Hayya, I haven’t posted anything in ages about theories becuase I’m very busy ;-;. However, there have been some very interesting discussions on hamefura discord server lately and I was like it’s a nice time to post this.

Those are some intersting facts that have been going in the chinese fandom. This time it’s not anything based on the lightnovel or source material but from a different prspective that’s much more important, the dynamics of the creator of Bakarina.

I will summarize and translate in nutshell, this post is also a little addition to @lady-griffin ‘s post here on why Gerald’s ending game : https://lady-griffin.tumblr.com/post/621496784488923137/who-do-you-think-will-katarina-end-up-with 

Original post written by: Tocho Linai 

All sources used are uploaded on imgur: imgur.com/a/kGW7b0e

The original author, Satoru Yamaguchi, is a female writer who writes Otome’s novels. It was originally puplished on the website “Let’s Become a Novelist” “ 小説家になろう ” . My next life as villainess was originally scheduled to end with 35 chapter, that is when the graduation ceremony of the school of magic in the novel is over. After the final web chapter in 2015, the author wrote a few extra stories, and then continued to update the story after the serialization in cooperation with Yixun. 

Shōsetsuka ni Narō should be the only place where you can get the latest news of the author Mrs.Yamaguchi Satoru who has written three novels in total: Reincarnation, a male protagonist’s perspective, and a short story of a female protagonist that was posted to Reincarnation in a romantic serial. All are normal shoujo romance series that don’t include any harem, yuri or such of this sort ending. 

The main tags used mostly by her in her works are: Otome Game, Reincarnation, Romance, Magic, Inverse Harem (regardless of male and female), rivals. (No yuri, Bi-sexual or any orange labels)

In addition to writing novels by herself, Mrs. Yamaguchi also collected and favourited other writers’ stories and works. I saw that her favorite genres are basically: Reincarnations, Romance , Girl comics (Shoujo), Love, Princes, Princesses… 

Speaking of this, I have to mention that the publishing house to which the original novel of Bakaruna belongs - (Yixunsha Bunku アイリス) is a girl-oriented (Shoujo) publisher run by Ichijinsha for girl romance book series.
There are also spin-off novels of some of the well-known B-games ( games that are made with a budget, usually a small to medium one) such as Alice in the Country of Hearts. All series mainly end up with exptected endgame ending, more specifically prince/ main male lead -princess/main female lead.

Also you all keep in mind that the author is watching us and is between us in the japanese fandom where they adore Keith and Gerald the most “ I am very happy to have so many viewers watching this animation. I’m watching everyone’s comments very seriously. “

In short, aside Gerald’s many obvious many moments in the main series and him being the main lead, that’s why I also personally believe that Gerald’s endgame and that the series won’t go in the direction of harem or yuri ending.

In another post I will talk and translate some of the animation team’s opinions and pages that are wrriten in the animation book. They all also point to similar results with Gerald being end-game if I compare. However, of course with the animation team it diverse widely and there are shippers of all ships and the boss’s favorite is Alan which explains a lot so it’s still interesting to know.