Shinkon Quest: Maou no Musume wa Majime Yuusha o Otoshitai ♡ - Ch. 2

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Something about the world building feels juvenile. Not in a bad way, but like the god is unexperienced and running on tropes.

A standard fantasy setting. Good boy human hero who does good things all the time. A demon lord threat. Modern Otaku tropes and memes that aren't applied quite right in a subculture that has anachronistic merch.

And then this hamfisted, if adorable, course correction by a book that is doing its damndest to paint by numbers into a different genre of manga.

It feels like somebody got isekai'd as God, didn't like how things played out with their first draft but couldn't start over so they're just trying to change genres.
I really dislike this trope, hero/the brave lost its title's meaning just because the author want to depict someone who is actually strong but got bad treatment. At least revoke the hero title first if the kingdom is that corrupt. It doesn't make a sense if the supposed hero didn't retaliate
 
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Typical shoujo manga troupe with a spice of R-18 anyone? XD
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I'm guessing the Demon King noticed his daughter enjoyed human culture, saw her collection of stuff about the Hero, and made the book to trick the human king into allowing the marriage. She wouldn't even have to know.
It's just a hopeful guess, though. I'm curious how the main plot will actually develop.
 
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This would be a good short, 5 min Anime ngl. Nothing really happening and it's just 1 very lewd (on the inside) demon with a celibate Man.
 
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I'm guessing the Demon King noticed his daughter enjoyed human culture, saw her collection of stuff about the Hero, and made the book to trick the human king into allowing the marriage. She wouldn't even have to know.
It's just a hopeful guess, though. I'm curious how the main plot will actually develop.
That's a good guess. Mine is that the book is actually a book from the gods, and the end of the world is brought by the Humans and Demons not cooperating/living peacefully, so the Hero and daughter of the Demon king developing feelings for each other and eventually loving one another is what saves the world.
 
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He is not a hero. He is the kingdom's slave. What the heck is the king's doing? Is the king's poor?
The usual action pattern is treat the hero well before defeating the demon lord, and poorly after (so there can be a story). The traditional Dragon Quest interpretation (and in Frieren also) is to take care of the hero for the rest of their life (usually not their descendants, though).

In this story, the demon lord was defeated generations ago, but it's not like they're dead (the heroine is his daughter). So the hero goes straight to being treated poorly. But now there's this job for the hero - saving the world not from the demon lord, but from this book straight out of "It Takes Two" (videogame). It's so similar, I wouldn't be surprised if this story is inspired by it.
 
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The usual action pattern is treat the hero well before defeating the demon lord, and poorly after (so there can be a story). The traditional Dragon Quest interpretation (and in Frieren also) is to take care of the hero for the rest of their life (usually not their descendants, though).

In this story, the demon lord was defeated generations ago, but it's not like they're dead (the heroine is his daughter). So the hero goes straight to being treated poorly. But now there's this job for the hero - saving the world not from the demon lord, but from this book straight out of "It Takes Two" (videogame). It's so similar, I wouldn't be surprised if this story is inspired by it.
He is already being treated worse after his dad left. And the story clearly tell the reader that he never get a normal banquet that important people usually have. And his childhood filled with hero this hero that but no one really respect him. He is all alone now (except his mission with his wife)
 
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He is not a hero. He is the kingdom's slave. What the heck is the king's doing? Is the king's poor?
That's what a hero is. A publicly owned slave that is gaslit into thinking he's doing the right thing for no actual pay. Why do you think heroes have to loot every house they enter?
 
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Something about the world building feels juvenile. Not in a bad way, but like the god is unexperienced and running on tropes.

A standard fantasy setting. Good boy human hero who does good things all the time. A demon lord threat. Modern Otaku tropes and memes that aren't applied quite right in a subculture that has anachronistic merch.

And then this hamfisted, if adorable, course correction by a book that is doing its damndest to paint by numbers into a different genre of manga.

It feels like somebody got isekai'd as God, didn't like how things played out with their first draft but couldn't start over so they're just trying to change genres.
Ngl but I would definitely read a manga like that.

"I got Isekai'd as a Successor God of a Fantasy World But My Predecessor Messed Up, So Now I Have To Fix It But I Have No Idea What I'm Doing!"
 
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Never until now have I considered requesting a photo booth at the House of Toast.
 
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That's what a hero is. A publicly owned slave that is gaslit into thinking he's doing the right thing for no actual pay. Why do you think heroes have to loot every house they enter?
Damn. That one is a game's scenario. Even pokemon trainer designed to loot every house they enter.

there is a variety of concepts of heroes in fiction. There is some who got the title after the accomplishment, there is some who got supported by the kingdom to do the mission, and only some sort of buff of a job role. i never see someone who claim to be a hero and then looting people's house. What title was this?
 
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Damn. That one is a game's scenario. Even pokemon trainer designed to loot every house they enter.

there is a variety of concepts of heroes in fiction. There is some who got the title after the accomplishment, there is some who got supported by the kingdom to do the mission, and only some sort of buff of a job role. i never see someone who claim to be a hero and then looting people's house. What title was this?
Pretty much every JRPG ever. Jokes aside, being a hero, especially the non-greek variant, is pretty much the same as being a publicly owned slave given the moral obligation of the hero to serve the community.
 

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