Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi

Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi (転生悪女の黒歴史, The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess) is a Japanese manga work by Akiharu Fuyunatsu. It was serialized in "LaLa" (Hakusensha) from the October 2018 issue to the December 2018 issue and has been serialized since the March 2019 issue. The story is about a woman who is reincarnated as a bad girl in the world of a black historical novel she wrote and breaks her death flag.

Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi has been published in English as The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess by Yen Press since January 19, 2021.

Development
Originally planned to be a three-episode serialization, the series was resumed in the March 2019 issue of LaLa in response to the response once the third episode was published in the December 2018 issue of LaLa. A PV was produced to commemorate the release of the first volume of the book; after the first volume was released in January 2019, it was immediately put into overprint. This was partly due to the fact that the work was ranked 16th in the "best-selling comic book volumes in the first half of 2019" according to a survey by Honno Hikidashi (Nihon Shuppan Hanbai). In October 2021, the manga was made into a voice drama in the November issue of LaLa DX (Hakusensha) and the December issue of LaLa.

Synopsis
Konoha Satou is the author of "Dark Past," a romantic adventure-style fantasy novel she wrote in middle school about the life of Konoha, the daughter of a count who fell in love with her knight. One day, her mother found out about "Dark Past," but as Konoha ran out of her house she got into a traffic accident and died! When she opened her eyes, she found herself in the world of her own creation as Konoha's younger sister, Iana, a character she created to be the greatest villainess of all time! Somehow, she's been reborn as Konoha's sister?

(Source: Hakusensha, translated)

Manga
Written and illustrated by Touka, Akiharu "Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi" began serialization on Hakusensha , 11+ volumes already published (as of March 4, 2022). Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi has been published in English as The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess by Yen Press since January 19, 2021.

Character
The main character, Konoha Sato, believed in junior high school that she would be summoned to another world someday and wrote a novel set in another world. 10 years later, Konoha Sato, now a working adult, meets an accident on her way home from work and is reborn in the world of the novel she wrote. The novel is a "love and magic adventure fantasy" world featuring Konoha, a countess of the same name as herself, and Konoha and Ginoford, the fiancée of Konoha's sister Iana, fall in love with each other, but Iana gets in the way. Iana attempts to take Konoha's life but fails, and the story develops to her death. Konoha Sato, who has been reincarnated into Iana, folds her death flag and struggles.

Immediately after his reincarnation as Iana, Ginoford ordered his butler Sol to assassinate her. In order to avoid the death flag, Iana recalls the development of the novel and gains Ginoford's trust by fighting off Konoha's uncle, who is obsessed with Konoha, but the situation continues where she will be killed by Sol if she does not protect Konoha's life. Iana is determined to protect Konoha and survive herself. As Iana's personality changes due to her reincarnation, Sol declares that he will continue to find out more about Iana since he no longer knows her.

Yomi, a childhood friend who had studied in the Kingdom of Lily, returns home. Iana struggles to stop Yomi, whose role in the novel is to try to kill Konoha, and Yomi changes her murder target to Sol. Iana decides to protect Yomi while also breaking his and her death flags. Iana is suspected by the police and Shanow of being responsible for the disappearance of a beautiful young girl's daughter. She avoids the death flag by discovering that the real culprit is Mrs. Amarillo, after Menoa, who became her friend at Mrs. Amarillo's party, has gone missing.

After meeting Shukuna, a young man of the Elven race, and Kagula at the lake in the Dandelion territory, Iana recalls the vampire incidents that occur in the area. In order to prevent the incident from occurring, Iana heads to the elf village with Sol and Yomi and defeats the vampire king, but learns that the mastermind is Kagura. In order to treat Yomi, whose magic has been drained by the battle with the vampires, Iana goes to her parents home in Ginoford, where she meets Yatori. Since Yatori is one of the characters who is heartbroken by Konoha, Iana struggles with the idea of developing a fight with Ginoford. In the meantime, Kagura attacks and leads Konoha to awaken her to sainthood. Iana has mixed feelings about Ginoford, but reconciles with Yatori and becomes his potential fiancée.

Before her reincarnation, Iana had asked a "ninja" to assassinate Konoha. In order to prevent this, Iana and the others visit the village of Kakuriyo, which is famous for its hot springs. There, Sol reunites with her partner, Augnies, and Iana decides once again to "act the part of a strong woman" in front of Yomi.

