From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! ‒ Episode 10

Final week we had been promised a imperfect-dressing episode, and this installment’s title is
certainly “Dad Contaminated-attire” – but plenty of the doable gender non-conforming fun looks
to be postponed to subsequent time, when it appears to be just like the Student Council will to find in a play for
the college competition. That Grace’s so-far absent mother, Jacqueline Auvergne, modified into once
it sounds as if the one who instituted a “imperfect-dressing rule” for council participants, years wait on
when she modified into once Student Council President, suggests she will be able to be less of a rigid tyrant than
shall we ask.

While we’re merely teased with the eventual return of Jacqueline (whom Kenzaburo rightly
worries could most likely well scrutinize her daughter Grace’s most modern persona alternate), this episode is
extra fascinated by exploring pink-haired protagonist Anna Doll’s family background. As
a commoner, Anna has held onto a power inferiority advanced, eternally comparing
herself unfavorably to her noblility-originating pupil friends. When Kenzaburo/Grace
meets Anna’s mother, Grace straight recognizes that she is conscious of how to react to nobles
with out overt deference or anguish. Does this mean that more than most likely Anna’s mother is a secret
noble? Did she whisk away from a privileged lifestyles to marry her baker husband (who we never
straight survey this time)?

Per chance in the celebrated game’s story, the motive Anna could most likely well doubtlessly marry Prince Virgile
modified into once due to her secretly noble heritage? Kenzaburo battles between his innate
curiosity about Anna’s family and his want to appreciate their privateness, whereas conversely Anna
gushes to every particular person about how aesthetic her goal appropriate friend Grace is. Anna’s family already
is conscious of all about Grace on chronicle of she’s pretty worthy the predominant habitual theme of all her letters
home… And after a brief adventure where Grace and Anna combine their magic to rescue
a cat-boy stuck in a tree(!), your entire town is aesthetic with red sparkly
affection components for their “future queen” (as Anna prematurely dubs her).

A lot of the promised imperfect-dressing is confined merely to the characters’ fevered
imaginations, with Anna in particular excited by the view to be her cherished Grace in men’s
attire. We originate to find some amusing shots of what plenty of the male characters could most likely well survey recognize
if positioned in account for attire. Usually, this episode is basically setup for future events,
though. Even Bureaucrat to Villainess‘ transitional episodes are entertaining, nonetheless,
stuffed with daft humor and deep chop again cultural references – in explicit Kenzaburo’s lament
about PTA participants (in our world) banning kids from looking at reveals recognize Crayon Shin-
chan: “At any time when fresh suggestions slice up in our society, they most continuously appear to be
indecent or undignified on chronicle of we are able to no longer wait on nonetheless dispute them by present requirements.”

Kenzaburo’s innate decency and profound geekiness continue to propel him thru the
story with apparent ease – even his daughter, looking at his progress, shock if he’s additionally
more than most likely a member of the nobility… No, his important other explains, it be merely his a few years of
experience in a managerial role. I shock how worthy extra complicated lifestyles could most likely well turn out to be for him
once Grace’s mother appears to be like, and am I essentially the most easy one who thinks the recount can be building
her up because the creator of this phenomenal game-adjacent world? With easiest a few episodes
left, I anguish that this season could most likely well kill with out resolving these disparate vow threads. I could most likely well no longer bitch if we to find a 2d season of equally consistent quality, nonetheless.

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From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! is currently streaming on
HIDIVE on Thursdays.