by author Inori, “I'm in Love with the Villainess” (Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijō) is being directed by Hideaki Oba at studio Platinum Vision. Ayumu Hisao will handle the series composition with character designs by Youko Satou. The anime music will be by Noriyuki Asakura and Hajime Takakuwa will serves as sound director. The anime star Yu Serizawa as “Rae Taylor” and Karin Nanami as “Claire Francois”.
Author Inori launched the series on the Japanese novel self-publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō in January 2018. GL Bunko began publishing the story in digital volumes in February 2019. The light novels had a total of 5 volumes. Artist Hanagata drew the illustrations for the novels. Seven Seas Entertainment published the series in English.
Seven Seas “I’m in Love with the Villainess” Synopsis: Ordinary office worker Ohashi Rei wakes up in the body of the protagonist of her favorite otome game, Revolution. To her delight, the first person to greet her is also her favorite character, Claire Francois—the main antagonist of the story! Now, Rei is determined to romance Claire instead of the game’s male leads. But how will her villainous ladylove react to this new courtship?!
A manga adaptation was launched in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime magazine in June 2020 with artist AONOSHIMO. There are currently 5 volumes in print in Japan. Seven Seas Entertainment is also publishing the manga in English. Volume 4 is set to be release in English on January 31, 2023.
Author Inori continued to expand the series by launching a spinoff story titled “Heimin no Kuse ni Namaikina!” on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in May 2021. GL Bunko later released the story in a digital novel volume in February 2022. Seven Seas Entertainment also licensed the novel spinoff. “I'm in Love with the Villainess: She's so Cheeky for a Commoner” is set to be released in English on February 28, 2023.
