
The Unemployed Demon King
失业魔王
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 4.4M Words
- Genre
- Western Fantasy
- Updated
- 5y ago
- English
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Let me reply again: the author has successfully completed his civil service job and left the novel writing community after finishing this novel. There's no need to ask where he/she is anymore. Currently, I'm managing Yewu's fan group (group numbers 1, 5, 9, 7, 5, 9, 8, 92). I will announce any new information in the group.
I can't help but criticize this book.
1. How can a high-ranking (minor) female lead become someone who can fight a great demon king while wearing armor worth tens of millions? I thought high-ranking people were all noble, but it turns out that saint-ranking people are everywhere. 2. The male lead is burdened with tens of millions of debts and still wants to help pay them off, his reason being that he doesn't want to go back to the Demon King's Palace? So, his friends and sister, whom he's spent hundreds of years with, and the Demon King's Palace are less important than a hero who suddenly appears? 3. It's an invincible novel. Yes, the male lead is invincible, but he has a righteous female lead by his side who wants to help everyone she meets, but she doesn't have the strength and always gets killed, then the male lead has to clean up her mess? The male lead is also restricted in many ways because of some inexplicable little things. 4. I...
You call this invincible?
Since it's supposed to be an invincible protagonist story, there's no need for so many scenes of the female lead getting captured and then being rescued. Every time it's like this, it makes her seem like a useless character. If she's powerful, that's righteous; if she's not, meddling is just stupid. And why is she constantly acting like a saint after all these troubles? Doesn't she grow? Can't she plan ahead? Every time, the male lead saves the day, resulting in a female lead that's completely unlikable… If I hadn't read the manga before reading the novel, I probably wouldn't even have seen the paid chapters. The female lead really only has her looks; there's absolutely nothing else to like about her. It's ridiculous…
After watching the first episode of the anime, I couldn't hold back anymore. Merlin's surname has changed to Li, like mine? Li Merlin? Anyone who didn't know better would think I'd sent him money. That's insane!
The male protagonist is an eunuch; those who read this later should proceed with caution.
I recently came across pineapple buns, and looking back, 2021 really was the golden age of pineapple buns.
The beginning was indeed very good, with detailed content and a clear plot. However, the later parts became quite inexplicable, the supporting characters were weak, and the characters' intelligence seemed forced downgraded.
I recently rewatched it and found that many of the comments were quite malicious (there weren't any commentary sections when I first watched it), especially towards the male and female leads. Regarding the male lead: some people thought he was a scumbag with terrible habits and a terrible personality, while others countered that he was a 200-year-old demon. Later, during certain righteous scenes involving rescuing people (mainly in the early episodes), some people wondered why the female lead didn't ask for his help and insisted on going alone.
It's a pity the author disappeared, so we can't see what he wrote afterward.
I came here specifically to complain after finishing the book. The later parts were unreadable. The male lead had no class at all. He treated the eunuch like a straight man and wasn't even as brave as Alice. They mistook stupidity for arrogance when it came to intelligence, and were led by the nose the whole time. In terms of combat prowess, he's like a cheat code that can kill in one hit, melts in water, gets ambushed, and trips up—just like a noob cheating in a game. The male lead saves the female lead by luck, progresses the plot by luck, and even his own life later on depends on luck.