Akuyaku Reijou no Naka no Hito

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Emi Kobayashi, an ordinary girl who loves otome games, wakes up and finds herself as Remilia, the villainess of the otome-game app "The Star Maiden and the Knight of Salvation." Emi scrambles to avert the destruction of the world and her own downfall!

In spite of her efforts, the heroine of the Star Maiden, who is also a reincarnated person, strikes at her, and Emi is accused of trying to kill the heroine in addition to breaking the engagement. Instead of Emi, who lost consciousness due to the shock, Remilia, who was watching over her from inside, wakes up and takes revenge on the heroine and her former fiancé, the second prince, who hurt the lovely Emi.

Note: As of June 2025, the volume 6 extras have yet to be scanlated.

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Manga

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Associated Names

Akuyaku Reijou no Naka no Hito ~Danzai sareta Tenseisha no Tame Usotsuki Heroine ni Fukushuu Itashimasu~

La persona dentro de la villana

The One Within the Villainess

Та, що всередині лиходійки

恶役千金的真面目～为被定罪的转生者向骗子女主报复～

悪役令嬢の中の人～断罪された転生者のため嘘つきヒロインに復讐いたします～

惡役千金的真面目～為被定罪的轉生者向騙子女主報復～

악역 영애 안의 사람

Groups Scanlating

Baddies' Asylum

Laid Back

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c.28 (end) by Baddies' Asylum 1 month ago

c.27 by Baddies' Asylum 3 months ago

c.26 by Baddies' Asylum 4 months ago

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Status in Country of Origin

6 Volumes (Compete)

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Average: 8.8 / 10.0 (253 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.54 / 10.0

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Last Updated

June 29th, 2025 5:40am PDT - 2 weeks ago

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Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Romance School Life Shoujo
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Sora no Otome to Hikari no Ouji

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Author(s)

Makiburo

Artist(s)

SHIRAUME Nazuna

Year

2021

Original Publisher

Ichijinsha

Serialized In (magazine)

Comic Pool (Ichijinsha)

comic LAKE (Ichijinsha)

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3 Month Pos #421

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6 Month Pos #458

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Year Pos #465

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Great Story, but rushed

by Yummy3rtg
1 month ago

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Great Story but abit rushed poor world building and depth it had potential and only use like 30% of it not bad though

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MUH EMI

by 2j25
1 month ago

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10 out of 10

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Perfect balance of complex!

by energizerbunny
3 months ago

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A very well-written and well-drawn story in the villainess isekai genre! It gets below the shallow base story of many of these adaptations, and develops a gratifyingly complex main character and "lore" for the background that is JUST complex enough but NOT annoyingly epic, haha. No spoilers, but just wanted to add that the conclusion was satisfying as well.

I thoroughly enjoyed every chapter! Highly recommend. I read practically everything I can find in the isekai and villainess categories, and this is now one of my absolute favorites.

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The art and the drama

by jackalan
5 months ago

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Are the two things I recommend from this. I hope the artist will work on a horror or thriller series in the future because damnnn!

The villainess is OP, a flaw reflected in most other isekai series. The only redeeming trait is that she remains calculating, scheming, terrifying (or ugly depending on your take, I like how this applies to both her and the foolish heroine.)

The rest of the characters are mostly... one-dimensional. Of all, I think Thorne the businessman is more entertaining, as well as the supporting characters like Sofia the bodyguard and Klimt the vassal/younger brother of the demon king. (Mainly because they don't have a lot of detailed stories, none of the characters here anyway. Even the important fights are brushed over in a snap, so can't expect much.)

I feel bad for the transmigrator in Pina's body too. I mean, how old is she? It's kind of cruel how the writer makes her so unlikeable and unredeemable. The public/mob humiliation and condemnation too. Sure, an eye for an eye. But this country is seriously troubled if their royalty and vassals conduct themselves in such ways and manners.

With age and experience, I think, most readers will get the underlying reflections and messages of our world. But damn! It's elitist, capitalistic, conservative, racist and unoriginal. What the writer deems as forward and out-to-be are what have been done and some have been doomed. Again, this is a work of fiction, but pretty privilege and the concept of "aura" runs deep in entertainment business.

I dropped this ages ago. Somehow I got confused and read 4 volumes of this today. It is entertaining. The art is gorgeous (again, artist-san, please do a horror or thriller series). But the work balances itself with some ugliness as well. I'll finish it feeling some bits of enjoyment, the other bits of discomfort.

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Generic Villainess, BUT THAT ART

by Dragonfiremule
7 months ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

So I LOVE the isekai villainess genre. The story of this one is fairly generic, with the small twist. But since I love all the villainess tropes, thats all good to me! Haha. What really makes this one stand out is the ART. THE ART is soooooooo beautiful. Stunning. Immaculate. I just CANT. 10/10, read if only for the art.

