Kill the Villainess Stars an Isekai Heroine Who Will Do Anything to Escape
There are so many isekai manga and manhwa that involve an ordinary woman being reincarnated as a villainess of a series she is aware of, and Yen Press’ Kill the Villainess is the latest one. However, there’s a stark difference here, at least at the outset. Here, the heroine Eris doesn’t want this new life and doesn’t want to reform. Rather, she wants to do anything necessary to potentially end her time in this other world, which involves an interesting approach to embracing her role. Editor’s Note: There will be spoilers for the first volume of Kill the Villainess. Eris Miserian’s new life starts with her living a life in a palace as a fiance to a prince. It’s one pulling from a romance novel she read, naturally. But she despises it. She considers this idealized world filled with royalty and magic to be too foreign and terrifying to her, and she wants out. She’s about to be betrothed, but she wants to speedrun being eliminated. This means she’s willing to do whatever is necessary to get herself killed so she can return to the type of life she preferred. Image via Yen Press Now, Eris is aware of the plot since Kill the Villainess is similar to other isekai manga and manhwa. She knows she will eventually die. Her beloved Prince Alecto falls for the real heroine of the novel named Helena. The villainess originally went mad as a result and poisoned her rival. This led to her own execution and Helena’s revival so she could have her happily ever after. But Eris wants that to happen sooner. And because of that, she’s forgoing the jealous and bullying behavior the original character displayed toward Helena. Because she’s exhausted! She doesn’t want to be there! She wants to get out of everything as efficiently as possible. One thing that’s fascinating about this is that this Eris, that we follow, has sympathy for the original villainess from the story. That Eris was a childhood friend of both the crown prince and people like the noble Jason Kazaar and Helena. However, they don’t extend any friendliness or care to her. As our heroine thinks when dealing with an awkward situation that also includes Helena, people consider her a “nuisance” and the real Eris would have been probably hurt by that behavior. Also, throughout the first volume we learn about Eris’ endeavors to get out of the story sooner. She actually goes through some of her suicide attempts, which seemed magically thwarted to keep the story on track. The story won’t be sidetracked. This means she actually turns to something she is uncomfortable with — magic — to try and finally be free. Another method might mean actually turning to someone who’d be one of Eris’ enemies in the story to possibly be set free. Fascinatingly enough, it also means we get insights into Eris’ past and that of other characters because of our “Eris” being an outsider. We learn more about Jason’s quest to become a dragon slayer. A character who wasn’t in the original novel appears. We see some insights from Eris’ maid and father that flesh out who the original villainess was. It shows a little more depth than other villainess isekai manga and manhwa series. There are so many villainess isekai series out there, but Kill the Villainess does feel a bit different than others due to the heroine’s demeanor. She isn’t happy to be there. She wants out. She sympathizes with the original villainess. Plus, there are hints that maybe she could go back and others could see something is going on. The first volume shows promise of a series that could be a unique take on the genre in some ways. Volume 1 of Kill the Villainess will debut on February 18, 2025, and volume 2 of the manhwa will launch on May 20, 2025. The post Kill the Villainess Stars an Isekai Heroine Who Will Do Anything to Escape appeared first on Siliconera.
There are so many isekai manga and manhwa that involve an ordinary woman being reincarnated as a villainess of a series she is aware of, and Yen Press’ Kill the Villainess is the latest one. However, there’s a stark difference here, at least at the outset. Here, the heroine Eris doesn’t want this new life and doesn’t want to reform. Rather, she wants to do anything necessary to potentially end her time in this other world, which involves an interesting approach to embracing her role.
Editor’s Note: There will be spoilers for the first volume of Kill the Villainess.
Eris Miserian’s new life starts with her living a life in a palace as a fiance to a prince. It’s one pulling from a romance novel she read, naturally. But she despises it. She considers this idealized world filled with royalty and magic to be too foreign and terrifying to her, and she wants out. She’s about to be betrothed, but she wants to speedrun being eliminated. This means she’s willing to do whatever is necessary to get herself killed so she can return to the type of life she preferred.
Now, Eris is aware of the plot since Kill the Villainess is similar to other isekai manga and manhwa. She knows she will eventually die. Her beloved Prince Alecto falls for the real heroine of the novel named Helena. The villainess originally went mad as a result and poisoned her rival. This led to her own execution and Helena’s revival so she could have her happily ever after. But Eris wants that to happen sooner. And because of that, she’s forgoing the jealous and bullying behavior the original character displayed toward Helena. Because she’s exhausted! She doesn’t want to be there! She wants to get out of everything as efficiently as possible.
One thing that’s fascinating about this is that this Eris, that we follow, has sympathy for the original villainess from the story. That Eris was a childhood friend of both the crown prince and people like the noble Jason Kazaar and Helena. However, they don’t extend any friendliness or care to her. As our heroine thinks when dealing with an awkward situation that also includes Helena, people consider her a “nuisance” and the real Eris would have been probably hurt by that behavior.
Also, throughout the first volume we learn about Eris’ endeavors to get out of the story sooner. She actually goes through some of her suicide attempts, which seemed magically thwarted to keep the story on track. The story won’t be sidetracked. This means she actually turns to something she is uncomfortable with — magic — to try and finally be free. Another method might mean actually turning to someone who’d be one of Eris’ enemies in the story to possibly be set free.
Fascinatingly enough, it also means we get insights into Eris’ past and that of other characters because of our “Eris” being an outsider. We learn more about Jason’s quest to become a dragon slayer. A character who wasn’t in the original novel appears. We see some insights from Eris’ maid and father that flesh out who the original villainess was. It shows a little more depth than other villainess isekai manga and manhwa series.
There are so many villainess isekai series out there, but Kill the Villainess does feel a bit different than others due to the heroine’s demeanor. She isn’t happy to be there. She wants out. She sympathizes with the original villainess. Plus, there are hints that maybe she could go back and others could see something is going on. The first volume shows promise of a series that could be a unique take on the genre in some ways.
Volume 1 of Kill the Villainess will debut on February 18, 2025, and volume 2 of the manhwa will launch on May 20, 2025.
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