I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s So Cheeky for a Commoner (Novel) Vol. 01

I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s So Cheeky for a Commoner Novel Vol. 01

A retelling of the hit yuri series I’m in Love with the Villainess that inspired an upcoming anime (original light novels and manga adaptation also from Seven Seas)—from the villainess’ point of view!

Claire François has it all: beauty, brains, and the blood of nobility. As the daughter of a high-ranking noble, she takes her status and the according responsibilities with utmost seriousness—even as the king threatens to undermine his realm’s stability with his visions of “meritocracy.” Claire is nevertheless prepared to take this societal change in stride, until one of the new commoner students at her elite academy, Rae Taylor, turns her life upside down. Everything about Rae confounds Claire, from her behavior to her intellect to her bizarre fixation on Claire herself. Little does she realize just how much Rae will change her world, and how much she’ll change Rae in turn.

Biographical Notes:

Inori is a novelist known for I’m in Love with the Villainess.

Hanagata is an artist in Japan known for the illustrations in the light novel series I’m in Love with the Villainess and the spin-off She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner.

Title Notes:

ANIME ADAPTATION OF ORIGINAL LIGHT NOVELS: announced December 2022, scheduled to premiere in 2023.

Seven Seas is putting out the original light novel series (a critical and commercial hit), the manga adaptation, and the She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner spin-off novel series.

Perfect for fans of Bloom Into you and I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up, featuring romance between women.

Popular Genres yuri, LGBT+, isekai, fantasy, comedy, academy setting, commoner/noble drama, conspiracies.

Fiction with color inserts in the front of each volume and roughly a dozen black-and-white manga-style illustrations to complement 250-350 pages of text.

This Adult title has crossover appeal with YA audiences (rated Teen 13+).

SERIES INFO: Series length is unknown, with a planned pub every 7 months or whenever a new volume is released in Japan.

More details on Inori & Hanagata:

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