AAPI Voices: I've Become A True Villainess - Part 1

About this episode

A woman wakes up in the body of a story's villain and fights to change her fate.

Meet Cute and Manta Present: I've Become A True Villainess - Part 1. Original story by Flowing honEy. After she wakes up trapped in the body of a story’s villain, one woman fights to escape her tragic ending. Based on the hit Manta webcomic, I’VE BECOME A TRUE VILLAINESS stars Rebecca Rose, Shogo Miyakita, Suzie Rai, and Hao Feng, in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month. A graduate student has woken up as Seria Sterne—the villainess of the romance novel she was reading! But Seria dies at the end of the original story, and this Seria is determined to not let that happen… Then she meets dreamy Rouche, the male lead, but he’s destined to end up with someone else. Or is he? Story by Orin Calcagne. Directed and Produced by Liz Fields. Sound Editing and Design by Eliot Krimsky. Story Editor: Amarlie Foster. SVP, Production: Lucie Ledbetter. Starring: Rebecca Rose, Shogo Miyakita, Hao Feng, Suzie Rai, Ainsleigh Barber, Allen Enlow, Katie Flamman, Jimmie Yamaguchi.Enjoying I’ve Become A True Villainess? Get even more of Seria and Rouche with the full story, available only on Manta. Follow @MeetCute on Instagram and @MeetCuteRomComs on Twitter & TikTok.Check out our other rom-coms…

People in this episode

Host: Meet Cute

Guests: Rebecca Rose, Shogo Miyakita, Suzie Rai, Hao Feng

Topics covered

• AAPI Heritage Month
• romance
• fantasy
• villainess
• webcomic adaptation

Keywords

• villainess
• romance novel
• AAPI
• webcomic
• fantasy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Manta

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