Reborn Behind the Frames: The Villainess Animator's Studio Uprising!
HighInCoco
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Samantha Harris was an ambitious American animator chasing her dreams in Japan, where she worked tirelessly on the anime adaptation of a reverse harem otome game. But the relentless grind of deadlines, corporate crunch, and creative burnout finally took its toll-Samantha tragically died at her desk, stylus still in hand.
When she awoke, it wasn't in a hospital or the afterlife, but inside the very anime she was animating. To her horror she had been reborn as Selene Virellia, the infamous villainess of the story-a haughty rich girl hellbent on sabotaging the sweet, lovable heroine and marrying the game's ultimate prize: Lucien Thorne, the icy "King of Film" and untouchable media mogul.
But Selene-no, Sam-wants nothing to do with this tired, cliché-filled plot. With her memories fully intact and zero interest in playing the role of the petty antagonist, she gives the story a giant middle finger and sets out to change everything. Instead of chasing Lucien or bullying the heroine, Sam-Selene decides to exploit the world's biggest creative gap: the complete lack of high-quality animation and storytelling.
Armed with industry knowledge, stubborn determination, and the intellectual property of an entire universe's worth of iconic media, Selene begins recreating the classics-Studio Ghibli films, Disney musicals, Pixar hits, Western cartoons, even cult anime and cinematic masterpieces-one frame at a time. Selene uses her modern world advantage to shake the entertainment industry to its core.
As her groundbreaking studio rises in fame and fortune, the game's original cast-rivals, suitors, and Lucien himself-start getting pulled into her story. The villainess everyone expected to fall becomes the visionary rewriting the rules, turning a fluffy romance plot into a full-blown cultural revolution.
And if fate or romance tries to get in her way again?
She'll storyboard a better ending.
Warning: Some bad grammar.