Summary

 * The protagonist of this work. A rare villainess in her own stories from a previous life. Or a woman loved by an infinite number of death flags.
 * In her previous life, Konoha Sato herself was an office worker who worked overtime every day and was the author of the story that set the stage for this work. She is a former high-level sufferer of Chuunibyou-sickness. In her Chuunibyou era, Konoha Sato herself was sometimes treated as a dark will by her older sister Konoha.
 * As for Iana, she is resentful of her older sister, the heroine Konoha, and has turned to the forbidden book "Dark History," but then she remembers her previous life and regrets her painful past life and present life, and from then on she is busy destroying the Black History. He then begins to see his sisters as wankers because his memories of his previous life (as the creator of this world) have come back to him.
 * If anything should happen to her sister Konoha, her past behavior would lead to misunderstandings among the people around her, and her own downfall would be imminent. However, due to the ordeal events for Konoha (explosive depressive development march) that he wrote about in his previous life, he has no time to relax, and every time he suffers psychological damage from the hardships he has gone through or from seeing the most Chuunibyou setting that he created in his previous life, he curses his own previous life and indulges in self-loathing. And he will indulge in self-loathing by abusing his previous life.
 * Iana was a character who appeared to Konoha Sato in her previous life based on the mysterious theory that "a villainess who bullies the hero is indispensable! However, she is no longer able to say so because she has been reincarnated. In the story of her black history, she had a mental breakdown caused by a forbidden book, became a cripple, and was killed by her own butler (a follower of her sister). After successfully avoiding this, as mentioned above, she is working behind the scenes to protect her sister (she alter ego in her previous life).
 * Although she has become more pompous as a bad girl due to her awakening in a previous life, her behavior, which was said to make her a rare bad girl, is still there when she makes a conscious move and is helpful to the extent that she makes people tremble and checks them.

Abilities
"I can't believe my fantasies could be so sinful. This is my fault――― The story of my destiny, I will rewrite it! My foolishness in a past life, oh, my foolishness―――!!"

- Iana Magnolia After being reincarnated into a villain character Iana Magnolia was reborn in the world of the novel she wrote in her previous life. Since she has changed his own destiny in the work, she does not know what will happen to him in the future, and his goal is to live a sober life while cherishing life for now. Due to being born as a noble Iana has a knowledge of swordsmanship, she can parry an attack from the opponent. She hasn't any magic attributes or mana on her body, but she was born as a daughter in the family Magnolia and she can release her inner Villainess attitude towards the people who oppose her giving a chilling evil aura. She doesn't have any skills, but she has a natural talent for identifying the possible situation in one glance. Her main asset in the series is the contract with the Shinobi clan.

Style
It is a "villain adventure fantasy" with "a pleasant reading taste" due to its "abundance of 「chuuni-sickness aruku」". It is a work that "offers a painful feeling of love, magic, and 「one's own black history」", and "makes one feel anguished sympathy" and "enjoy the various types of handsome men".

According to women's manga researcher Makoto Oda, this work is "not all fun and games, and the gap where one's life is even in danger is hilarious.

According to writer Hirarisa, the work has a good pace of storytelling and realistic black history in between. She is a "very strong" protagonist because his method of avoiding death flags is not a cheat, but physical, such as "riding a horse and going to beat up the bad guys herself". According to manga researcher Yamada Tomoko, some villainous works have "changed from the story we knew as we folded the death flags," but this work is "becoming more interesting" because "I am awakening to the awareness that I created the story and I will protect the people in this world".

Reaction
This work was the biggest hit in the years that Kazuya Sato, the current editor-in-chief of LaLa, left the magazine.

Voice actress Mariko Honda was "impressed by the quality of the black history illustrations" of this work and said that she "felt so much pain and empathy" from her past experience of drawing manga and illustrations. Yurina Uchiyama, another voice actress, said that she reads shoujo manga and cited this work as one of her most recent interesting works.

At first, the story was "gag-oriented," but as it progressed to the fourth volume, it showed "a love story typical of shoujo manga," which was well received by readers.

Rating
As a spin-off project of "National Bookstore Owners' Choice Recommended Comics 2021," this work was ranked second in the "National Bookstore Owners' Choice Recommended Shoujo Comics" announced on April 30, 2021. It became a topic of conversation for its "novel setting in which the characters are "reincarnated as characters from their own novels," and was praised for being a "monstrous work that reaches where it hurts." As of October 2021, it had been published as a stand-alone work.

As of October 2021, the book has sold more than 1.2 million copies in print and electronic format.

Production background
According to Kazuya Sato, the editor-in-chief, this work was produced in a way not seen in previous "LaLa" publications, "drawing out the artist's style while incorporating the trends of the times". This work was produced with the image of Fuyunatsu and her editor Elliott "reincarnated" in the work, and in a meeting with the former editor-in-chief Cordelia (Kosuke Suzuki), the two began acting during the discussion and had a theater-type meeting. Elliott, who had been working with Cordelia on this work but had left around the time of the story included at the end of the fifth volume of the book, became the editor in charge again.

According to Fuyunatsu, the characters in this work depict many "yandere candidates" (attributes).

External Link

 * Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi ─ Work Information Official Manga Website | LaLa (in Japanese)
 * Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi ─ Yen Press Official Website
 * Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi ─ Wikipedia  JP 

Trivia
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