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Quite enterteining

by PZcolo
9 months ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

This one is quite good, it yet another classic isekai+revenge trope, but with a twist since the transmigrated person fails and in the moment of her mental breakdown the original villainess returns to pick the reins with all the knowledge of her other self.
There are 23ch out so far, the story is kinda weird for the first half of those, in which the MC goes on a world saving quest, the way this part plays out is sort of disconnected, the second is more centered on the revenge. Here the MC's "twisted" personality seeps through every now and then, and its done in a way that it's mostly funny, I like the FL. As for the ML, he's rather unremarkable and more of a secondary char given how much he appears.
The main gripe would be how dumb and cartoonish the antagonist is.
Regardless, it's a fun read, it's not the best in the genre but better than most similar stories. It reminds me quite a bit to Koushaku Reijou no Tashinami, but less serious and a more sadistic (with those who wronged her) FL.

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Generic revenge power fantasy with a villainess coat of paint

by MichaelAtlas
2 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

To give you an idea of how generic this is by the end of the first chapter our reincarnated japanese person isekai protagonist has : Cheat "limitless magical potential skill" no one else has; Discovers OP training method; Hunts hordes of monsters as a child to power up even more; MCs soul is described as beautiful and "naturally good"; Inspires and unknowingly seduces cousin who now admires MC; Inspires and unknowingly seduces tough bad-boy son of knight family who now admires MC; Inspires and unknowingly seduces child of palace mage sensitive guy musician mage; Inspires and obviously also unknowingly seduces the crown prince as well cause why not; Everyone constantly talks about how strong she is and how her heart is purer than everybody; Cures an epidemic; Invents stoves; Invents modern cosmetic products; In typical harem fashion doesn't know everyone secretly loves and admires and looks up to her because she's just the best at everything ALL DURING CHAPTER 1. If it sounds like you've heard all of this 100 times already it's because it's the same thing as every shounen isekai reincarnation harem story and about half of every shoujo or seinen isekai reincarnation.

Of course, being generic doesn't mean it's bad. Plenty of those series are actually good because instead of focusing on the just the protagonist they focus on comedy or relationships or plot or just anything other than the protagonist because overexposure to a character like that makes things boring if taken too seriously.

Here instead of doing any of that they pivot into the generic revenge power fantasy. And they don't even execute that properly ... most of the characters the MC is taking "revenge" against are literal mind-control drug victims instead of people who are actually evil and deserve it ...

The side characters are many, boring and their stories make little sense within the context of the world. That said the primary antagonist starts off with some really comedic scenes that really make you hate her (in a really good way, like you should hate the antagonist of a revenge fantasy).

The protagonist is generally enjoyable as a character for a while but her big picture plan is dumber and dumber the more you read and it kept making me ask "If you knew this already then why on earth did you do X before this chapter instead of Y". And while she is enjoyable as a character she is always the character everything is focused on and because she takes up all the focus everyone else ends up looking like background decoration.

The art has some amazing pages and some really lazy pages but all the panels that really matter look great. (So long as you can ignore some super lazy digital copy and pasting of backgrounds, which I don't mind)

If you're here for "romance": skip this manga. There's just a few pages of romance, and the romantic interests are just the generic characters you'd find in any harem.

If you're here for "fantasy": skip this manga. The fantasy elements are dumb and contrived.

If you're here cause you love "revenge fantasies" and have already read the few good ones then this one is definitely above average so might be a great choice for you if you don't mind a lot of the revenge targets being mind control victims.

If you're here because you just want a good story and good characters avoid this manga because almost every story arc makes the previous story arc not make sense and the characters outside of the main protagonist and antagonist are not really explored that much and when they are explored it's just generic "revenge fantasy filler character #537"

Personally I was here cause I was in the mood for some good "Villainess" stuff and this didn't work for me at all. I might give it another go when I'm in the mood for a revenge fantasy but the revenge targets being mind control victims is putting me off from it.

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SO GOOD

by mewsoik
2 years ago

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OTHER THAN THE ART THAT IS JUST SOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL… THE PLOT?!??! i’ve read a ton of japanese villainess-turned-female lead but i’ve never read something like this. the plot kept me so intrigued and invested… really want there to be a license!! in love with the og remilia and emi🥹🫶🏻

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If you love "villainess" and onee-sama girlboss protags series add 2 to my score, if you are ambivalent towards it -2

by Lokin
2 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

It has this pat in the back vibes. Not really "villainess" "villainess" like most of the villainess series, it's mostly just a comfy read like Chicken Soup for the Soul. Like all these epic poems where Oh, Hero (the "villainess" here) will Vanquish the Villain. There's not a lot of plot twists, it's just easy to read but might lack "interesting" for some people and become a boredom read if you don't simp nor empathize with the protagonist. It's not for everyone. If you can't vibe for you, it might become a snooze fest because of the wordiness (I recommended it to a dudebro and bro was crying about why the intro is so long why there's no action 😅)

This series is quite good at dressing scenes as if it's coming from a fairytale. When it works for you, it really entrances you. It's just vibing very well like these 3D princess movies (and somehow got Shrek vibes too...)

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MOTHER F U KIN G AMAZI G

by Quiggie
2 years ago

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I LITERALLY MADE AN ACOCUNT JUAT TO SAY HOW AMAZING THIS MANGA IS

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. DELICIOUS. THE ART THE STORY. THE LOVE. ALL OF IT. EVERYTHING. READ IT. ITS DELICIOUS

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