WORST TROPES IN WEBTOONS 

If I had a nickel for every webtoon I read about a young orphan girl adopted into a noble family to replace their dead daughter only to be harassed and abused by her new family until they eventually kill her resulting in her regressing to the midpoint in her relationship with that family and allowing her to change the future while also uncovering her magical abilities and pursuing a dark haired love interest, I'd have two nickels. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but I need you to understand that I have seen that exact plotline used twice and variations from it used dozens of times and I've read all of them because I have a crippling shoujo manga addiction.

You should be really proud of yourself for getting your book physically released!

I actually read a villainess isekai that I absolutely LOVED. The main character was pretty much a normal person and the story was kinda her realizing that most of the love interests for the heroine are either creepy, toxic or both. And the best part was she forced the male leads to take accountability for their behavior and SHE DOESN'T FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM but instead finds her own love interest that wasnt even a part of the 'original plot'. I really liked it since it was pretty funny, interesting and sweet. Its called Beware the Villainess and its so good.

I got so tired of the intense unwarranted bullying in many webtoons featuring high school 😭 It may be a cultural thing because I noticed this in a lot of Korean webcomics? But I got really tired of this in unOrdinary. There’s no justification for the bullies to go to the lengths they do.

I love how you hate the "Reborn as a Villainess" script but still put lot of work into making the drawing lol But for the micro-transactions, I get what you mean : this is why I buy books, after all ! Imagine having to pay for each page separately... ugh...

I actually liked the "dead protagonist reborn again" trope in "marry my husband", simply because it's not isekai, it's a slice of life comic of a woman relieving her life and trying to make the most of it... By getting revenge on her backstabbing friend by making her marry her abusive husband...

This isn’t really a trope, but a common thing I’ve noticed in webtoons that really annoys me is words in asterisks for actions that are already happening on screen. Words like hug, shove, kiss, etc. It completely takes me out of the moment. Like, you’re already drawing the action! I can tell that the characters are hugging because you drew that!

"off-brand europe" is now my favorite way of describing every isekai world ever

I want to see an isekai webcomic that has a woman in an abusive relationship get transported to a world that has nothing to do with any media she has consumed, and then she sort of learns to live there over time and has to deal with her trauma. No random spontaneous love interest bs. Only a love interest if they’re completely non toxic and help her learn to love herself

accidentally pre-ordered your book twice, but I'm not complaining lol 😎

the "vilainess" trope is my guilty pleasure, I've read so many of thwm but I'll always read a new one bc I love it 🤷‍♀️

for the scroll style pet peeve i've been reading Marionetta which i feel is really using the scroll format with some really nice panels and backgrounds! It so refreshing because unlike a lot of webtoons now that use pre-made assets (not hating on them , i understand the time constraints :,) ) Marionetta's backgrounds are all hand drawn and colored by a colorist and it's from the same author who wrote Hooky!

lavendertowne's voice is so soothing that i could listen to her talk about the most gruesome murder and i'd just be like "aww, thats sweet"

I really like the scroll comics. I know they can be done lazily but there is also a lot of potential for creativity with real world timing and pacing with reveals. I’ve seen some really awesome examples. I think both formats are great but I do find the page layout strains my eyes when there is a lot of text.

I would love it if you did worst tropes in Cartoon Network shows

I think a lot of these tropes you mentioned that seem kind of "lazy" are due to the sheer amount of work artists have to do to get webttons frequently updated. But I definitely agree with a lot of these.

Honestly, i love the villainess isekai. It might be because im autistic, but i don't like re-reading things, and i love reading several stories with similar plots. It's cool if other people aren't into it, but i personally love having access to so much media with very specific tropes. I'm the kind of person to replay a song until i get sick of it, a problem i can solve by finding similar songs so i can obsess over them all at the same time, similarly to reading several of the same plot stories at once. Also, i love your "actual war criminal" drawing.

