(Average+) My Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

Series in one sentence:
A girl fakes interest in people so she won't die.

Series in more sentences:
A high school girl dies and reawakens in the young body of a video game villain from a dating simulator she's played in real life. When she remembers the future of this character can only be death or exile, she tries her best to show kindness to the characters around her and hopefully change her grim fate that way.

She ends up charming everyone she speaks to, who fawn over the oblivious girl years later.

The first three episodes are rushed in the relationship building department and that made me worry for the rest. If a studio only has a contract for a few episodes and a village of people to introduce, understandable, but I still think the series fell short as a whole.

The majority of the love interests hardly got the screen time necessary to turn them into a person we -or the main character- should consider. They tend to have their "own episode", but in every other episode you usually see them standing around and uttering maybe three lines of dialogue in total.
Every time we focus on the development of a character, all other (still underdeveloped) characters are shoved aside even more.. and this featured character will still be bare bones, because they'll hardly be on screen in the episodes that follow afterwards. 
 
The main character isn't much better. Her blindness for the facts, including that the people she befriended are obviously not going to kill her anymore, started to annoy me a little the longer it went on. There's no reason for a character to be this dumb, shit me.

Would've loved to give this show a good rating, it has potential and managed to entertain me for the most part, but the storylines it focused on weren't always that great. The one with the magic book was absolutely pointless.
To give every love interest their own full episode is good, but it should've had the earlier introduced love interests butting in all the time; don't make them forgotten characters.
As the show is now, it doesn't feel like the main character has met up with them all that often, the show just asks us to believe they did.

The whole magic aspect in this was pointless as well. There are enough instances where it makes an appearance, I guess, but all plots that revolve around it could've been replaced with normal trickery or a human problem and have the same results.

Anyway, despite my criticism, I think most people will find this a nice watch.