Imagine being served a perfect steak. Just before you're about to dig in, the chef comes to your table and tells you he forgot to add the final touch and proceeds to dump an entire cup of salt and ketchup over your steak, walking away with a smirk of satisfaction after announcing "There, now it's perfect!".

The ending completely ruins the entire series; yes it's that bad. It invalidates 20 volumes of wonderful character development, shoving down your throat an abysmal relationship that makes absolutely no sense in the story.

How can the author be so tone deaf/unable to read the room? It's absolutely disgusting what the author's done to this series. It was one of my top 3 light novels, and now I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I regret giving the author my time, attention, and money. He should be ashamed and apologize for ruining the series.

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Being an avid Anime enthusiast, I have come to accept numerous flaws in the industry that I cherish, flaws that have been ruining the industry for years, with no sign of said flaws going away any time soon. One of the biggest of these blunders, is how many writers of Manga and Light Novels end their beloved series, stabbing the reader in the heart, a reader who has spent years dedicated to the source material, only for the author to lose all sense of writing ability at the end, and vomiting out a ending that should not be accepted as a professional publication of any sort. This sadly happened to Devil is a Part Timer, another series in a long line of fantastic source material that was great for a long time, than the writer decided to put out a final volume with the quality you find in poorly written fan-fiction. It is utterly disappointing, and heartbreaking for individuals who spent so much time supporting this, all to be lent down with something so poorly made to finish it all off.

To be honest I didn't read much of the actual Light Novel itself, I watched the Anime back when it was released, and enjoyed it tremendously. I would check up on summaries of each novel that was released so I at least was caught up on what was happening in the original source material. I did this, because I have been disappointed so many times by Manga and Light Novels wasting years of the reader's time only to end up completely ruining the entire series with writing quality that goes down the toilet, with an author who clearly has no real writing skills being exposed at the end, because they have no utter idea how to end the series they built up. Thankfully for me I didn't take a vested interest in the light novel, otherwise my disappointment would have been even greater.

The ending is so butchered, it seems the author wanted to end the series in the most lethargic and utterly incompetent way possible without actually looking up how he wrote the rest of the series, to see if the ending he proposed actually makes any sense with the development he already established. It truly makes me wonder if the writers in the Anime industry as a whole actually know how to write anything, or if they simply string together a couple of random ideas that accidentally work, but then when it comes time to tie all these ideas together into a nice bow with a fantastic ending, their inherent lack of talent shines through, and their lack of writing talent leads to an ending that even a four year old could write better. To not spoil anything, basically the ending goes against any of the natural build up of the past volumes, this ending just comes out of right field with illogical character decisions that are in contrast with past decisions, again just further supporting my conclusion that these authors get lucky with a decent premise but are unable to fulfill anything beyond that, relying on the Anime medium to sell their poorly written novels, otherwise if they actually had any belief in their abilities they would write regular novels without piggybacking on the Anime medium to quickly sell off their mediocre "books".

That is why I don't bother reading any Manga or Light Novels while they are still in the middle of their runs, I have no trust in the author being able to maintain any semblance of quality, it usually just ends up getting worse and worse, with an eventual final release that leaves everyone empty inside, wasting years of their life and money on an author who didn't deserve it. I heard the author is getting death threats, I do not condone such vile behavior, however I do condone not supporting authors with track records of failure, until they can prove they can actually maintain the quality of the beginning novels all the way to the end. Otherwise, we are just supporting mediocrity and setting ourselves up for disappointment again.

Hopefully by some miracle this source material gets its second season as unlikely as it is, and that the Anime studio in charge actually gets leeway into making significant changes. Otherwise just stick to the original first season Anime. Just another great source material like Food Wars, that is ruined by an author who was given too much hype, and was unable to fulfill the early promise, instead butchering the series as it went along. At least the final season of Food Wars did remedy some of the Manga's issues, however this is most likely not gonna happen for Devil is a Part Timer. I am truly getting sick of this, the industry needs better talent as harsh as that sounds, I truly believe it.

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