The Villainess Becomes a Commoner

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After being killed, my next life is that of a rich family’s daughter who’s hated by the public!? Moreover, it’s several years in the future after I died, what’s with that? Besides, I don’t have any idea about the female lifestyle. I was a man, alright? I’m hesitant about living life in her place. But living like she would will only lead to ruin and I’m not into that. In that case, there shouldn’t be any problems with me living her life the way I want now, should there? Involving both the past and the present, the curtain rises for the chaotic struggles of the replaced young lady.

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Akuyaku Reijou, Shomin ni Ochiru
Commoner Villainess
悪役令嬢、庶民に堕ちる
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10 Reviews


Kombart
Kombart
Jan 06, 2022
Status: c12
The story is nothing special.

Basically a socially incompetent person gets reincarnated in the body of a school bully.

What follows is the story of how everyone keeps on hating her and ignoring the suffering of her... even when it is heavily implied that her past self has never even done anything comparable to anyone.

We just always hear how she was a feared bully without knowing what she actually even did to justify the absolute hatred the receives from everyone (There seriously is not a single person that does not severely dislike... more>> her...).

And the worst thing is that the new MC just accepts literally everything that people throw at her, either because she thinks that she deserves it or because „there is nothing I can do".

Spoiler

Literally all of her belongings get stolen or destroyed and she wants to hide it for some reason.

Or her PE teacher forces her to change clothes in front of the whole class and play basketball while severely injured (and forbidden from doing sports by the school nurse)... and she just accepts it „because there is nothing she can do about it right now"

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I read a decent amount of chinese drama novels so I would say that my tolerance for bullsh*t plans and s*upid plot conveniences is pretty good, but this novel was too much for me. Not a single major interaction is handled with any semblance of logic or reasoning and the whole reading experience already felt stale and repetitive after only 10 chapters.

I could accept these characters if they were all preschoolers, but given that they are almost adults this level of empathy and rational thought combined with the extremely childlike dialogues is just unbearable.

Only read this novel if you are extremely bored, enjoy the suffering of protagonists or one dimensional and s*upid characters... aside from the homeroom teacher and the school nurse you could really replace the rest of the characters with wooden planks and gain some personality. <<less
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kawaii12345
kawaii12345
Aug 17, 2021
Status: c50
It's been awhile, I read the novel back when the manga first came out so some of the details are fuzzy but the big problems are still prominent in my memory

The initial setting could very well have just been stolen from a Chinese shoujo novel. The original has been pitted by her "friends" and family driven to act ever more outrageously until she is driven out of her family with next to nothing and commits su*cide. The MC who died from poisoning (maybe food, maybe not) at work and is... more>> a relative of hers transmigrates in. He immediately starts up life working in a restaurant and it's off to the slow life.

Getting past the lifted premise, there;s so many other problems it's not funny. The family which is fairly prominent doesn't even bother to fake concern about their child committing su*cide. The MC doesn't care about the circumstances of the original's death or his own. He's slogging through highschool again not at all upset over losing his degrees, or even reuniting with the originals family. The family is ridiculous and downright mechanical. Finally the genderbend seems like an after thought and put in as a gimmick to differentiate this from the swarm of novels that are exactly the same.

Maybe it gets better after where I stopped, but I just don't have the perseverance. <<less
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ranovien
ranovien
Aug 22, 2021
Status: c208
This series has quite interesting TS (Gender Bender) concept.
There is also no 'Reincarnated into Otome Game World' concept in this series even though it's 'Former Villainess'.
You can also check from the description "Moreover, it’s several years in the future after I died" which is indicating this is the same world after the MC's death which will lead interesting things later on.

It feels more like possession and gaining original body memories rather than 'Somehow I became a girl'.
You may feel like the MC treats... more>> previous villainess acts like other person's problem on his problem solving behavior.
But the acts were done with some reason which you will discover later on.

If you want to a peek. The clue are:
Spoiler

12 Families' Interesting Trait and the MC's death

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For me, it was fun and addictive to read, so I give this 5. <<less
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Snooty
Snooty
Oct 13, 2023
Status: c203
6/10. I really wanted to like this one, but it completely loses itself after chapter 100.

The beginning is pretty interesting. A super chill and capable guy possesses the body of a 'villainess' and has to deal with the villainess' leftover problems. At the same time our MC is trying to figure out how he died in his previous life. It's pretty fun when she's mending her relationships and getting involved in the student council hijinks. At this point it's easily 7.5-8/10. However, a little after chapter 100 a lot of... more>> the fun slice of life just gets thrown out the window. Most of the interesting school characters that they've just spent the last 100 chapters developing are just forgotten about and becomes a minor/side character. The author keeps introducing people from the MC's previous life that are honestly just caricatures of what the author thinks insane eccentric geniuses are.