A great different take on the reborn into a novel trope is The Greatest Estate Developer! I haven't read it in a while so I don't know if it got bad or anything, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It hardly had any romance, and the main character was quite the jerk not gonna lie, but it was refreshing. It plays more out like a video game, with him needing to earn people's respect to become better at his job

I think a webcomic that does the whole "scrolling, dispersed text bubbles, made for phones" style is Heaven Official's Blessing. Spreading the text over multiple panels adds a sense of anticipation, but the art is so detailed and beautiful that there's so much to look at that it doesn't become boring. Edit: the only issue is that it's hosted on a platform that does micro transactions. Technically they aren't required, but if you don't pay you have to wait an incrementally longer period of time to read the next episode. (1 minute, 1 hour, 6 hours, 12 hrs, 24 hrs, then it repeats). It's really irritating, especially when you're waiting for the next update and then you have to wait an additional few hours to actually read the newly released episode

There's a super long history to the villainess isekai, but Colleen's Manga Recs here on RU-vid has a great video explaining it from its origins and first appearances!

Yo, artist of a (currently unpublished) webtoon here. Webtoon follows vertical scroll format, and I wanted to elaborate on how vertical scroll can be used. I understand how it can feel slow and generally uninteresting if done that way, but if the artist knows what they’re doing, it can be an amazing tool. Panels and scroll are both equally good, but for different reasons. Some of the things I like about scroll is, like you said, the pacing- personally, I think it’s more immersive. More than that though, I think the scroll does an amazing job of communicating movement. If done right, panels can almost have an animated feel. Just wanted to give you a different perspective :) love your videos!

My favorite manga/webtoon rn is 'Villains are destined to die', both because of the GORGEOUS AND UNIQUE artstyle, and because of the plot and especially character growth. The protagonjst isn't ur usual nice girl trying to correct the character's reputation, but she's actually been through a lot irl and her view of the world is extremely cynical

10:11 Another thing about this that I feel is frustrating is the fact that before the excessive microtransactions, people could leave top comments at the end of the latest chapter and people in the audience could actively give their input on that chapter as if in real time. Meanwhile now, you may scroll down to the top comments and most of them are just comments from weeks or months prior about how they used their coins. It distracts from the interactive experience that weekly comics have between the readers and the author. It becomes less about the story and more about the microtransactions.

I believe “who made me princess” is the first “villainess Isekai” I’m not sure but I read it so long ago. Also the art style is gorgeous and I think it’s a bit different from the others lol. 😭

Totally agree on all of these. I do enjoy some of those reborn-isekai or I-died-and-get-to-start-over-again stories but they're definitely SUPER oversaturated, which wouldn't be so exhausting if they didn't feel like regurgitated stories with slightly different characters. Some of them are really good and have actual interesting plot hooks (Empress' Lipstick and Long After The Ending are REALLY good for this) but too many of them are frustratingly similar to each other. I do wish some webtoon creators wouldn't space out their comics so much with unnecessary panels for JUST ONE WORD BUBBLE but I'm not super pressed about it. I definitely prefer the new vertical scrolling style in a lot of aspects because of the formatting of the app. Page-style makes it impossible to read or see details, so at least for Webtoon and other similar apps' formatting, the vertical just makes more sense and makes it easier for me to appreciate the art.

Webtoon and Lavendertowne, two of my favourite things. Can’t wait to watch this!!

9:10 this whole issue was me when I was trying to read Not an angel. This webtoon's audience massively dropped because of the daily passes AND webtoon decided to make a pay wall on the last three chapters toward the end?? It felt so unfair when I couldn't read what happens next and I had to skip those episodes to see what happens in the epilogue instead(which was free). I feel bad for the series 😭

It’s honestly why I’ve stopped using webtoon so much. I used to be obsessed with webtoon and would read so many comics religiously but the repetitive nature of so many of them eventually drove me crazy. The only ones that keep me coming back every other week at the moment are I love yoo, purple hyacinth, seasons of blossom, and horror type ones like homesick, stagtown, anything carnby Kim, and not even bones.

I think the worst part about microtransation web-comics is that it encourages the story to be as drawn out as possible in order to milk out as much money as possible.

My favorites on webtoon of this genre are remarried empress(not an exact clone but def similar vibes) and death is the only end for the villainess. The latter especially, because she violently dislikes most of the romantic leads, but the way the world works is they'll literally kill her if she doesn't find ways to protect, defend, seduce, and so on. nice lil subversion and the art styles pretty. Oh and congrats on the physical book!

