In reality, people sense when you are trying to make a goodwill deposit. She doesn’t do this consciously, of course. ![]() Catarina builds a large bank account with each of the characters so that when her final doom flags arrive, she will have a good balance. Even librarians can fail in information searches!). I’ve read somewhere that it takes 7 good deeds to cover over a single wrong (I failed to find which book I read this in. The problem with this method is the quantity of good deeds it takes to cover over a bad deed. Even when that problem is unsolvable or pain is unavoidable. Whether it is a romantic relationship that is failing or a disagreement with a family member, a bank account of good will can go a long way toward helping a problem. And all of us have seen these flags in our lives. Doom flags we foresee can be mitigated by how kind we’ve been in the past. ![]() In this regard, My Next Life offers some lessons for us. Often, Catarina was unaware of just how much her kindness impacted a character. The story was mostly fluff, but it delved into the importance and impact of kindness in the lives of people. Of course, Catarina remained oblivious to this in proper isekai fashion. But soon her wildcard personality started to shift the normal story sequence, making it harder for Catarina to predict what would happen next in the world.īasically, My Next Life was a friendship-harem story that includes both men and women. Her kindness, which was also her natural personality, becomes her means to avoid the doom flags of the game. Much of the story focused on Catarina trying to befriend all of the men Maria and she would normally fight over in the game and the other women who would cause her doom. The farming hobby also provided means for her to connect to the characters she would’ve fought over with the video game’s heroine, Maria. For Catarina, farming acted as a hedge for one of the endings where she would be exiled. Catarina was born into a noble family who tolerated her desire to learn farming as an eccentric, if shameful-for-her-social-standing, hobby. The farming angle offered some soft humor. ![]() Knowing what would happen to her in each of the video game’s endings, she decided to do whatever she could to hedge or avoid the doom flags of the game. Only instead of being reborn as the hero, she was reborn as the villain. It followed Catarina Claes as she was reborn into a world modeled after a visual novel video game aimed at girls. My Next Life offered a different look on the isekai genre. The new anime season has been thin with COVID-19 related closures and other events hampering production schedules. I had been deep in my revisiting of various past anime series and needed something new. I watched My Next Life as a Villainess on a whim.
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