#my next life as a villainess katarina claes

[princessbakarina]

seeing 'new' female isekai-ed characters like katarina, yumiella, aileen and etc get dunked on online by twitter and reddit is so disheartening. dudebros making fun of them for being dumb, dense and idiotic when the male isekaied characters that they like are blander than white bread yet the most gorgeous women still fall on their feet for them. yeah so realistic. sure katarina and co aren't perfect characters but at least they have flaws and faults unlike their op conqueror bland ass printer paper looking male mcs. let women enjoy their female fantasies without being needlessly mocked by men who aren't even the target demographic. give me a break and a gun

[popsartattic]

i finished the first season of My Next Life As A Villainess last night (first time ive watched anime in a while) and holy shit Katarina is so oblivious it's adorable, after seeing her reaction to the love confession in the last episode i had to draw this

[utopikia]

 take you for a ride on my big green yellow tractor

cr. tribute illustration by kazuya minekura, posted on her official twitter

[thanakite]

This panel is so funny to me, they are all so jealous and it's just like fair

[kaereth]

Kofi request drawing of Katarina Claes and Sophia Ascart (from My Next Life as a Villainess) getting married! This took a long time but I really like how it turned out ^^

[madame-helen]

[baka-rina]

Doodles

[x] by Nami Hidaka ( @hidakanami )

[usops]

YURI

[blue-blaze]

"Portrait"

A concept I had in mind for a while

[thecottagecorebisexuals]

"My waifu Maria" She's so whipped.

She's all for Maria dating until she thinks Maria is going to actually date someone else.

Honey, you're already crazy for her.

They skipped this part:

Did they think it was too gay already? Just bite the bullet and admit that Catarina wants to sleep with Maria ffs. (Not serious, btw. I believe they compensated the loss of this scene by having the most romantic interpretation of the crazy for Maria scene)

[dyinggirldied]

This might be a dumb question, please don't throw rocks at me, but is there a novel similar to TCF, ORV and TSTIR but the MC is female instead?

I guess the criteria is: epic fantasy-action, loveable self-sacrificial but cunning and unhinged MC loved by everyone, very little to no romance and of course misunderstanding trope sprinkled in.

There are cool and badass female characters in each of the works I mentioned above but I would like an older woman protagonist (who also acts her age and because we need more older women in webnovels) who fucks thing up in the name of money and peaceful retirement BUT is also caring and kind to their close ones.

The closest example I have come is Katarina Claes but her franchise is more slice-of-life and romance (yah for the bisexual harem though).

Another friend of mine recommend Roxanna from Protecting The Female Lead's Older Brother but I haven't read it and so far, the romance content seems heavy. Still, i would try it once I have free time. For the gorgeous art mostly.

So if any kind souls here have any particular novels that fit these criterias, don't hesitate to let know. Or if it's a niche works that you have been itching to let loose that fit 3/4 or half of the criterias, I would not mind.

EDIT 12/6/2024: I'm flooded and thankful for the replies, which is more than I expected but for now, my list is pretty long and I don't want to overwhelm the chat so, if there are no response, just know that I'm checking when I can. Thanks again for all the good samaritans ❤️

[princessbakarina]

#Prince Geordo vs the never-ending list of suitors that his fiancée collects

[sophieinwonderland]

Catarina Claes and Low Self-Esteem - A Ramble

Here's a draft I was saving for after I wrote my Plurality of Catarina Claes post, but I haven't done that and don't feel like it, so I'm posting this anyway...

I was thinking about Catarina while scrolling through the Crunchyroll comments describing her as denser than a black hole, which while funny the first time, and the second, starts to wear on you by the hundredth.

I mean, I get a community having running jokes, but I'm talking literally every episode has at least one person saying this, and sometimes multiple.

The thing about these comments is... they're not wrong. Catarina can be really dense and oblivious. It's one of her defining character traits. Everyone knows it...

But... I think there's more to it than this where it concerns her love interests.

Catarina, in my opinion, doesn't recognize that people love her because she sees herself as unlovable.

Putting Ourselves In Catarina's Shoes

Imagine for a moment that you've always been the strange girl at school.

You have one close friend. You've never had a romantic partner. You're a disappointment to your parents who see you as just some lazy girl. And then, at 17, you die completely unaccomplished. A failure.

You get a new life though. You're reborn with no memory of who you used to be.

And the person you are now... is a brat. A spoiled rich brat who hurts everyone around her. Then you get hit on the head and have memories from your last life flood your brain.

Now there are two very different lives in your head, but there are common themes in them.

In both, you have a mom who puts you down at every turn. In both, you haven't really known love before.

And on top of all of that, you realize that your new life is as a villain. A rival who is supposed to compete with the heroine for a man who doesn't love her. Someone who only agreed to be engaged with her to avoid other offers.

This is your destiny.

And it confirms everything terrible your parents told you about who you are across two lives.

By the time she enrolls in the magic academy, she's had over 30 years to internalize her sense of worthlessness, and nearly a decade to internalize her destiny as a villain who exists only to be a rival in someone else's story.

Catarina Isn't Just Oblivious. She's In Denial.

She's built an entire self-concept around being the unlovable villainess that she literally cannot fathom anyone having genuine romantic feelings for her.

Even while she loves her friends (platonically), she's still convinced through the series that they're going to kill or exile her in the end.

No matter how many times people drop hints or even outright tell Catarina they love her, she can't accept that.

All in all, I feel dismissing Catarina's obliviousness as her just being dense (which again, she is) does a disservice to the character.

[extantformoflife]

[sparklingmusicofstars]

Hamefura picture : Happy New Year !

How cute !

[beebo26]

Imagine Katarina's harem watching her past life and when they got to the point of her playing the fortune lover, all they can see is her past life version simping over the game version Maria.

There is Katarina having a meeting inside her head for creating a best way to escape the embarrassing scene unfolding in front of her.

And there is Maria smiling and blushing and deep inside celebrating cause she know she has the upperhand against the harem battle.