Currently reading: SVSSS

[krait]

I just finished the first volume of Scum Villain's Self-Saving System and have started the second volume!

Isekai isn't usually my thing, but it turns out that oblivious main characters amassing crushes left and right is exactly what I want from the genre, so it's been a lot of fun so far! Shen Qingqiu has managed to charm and then betray the protagonist, meet a fellow transmigrator, gather a rare mushroom, and vague about his plans for it.

Some of the illustrations are lovely, and the covers definitely are; the bookstore clerk even complimented them as I was checking out.

Has anyone else read it? Come and yell at me about it! I'm pretty thoroughly spoiled, so no worries on that front.

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[viridian5]

I enjoyed the first three volumes a lot, but was very unhappy with the fourth, which featured the extras the author wrote, because everyone is almost everyone a terrible human being and the Luo Binghe/Shen QQ relationship was horrific to me. I don't know if it's because the extras are mostly not first-person fanboy POV like the first three volumes.

Everyone is nicer and cuddlier in 98% of the fic written for the series, but a lot of fic also woobifies Shen Jiu far more than I think he deserves. The poor Meow Meow was just totally misunderstood! Forget all about all that child abuse he perpetrated. But I deleted volume 4 from my mind and I'll be reading fic instead.

It is amusing to me how oblivious SQQ is about the harem he's amassing that just keeps getting bigger and bigger as the series goes on. Though I can totally understand how he misinterprets Luo Binghe's interest in him post-Endless Abyss because Bing-bing is genuinely scary toward him a lot of the time.