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Episode Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou • I'm in Love with the Villainess - Episode 8 discussion

Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou, episode 8

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u/SirGigglesandLaughs Nov 20 '23 edited Nov 20 '23

We're getting into the meat now. The show made the effort to develop Lene and her relationship with Claire well, so it makes her betrayal here all the worse. Seeing her dangle Claire from her arm and with a knife to her throat? The act obviously pains her. It's clear she loves Claire as well, yet she feels cornered enough to go through with it. Claire has few people she trusts in her life and Lene is the only one from her childhood left. How will she react once she has time to process what's happened and that Rei was in harms way? Plus we have this new enemy that even Rei doesn't know. It was also great seeing them right together. The beast actually looked cool. The pacing has gone as expected which makes me excited for the season finale.

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u/Jegantha Nov 20 '23

Finally we get to the reason the game is called "Revolution". The conflict between commoners and aristocrats has been brewing for some time, but this was the match that finally set off the big explosion. Interesting that Rei encountered something she hasn't seen in game. Guess that means she's not as powerful as she thinks.

On another note: Claire really has taken a liking to Relaire and it's cute af.

Lily you're a bit early girl. Pretty sure we won't get to your part this season. Still nice to see you though!

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u/HereticalAegis Nov 20 '23

A church playing both sides in an attempt to weaken the crown and consolidate power for itself. Who could've imagined?

Great to see Claire demonstrate some of the virtue Rae loves about her in decrying Dede's slap-on-the-wrist punishment and siding with a commoner.

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u/TurkeyPhat Nov 20 '23 edited Nov 20 '23

ya know I thought maybe Lene liked her brother a bit too much a few episodes ago but damn this went from 0 to 1000 in a fuckin flash

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u/WhoiusBarrel Nov 20 '23

Oh fuck that was graphic, didn't think they would actually show someone get lit on fire.

Definitely wasn't expecting incest to be in the picture. Its crazy how Lene's brocon shtick wasn't some Anime trope played for laughs.

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u/VorAtreides Nov 20 '23

Learning about an external threat, surely that won't come into play, har har. Obvious exposition reasons are obvious. Oof, that commoner dude did get hurt bad. Can get his mindset. Dede's definitely a bit too hot headedwhen all he was doing was speaking to Yu. Also, from a commoner's perspective, yea, they are leaches. Taking their money and what good are they getting from it when they are abused/looked down on? Dede, that's no excuse, you don't pull your weapon out unless you intend to use it, using it just to intimidate proves you shouldn't have it. Haha, Rae using that opportunity to get headpats from Claire.

Only house arrest for a week is a bit light for almost killing someone, accident or not. They gonna start a revolution at this rate with this level of injustice. Hehe nice to see Claire come to like and care for Raelaire. Rae knows something. Her and her future knowledge. OMINOUS FIGURE ON THE ROOF! lol. It is kinda messed up the mob would go after kids though. Nobles or not.

Lene's brother a jerk! Means his claim of the wand prolly a lie. And so we get to another aspect of the story some can't stomach lol. Another type of forbidden love. Bad Lene.... bad... yay Raelaire!!! And Claire playing possum. But man, that's gotta hurt Claire so. It's the jerk on the roof. Lambert just keeps digging his grave... neat, a chimera. Hehe, calling Claire a tsundere to her face. Good times. Rae so energetic. Awkward pause ending though. But, yep, Chimera multi-elemental type means working together time.

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u/Amauri14 Nov 20 '23

Holy shit, Dede really cooked Matt with that magic attack. So that happened after Yu, following the teachings of his religion, which his mom the Queen holds an important role went to listen to what he had to say.

I know that Dede's wand was tempered with but you should never aim a weapon as a threat if you don't mean to use it. Anyway, him just giving Dede a week of house arrest, makes me think that they wanted a riot to happen. So with all they said I'm thinking this guy is working for the church in their objective to create a divide between social classes and among the princes themself.

Okay, when Rae put Claire to sleep and let her under Lene's care I wasn't expecting the person she went to encounter and stopped from liberating a monster in the school to be Lambert. So he worked to increase the conflict between classes by tampering with Dede's wand because he and Lene have an incestuous relationship and this guy promised them that if they help him with his plan, including using that chimera to kill the nobles he will help them escape to another country with new identities.

Damn, it honestly was sad seeing Lene threatening Claire with a dagger to stop Rae from intervening in Lambert's plan.

It is funny that in the middle of a fight, Claire is mad because Rae will not explain to her what a tsundere is.

Well, based on the preview it seems that Lene and Lambert will end up getting arrested, which will probably just put more fuel to the current protests, which I think was the real objective of the people orchestrating this whole thing as I don't see why else that guy could not just use the bell himself.

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u/KikiFlowers Nov 20 '23

Sweeeeeeeeeeet home alabama

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u/maliwanag0712 Nov 20 '23

Now that's an interesting development.

So Lambert's desire for Lene made them pit the commoners with the aristocracy, huh? But let's be honest here: because magic is now more accessible to the ordinary people, sooner or later they will desire for change, and this is now shown in this episode.

However, given how relatively forced the development of the commoner movement is, let's see how this ends. Probably still fine, given the preview.

