I don’t read a lot of light novels. Occasionally though, I’ll browse the virtual shelves and come across a real gem such as this shojo title.
In a brand new promotional video released on YouTube, new details were revealed for the upcoming anime adaptation of Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta (I Reincarnated into an Otome Game as a Villainess With Only Destruction Flags. Or Hamehura for short). The series is set to premiere in April 2020 with studio Silver Link (Kokoro Connect, Baka and Test) providing the animation. Sitting in the director’s chair will be Keisuke Inoue with Megumi Shimizu and Miwa Oshima handling series composition and character designs, respectively.
Originally a light novel series written by Satoru Yamaguchi and illustrated by Nami Hidaka, the first volume of Hamehura was published in Japan in August 2015. Eight volumes have been published in Japanese so far. The series is licensed and published in English by the digital outlet J-Novel Club, who describes the story as:
After hitting her head particularly hard one day, Duke Claes’ daughter, Katarina, suddenly recalls all the memories of her past life: that of a teenage Japanese girl. Just before her untimely death, this girl recalls playing an otome game… that is exactly like the world she’s living in now! She is now Katarina Claes, the antagonist of the otome game, who nastily hounded the protagonist until the end. Knowing all the possible outcomes of the game, she realizes that every single possible route ends with Katarina being murdered or exiled! In order to avoid these Catastrophic Bad Ends, she has to use her knowledge of the game and her own wiles, starting with breaking off this engagement with the prince… Will Katarina survive while making her way through this world, where bad flags trip at every turn?
Source: AIR