One of my biggest pet peeves is when they use 3D models for a background, without styling it. I know why artists do this, it saves a lot of time, and it can help you figure out the perspective of an item at a weird angle. What I hate about it though is when the 3D model is changed at all, like the artist doesn’t draw over it or try to make it fit in with the rest of the art. It just sticks out, and it looks cheaper. It has always bugged me 😭

The isekai fl flood is both a curse and a blessing. There's so many that you can filter through the bad ones and find a good one and you'll never run out of stories. Unfortunately they overcrowd the webtoon spaces, so it makes searching the romance tag a bit tedious if you're not in the mood for it. A personal recommendation for a webcomic about a fl who died a few times prior and now has another chance at life: The Broken Ring : This Marriage Will Fail Anyway It's REALLY spicy though! Like seriously, they buckabang a lot. I mean it, this is smut territory. It's so damn well written though and I really like the pacing and paneling. The art is so beautiful and you can really feel the despair of the fl. I don't think there's many people talking about it either which is a shame.

The last two points really are not only disrespectful to the readers but also the artist, because, as you mentionned in the last one, they not only have to basically make every pages full of hype, but there's also the time "limit". I've seen so many tutorials on how to do webcomics *faster and smarter* to the point of being worrying. It's almost the same problems with mangakas and manga's magazines in the end. Crunch time and capitalism guide to faster and lazier results (also, I'm not pointing the finger at beginners, we all heavily used the basic tools in our art programm at some point lmao).

Reborn in another world as a villainess or whatevers webcomics are my guilty pleasure I fr be collecting them 👁👁 For anyone who does like them I recommend “Not Sew Wicked Step-mom” and “A Wicked Tale of Cinderella’s Stepmom” each being a sort of twist on Snow White and Cinderella respectively. They are literally so well written like oh my gosh I’m enjoying both so much it’s not even funny and I’m just abusing this opportunity to gush about em. IF YOU READ THEM COME BACK AND TALK TO ME ABOUT THEM IM

I actually like the webtoons/scroll layout tbh. It's much more dynamic, less tiring for the eyes (if that makes sense). And it's easier to keep consistency when drawing it.

11:05 I believe the word is 'capitalist', that's what most of the popular social platforms are going through.

Omg! I was planning on making a webtoon, but i eventually caved and decided to just write a book instead, and i couldn't figure out why it was so hard for me. As it turns out, i HATE drawing in a scroll format. I prefer the page format, but i also would have no clue how to properly promote it and i had also planned on getting it printed one day. Self publishing a book just seems a lot easier for me rn lol, although i might adapt it into a comic one day

I think “Rewriting the Villainess” is a good comic with the villainess trope, also for the scrolling thing, the webtoon “SOULWINDER” made a really good use of the scrolling for chapter 39. I think if used in the right way it can make really interesting transitions that can’t be made on a standard comic. (Not saying it’s better, I just think they’re two different layouts lol)

2:00 “Taming the tyrant” is an actual webtoon and it’s actually very interesting (not an isekai tho the mc does go back in time after being turned into a sword for 300 (500?) years, it gets quite dark at times)

My personnal pet peeve is when you see that every characters are obviously drawn using basic 3D model of CSP. Because of that everybody looks the same.

I’ve never spent money on Webtoon. It’s not a problem for me. I read the episodes when they come out and read daily episodes for the comics that are already completed. Webtoon does a great job of not shoving micro transactions down your throat or making me feel obligated to pay.

7:20 THE SHINJI POSE

The amount of knowledge when I saw your paneling is WILD❤❤❤

I admit that the "Reborn revenge" trope as I call it where someone either dies or goes back in time to take revenge on those that wronged them is a MASSIVELY overused trope. But I still like so many of them, I think because they end up being distinct enough from each other that it doesn't feel super same-y. Even if the art style ends up being VERY similar...

Sometimes I’d actually prefer generic gradients and random textures over some of the weirdly sterile backgrounds some comics have. Like two characters at a table in a blank room with no other furniture and just large expanses of empty wall and floor. The best tip I ever got was after your establishing shot, only 1 panel per page needs some sort of background. You can cheat the details, but fill the space. And if you’re in a character’s living space, you can use that for so much subtle story telling about their life and so many creators just slap on something generic as an after thought. It’s just so much lost potential.

I personally disagree with the whole scrolling format thing, I like it, a lot of cool things can be done with it. A really great example can be found on the very first chapter of the webtoon Homesick, when the protagonist is on the rooftop of a building and then looks down, that moment showcases the anxiety of the protagonist and it's filled with so much suspense... Something like that couldn't be done with the other format. In short, I like both formats, both of them have different strenghts and weaknesses.

