Villains Are Destined to Die gets an anime, and 24 villainess entries here hold six free episodes
Twenty-four entries in our index are named for the villainess trope. Four of them state a free episode, and those four hold six between them.
By June Maravilla · AnimeSphere staff · August 9, 2026
Villains Are Destined to Die, the webtoon written by Gwon Gyeoeul with art by SUOL, is ending, and a television anime adaptation has been announced. The story follows the villainess of an otome game as she tries to avoid a death ending. That announcement, reported by Anime News Network, is the news. What our own index can add is a measure of how much of that name it actually carries, and how much of that is free to watch here today.
Twenty-four entries, four with a free episode
We counted by title rather than by tag: entries whose English title contains the word "villainess", or whose romanised Japanese title contains "akuyaku reijou". That comes to 24 entries. Every one of them was requested on animesphere.app today, and all 24 returned a 200. Four of them list a free episode on the site. Those four hold six free episodes between them. The other 20 state none.
- The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom: three free episodes, numbered 1, 2 and 3, labelled Japanese audio.
- My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!: one free episode.
- I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History: one free episode.
- Moriarty's Perfect Crime: one free episode, labelled Japanese audio.
Subtitled and dubbed are different offers
Those six episodes are not one uniform thing.
The three episodes of The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom sit on Crunchyroll's own YouTube channel, which carries a verified badge. Each runs 1,430 seconds, long enough to be a full episode and not a clip. Each carries 14 authored subtitle tracks, English among them, plus one automatic Japanese caption track. That is Japanese audio with real English subtitles.
The first episodes of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! and I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History are on that same verified channel, but both uploads are titled as English dubs. Neither has a restricted country list. They are dubs, not subtitled episodes.
Moriarty's Perfect Crime episode 1 sits somewhere else, on a channel called It's Anime powered by REMOW, which does not carry a verified badge. Its upload is titled as a full episode with English subtitles.
Where a reader can start today
One of the four gives more than a single instalment. The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom has episodes 1, 2 and 3 free, in Japanese with English subtitles, which makes it the one entry here that holds more than a single free episode. The other three state a single free episode each, and two of those three are English dubs. The remaining 20 entries state no free episode at all.