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English Dub Review: I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History “The Villainess and the Saint”

By David Kaldor

January 22, 2025

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Alicia, Duke, and the rest finally confront Liz about unconscious ability to charm people.OUR TAKEI was really hoping we could just get the last two episodes of this show out of the way and just be done, but I guess the fates have other plans for me. But this actually works out, since I get to dedicate this review to the utterly infuriating conclusion to matters surrounding Liz Cather, as it has taken our heroes (and I use that term very loosely) nearly to the end of the series to find out that Liz is only getting her huge posse because she was never taught how to manage her magic, which has turned into a massive charm spell that most are unable to resist. So, Alicia has spent two years training off screen to get ready for this confrontation and it turns out none of that mattered at all, she just needed to get her head out of her ass about this Villainess bullshit and talk to the poor girl to get her to figure it all out. And yet, even while that’s happening, some of them are still ganging up on her even when she’s just confused and scared about finding out that the people she thought genuinely liked her were only forced to by her magic.As someone who constantly has a little voice in my head telling me my friends, who I know stay my friends by choice, are only putting up with me or tolerating me for the moment, I can see this being pretty devastating for someone who thought her relationships were made because of her own merits. Instead, she’s been used by the people she is accidentally influencing as a reason to harass others, and then having to get in the middle of that and explain herself over and over. And yeah, she has a crush on Duke and it sucks for her that he likes Alicia instead, but that’s not something she ever did anything direct about intentionally. I was really hoping this reconciliation would come down to Liz having to use her powers in some beneficial way that put her on the path to becoming the “Saint” she is prophesied to be, but I guess the story wasn’t interested in anything that didn’t make Alicia look like a badass when she actually would be the asshole in this situation. But wait! This episode ends with a cliffhanger that Duke has forgotten Alicia! How will the series conclude? Well, it’s stupider than this episode by a wide margin, so buckle up.