#How Not To Summon A Demon Lord

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Appearance of A Demon Lord Chapter 19 is posted.

I'm excited about this but it's the start of a lot of things in the story so I can't comment on them without ruining what I had planned. Just go read it I guess?

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Alicia Crystela is still my waifu. And I'm still pissed at how they did her dirty.

But How Not to Summon a Demon Lord is a fantastic example of how to write a story, and how not to write a story.

There are a million isekai light novels in Japan, and so to stand out you need a catch. The catch here is (accidental) slavery.

The main character gets summoned as his video game character.

His video game character has an extremely rare ring that reflects all magic cast upon him.

The summoning spell has two parts: Part 1) Bring the creature to your location, Part 2) enslave them.

Now, the spell is not supposed to work on sentient races, but the story needs this to work, so just role with it.

He is summoned, but the enslavement spell is reflected back on the girls that summoned him. Naturally one is a false-loli cat girl, and the other is a big-tittied elf girl.

This sounds exceptionally generic, except for the premise. But, it at least has the wherewithal to follow it's premise.

The main character, Diablo, was known in the game as the Demon Lord, because of his power, and the fact he genuinely hates love.

He's an autistic incel. And the plot requires him to be pulled out of his autistic isolation, and learn to care about others. The main antagonist is his own autism, as it prevents him from knowing how to interact with people as people. He wasn't exactly planning to have fantasy girls with magical slave collars, and states so, and pretty easily is talked into finding out how to remove them.

But, the problem is that they are very useful for the character plots of the two girls. The slave collars basically preempt mind control attempts. And his autism prevents him from showing his affection in any way than declaring them his property. This gives him the defence that he's just protecting what he owns.

So, this sets up for a positive slave girl arc that the author clearly did not intend, as he does everything he can to not move it an inch passed this point, even when it open the story up to much more development.

During this whole time, he is overpowered, because people in this world fear death. So, nothing in the world is a direct challenge for him. The only thing that stops him is his own apathy.

So, Season 1 ends, and Season 2 begins. And it immediately tries to become a generic isekai. They finished the storylines for the two main girls, they refuse to include any other women that could be included at the drop of a hat, and they don't want to focus on him trying to overcome his autism. So, what do you do?

Add characters that are powerful enough to challenge him, even if it makes no sense, as he defeated the most powerful people in the world in Season 1. Now, they can't actually write a challenging battle, so it becomes nothing but boring beam-of-war bullshit.

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Do You Know This Anime?

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it's like, i see an anime title, and immediately i know i will love it

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My fan roster of the new Isekai Isekai game that's gonna be coming out (excluding the Isekai Quartet)

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Appearance of A Demon Lord, Chapter 18

Finally posted this. I like this chapter, I think it progresses Diablo and Sylvie's working relationship quite well, and *finally* finishes out the opening arc of the story.

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What I Watched in June 2024

Parts 1 and 2 - I was feeling really bleh with a lot of things happening irl and this is one of my comfort watches.

Very ecchi...but honestly a pretty fun series

I need more!!!!

Cute...and I want Psybe

Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World

Kinda bland...not as fun as some of the others, though his mom and dad are hilarious.

I loved it so much!!!!

Have found myself on a final fantasy kick thanks to images of miniroth springing up on my dash so had to re-watch this movie. ^_^

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Diablo the demon lord

I'm a fan of @luckyladylily AU. That's why I can't not draw~

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How Not to Summon a Demon Lord (2018) S01 E09 · Holy Knight Tale

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