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7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! ( ループ7回目の悪役令嬢は、元敵国で自由気ままな花嫁生活を満喫する, Hepburn: Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijō wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyū Kimamana Hanayome Seikatsu o Mankitsu Suru) is a Japanese light novel series written by Touko Amekawa. The series originated on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in February 2020, before being published in print with illustrations by Wan Hachipisu by Overlap beginning in October 2020. As of 2025, six volumes have been released.
A manga adaptation with illustrations by Hinoki Kino began serialization on the Comic Gardo website in December 2020. As of 2025, the series' individual chapters have been collected into six volumes.
An 12-episodes long anime television series adaptation produced by Studio Kai and Hornets aired from January to March 2024. It's produced by Studio Kai and Hornets and directed by Kazuya Iwata, with scripts written by Touko Machida, character designs handled by Kenichi Ōnuki, and music composed by Satoshi Hōno and Ryūnosuke Kasai; the leads, Rishe and Arnold, are voiced by Ikumi Hasegawa and Nobunaga "Zakki" Shimazaki.
The protagonist is Rishe Imgard Weitzner, a young noblewoman from the Hermity Kingdom who's been engaged to Crown Prince Dietrich ever since childhood. However, all of a sudden, Dietrich publicly accuses her of crimes she never committed (coming from the lie of another woman, the Gold Digger Marie), annuls the engagement and sentences her to exile; then, her parents disown her and throw her in the streets. While Rishe is dispirited at first, she's picked up by the Aria Trading Company, learns the trade and reinvents herself as a merchant... only to, five years later, get swept into a war and die.
But right as she's killed, Rishe finds herself alive -- and back to the moment where Dietrich and her parents throw her out of their lives! This time, she goes to her house before her parents lock her out of it and picks up some of her most valious stuff, hoping to find the Company and join it again... but ends up missing them. Yet not everything is lost: one of Rishe's belongings is a herbal medicine manual that her grandma left for her before dying, so she becomes a very skilled apothecary and even manages to save the life of the Coyolles Kingdom's Crown Prince, Kyle..
And again, she dies in a war five years after the loop's beginning. And finds herself back to when Dietrich ditches her and her parents follow suit.
Again and again, Rishe goes through this. She's repudiated / disinherited, she finds a job or trade to start all over, and dies in a war right after she's spent five years working hard and being happier that she ever was as a noble woman. And she can remember everything from each "Time Loop", including her life experience AND who ends up causing her demise, whether directly or not: Arnold Hein, the handsome and aloof Crown Prince of the Galkhein Kingdom. In the titular Seventh Loop, however, things change BIG TIME. Unlike the other loops where Rishe either never meets Arnold or only sees him few before her death, she meets him twice right after this loop's start... and in the second time, he tells her he has fallen in Love at First Sight with her and asks her to be his wife!
Rishe decides that this might be the chance to actually have a cushy and long life, where she won't lift a finger anymore. She accepts Arnold's proposal, with some very simple conditions: he will let her have a separate space to receive guests from other countries, she will just laze around the castle and do nothing, and he won't lay a finger on her. Arnold is okay with all of this, even swearing to fulfill all of her wishes and whims, and soon Rishe ends up swept in the VERY complicated life of the Galkhein Court despite her desire to just enjoy herself. And even when Arnold has caused her death directly or not on each loop, she also finds herself intrigued by a man like him, who in each line starts his massive war to overthrow his Archnemesis Dad for reasons that go beyond merely wanting the throne. And realizing that this Arnold still has some warmth in his deeply wounded heart, she also decides to find out his reasons to be the way he is, and keep him from Jumping Off the Slippery Slope in this life - so hers won't end violently this time!
- Action Girl: Rishe learned achery and swordmanship in two of her lives, and gets to keep her skills.
- Aloof Big Brother: Arnold is this to his younger brother Theodore, who desperately craves for his attention. Theo adores Arnold so much, he wants to remove himself from the succession line to make sure HE will be the Emperor of Galkheim. Arnold is NOT happy at all.
- Altar Diplomacy: The Sovereigns of Galkheim subdue vassal states and countries like this, via marrying many noblewomen from said places and keeping the ladies in their harem to force their families do his bidding. Arnold's dad has continued this "tradition" and tells Arnold that he will only accept a foreign noblewoman as his bride.
- Arnold goes Genre Savvy and exploits the trope via proposing to Rishe, the daughter of a foreign duke, and even insinuating that he was the one who instigated Dietrich's ousting of her. Rishe quickly decides to play along to further her own plan to have a lazy life full of riches and leisure. (And to learn more about him)
- Archnemesis Dad: Arnold's father, the Emperor. The starting point of each war he wages in the loops is him pulling a coup against his dad, eventually killing him
- Downer Beginning: The anime starts at the end of Rishe's sixth life as a Sweet Polly Oliver knight, right before Arnold goes One-Man Army on her and her companions who are defending a castle from his forces. And unlike the other loops, Arnold directly cuts her down.
