World domination: our long-cherished aspiration! Naturally, the most appropriate person to aspire to such a surreal ideal is the Supreme Ruler of Evil!
Mia Oonari’s father, the former Supreme Ruler of Evil, died leaving his only child with their organization’s sole ambition: world domination! Mia sets about enacting her own innocent ideal of taking over the world only to be hindered by the five Champions of Justice who make up the Crow Rangers!
This is the comedic story about a villainess who lacks the tact of exacting her evil schemes and the Champions of Justice who lack motivation in stopping her. Join Mia as she finds love, friendship, and the truth behind her world-breaking magic in this light novel!
*IMPORTANT NOTE* The Champions of Justice and the Supreme Ruler of Evil is Cross Infinite World’s first title to contain smut, so please use reader discretion if you are uncomfortable with certain content. The author has published 18+ stories in Japan, and while Supreme Ruler of Evil is considered R-15 (for 15 and up), it still has scenes that may be upsetting to some readers, so reader discretion is advised!
What I expected: A comedic parody and/or celebration of sentai (Power Ranger) tropes like Bakarina or played straight with a twist like Samurai Flamenco.
What I got: 99 PROBLEMS
Well guys, buckle in because I had PROBLEMS with this novel and I’m not holding back.
The Heroine
Mia Oonari has bad case of chuuninbyou, middle-school syndrome. Chuuninbyou can be described as someone who is immature. For instance, if a kid likes Boruto and says “I’m going to be a ninja when I grow up!” and proceeds to act like their idea of a ninja, that’s normal childhood play. If the person is older, like in high school or adulthood, and still acting and talking that way, it’s a problem.
TCOJATSROE actually gives the heroine magical powers but keeps the immature mentality. She’s 17 and acts 11.
At first, we only know of her home life. Her father died recently and she’s struggling to live as an adult. She eats poorly and doesn’t have a lot of money. She only thinks and talks about “world domination” and her magic. Later, when we find out she attends high school, I was shocked. I thought of her as homeschooled because I find it hard to believe she wasn’t exposed to a lot of things just by proxy of her classmates. The novel tells us that because she beats up bullies her classmates see her as a weird hero, or a true “champion of justice”.
This conflict of justice versus evil is meant to be a recurring theme through the novel and one of Mia’s primary conflicts but it fails to satisfy. At first, it’s played to comedic effect. Mia helps people and the environment because she wants her future slaves to be healthy and her domain to not be a dump. When she tries to do things that are “evil”, it ends up being childish pranks. When she finds out one of the antagonists hates sour tasting things, she comes up with a spell to turn his drinks and saliva sour.
Comedic? Sure. But it reinforces that Mia is immature.
She doesn’t grow in the novel. There is no character arc.
The Love Interest and Relationship
Mia’s antagonists, The Crow Rangers, are a take on the sentai group. They’re all older and have careers in the police force. They have their colors and the like, but Mia isn’t a real force of evil so they end up taking care of her and treating her like a little sister, sometimes.
The primary love interest is Ren, the green ranger.
Ren is 26 years old. He drinks alcohol and smokes. He’s meant to be seen as a rogue with a heart of gold.
We first meet Ren when the Rangers go to stop Mia for the first time. He figures out that she can’t cast spells if her mouth is covered, so he kisses her. He also nibbles on her earlobe and blows in her ear to keep her flustered and not talking.
This tactic of molesting or sexually provoking her is used often throughout the novel. What’s worse is the other rangers see no problem with it.
They encourage the relationship. Some characters will comment on the age difference and the novel tries to lampshade it with either “It’s only 9 years, so not double digits, so that’s fine.” (What Ren actually thinks) or “If she was 20 and I was 29, there would be no problem.”
But she’s not 20. Three years is a long time in terms of self-growth, especially for someone as immature as Mia.
He molests her knowing she’s inexperienced and innocent. It’s part of why he likes her so much.
It makes me think of those guys on dating sites that are in their 30s but only want 18-25 year olds. It’s creepy.
The novel knows this and that’s why they have several scenes trying to justify the relationship. No. That’s not how romance works. That’s not how you try to endear the love interest.
Sometimes the other characters say he’s a little immature himself, but he’s not nearly the level of a chuuni. He likes picking on her because he likes her reactions but everything else about him is an adult’s mentality.
Even the woman has no problem with it. There’s a part where he wants to “punish” her for making him worry and the female ranger, Aya, sits there on her cell phone as Ren gives her a hickey.
Mia has dinner every night with Ren and Misaki, the latter of which sees her as a little sister or daughter, and Ren will openly molest her at his house. The only comment he ever makes is something like “I feel like a father who has seen his daughter’s boyfriend for the first time”.
This is made worse by all the characters expressing that they know how immature and sheltered Mia is and how they desire to take her places and show her things so she can become more worldly and less chuuni.
This is common when you’re dealing with this archetype. Most of the time the cast is meant to help the character grow out of that mindset, or at least, give them a larger knowledge base to make more informed decisions.
Sometimes this immaturity is meant to be comedic. There is one chapter where Mia decides she’s going to go after the Red Ranger and fight him one-on-one. When the Red Ranger defeats her, he brings her to his sex apartment, which is decked out in all sorts of S&M gear. He brings out various sex toys and talks about how he is going to break her in as far as he can without actually popping her cherry (Yes, this is actually what is being said and described in the novel).
It’s played as humor because Mia is clueless as to what’s going to happen or what any of those things are.
I can’t find humor in a girl about to be raped.
Of course, Ren saves her in time, but one of the main objections is that he wouldn’t be the first one to break her hymen.
I’m supposed to cheer for this guy?
I’m supposed to support their relationship?
I’m not saying it couldn’t work. You could have an older love interest who carefully and chastely works her up to maturity. Yes, it would be hard to not do it as grooming, but the way it’s done is outright taking advantage of her.
I was disgusted. Literally, nearly every “comedic” scenario ends up with me being disgusted.
The Plot
There is no real overarching plot. There is mostly slice of life stuff until Mia finds out her family’s legacy and what her most powerful spell actually does when she casts it at the end of the book.
It ends with your typical “happily ever after” marriage and a baby.
Rating
This made me feel disgusted reading it. Ren isn’t charming. The auxiliary cast isn’t special and their encouragement and approval of the relationship angered me. The comedic moments aren’t funny or unique.
There is nothing redeeming about this novel. You’re telling me, out of all the light novels in existence waiting to be translated, you picked this trash to come over? Get fucked, Cross Infinite World.
0 hearts.
My heart scale is defined as follows – 5 hearts = a story everyone will fall in love with, regardless of preferences; 4 hearts = a well-done story that people who love the concept will adore, and people who don’t may end up liking it; 3 hearts = if you like this type of story or this type of hero, then you will enjoy this, but those who do not like either of those things will probably not; 2 hearts = it had potential, it squandered it; 1 heart = just a waste of time from the get-go; 0 hearts = why was this made?