Dear reader,

The premise of this manga is ridiculous in exactly the way the title promises. Marie begins as a selfish, iron-fisted princess whose people hate her enough to send her straight to the guillotine. Instead of dying for good, she wakes up one year in the past with a chance to change her fate.

Except fixing one path to death doesn’t actually make her safe. Marie keeps finding herself killed in completely different ways and sent right back into the same time loop.

What makes the story so entertaining is Marie’s solution. Instead of suddenly becoming a perfectly kind and innocent princess, she starts investigating the women connected to her deaths. Once attraction, jealousy, obsession, resentment, and some very complicated feelings start revealing themselves, Marie essentially decides that the best way to survive is to make these women fall for her instead.

Volume 1 completely commits to that premise. It’s a chaotic mix of Girls’ Love, dark comedy, murder, fanservice, time-loop mystery, and harem nonsense. Marie is bold, spoiled, shameless, and somehow charismatic enough that watching her attempt to seduce her way out of every new death becomes genuinely funny.

I also liked that the women weren’t simply treated as random additions to the harem. Their jealousy, insecurities, desires, and complicated relationships with Marie help explain why certain events happen in each timeline.

Yuuki’s storyline especially stood out because she and Marie already share years of history. What initially looks like resentment and jealousy becomes much more complicated once Marie finally starts understanding what Yuuki has been feeling.

And through all of it, Marie’s answer somehow continues to be: if this woman might kill me, I guess I’ll just make her mine.