About

You can stream From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated! (2025) on HiDive with a subscription.

After being struck by a car, 52-year-old civil servant Kenzaburou Tondabayashi finds himself reincarnated as the villainess of his daughter’s favorite video game! Committed to his role as the haughty and arrogant Grace Auvergne, Kenzaburou plays out Grace’s part in the game’s story… Except his kind nature and elegant Japanese manners accidentally turn the unlikeable Grace into the most admired girl in school instead.

This frantic comedy finds humor in the clash between a middle-aged civil servant's polite habits and the haughty demands of a fantasy villainess. Expect constant chaos as his gentle soul struggles to maintain a reputation for pure malice.

Trailer