Tired of toxic, braindead, overzealous male leads with their questionable motives? Are you tired of male leads that just have one thing in mind, to cancel the female lead? Are you tired of dumb and often times cringe-y characters that makes side-characters with 1 panel appearances feel smarter? Well then, this article is all for you! While it is true that dumb and toxic male leads are somewhat uncommon in the Japanese manga sphere, and is like a staple on the Korean manhwa way of life, there are quite a few Mangas out there that somewhat nail it right. Therefore, we've read through literally every villainess manga in existence, both translated and completely untranslated, and picked our top three mangas where the male lead is quite normal and sweet. And obviously none of the characteristics mentioned on the starting of this paragraph. We've also left out the mangas where the male leads are overly obsessed with the female lead, which, while enjoyable to some, the "overly obsessed" characteristic isn't in favor of a lot of people's palates. Therefore, we present you, the top three villainess mangas where the male leads are pretty normal, and sweet!
Previously, I Used to be a Disqualified Daughter of the Duke
The first manga on our list. The protagonist of this manga, Claire, was forced to flee her country when her little sister framed her of abusing her out of jealousy and annulled her engagement, thereby ruining Claire's reputation in the noble sphere. Claire, not wanting to be put under "unofficial house arrest" by her father, decided to flee her country and start a new life. While doing so, she met some strangers along the way and started settling down on her new life in the new kingdom. The relationship between the two are on the mutual taking-care-of each other side. The male lead of this manga is Vick, and he helps our protagonist along her journey. From helping her on traveling and eventually settling down on the new kingdom, Vick helps her a lot! The relationship between Vick and Claire is quite heartwarming where mutual responsibility is highly emphasized. Vick always tries to help Claire in each and every way and Claire tries to make sure she isn't a burden to him. Once settled, Claire helps Vick in clearing up emergency after emergency, often times potentially life threating ones, and eventually the bond between themselves deepens. The manga offers a cast of likeable and supportive characters and they contribute to the richness of the story. While the manga does have some plot holes the author couldn't possibly fill on time, they are not story-shattering, so they wouldn't be affecting the readablility of the story a bit.
Since A Saintess is Coming From Another World, I, the Hindrance, Want to Disappear
The second manga on our list. Shortly before being married off to a distant land filled with miasma, she gets back her memories from her previous life and learns that she is a villainess of an otome game, and she will be executed by the crown prince in all of the routes. Not wanting to lose her life, she decides to try to avoid all interactions with the Crown Prince William and the Saintess Sara, so that when the execution flag comes, she can annul the engagement peacefully and live as a commoner selling medicine. But it seems fate is, heavily deviating her from her plan!?
This manga's male lead falls somewhat into the doting side, where the male lead dotes on the female lead, and the female lead doesn't hold much romantic value for the male lead. William is, quite good at pick-up lines and won't fail to startle our protagonist Felicia in the process. The manga is full of comedy, much of which stems from Felicia's reactions to William's pick-up lines. The protagonist Felicia is very kind, understandable and heartwarming, making her easily resonate with the readers. Even though trying to avoid interacting with the Saintess Sara, she becomes friends with her as Sara and Felicia's hobbies align, and Felicia being able to interact with Sara easily as she has her memories from her previous life and she can freely talk to her all without revealing that she was once from Japan. The manga is an absolute treasure trove of deep world building and likeable characters, but sadly as of writing this article, the manga only has 2 chapters released as translations. And none of the English publishers have picked up this manga yet, so you will have to resort to the Syosetu web novel if you want to read the story beyond Chapter 2. The web novel is free and machine translations seem readable which is what I had to do because the two chapters had me captivated lmao, too captivated in fact and this remains my most favorite villainess manga of all time for its deep lore building, cast of likeable characters, William's clever pick-up lines, and of course, Felicia's cute reactions! If I had to choose between which one to read among these two, I'd 100% pick this one as this manga is overly perfect in every single way.
There you have it. I've only covered two mangas in this article, both of which are underrated, so I hope you'll enjoy reading them. Also, do consider bookmarking this website if my line of covering villainess manga topics interest you, as we usually do not rank on Google search, so if we've covered a niche topic already, it'd be next to impossible to find about it using Google search. See you on the next article!
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