The Hamefura: My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom anime movie revealed a new trailer and a visual ahead of its December 8 premiere date in Japan. Studio SILVER LINK is animating, with Keisuke Inoue as the director. Watch the new trailer:
Maya Uchida is returning to voice the protagonist, Catarina Claes (Bakarina). Check out the new visual:
Besides the director Keisuke Inoue, the staff for the Hamefura movie includes Megumi Shimizu and Megumu Sasano as scriptwriters (Shimizu is also in charge of the series composition) and Mia Oshima as the character designer.
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! is based on a light novel by Satoru Yamaguchi, with illustrations by Nami Hidaka. It also has a manga adaptation. J-Novel Club licensed the light novel, while Seven Seas licensed the manga in English. The first season of the anime adaptation premiered in the Spring 2020 anime season. The sequel, titled My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X, aired in the Summer 2021 season. SILVER LINK animated both of those as well, with Keisuke Inoue as director. Crunchyroll is streaming both seasons and the I Met My Destined One… OVA which came out with the 7th volume of the manga. They describe the story:
Wealthy heiress Catarina Claes is hit in the head with a rock and recovers the memories of her past life. 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!
Source: Official Website
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