Saturday, January 18, 2025

【episode comment】from bureaucrat to villainess episode 2


A glimpse of Kenzaburo's life before reincarnating was refreshing, to say the least. Most of the time, isekai stories don't usually do that. Or if they do, it's like a one and done. You know what I mean?

And now, both Grace and Anna became a part of the student council — headed by the Crown Prince, of course. Then again, meeting the other members only added potential "trouble" for Grace, in my opinion, since a lot of what she was doing and what she was saying would add affection points on the other characters towards HER — the supposed villainess. In his opinion, that wasn't supposed to happen. Of course, he wasn't aware of the fact that it was aimed towards her and not Anna the supposed protagonist. Crazy, huh?

One funny thing to me that reminds me of myself at times — Kenzaburo can't remember names. I also can't remember names unless they're names from one of the stories I was writing/planning to write. At times, I can remember names but I can't recall their faces or the other way around. Well, if they have names that are hard to pronounce and spell, even that would confuse me.

The one thing that fascinated me about this episode was the introduction of the magic system and the way they cast spells. I mean, the moment that Kenzaburo figured out that he can use Kanji as a way to cast spells with the help of the magic circle, it definitely reminded me of Shinkenger.

Yes, I did watch that Sentai series, just so you know. In fact, this was the series that made me watch the other ones in the franchise after only remembering that I watched the Tagslog dubbed version of Bioman and Maskman when I was a kid. But that was a long, long time ago.

All I can say, Grace (Kenzaburo) managed to work it out. And then there was also a glimpse of who Grace actually was before her personality changed to that of a villainess. I think it made me connect to her in some way because time and sometimes, the things that we learn to survive the world change the inner child in us and hide it completely. I just want to see Grace return to that curious, caring child that she once was when this whole ordeal is over.

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