My fave Isekai off brand Europe story HAS to be Beware of the Villainess with its genuinely investing MC which actually has a personality ecs

I feel so called out by the first one since I read those stories quite a bit. I actually decided to write my own, and I am going to try to focus more on why the villainess became the villainess instead of the romance.

The first pet peeve you did made me laugh so much because it’s so true. I notice WEBTOON and other webcomics alike tend to go through huge trends, like HUGE. There was a big trend like last year that almost all the popular WEBTOONs were all like stalker stories?? And now they are like the Villianess isekai- like on chill. The first one I found I totally loved, but then there was more- and more.. and even more… it becomes totally boring. So finding the little gems on something different is great! 💜

at 7:00, the reason people use the dead line panels and bubbles shape is casue it is quick, most webtoons are about 40 to 60 panels long per week and drawing all the bubbles perfectly the first time is a time sink that could be better used in drawing the next panel, now some webtoon artist out there can draw at the speed of sound and can have the luxury of drawing EVERYTHING by hand but for old joe no talent who takes 60 min on just one panel it is impossible, also if dead panels and bubbles=less time for almost the same content I say go for it webtoon artist are already overworked as is

FINALLY someone talks about it! You hit everything right on the money. Oh my gosh 😩😆 I totally agree about everything you mentioned, the text bubble thing will always take me out of the scene because it would be this beautiful painterly style and then boom comic sans in a perfect circle comes to attack. When it comes to the " reborn trope " I really haven't seen anyone mention it even though I thought "Am I going insane? Why is every other new webtoon some girl getting reborn as a princess or a villain or a love interest overall? And why is no one saying anything about it??" So it feels good to know I'm not the only one who is a bit confused and slightly frustrated at seeing it so many times. That said, that doesn't mean I don't like the trope AT ALL, I just know that most versions of it aren't as creative or unique as they could be. I still really like quite a few of them and I have a few on my library and I read them for guilty pleasure 😆 Anyway, another great video as usual! I love your videos on these tropes and all the character design videos are usually some of my favorites! Your art style is so unique and fun! You're so talented and awesome and it always brings me so much joy to see your new videos when they come up! Have a wonderful day!

There was this one isekai story where a normal girl was reborn as the villainess, but she just went ahead to open a shop instead, that one was nice

3:27 Bro imagine if the add the “ Disney princess flashback / montage 💀

The scroll format is the reason why I fail to even get into webtoon. I've deleted and redownloaded the app multiple times for this reason, didn't know it was an active choice the artists were making.

Ive personally seen some great original use of composition in the scroll format, (I may be screenshoting & collecting all the ones I find haha) but it’s true that most artists online don’t often put that much effort in that style of medium. I think it might be due to the fact that there are more frequent updates that in print & it may not be worth the time & effort? Idk

3:15 The earliest Reborn as a Villainess novel I could find on Novel Update was from 2014

I remember reading this one villainess novel for the first time, and then I was like "hey I read this new manhwa." to my friend and began telling her the story, halfway through she says "Wait, I think I have read this one" And I was like really? I confirmed the female lead's name, and she said no, after a year of reading these manhwas and webtoons I realised how reused that theme really is. I still enjoy reading them, as sometimes authors add a little twist in the story, changing what happens in the start like an webtoon I read "villains are destined to die" they are not all bad but some are overly used

a lot of the webtoons i've ended up reading are in the scrolling format but don't have that issue with the formatting. they use the scrolling format in interesting ways and are overall very interesting stories. Nevermore and Eleceed are two i can think of off the top of my head that use the scrolling format but never feel slow or badly paced, Nevermore is fantastic and has a fantastic artstyle, with beautiful backgrounds and excellent transitions, and Eleceed has some presumably photo backrounds that still fit in very nicely and almost unnoticeably with the drawn-in characters and incredible fight scenes that work so well with the scrolling format and i'm not sure they'd feel the same in a comic page format.

1:04 litteraly if one thoses protagonists were reborn in a setting like idk some first nation tribe or in a cyberpunk type of place it would be way more interesting. Just anywhere that's not knock-off Europe or East-Asia

I'm really impressed by your drawing abilities! I've been using Clip Studio Paint for about a year now, and I only now found out from you that using the default CSP speech bubble is a bad idea. I feel like such a dunce.

