Akuma Nisei - Vol. 1 Ch. 6 - A Demon That Desires Death

[MangaDex]

 

[ilikekemofure]

Thanks for chapter

 

[ngubaoson]

thanks for the chapter!!!!!

 

[danbellucci]

Thanks for the chapter but dropped because it's one of those dumb settings where demons exist but God or at least gods do not exist

 

[hahanaho]

So, it’s a love story? The girl wants to find a human who’s willing to fuck a demon like her father?

 

[Oeconomist]

I'd date her as-is. Yeah, she's not my type in terms of her appearance, but she's too good to reject on that basis.

 

[nodamnbrakes]

lol, the fake-out Genma on the stairs…

 

[solamente]

I do like the idea that Genma's seemingly universal and undirected benevolence is just a byproduct of her lack of the usual human moral compunctions.

It's usually very tricky to have a likeable alien that isn't reducible to "secretly has a quirky endearing humanlike trait". To be a character requires their motives and personality to be legible - but she isn't a character: she's a demon wearing character skin, and her role within the storyline is similarly mobile. She doesn't need to cooperate with the surrounding narrative frame. I want to elaborate on this but it's too early in the story to say whether this will be a defining aspect of how arcs are structured and resolved.

 

[hawkflights]

I do like the idea that Genma's seemingly universal and undirected benevolence is just a byproduct of her lack of the usual human moral compunctions.

It's usually very tricky to have a likeable alien that isn't reducible to "secretly has a quirky endearing humanlike trait". To be a character requires their motives and personality to be legible - but she isn't a character: she's a demon wearing character skin, and her role within the storyline is similarly mobile. She doesn't need to cooperate with the surrounding narrative frame. I want to elaborate on this but it's too early in the story to say whether this will be a defining aspect of how arcs are structured and resolved.

Insightful take that changes how I read this story tbh, thanks for this.

 

[rustbird]

I do like the idea that Genma's seemingly universal and undirected benevolence is just a byproduct of her lack of the usual human moral compunctions.

It's usually very tricky to have a likeable alien that isn't reducible to "secretly has a quirky endearing humanlike trait". To be a character requires their motives and personality to be legible - but she isn't a character: she's a demon wearing character skin, and her role within the storyline is similarly mobile. She doesn't need to cooperate with the surrounding narrative frame. I want to elaborate on this but it's too early in the story to say whether this will be a defining aspect of how arcs are structured and resolved.

It’s hard to tell because we have a sample size of two, but Genma also seems to have a shallower depth of emotion than other demons. The rooster-thing in chapter 2 mocks her out of spite and this bug demon is deeply resentful of both human rejection and Genma’s pity. Genma isn’t unaffected by rejection — she’s reassured by Kawashiro saying he knows and doesn’t care that there’s something weird about her — but all her emotional responses so far have had a lightness to them. She can pick up and move on and let the feeling fall away just like that.