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Scumbag System: THE ANIMATION
Sep. 17th, 2020 02:30 pmSo the animated version of Scum Villain's Self Saving System is out, and based on the first two episodes it's...actually not entirely terrible! Considering what it looks like!
BUT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. IS NOT GOOD.
'Scum Villain's Self Saving System' is the first book by MXTX, author of 'Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation', which was adapted into 'The Untamed'. It's also fantasy m/m, but more of a satire of the genre, basically the 'Northanger Abbey' to 'Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation's 'Pride and Prejudice'(*).
It's the story of a regular Chinese guy who dies and finds himself stuck as the doomed villain Shen Qingqui of the cheesy fantasy webnovel he was reading. The plot starts out with Shen Qingqui trying to be nicer to his student, the cheesy webnovel's protagonist Luo Binghe, to avoid dying when Luo Binghe is an adult obsessed with revenge. Except what actually happens is that Luo Binghe falls obsessively in love with him. I did end up shipping them but it's more humour about romance tropes than super romantic.
When the fandom heard there was going to be an animated version we wondered how they'd deal with the Massive Gayness of the plot. And then we saw the initial stills and wondered...how bad it would be...
( I have good news and bad news )
BUT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. IS NOT GOOD.
'Scum Villain's Self Saving System' is the first book by MXTX, author of 'Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation', which was adapted into 'The Untamed'. It's also fantasy m/m, but more of a satire of the genre, basically the 'Northanger Abbey' to 'Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation's 'Pride and Prejudice'(*).
It's the story of a regular Chinese guy who dies and finds himself stuck as the doomed villain Shen Qingqui of the cheesy fantasy webnovel he was reading. The plot starts out with Shen Qingqui trying to be nicer to his student, the cheesy webnovel's protagonist Luo Binghe, to avoid dying when Luo Binghe is an adult obsessed with revenge. Except what actually happens is that Luo Binghe falls obsessively in love with him. I did end up shipping them but it's more humour about romance tropes than super romantic.
When the fandom heard there was going to be an animated version we wondered how they'd deal with the Massive Gayness of the plot. And then we saw the initial stills and wondered...how bad it would be...
( I have good news and bad news )
