English Dub Review: My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X “Keith Disappeared… Part 1”

Overview

Catarina is feeling thrown off by her sudden awareness of Geordo, so when she’s back at home during a break from school, she spends her time working her fields for a change of pace. When she’s done, she heads to Keith’s room to show him the vegetables she’s grown… but Keith isn’t there, and instead, she finds a letter in his room saying that he’s running away…




Our Take

Predictably, if it isn’t Catarina who’s kidnapped, someone else disappears and this time it’s Keith’s turn who has also been kidnapped by some shady people. Out of everyone, Keith spent the most time with Catarina and often asked her the tough questions in his depressed state. But what happens when Keith goes missing? People lose their minds apparently and who do they blame for this? Catarina herself despite not having any kind of evidence that pinned any of this to her in the first place which not only makes her an even bigger moron than usual, but also the people who blindly pointed the finger at her as well.

Either way, I do feel for Keith. By the looks of it, his past has caught up to him in the form of whom I presume are his biological family who being the shit-people they are, felt the need to dish out some very unneeded physical abuse on him that was a little hard to watch but was effective in showing how dangerous his situation actually is.

Overall, for the start of this two-part story, this season’s biggest problem is that it isn’t living up to the show’s title and original premise. Without Catarina setting off death flags, the show is just harem/reverse-harem bullshit which wasn’t always the focus, now those who are even fighting over her affections are being reduced to nothing but petty jerks making it feel like “A Shot at Love with Catarina Claes”. But then again I don’t expect most of the people who fight over the love & affections of an oblivious dolt like Catarina to instantly be friendly with each other unless they have some sort of common goal…