The Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou (I’m in Love with the Villainess/私の推しは悪役令嬢。) light novel series by Inori and Hanagata will get a sequel novel series titled Furimukinasai, Watakushi ni! (Turn Your Gaze Toward Me!/振り向きなさい、わたくしに！).
The first novel in the new series will be released digitally on January 26th, 2026, and it will be written by Inori and illustrated by Hanagata. The novel focuses on Rae and Claire’s daughter Aleah.
Author Inori started the original story in January 2018 on the Shousetsuka ni narou website, and GL Bunko published the first novel digitally in February 2019. The fifth and final novel was released in August 2021.
The Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou novels were adapted into an ongoing manga by Aono Shimo in June 2020 on Ichijinsha’s Comic Yuri Himo magazine. Ichinjisha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in December 2020 and its 11th volume in October 2025.
Seven Seas Entertainment releases the novel series and the manga adaptation in English under the name I’m in Love with the Villainess, and it describes the novel’s story below:
“Ordinary office worker Ohashi Rei wakes up in the body of the protagonist of her favourite otome game, Revolution. To her delight, the first person to greet her is also her favourite character, Claire Francois—the main antagonist of the story! Now, Rei is determined to romance Claire instead of the game’s male leads. But how will her villainous ladylove react to this new courtship?!”
The novel series was also adapted into a TV anime, which premiered in October 2023. All 12 episodes of the anime can be streamed on the Crunchyroll website under the name I’m in Love with the Villainess.
Inori and Hanagata also created a novel spinoff series, titled Heimin no Kuse ni Namaikina! (I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner/平民のくせに生意気な！), GL Bunko released the series’s first novel in February 2022 and the third and final novel in September 2023. The spinoff series can also be found in English on the Seven Seas Entertainment website.
