Beware the Villainess

Author:

Soda Ice and Berry (Adaptation)

Illustrator:

Blue Canna

Character Designer:

Original Name:

Geu Angnyeo-reul Josimhaseyo! (그 악녀를 조심하세요!)

Rating:
Genre:,,,,,,
Tropes:,,,,,,,,,,,
Trigger Warnings:

Queer Rep:

Disability Rep:


ISEKAI’D BY:

Truck-Kun!

RED FLAGS EVERYWHERE…When a college student wakes up in the body of Melissa Foddebrat, the villainess of a cliché romance novel, she is determined to cast aside her original role and live a quiet life of luxury, but…UGH! Why are all the men in this novel trash?! A sleazebag crown prince, a stalker sniper, a crazed werewolf, and an obsessive merchant—Melissa can’t just stand by and watch the innocent heroine suffer at the hands of these degenerates. Scummy love interests, begone—this story is getting a rewrite!

AT LAST!!!!! AN ENGLISH LICENSE!!!!!!!

Yeah bitch I’ve read this series like 6 times. And now I have thrown money atthe English licensing so I can read its official translation.

This series was one of my first forays into otome isekais. I fucking. LOVE. This series. I know not everyone is into it, but it feels like it set up a lot for my understanding of webtoons and the subversion of well-understood otome tropes.

I know some people are not fans of the ending (I am intoit, though, I love Melissa and her crushing of tropes underfoot, making her new tropes) but I do really enjoy it and the internal workings of the series. It works within the story well and gods above and below! I’m stoked.

Just some panel selections from the first volume.

Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 9/100
9%
Comics Read in 2025: 13/100
13%
Physical Owned Books Read: 398/662
60%


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