Fluff. A looooot of fluff. At least until Ch. 20 or so.
Perhaps a bit too fluffy for my liking. Told from a child's perspective too.
Very little of her past maturity is preserved, which I sort-of didn't like.
There's a picture of another girl to the right.
Then they have a quote "Because they were too 'small', customers stopped coming".
The humans deserve to die. Even the townsfolk.
I've written off humans.
I'm firmly in a Demon Lord camp in any story going forward pretty much.
Not pointless stupidity like "Ainz Ol Gown". But explicit and systemic genocide.
Too many JP authors "humble" and "kind" their MCs. Without considering in-universe logical implications.
Sometimes...
Wanna bet JP author wusses out and lets villains get away with this scot-free?
And no, "beating them up" doesn't count. The dwarves' wives and children were already implicated.
It's not "barbaric" to enact the same harms on those doing it to you. It's called "war".
I'd like to think she either headbutt him really hard (Moto-Sekai Ichii Sub-chara style) -- or told him "Drink Your Ovaltine".
That's was you get for being ambiguous and wishy-washy, Author.
You know. I know. We all know.
The author will never let the "clean, civilized, humane" fellow Japanese die.
Despite literally calling out the moments-prior murder of innocent adventurers.
The fact I can say this with such absolute certainty saddens me.
From reading the actual WN myself, and not second-hand knowledge: it's fully romantic. Just not explicit Shounen-level graphic T&A.
They're basically long-term married "baka-fufu".
It was a hyperbole to illustrate poor writing all too common among isekai/fantasy junkfood genre. Light claims to be in favor of restoring human dignity, as quickly as possible. Yet masqueraded as an adventurer for... reasons.
This is a revenge manga. But the author has written it so the MC...
I'm really tired of manga that portray comically evil actors with no repercussions whatsoever. It's stereotypically Japanese.
Putting on "actual adult" hat: this single war-speech/series of actions shows genociding the entire beastmen species probably is warranted, since they are shown to...
In Japanese:
"Nanka imi ga chigai~~~(interrupted sfx)"
In English:
"Somehow what the meaning is diff....(erent)"
He's cut off mid-sentence about "(I/you/she) meant something else".