A very fun anthology manga full of yuri/shoujo ai! This was so cute!

I was looking for more Villainess manga, as 2024 is really a year I want to read more of these stories! I just love them in all their forms, like the villainess is truly a villainess, a reincarnation trying to make the villainess less evil (or just embrace it all), or even when the villainess isn’t the villainess at all. They are so fun, so when I came across this cute anthology I just had to read/try it out!

In this first volume we get 5 couples! From royalty x maids to villainess x heroine to duchess x baroness (and one of them is a reincarnation) and there is more. I really liked that each story begins with an introduction to the two girls who will get their happily ever after. On the left the villainess/the girl who is seen as the bad one and on the right the one who is trying to save her/be with her. I really enjoyed each of the stories and well my favourite would be the one featuring Maria and Shion because I definitely hadn’t expected it to go that way, but it was just perfection and it just made me smile so much! But the second favourite is the first one with two characters who have been in love for ages finally getting their happily after ever, even if it meant some scheming and some nice twists. Teehee.

I also loved the various ways that the engagement annulment event went. They had some really nice original twists to the way it normally goes. From the first story in which the prince thought he had it all but then it turns out NOPE he has nothing. Or the king helping out. Or how one fangirl made sure that the villainess had more back-up/support than normal. It was just a delight and I looked forward to each and every bit of it.

Oh, and I liked that one of the stories was a reincarnation one with a big fangirl. I just adored how she was their for her bias and tried to make her life better in various ways. It made me smile so much!

I liked the various art styles as well. So fun!

All in all, I desperately need the second volume of this one because I definitely want more of these cute stories and see more happy endings!