I saw your book in my local book store it was really cool!

I love Webtoons but what I dislike is that they feel a lot more artificial than mangas, especially Korean manhwas. There are some really good ones but then also there are ones that nail one thing (usually the gimmick or the characters) but fail at other things (usually the plot or overusing tropes). My personal favourite with the Villainess trope is When The Villainess Is In Love. I don't know if it's the most creative idea or anything but I love the maincharacter's fangirl energy. She really feels like a nerd trapped in their favourite series and just going full with her "must protecc my darlings" plan.

4:49 Oh, no. It's lazy. Very few scrolling comics have any thought put in to things like composition, pacing, basic designs, backgrounds, etc. I was read a Korean scroller comic about female boxers trying to teach a newb guy how to box. And it was actually pretty good. But I eventually gave up because the scrolling was just ridiculous. There's absolutely no need for that much space between panels.

I can’t even get mad cause your art style is amazing

personally I love myself a good villainess/ isekai manhwas/ webtoons. its true there is an over saturation of the same plots and characters in that genre however when you find a good solid story, its like the best thing to read. im pretty good at weeding out the bad ones so I say keep them coming.

I actually really enjoy the villaness trope in a specific context, when it "flips the narrative" wether it's an isekai or not it's really cool seeing something from the villaness's perspective, where the stereotypical female lead is actually just really annoying and selfish. In the more "classic" tropes where the female protagonist is this really innocent, sweet girl who knows nothing of high society and all that I think most people will find her a little annoying and overtly clingy/selfish (ex, stealing the "villaness's" husband/fiance/love intrest, like ??? Who does that? Oh but it's ok, because the villaness is EVIL). So yeah, I think some villaness tropes are a good flip on that situation

OKAY WAIT. I PICKED UP YOUR BOOK TODAY AT THE LIBRARY?? AND I DIDNT EVEN KNOW?? WTTWHWHEHHEH

I like drawn bubbles but sometimes i just feel like i can't draw a circle so bubble templates turn into a bad habit for me

The first trope, i relate sooooo muchh. Like i was absolutely obsessed with villainess comics back then because im glad to know ive known the ones which are actually not that overlyused like "Death is the only ending for a villainess" and "Who made me a princess"(not really villainess) and "Beware of the villainess". Now imo the new ones all have the same plot and are boring. If theres any webtoon of a villainess i absolutely, then that shud be your throne

7:30 Gasp! An Eva Reference!

It isn’t a webtoon but something I hate about books is you know when it seems if a character is reading anothers mind, like they think a question and it immediately gets answered. This can be a great and harmless or even funny thing to do but when it gets over used you have to start wondering if the writer just needs these questions answered and can’t be bothered finding another way to incorporate them or if there is actually some mind reading (or similar scenario) going on here.

I totally hear what you’re saying about scroll comics. But I wonder how much of the cons has more to do with webcomic deadlines than the format. Idk about other webcomic artists but I do know Webtoon original authors have pretty demanding deadlines, I feel the time constraints hurts composition planning and backgrounds.

I SAW UNFAMILIAR AT AN INDIGO AND I WAS LIKE “HECK YEAH LAVENDER TOWN!!!” AND IVE BEEN OBSESSING OVER IT FOR AGES

I feel called out by the first bad trope, my favorite webtoon is "The Tyrant Wants To Be Good"😂

8:52 so my handwriting is- illegible lmfao. So if i were to hand draw all the text, no one would be able to read it. so i do draw my speech bubbles by hand, BUT the font is typed! I used microsoft’s font maker to make a font out of my handwriting! Since i only had to write singular letters and characters it made my text personalized but coherent 👍👍I highly recommend making your own font if your handwriting is wonky but you don’t want to use the default fonts in your program :))

omg i agree so much w the scroll format. i feel like i can't even appreciate the actual comic bc of the pacing. like I can't stare at a panel for a minute when there's one character and one-word text. I just zoom by it and it gives me nothing 🥲

The fact I got a webtoon ad-

i wish we could find comics that are cool subversions of these tropes. like one where some girl gets isekai'd into a princess world and the "love interest" is also just a normal guy that got isekai'd... and then instead of falling in love they become besties while also saving the works or something. bonus points if there's actual character depth, and the characters aren't constantly gawked at by the citizens of (insert fantasy kingdom name here). and even more bonus points if there's lgbtq+ subtext, which would be just an absolutely insane subversion of the usual plot, like instead of the isekai'd girl's "rival" wanting to get with the prince she wants to get with, y'know, the isekai'd girl. the ultimate reimagining. maybe i'm just biased idk.

