The television anime My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Is officially getting a feature film. The official website for the anime announced the news, along with a short commercial for the upcoming movie.
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My Next Life as a Villainess is based on a light novel series of the same name that premiered back in 2014, and the second season of the anime recently finished airing in Japan. Crunchyroll has been running a simulcast of the series as it aired in Japan, and has an English dub of the entire first season, and part of the second season, available. There’s also an ongoing manga adaption of the series currently happening, with Seven Seas Entertainment handling the English version.
Check out the My Next Life as a Villainess movie commercial below:
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“Wealthy heiress Catarina Claes is hit in the head with a rock and recovers the memories of her past life,” says the series’ official synopsis. “It turns out the world she lives in is the world of the game Fortune Lover, an otome game she was obsessed with in her past life… but she’s been cast as the villain character who tries to foil the protagonist’s romances! The best ending the game has for Catarina is exile, and the worst, death! She’ll have to find a way to avoid triggering the flags of doom, and make her own happy future! The misunderstanding-based screwball love comedy now begins!”
While details are currently scarce, the staff behind the My Next Life as a Villainess movie will reveal more details, along with the premiere date, in the future.