it is wild how I'm In Love With The Villainess goes from goofball antics to "no we're gonna sit and seriously talk about sexuality and gender in unambiguous terms", a thing that lots of more "serious" yuri (or other queer-adjacent genres) series won't touch. Not that it's always necessary to have your queer characters come out and say "yes this is my sexuality, I'm attracted to people of this gender explicitly", but it's nice to not just live in the perpetual ambiguity zone of deniable gayness.

Sleepy-girl representation is important