Anime

The "reincarnated as an otome villainess" premise is really common; you probably saw this in Bakarina, or The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen, or going full meta- in Endo and Kobayashi, so goes on.

Even then I think that this story is worth watching. Yumiella is surprisingly relatable; she's simply trying to step off trouble, but by doing so she ends becoming the center of attention.

I really like what they did in the first episode - first showing the story from within the game, only introducing the actual protagonist (the "villainess") in the second half of the episode.

Really liked the first half of an episode including fake OP. I have read the LN so I won't keep up with it and will just check it out here and there.

If in the game she's the hidden boss that requires a max level team to beat does that mean what she did is canon? I mean, Yumelia had to have gotten strong somehow in game too.

Like others have said, I appreciated the effort they put into making the first half of the heroine POV show and the fake OP.

I enjoyed the first episode, but I'm somewhat pessimistic whether story has anything new to offer.

Really like what they did with the fake OP, at this point we have very much established the setting, the main players (the main character with her rare light magic and the 3 main potential love interests), and the fact that this is a game OUR main character used to play in her former life, really like that they gave it an opening complete with in-game captures (you can notice the moment they switched to in-game captures by the pixelation in the battle scenes). Then suddenly we switch to our gal as that's done. From now on the main 4 should be secondary, and the next episode should be interesting as her quiet life is solidly derailed, to her annoyance an our benefit 😂

is it good?

I love a good fake-out mc, and the fake op was a masterpiece, but they dragged it out way too long. Like, the title already gives away the twist.

Even with the anime stalling, I was fully on board when we switched characters, but that good will ran out fast when the real main character was just grinding video game levels for her whole childhood. Like, if she doesn't want to be the last boss, can't she just.... not attack the main characters? Doesn't she have any interest in learning why her game counterpart did what she did (so she can avoid that plotline?)

I really wanted to like this one, but the poor storytelling got in the way for me, and the premiere ended up at a 3/5.