Basically it just doesn't feel like the same novel after 100. It goes from a somewhat down to earth school-life drama to a bunch of crazy people doing whatever they want and causing citywide disturbances. <<less
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123456hh
123456hh
Aug 27, 2022
Status: c52
This series has quite interesting Gender Bender concept.
Despite being a story about a former villainess, there’s no 'Reincarnated into Otome Game World' concept in this series

its a good read
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I hate cookie cutter story
I hate cooki
Jul 10, 2023
Status: c70
It's technically kinda original, so it deserve abit of special treatment, as it's not really as copy pasted as other "villainess" story.

The romance is not the selling point so there's barely any beside some psuedo - shoujo ai which leads to nothing.

It's kinda Fresh but it's had some big flaws too.

  • some (supposedly importants) character is super annoying like the president and principal.
  • Cringe
  • The story is wayyyyyyy toooooooo Draggggggyyyyyyyyy.................., Too much internal dialogue that doesn't matter, it felt like a reading a student's essay trying to up the word counts.
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Arge_23
Arge_23
Aug 06, 2022
Status: c49 part1
Enjoyable for Slice of Life genre, with some dramas here and there, but its quite satisfying

Spoiler

There is a complain about this novel, however. There are too many weirdos inside the story, that sometimes makes it confusing, particulary the 12 families members.

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inacio999
inacio999
Feb 24, 2024
Status: c105 part1
Originally I would have voted it higher, but around chapter 100 it completely starts to focus on her old life's friends.

Which would not be a problem but they are complete strangers to us in the story. In contrast all of the characters you loved and got to know in the story has not appeared in a while. I don't know if it will get better but after like 20 chapters I put the novel down because I completely lost interest.
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ssj4maiko
ssj4maiko
Feb 19, 2024
Status: c130 part2
This story has some unique traits that you don't see anywhere else.

You may think this is a modern villainess otome game story, but in the first place, this is not an isekai. The protagonist dies and revives a few years later in the same world. The protagonist himself was confused, as he didn't knew he had died, and learned later, seeking for information on his old friends, about his death.

We then go through a relatively cliche reformed villainess story where everyone thinks she is still the crazy one from the... more>> past, and few ones notice that she has changed, so her circle of friends improves slowly.

The girl is a daughter from one of the "twelve families", in this alternate Japan, there are 12 families who have a lot of affluence and influence all sorts of stuff in the country, however, due to her previous actions, she was banished from the house, and then she took her own life, which somehow led to the protagonist taking over.


Now, although I mentioned many cliches, I will start pointing out the unique aspects.

Family matters are weird, but well, "fantastically weird".

Spoiler

As we learn from her mother later, children of her family are born with a really annoying quirk. Her father for example was a mothercon, her younger twin siblings are siscons, and the old Kotone was an extreme fathercon, so all she did was likely trying to get her father's attention, which she failed to do so. Different quirks also exist among the other 12 families. So Kotone's mother believes that Kotone "has been cured".

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Being in the same world means also having connections with the past.

Spoiler

The protagonist previous life had his own turbulent life, with a terrible mother who abandoned him, so he ended up adopted by his aunt, acting as his step-mother, but with whom he loves and respects very much. He absolutely hates his biological mother. The music band he was part of with his friends, including the childhood friend that was like a sister to him seems to have gotten more famous, yet never replaced anyone into his former position. His former classmates were a bunch of good people but weirdos. And yes, these people join the story due either from finding out the truth through Kotone's behavior, or because she essentially reveals herself.

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So we have 2 different levels of connections.

Since it's not a game world, there is no knowing the future, and the MC has to be careful on what he is going to do, he also doesn't know why this body replacement happened, and is taking proper care of Kotone's body, not knowing if one day she will return, or if he will live for the rest of her life in this body.

Too bad though, there are not many strong yuri elements. Kotone is considered very attractive even by females, and there are many women close to her, some who really admire her and want to get really close, but the MC avoids all romantic and any romantic advances, mostly due to disinterest. There are not many of the cliches of male in female body embarrassment, and at the same time, she doesn't try to be very feminine, so she avoids skirts or makeup, giving her a "refined" tomboyish atmosphere.

This story however is not a mere slice of life, as there are objectives, although they take time to be defined, and that is: revenge against MC's original mother (who was found to be in a surprising position) and Kotone's father. <<less
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shinidoshi
shinidoshi
Jul 05, 2022
Status: c44 part2
I have low standards, so everything is alright in my book. I just have two gripes:

1) the MC does a lot of internal monologuing, and I mean, too much that the author might as well use an omniscient narrator. Here is an abridged example: MC says X Character-A says Y, MC will physically react & reply to Character-A, and then in their head, they will have 1 paragraph worth of monologuing. Oftentimes, the MC is in precarious situations, so they mostly complain and are very judgmental.

2) The original Kotone Kisaragi... more>> was a tr*sh character. This puts the MC in a disadvantage where they HAVE to be passive, or else she will earn the ire of High Society. That is fair and all, but the MC is a good target for teasing by other characters, especially any kids who are from the 12 Families. This is a breech of the MC's self-imposed rules, and hampers with her journey to recover her reputation. She ought to speak up about her struggles, rather than be an object of constant teasing tl;dr very annoying <<less
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