- Genre Savvy: Rishe collects the memories she has from each loop to try again and again to keep herself alive. Hopefully, it will work this time.
- Gold Digger: Dietrich's "other woman", Lady Marie, who spreads lies about Rishe to taint her image. She turns out to do it to support her parents rather than just for her own sake, though, and Rishe deduces it and doesn't hold it against her. (Plus it gives her an excuse to ditch Dietrich himself)
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Arnold has heavy scars around his neck. Rishe, recalling what she learned as a doctor in another loop, believes he got them when he was a little kid. These come from his own mother, the Empress, trying to stab him to death. And it was NOT the only time she attempted to kill him. He eventually killed her.
- Groundhog Day Loop: Rishe is stuck in one that forces her relive the last five years of her life, from the moment she's dumped and disowned. No matter what she does and how hard she works to rebuild her life, she always dies at age 20 in the world war waged by Arnold.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Rishe wears her long hair down at the beginning of each loop and mostly throught this one, but changed her style in her past lives. ie, as an Intrepid Merchant she had a Tomboyish Ponytail, as either an apothecary or an alchemist she had a cute Bob Haircut, then wore Braids of Action as a hunter and spy, and as a Sweet Polly Oliver she wore it super short and messy.
- Intrepid Merchant: Rishe's once boss, Kyle, is one of these and leads the Aria Trading Company that she works for in her first life. Rishe herself becomes a good one and would've become even better if she didn't, well...
- Love at First Sight: Arnold claims this is his reason to propose to Rishe. She doesn't believe him, but doesn't call him a liar either. He's more or less telling the truth.
- Plucky Girl: Rishe, oh Rishe.
- Point of Divergence: The loops start with Dietrich dumping and exiling Rishe, and her parents disowning her. But what she does immediately afterwards is what changes each of her lives:
- Initially Rishe is locked out of her home with just her clothes on, and since this is her first and original life, she's confused and paralyzed in fear because she's just a noble girl with no real skills to do anything outside her comfort zone. Luckily, she's picked up by Kyle and the Aria Trading Company; she quickly offers Kyle her valious ring as payment for a ride, then he offers her a place in the Company...
- Second: In the second loop, Rishe realizes she remembers what happened in her first life, so she runs off to her home before she can be locked out of it and picks up her belongings, hoping to be an asset to Kyle from the start and make a merchant career with more ease. But as it turns out, she missed the caravan and is out of options... And then she realises one of these belongings is a herbalism manual, so she takes a long trip to learn medicine and becomes a talented herbalist and doctor. In her third loop, she does something similar but replaces herbalism with alchemy and becomes the apprentice of an alchemist she befriended in her second life. In her fourth one she became the maid of a rich family where she learned housework and lock picking, in the fifth one she was a huntress and especially a spy, and in the sixth she disguised herself as a guy and became a talented soldier...
- In almost all loops, Rishe leaves the Palace by the entrance... but in the seventh one, since she has more physical skills than before, she pulls a Super Window Jump instead. Arnold, who WAS invited to the palace but snuck out (while having his valet Oliver pose as him, since Dietrich didn't recognize him), just HAPPENS to see her do so after they have a brief talk, and is surprised by how athletic she is despite her daintly looks and clothes... so having noticed there's more to her than many would believe, he soon proposes to her.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: The brothers Arnold and Theodore are lovely-looking pale-skinned young men with Blue Eyes and dark hair. This is actually an horribly Enforced Trope: The Emperor also has black hair and blue eyes, and he killed any of his children who didn't inherit his eye-hair color scheme And Arnold himself witnessed how he killed one of his younger sisters over it.
- Rising Empire: Galkhein, to a tee. Each loop finishes with it properly becoming one, and the whole world being pit against it in the war that will get Rishe killed in one or another way.
- Royally Screwed-Up: Holy shit, Galkhein's Court is an excellent example. Rishe herself initially thought it was all driven by Arnold being The Evil Prince who wanted to overthrow The Emperor and waged war to do so, but after meeting Theodore, she starts unveiling how rotten the Galkhein Court itself is, and how it shattered both brothers in different ways.
- Stay in the Kitchen: What Rishe's parents wanted from her, so they could use her as a pawn for their own ambitions. A flashback has a young Rishe asking her paerents to give her lessons on other stuff, but her mom simply told her that the most she could really asoire to is to have a good marriage and a male heir. Ever since then, Rishe wanted more from life than just marriage and kids...
- Start of Darkness: Rishe wants to know what was Arnold's own SoD, so she can keep him from starting the wars that wreck the world, have him as The Emperor, and kill her.
- Super Window Jump: Rishe pulling one, in the second floor, from a second floor after a short talk with Arnold changes eveything, as it impresses the guy enough to give him the idea to propose to her.
- It's also played a bit more realistically than usual: she takes her shoes off beforehand, then she must roll a bit on the ground to lessen the impact.