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The Villainess Turns the Hourglass is a popular villainess revenge manhwa that follows the protagonist Aria Roscente, after she is nearly executed for her bullying of her sister Mielle Roscente. It is revealed in the moments before her death that Mielle planned her sister’s demise, and set Aria up to be the villain by antagonizing and manipulating her. As the axe swings down, Aria wishes for a chance to come back and do her life over again, and is granted it.
The Villainess Turns the Hourglass Wasted the Most Compelling Premise The Protagonist's Victories Feel Too Easy To Be Compelling Close Though the story attempts to frame Aria as an underdog, and a commoner struggling to survive among nobility, it largely undermines its own effort by keeping the stakes low, with the primary antagonist Mielle being naive and childish in her efforts. It makes Aria’s victories feel too easy and unearned to be compelling.
Furthermore, while the story attempts to frame Aria as a victim, it also blatantly acknowledges that she did the things she was accused of in her past life of her own will. She may have been poked and prodded at to instigate her behavior, but she still succumbed and was cruel to her sister, and at one point offhandedly remembers she ripped out her maid’s tongue in her previous life.
Poor Development of the Main Character Undermined the Story There could have been something of substance here, had the right plot paths been taken. In a genre that has become known for its subversiveness, this eventually fell flat.
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