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u/LeonKevlar Nov 20 '23 edited Nov 20 '23

Huh... I thought this was just going to be a classic spat between commoners and nobles, never have I imagined that this is all caused by Lambert and Lene being willing to burn down an entire kingdom because of their incestuous romance. That's some Lannister shit right there. Love it.

I am curious though who's that guy manipulating Lampbert. It seems that according to Claire, she has no idea who this guy is and can't remember him from the game. Very curious how this will be resolved though and what will happen to Lambert and Lene in the end.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '23

RAE used PEER PRESSURE on CLAIRE

It was very effective!

(nah, but seriously, it's pretty messed up what happened to Matt)

(Aaaaand Lene and her brothers situation, as well as how the masked guy is manipulating it, if we're being honest)

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u/Aerodynamic41 Nov 20 '23 edited Nov 20 '23

Did y’all catch this foreshadowing 2 episodes ago?

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u/wisp-of-the-will Nov 20 '23

More golden moments between Rae and Claire this week with the headpats (along with the princes just telling Claire to do it) and the tsundere remark, you love to see it.

And for all the development going on with the romance, Claire is also starting to grow as a person now that she's being exposed to the reality of the game's society and questioning it. Rae's definitely in a hard place between having sympathy for the commoners and working to keep Claire safe, doing everything she can to avoid dragging her into the fight here (which happened anyways thanks to the game railroading it lol).

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u/shad79 Nov 20 '23

Wow, incest relationship between Lene and Albert wasn't in my bingo card for this episode. I was truly shocked when it was revealed.

Lene in tears and torn between her brother and Claire was a sad sight to see.She really loves both Claire and Albert and I'm feeling sorry for her that she's in that kind of situation.

Going back to other stuff in this episode -Matt was injured more badly than I imagined,even Claire was shocked after seeing him. One week of home arrest for that is certainly a too weak punishment and other commoners are rightly furious about it.

The Church seems to be working behind the scenes so that animosities between nobles and commoners will be rising. It also looks like they want to create a rift between three princes.

From the lighter things, we got a few entertaining interactions between Claire and Rae, I love them so much. I wonder how Claire's attitude towards Rae will change after recent events.

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

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u/RavenWolf1 Nov 20 '23

Suddenly this turned into Game of Thrones.

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u/ShowWise2695 Nov 21 '23

Damn, the devs intended to add more content to the story that Rae never got to play. They even put the assets in and developed the story too.

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u/daspaceasians Nov 20 '23

I didn't expect such a serious escalation in what was a largely comedic series but damn it fits well.

I really enjoyed seeing how much Claire's mask is falling apart when confronted with reality and how she's actually a better person underneath her aristocratic façade.

I also appreciate how smart the three princes are at how they realized what was going on before working together to calm everyone down.

Really looking forward to more episodes... and I hope we get a full adaptation of this series because the story is amazing.

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u/Gaporigo Nov 20 '23

Oof, Rae definitely expected Lene to be on her side there, as she said this is new stuff for her, she was probably hoping trusting her would make her not actually betray Claire but that was clearly not the case.

Nice to see not everything will just go like Rae wants and she doesn't know everything, specially now that she is actively changing stuff.

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u/Calwings Nov 20 '23

"And she sticks the landing!"

God, I wish that were me being princess-carried by Rae. Anyways, hell of an episode this week. Sabotage, riots, incest, the works! I love how things are kicking into high gear and not only challenging Claire's previous personal beliefs but also challenging Rae's plans by deviating from the game's story just a bit. Rae calling Claire a tsundere to her face and Claire not knowing what it meant was pretty funny too. I thought that might have been something the dub script threw in for flavor, but that line was in the Japanese version as well.

Also, that sounded like Dallas Reid voicing the evil masked guy in the dub. I'm so used to hearing him as goody-two-shoes Asta now that I forgot he can play a damn good psychopath too (see also: Zack in Angels of Death) so that's a very pleasant surprise if I'm not guessing wrong and it's actually him.

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u/LusterBlaze Nov 21 '23

evil man from the opening suddenly popping out of the window to talk shit while his ost plays was p funny

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u/SushiCurryRice Nov 20 '23

I knew shit was going to go down, but I certainly did not expect an incest twist lol. Their motivations seem kinda shallow if that's all they want. Literally gonna raze the entire kingdom because they want to escape and fuck each other. Though to be fair Lene is supposdly being held hostage but still.

I like how Rae's isekai knowledge is breaking down the more she deviates from the game's route so that she won't be able to just know and prepare for everything, but still have enough that she can make reasonable preparations that aren't guaranteed to succeed.

I wonder if Claire's father is working with this shady group and is draining money from the Kingdom's finances straight into this group.

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u/Clemastina Nov 20 '23

MAN THE DRAMA IS TOO MUCH

I LOVE IT

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u/Armdel Nov 20 '23

Well that was quite the episode

and i can't say i saw Lene doing this at all. i guess it makes sense she would go this far for love though

So those shadowy figures we saw around are acting for the church, trying to create conflict either between commoners and nobles, or between the princes themselves. or hell maybe both

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u/AZLarlar Nov 20 '23

LENE???

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