A wonderful translation! So excited to be able to hold the official English translation at long last! The art is beautiful! The story is still amazing! It's funny and flows well and the characters are as wonderful as ever.

The "pronunciation guide" stuff needs a TON of work. Just put in IPA. I'm not sure why they didn't do that beforehand. ( )

I picked this up the morning I was having some major dental work done, wanting something really diverting and self-indulgent for the waiting room, and it was definitely that! Shen Man is cursing out the ending of a massive web novel he has been following for ages at the moment of his death -- and he finds himself transmigrated into the novel as a sort of afterlife! But not just any character in the novel, but the book's scum villain! Someone who abuses the protagonist to such an extent that he earns a bloody and extremely painful ending. Now we has to figure out how to keep the novel moving while also hopefully not getting himself horrifically killed in the end. Completely bonkers with lots of fun being poked at web novel tropes. ( )

I’m not a fan of transmigration, or Isekai stories. I like my fantasy to be just fantasy. That said, I absolutely loved the author’s MDZS series and decided to just read all three of her series being published in English. I chose Scum Villain over Heaven Official’s Blessing to start because it only has four volumes and all four have now been released. I ended up enjoying this more than I expected.

Shen Yuan had been reading an online “stallion” web novel and dies in a fit of rage at the ending. (I can relate to screaming in frustration at an awful ending). He wakes up inside the world of the very novel that drove him to paroxysms. To add insult to injury, he’s been put into the villain doomed to be dismembered by the protagonist. What to do? Change the story, of course, and get into the hero’s good graces! Only, it’s not so simple since there is a “system” monitoring events: he can’t act out of character/OOC and has to make sure the protagonist becomes the over-powered tyrant he is destined to be. Moreover, if Shen dies – he won’t return to his world because he’s dead.

The system is what I found interesting about this storyline. It has rules and interacts with Shen throughout: granting him B points when he completes a quest or feat, deducting points when he acts OOC before he has unlocked the ability. It reminded me a little of Jumanji. The system has the vague rules & terminology of a video game, but Shen is able to exploit logic gaps and he knows how the story is supposed to unfold. This volume is a good intro to the world and the narrator, but all other characters are necessarily one-dimensional “character archetypes” which kept it from being as strong as MDZS first volume. Fortunately, Shen’s development/personal growth and fondness for other characters draws a reader in. I look forward to seeing where the story goes. ( )

The plot twist at the final chapter...
I had only watched the donghua and had no idea.
This book is hilarious, loved it far more than I expected to. Already ordered the next volume, can't wait to see what happens next (✿ ♡‿♡) ( )

Of all MXTX's series, SVSSS is my personal favourite. And that being said, this book was incredible. I loved it! The illustrations throughout were great too and made the read even better. The plot and story are fantastic. I couldn't recommend enough. ( )