Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii?

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Synonyms: I, the Demon Lord, Took a Slave Elf as My Wife, but How Do I Love Her?

Japanese: 魔王の俺が奴隷エルフを嫁にしたんだが、どう愛でればいい？

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Feb 23, 2018 to ?

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Romance

Serialization: Comic Fire

Authors: Teshima, Fuminori (Story), Itagaki, Hako (Art)

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Score: 7.59¹ (scored by 7,604 users)

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Ranked: #2319²

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Popularity: #713

Members: 25,105

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Zagan is feared by the masses as an evil sorcerer. Both socially awkward and foulmouthed, he spends his days studying sorcery while beating down any trespassers within his domain. One day he's invited to a dark auction, and what he finds there is an elven slave girl of peerless beauty, Nephy. Having fallen in love at first sight, Zagan uses up his entire fortune to purchase her, but being a poor conversationalist, he has no idea how to properly interact with her. Thus, the awkward cohabitation of a sorcerer who has no idea how to convey his love and his slave who yearns for her master but has no idea how to appeal to him begins.

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Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii? has been published digitally in English as An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride by J-Novel Club since June 11, 2019.

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Nephelia

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Jun 25, 2022

jarre

Recommended

Preliminary (43/? eps)

Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii? is a pretty fun read. Sure, it isn't anything groundbreaking but I still couldn't stop bingereading it. Basically, the main character, Zagan is former orphan that since then has become a powerful mage. In this world, magicians are considered evil, as they commit immoral things without second thoughts. Zagan wants to become a demon lord to increase his already huge power-level, but instead she meets Nephie, a beautiful orphan elf girl, who is being auctioned for anyone who is ready to pay a price. Zagan experiences love at first sight and ...

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Aug 7, 2019

SiriusTimeKeeper

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Preliminary (14/? eps)

Love/ Magic/ TSUNDERE

Trying to find a manga that will cause cavities or diabetes???~~ Read this manga now!

I was hooked by this manga since finishing the first chapter. The elements of purity, love at first sight, and awkwardness of expressing one’s tenderness are personally a no brainer for me to continue on reading this manga.

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Zagan, our male MC, is a talented young lad, a candidate for “Demon lords”. Yet, everyone believed him as cruel and even cold-blooded.
Result: Can be extremely awkward, unable to express feelings

Nephilia, our female MC, is a beautiful elf with an unknown source of power. Despite this, she was mistreated by ...

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Apr 23, 2021

MAND4

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Preliminary (30/? eps)

A manga derailed by its inability to not hit every single cliche in the book of light-fantasy manga.

While definitely far from awful, the yet-another-long-winded-in-name manga commits perhaps the most cardinal sin of them all: it... becomes boring. A lot of what makes the countless trash isekai manga somehow remain profitable and afloat despite the fact that they're awful by every objective metric is the fact that they're usually not that boring to read. This one, despite not being isekai (a breath of fresh air, if I may say so), however, does become just that: boring.

The cliches that it decides to play by are ... simply too stale and become predictable to the point where I was ready to drop it around 10-15 chapters in, but continued reading 'cause of hope the author was simply starting off slowly and building up. 30 chapters, however, are enough for me to know that we're stuck here and we're not moving on from here and this is all that it's gonna be.

The story, at its core, is just bad. It's the same nonsense you've read numerous times-- LN stories staring an 'anti-hero' that has really nothing 'anti' about him. The main character is simply too likable to be anti-anything, and his 'maou' title is just waved off by the world setting and (as is usually the case in these types of stories) it turns out, wait for it, it was actually the church that was baaaad.

While his interactions with the main girl can be cute, they're just too basic and juvenile for me too really enjoy them, especially considering implications that these two are not in their teens, but much older than that.

Furthermore, the story repeats itself so much it's gotten too tiring. I'm not going to spoil anything, but once you've gotten through the first 'major' arc, just know that the same structure is repurpsoed for all the rest (up until I've ready, anyway).

Art, well, is good. While most character designs are fairly generic, and the setting itself leaves a lot to be desired, it's clean, it has some uniqueness to it, and readability is top notch.

Characters, similarly to the story, just get progressively more trite and boring as they are introduced. While the main character is fairly cliche-- and I'm even tempted to genuinely call him Gary-stu -- he at least has that teen-edge 'cool' factor to him that keeps him somewhat interesting. The rest of the cast, however, is too dull; the main girl is literally just a doll that exists to reaffirm the main lead as some sort of a lonely, nice guy or whatever. Her character, cut from MC, literally can't even exist as she's so co-dependent on him to do anything. Which, well, is just boring. And kinda insulting.

Other female characters, similarly, are either just one-note-bores, or too dependent on MC for their personalities to exist. While the holy maiden or whatever has some life outside of MC, her development goes backwards and, well, the rest is history.

Villains, similarly, are either too one-note, or the other type-- one I hate even more: the author is too afraid to make a bad guy 'bad' since nearly ALL of them get converted onto MC's side, so most of the 'villains' are, at best, misunderstood and, at worst, just not that evil, really.

It's a fun manga, don't get me wrong, and if you're looking to break away from isekai trash but still read some fantasy, you can go ahead and jump into this. It has relatively straightforward romance, drama is minimal even if it is heavily melodramatic, it has some nice action, palpable cast of characters, and if you can ignore its placid and one-note story, it should be an easy read.

Cheers, and apologies for grammar mistakes; I'm too lazy to proofread this.

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