Trapped in a Dating Sim Angelica Struggles to Find Her Place in the World

Trapped in a Dating Sim: Angelica Struggles to Find Her Place in the World

In Episode 7 of Trapped in a Dating Sim, Angelica Redgrave sees herself as Leon’s and Olivia’s good friend, but other students don’t think so.

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Trapped in a Dating Sim Angelica Struggles to Find Her Place in the World

The following contains spoilers for Episode 7 of Trapped in a Dating Sim, “We Both Hate Hot Guys,” now streaming on Crunchyroll.

Trapped in a Dating Sim is a daring new isekai title in the Spring 2022 anime season, and its main characters’ personalities, goals, relationships and even physical appearances are all influenced by the otome gaming genre. This is a video game-based isekai similar to Overlord, except here the game is all about dating rather than slaying monsters.

Leon Bartfort, the downtrodden hero of Dating Sim, must navigate a vicious social jungle of friendships, gossip, rumors and petty feuds. Now his good friend Angelica Redgrave must do the same, but she is more vulnerable than ever before in Episode 7. Angelica finds her princess-like lifestyle crumbling around her, and her friends might soon ditch her — or so it seems.

Trapped in a Dating Sim Angelica Struggles to Find Her Place in the World

Trapped in a Dating Sim Episode 7 sees a brand-new conflict arise during a high-tech hoverbike race on the school campus, a blend of real-life NASCAR and The Phantom Menace’s podracing scene. At first this race is primarily Leon’s, Jilk’s and Lady Clarice’s concern, but then trouble finds Angelica in the form of a local count’s antagonistic daughter.

The count’s daughter openly mocks the lofty Angelica for being friends with lower-class characters such as the charming scholarship student Olivia and the thirdborn son Leon Bartfort, and Olivia soon learns that Angelica used to view people like her as trash. The disturbed Olivia flees the scene and Angelica loses her temper at last.

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Angelica soon gets physical and slaps the count’s daughter, then grapples with her, determined to punish the other girl for her unkind words. The count’s daughter isn’t much of a fighter, but it hardly matters. Her words get right under Angelica’s skin to the point that she wonders if her friendship with Olivia and Leon is a sham, and if she is doomed to never make real friends. Similarly, Olivia worries that she and Angelica are too far apart in the social hierarchy to be true friends, but both girls underestimate the power of friendship. In this ruthless otome school, characters like Olivia, Leon an even Angelica need to make their own rules or they will become lost.

Angelica’s personal predicament says much about herself and the otome game in which she lives. The argument between her and the count’s daughter reveals that not only are girls and women favored in this society, but the class-based hierarchy means even more than that. Nobles and members of royalty have it all — girls and boys alike — and commoners such as Olivia have few advantages, even if the world is matriarchal.

In this context, the count’s daughter mocks Angelica not for being friends with a boy, but for befriending lower-class citizens, regardless of their sex. This presents yet another challenge for Leon to overcome as he is not only a thirdborn son, but a member of a minor, back-country noble family. Even if he were a firstborn daughter, he would still face an uphill climb.

This drama also challenges Olivia and Angelica to dig deeper into their newfound friendship and see what it means for each of them. They need more in common than disliking the scheming Marie or defying prince Julius — they’ll have to decide what basis they can build a friendship on and figure out what is most important to them. This is especially true for Angelica who, as a former himedere, has more to lose than Olivia. She might lose much of her social standing and might be at odds with her family if she starts identifying more with commoners like Olivia; if Angelica must choose between those two worlds, her decision will say much about her priorities, personality and preferences.

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Given the optimistic and slightly goofy tone of Trapped in a Dating Sim, Angelica seems most likely to chose her friends over social prestige, and that should be the right call. It may be her only route to true happiness, especially in light of losing prince Julius as her fiancé.

Link Source : https://www.cbr.com/trapped-in-a-dating-sim-episode-7-angelica-redgrave-struggles/

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