live inside an anime isekai it is dangerous. More than anything because you have all the ballots to start your adventure dying in a horrible way, falling from a great height or being hit by a truck. The good thing is that the next step is to reincarnate in a different world, and become a great action hero or live a magical adventure.
Something more or less like this happens to the protagonist of ‘Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion‘. When Rinko Hanasaki has finally been admitted to the university, and just as she receives the news, she is pushed off a rooftop. To her surprise, she has been reincarnated in Raeliana McMillana minor character in a novel… but one of the main “plot points” of the story is that Raeliana is killed, and our protagonist is not going to go through that hoop twice.
Between conspiracies and ballroom dances
Raeliana adjusts very quickly to her new life as the eldest daughter of the McMillans, a family of nouveau riche, and she immerses herself fully in this period drama that she is now starring in first person. The novel in which she has been lucky enough to exist is full of complex political conspiracies and palace intrigues, but luckily the protagonist formerly known as Rinko knows them inside out and is willing to use them to her advantage.
To avoid dying again, Raeliana blackmails the duke Noah Voltaire Wynknight to become his fiancée and get rid of his future murderer. And as a consequence, she ends up living at the duke’s house and thrown into an even bigger snowball.
‘Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion‘ has premiered this month on Crunchyroll and is already presenting us with all kinds of intrigues, not only with the mystery of the Raelian double murders but also with the political tensions that the base story came with. For now the anime is a masked ball full of labels and rulesand if that’s one of the things we love about a good period drama, ‘Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion’ has all the elements we’re looking for.
Obviously, and if we have already had several romances of this type, we know what paths the relationship between Raeliana and the duke is going to take, but for now the series has presented the characters very well with a tug of war dynamic between the two with a game in which neither wants to reveal their cards at all.
One of the things that is very appreciated about ”Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion’ is how subverts the tropes of isekai anime led by female characters, because in this case the protagonist has not been reincarnated as the bad guy in the story. She is a gentle and positive character who does not deny her femininityalthough he does not cut a hair to manipulate whoever he needs to to save his skin.
Now as to the animation, perhaps it is the section where the series limps the most. Although it has some planes with very beautiful lighting and finishing, in general it is more of a functional animation that is more successful when it is needed.
But in the end, if the beginning has hooked us we’re going to stay to see ‘Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion’ because of the salsa, that we know where we have gotten ourselves.
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