Hataraku Maou-sama

The way she taunted him was pretty terrible in itself given that she asked him to continue the bedtime story he'd been telling Alas Ramus since he'd known her, which was basically Maou's own backstory about his tribe and family being slaughtered, meeting Lailah and being taught by her and treated like someone who mattered for the first time and being entrusted with the Yesod fragment, which is what Alas Ramus grew from. Something he probably hadn't shared with anyone before.

It's significantly crueler than anything the actual 'villain' of the book did at any point.

Just gonna necro this purely for the sake of gushing.

Along with Full Metal Panic, this is the only light novel based anime I genuinely enjoyed.

Pretty much everything I love about this series can be summed up with this clip.

It just never gets old.

edited 13th Jan '16 1:17:12 PM by dRoy

The anime is quite a bit better than the LNs.

Yeah, I remembering reading up to, what was it, volume 4? It wasn't quite as good. Still, it didn't make me want to punch something, which is a far better than most light novels are for me.

By the way, I noticed how every few episode there is characters screaming randomly and like a bunch of girls, that amuse me so much.

God, I love this anime.

Volume 9 will be translated by in few days. With huge cliffhanger last time it was pretty hard wait that long...

This is uncommon in anime, but the director of this was a heavy supporter of improv! Her breaking down crying behind the door was wholly improvised.

If anyone's interested manga just got past the point where anime ended, so it might be a good moment to check it out.

Ahh yes, the classic meme faces. Good times I had with this series.

Oh, volume four is out and five will be soon... Not sure I'm going to bother to get them. The cast is weirdly unlikable in the LN compared to the anime.

Having not read the LN, what makes you say that?

You know how people used to complain that the anime turned Emi into a bitch? It's actually the other way around. She's way nicer in the anime. In volume three she tries to kill Maou because he made fun of her flat chest and at the end taunted him over the apparent death of his daughter, knowing full well that he was willing to die for her. He actually ended up crying during that incident. Maou also has issues but she's the worst. I have no idea why Chiho is even there. She adds nothing.

If what you're saying about Emi in the novels is true, then that's really fucked up.

Hey, that was actually an important lesson On how it feels to lose someone dear to you. Seeing as carelessness is Maou main moral failing, it was rather needed. Harsh yes, but considering how many thousand people lost loved ones because of him, he really has no room for complaining.

Pretty sure he already knew that given that he detailed his backstory. Emi was just being a jerk. It also really didn't come off as trying to give him some perspective or anything but rather just relishing in his suffering.

edited 2nd Aug '16 10:21:42 AM by Arha

Emi is pretty much a saint with the amount of leniency she has towards Maou. Being motivated by just desire to hurt him isn't really like her at all.

You say that, but you haven't read the LNs. This was the book that literally started with her attempting to seriously kill him because he made fun of her chest and only failing because plot happened.

edited 2nd Aug '16 10:39:05 AM by Arha

Says you.

How right you are.

Says y... ohhh, clever Arha, clever.

On another note, did anyone check out the High School AU manga? For something I'm not sure why it even exists, it's pretty funny.

I read a few chapters of it right around the time the anime was airing. I was quite confused.

Wow, what a bitch. Makes me curious now, already thought Emi was pretty abrasive.

Yeah, it was quite confusing.

So apparently the fan translation project didn't actually die and has finished eleven volumes. I think I've supported the official release enough at this point.

The fan translation could really use some better editing. Both it and the official version have the same awkward prose issues, so I'm thinking it's like Index and that it's just not terribly well written.

Anyway, done through volume six now. Emi is becoming legit tsundere now that she knows her dad is alive and thus lost her most pressing reason to hate Maou. Chiho is finally doing something to justify her continued existence. If it keeps up, I won't feel like she's a complete waste of space. And with volume eight Emilia is officially a damsel in distress sniffling and hoping for Maou to come save her. And she's being held prisoner for the lamest reasons too.

Edit: Also late but it was mostly confusing not because of anything going on but just because I thought it was supposed to the actual main series, not some spinoff.

...Does the author not have any idea how he wrote Chiho or something? She's always been super jealous when she thinks she has competition.

edited 29th Aug '16 10:08:23 AM by Arha

Well that's...mildly disappointing I knew she was going to become an actual Tsundere once her Dad was alive, but the Damsel in Distress bit sounds so lame really.

The reason it happened is incredibly stupid too. She goes back to Ente Isla to see her hometown again and sees that the wheat in her father's farm is still blooming. The farm is then taken hostage and The Oh So Evil Guys threaten to blow up the farm if she doesn't surrender to them. Yes, she was taken prisoner over a goddamn wheat field. Mind you, this is the same person that the story noted wouldn't hesitate if anyone took humans hostage and would just save them anyway, so the wheat field is more important than human lives.

uuuuuugh

Maybe it's best that season two never happened.