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I guess 2026 is just the Year of the Gray-Haired Punch Girls....
Lol my husband decided to try this one with me and he was like "Wait... Didn't you already watch this one?"
Gotta love my b-list broken engagement anime :P
Gotta love my b-list broken engagement anime
...is probably the title of the isekai version of this story, coming next spring from Cygames...
Just watched this, and the opening scene was almost identical to May I Ask for One Final Thing?, down to the hair colors.
Don't worry. It's very different apart from that tropey setup.
I like it, apart from her letting others treat her like shit before the fallout. I'm curious tho as to why, if she was part of the army before and her abilities are thus known, did she get put into such a simple cell to break out of. But i guess the theme is everyone being incompetent so
LN (not really a spoiler but explanation that was skipped in the anime)
They skipped over the explanation in the anime, but there are special skills that are ultra rare (the king is king because of one of those) and she kept her Grimoire skill hidden. I think the explanation was that as the future queen consort she should not overshadow her fiancé, which she automatically would if anyone knew about her unique skill. As far as anyone outside her inner circle knows, she has just inherited her family's ice magic.
As to why she lets everyone walk over her: she was raised to be that way. The question should be rather why does she switch so fast to the revenge side. The light novel makes that transition more gradual during her time in the cell and having her inner monologue helps that transition as well. The anime makes it look like all it took was that little speech fro her maid and she flipped a switch. But I'm okay with this to get the setup out of the way as fast as possible. In the end it doesn't really matter why she is on the war path, the interesting part is what she does on it.
The direction is so terrible. It's the reverse of 'show, don't tell'; they dump all the plot through dialogue that feels totally uncalled-for.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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