Streamers, Let’s-Players, however you regard them, are a major component of the video game experience in this era. It’s a reference point so natural that I regard many isekai and fantasy shows these days as akin to watching a Let’s-Player go through a game, to varying degrees of success based on the series. What we have with Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte is just taking that tone to its natural conclusion, as we actually watch two characters play through, comment on, and affect the progress of a fantasy otome video game. It makes for a somewhat unique framing device around the “otome game villainess” plot that’s become such a hot concept in light novels, manga, and anime in recent years, especially with that aforementioned streamer-sphere making clear that there is an audience for this sort of thing.
It also helps that, in practice, the…
