@Cinna2Spicy People are mad because it seems like much more of a dick move if the vote wasn't unanimous. The huge cunt tsundere said "we were all in agreement," but that was a lie, they weren't, there was a person who was excluded from the vote who would NOT have been okay with it. I can't know this, but it almost feels like they waited until the black mage girl was gone before making this decision just so it wouldn't devolve into a huge fight that destroyed the party. Not that it looks like that's going to help much, because it seems as though there's still going to be a huge fight and it's still probably going to destroy the party. The Miracle 5+1 reduced to the Miracle 3.
I don't understand the argument some people are making, though, saying that they didn't have enough votes to kick him out. Including him, they're a six man band. Obviously he isn't included in the vote, so that's five people voting. Even if we ignore the fact that it wasn't a full vote because the black mage wasn't there, they only needed three votes to kick him, because 3/5 is a majority vote. They had the three votes.
I do, however, feel as though this is going to end up being a mistake for them. His chorus ability is absolutely broken, he's arguably THE reason their party is what it is at all. Any king with two braincells to rub together would pay him a mountain of gold to hang out with the military and be the personal trainer and babysitter for anybody with promise or a good destined occupation. Maybe I'm doing this series a disservice by comparing it to another one, because maybe in this world, there was truly nothing else for him to be doing, but this really reminds me of the Level 99 Jester manga (which you should read by the way, it's hilarious), and in that manga, a serious point was made that every party needs somebody who can handle the paperwork. Somebody has to book all the inns, manage the supplies, deal with the money, make sure the passports are signed and approved, negotiate all the arrangements, and smooth over any problems that might crop up. Any party that doesn't have a details person with some talent at smooth talking and managing money is going to end up in a world of trouble eventually. In that manga, the Jester was that guy, and he was kicked because the party all felt that he was useless, because he was a Jester from Dragon Quest. But of course, he was the reason the party was able to do as well as they had, and without him, everything fell apart more or less immediately.
Again, maybe I'm being a poor sport for assuming similar circumstances in two totally different series, but if nothing else, they could have kept him around as "their" Jester. He certainly seems to have a talent for dealing with people, which by itself makes him valuable even without his skills being taken into account. He's a perfect fit for the job.
That being said, I do really appreciate this manga for what it is, which is a version of the "MC gets dismissed from hero party" story where the hero party weren't all a bunch of sociopathic narcissists. The hero, the lancer, and glasses all genuinely seemed to have his well-being in mind when they did this. It maybe wasn't the most well thought-out decision, but they did have his best interests in mind, and not their own selfish ambitions, and that deserves some serious props. That alone makes this story a great deal more interesting to me.
@FStubbs They did indeed part about as amicably as it is possible to do so, I would agree. The problem is that, as they are likely soon to find out, "as amicably as possible" still isn't very amicable.