Please I love the isekai villainess type genres😭 but I do gotta admit, there is so many stories exactly like eachother. Not even kidding, I get them mixed up half the time. BUT I EAT THEM UP EVERY DAMN TIME

3:20 is no one gonna mention the title says "tyrant's sister wife"

When done right, I find the scroll format more interesting

3:33 I actually really disagree with this, like no hate, but there's a lot you can do with this,,, personally it's like an art to me, I love setting up the pacing and it's so beautiful and crafted. Manga and Comics are lovely with how they do the panels, but I can't handle all of it. The pages overwhelm me sometimes and then I'll get bad anxiety from there being too much happening on the page. It really just depends what you like, but here's the thing: if you put the exact same panels there it would be just as boring in the page style format because they weren't drawn with dynamic posing. I get that the stereotypical setup is bad, but it's not the scrolling format it's just that the artist is bad at paneling and dynamic posing. There's some really dynamic ways to use the scrolling format.

For the first trope you mentioned, i found a really cool anime that has that style but is so wholesome..(other then the end from what I heard, I’m only on episode 8.) it’s called “I fell in love with the villainess” is a girl x girl anime and those are very rare these days, but this one is really cute!!

If anyone's curious, Bakarina/My Life as a Villainess isn't the first, but it's generally considered one of the founding works for Villainess works. The Old Man Reincarnates as a Villainess is older, and IIRC both are preceded (in a narrow sense) by one work that's still similar enough for the same specific genre but can also just be argued to instead be one of the founding works of a very closely related genre. It all depends on how you want to cut things.

1:50 is my English is correct she's reborn as wife of tyrant's sister and cheats on her with him. Actually sounds interesting and less doll😅

0:47 i hate him too like.. ew.

5:19 I read one of those villainess type comics with the endless scrolling, they would also just keep repeating the same scenes over and over again, when something shocking happened or even a flashback to the precious chapter. It felt like walking on the same spot for a decade and my fingers really hurt from all the scrolling D:

miss lavender, some of us NEED that text tool because we have the handwriting of a two year old

5:28 totally agree!there’s this comic I really like but in has a scroll format and it really annoys me tbh

i know this one webtoon where someone isekais(?) as a maid starts a union since shes being treated horribly, ( basically the trope when the maid is being abused by the mc cuz the mc wants to show her power/ influence off) its called This Isekai Maid is Forming a Union! and is by frostlight comics and its really cool so if you wanna check it out

ur artsyle has HEAVILY inspired mine so thank you!

I haven't read many comics in the phone scroll style, but one of the one's I have read did it really well. It used the more vertical space to give the feeling of looking down at the characters from the sky or looking up at characters from lower ground, it also lets you take in the beautifully drawn world around the characters. PS:It's called The Nebula's Civilization if anyone's curious.

I love writing stories and destroying the tropes. I have a fantasy story where the main character dies and is resurrected with a demon in his face. One of the side characters is a female elf, she doesn’t use a bow, she doesn’t age slower, all that stuff. I like to take an idea and make it my own if that makes sense

ngl I’m a sucker for villainess stories even though I can’t differentiate them from each other anymore 💀

I read your book last night! It’s amazing!

okay okay i do agree with the first one and i think its so funny how "i was killed but brought back in time and now i want to change things and happen to fall in love with the tall dark and broody man who is in a more powerful position than me" is an entire genre

The “War criminal” sign broke me

I BOUGHT UNFAMILIAR AND IT’S SO CUTE I LOVE IT SO MUCH AHHHHH

about the scrolling fomat: webtoons like "the boxer" greatly benefit from it, because the artist uses the format to his advantage. you scroll and theres a big reveal or the perspective is all funky!! idk how to explain it but this webcomic has one of the best compositions i have ever SEEN

i honestly want to see a variant of the first trope where some person is reborn as an authority figure in another world and is still affiliated with a war criminal but instead of any weird stuff happening the reborn person topples the tyrant’s reign from the inside