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

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Comedy, Fiction, Arts, Comedy Fiction

4.0 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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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, including KERRI with Pauline Chalamet, IMPERFECT MATCH with Arden Cho, and DUMP HIM! with Minnie Mills. Check out our other dramas, including FIRE & ICE with Chiara Aurelia and Jack Martin, and POWER TEN. Check out our other fantasies, including A PROPHECY OF INCENSE AND SNOW and I’VE BECOME A TRUE VILLAINESS. Have a crush on us? Follow Meet Cute, rate us 5 stars, and leave a review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Expedia and Visit Scotland.
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0:25.7	Today at expedia.co.uk slash visit Scotland. Before we dive into the story, I'd like to start off by saying that I used to be an ordinary graduate student.
0:49.3	I did nothing but slave away from my professors, day in and day out. It seemed so unfair to just die like that.
1:10.0	But then, I came back to life. Being dead was weird. Coming back to life was
1:23.1	weirder, but even weirder than both those things combined, was coming back to life
1:29.3	and realizing that I was inside of the romance novel I'd been reading.
1:34.3	Except, I wasn't me.
1:38.3	I was Saria Staron, villainous of the story.
1:43.3	And even worse than being reincarnated as a literal villainous was,
1:48.0	if I'm remembering correctly, and I am,
1:51.0	this villainous gets freaking beheaded at the end of the story.
1:58.0	I died an early, violent death in my first life, and I refused to go through that again.
2:03.6	So I realized that if I wanted to live, I'd need to do things a little differently than how
2:12.9	Saria did them in the book.
2:16.2	The story is about a dimension jumping heroine named Lena,
2:19.3	who all the guys fall for,
2:23.3	namely Roush and Callis, the two male leads.
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