A fourth character PV trailer has been released for the My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Movie, highlighting Maria Campbell.
The film’s world premiere will take place at Anime NYC 2023 on November 19, 2023, ahead of its Japanese release on December 8, 2023.
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Movie has an original story written by series’ author Satoru Yamaguchi. Keisuke Inoue is directing the film after helming the 2020 and 2021 anime seasons. Megumi Shimizu is serving as story composer and Miwa Ooshima as character designer. SILVER LINK is in charge of the animation production.
The main voice cast of the TV anime series are also reprising their roles for the film, which stars:
- • Maaya Uchida as Katarina Claes
- • Shouta Aoi as Geordo Stuart
- • Tetsuya Kakihara as Keith Claes
- • Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Alan Stuart
- • Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Nicole Ascart
- • Miho Okasaki as Mary Hunt
- • Inori Minase as Sophia Ascart
- • Saori Hayami as Maria Campbell
Six new voice cast members are joining the film’s voice cast, which includes:
- • Kenshou Ono as Arkil
- • Ayumu Murase as Kumit
- • Akari Kitou as Nasheet
- • Reina Ueda as Hati
- • Youko Hikasa as Arkus
- • Rie Kugimiya as Piyo
The original light novels were first published under Ichijinsha’s Bunko Iris label on August 20, 2015, with illustrations by Nami Hidaka. Thirteen volumes have been released as of September 2023. The series began as a web novel on Shousetsuka ni Narou from July 6, 2014 to March 23, 2015. It also inspired a manga adaptation in 2017 and a side story spinoff from 2019 to 2021.
Crunchyroll is streaming the first two seasons of My Next Life as a Villainess and describes season one as:
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!
