One of the most intelligent pieces of fiction I have encountered in all my life, and I have read A LOT; from regular fiction and philosophical fiction, Arabic, Persian, Indian, English, Russian, Polish, German, Chinese, Korean, & Japanese, across multiple genres and work from different eras; despite that this has come amongst the top.

The best part about it is that it is very easy to read and understand. WHILE being easy its exciting and fun to read and you learn things without even realizing or wanting to. The story in itself manages to very excellently execute multi-tier scale and depth of story in the macro and micro sense and also some in the middle; all while not putting strain on the reader.

Its also managed to have very creative ways of naming characters... of which I think is marvelous

With each and every character being filled with depth. It also manages to be very progressive in nature, with actually forgoing most of the negative female tropes, and or racist tropes which in this case rather than other race from color/ethnicity would translate into quite literally non-humans. Not only are those aspects forgone but they are also in many aspects combated. All this while in the guise of a nice easy read.

A lot of the plot and world mechanics being are very creative and original, and very well executed.

The romance is also not bad... although it can be slightly frustrating in many moments especially when it becomes quasi-haremy with the hero taking full advantage of it at moments.. although later on its a 1on1 focus

There is a lot more to say but I think it'll become a long positive rant, so ill leave at this summary of my feelings

its wonderful overall

It's a nice educational novel, I suppose. It's appropriate to about a middle school level student. However, even at that level it's underwhelming. It's just a standard "educated character tells things to uneducated character" format, with the usual trend of examples worked into the story. They don't seem to be worked into it super cohesively, but hey, what do you expect from edutainment?

Can hardly see any cause to praise this as a work of literature or even particularly entertaining schlock though.

Maoyuu Maou Yuusha is all about intelligent ideas that change the world for the better. Think the medieval/renaissance era in the western world that is transitioning to industrial/modern era.

The demon king cooperates with the hero to improve the world, not through violence but general political, economic, social, military, agricultural and medical reform.

Key ideas include:

The introduction of important new world crops, namely the potato and corn, and the 4 crop rotation method responsible for the industrial revolution in our world.

f*cking vaccination.

Gunpowder and rifling

Trench warfare.

Public Education

Cultural tolerance.

Spice and wolf style market manipulation.

If you enjoy the transitional period of a world with competent and decently interesting characters, read Maoyuu Maou Yuusha

Maoyuu Maou Yuusha is all about intelligent ideas that change the world for the better. Think the medieval/renaissance era in the western world that is transitioning to industrial/modern era.

The demon king cooperates with the hero to improve the world, not through violence but general political, economic, social, military, agricultural and medical reform.

Key ideas include:

The introduction of important new world crops, namely the potato and corn, and the 4 crop rotation method responsible for the industrial revolution in our world.

f*cking vaccination.

Gunpowder and rifling

Trench warfare.

Public Education

Cultural tolerance.

Spice and wolf style market manipulation.

If you enjoy the transitional period of a world with competent and decently interesting characters, read Maoyuu Maou Yuusha

It reads like a play and plays are meant to be seen, not read. The author's decision to write the novel entirely in dialogue is its doom.

3 stars for a decent translation and for not being a tropefest. It's a pretty dry read, though.

YOU DONT KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS NOVEL!

If you are here for epic fight, zero to hero development, hero gaining harem member left and right, finding party member to finally kill the demon king, getting OP cheat and weapon, then you wont find most of it here.

Also do note that this isn't a reincaration/isekai/going back in time kind of story, but a pure fantasy where the hero and the demon lord is person that is born and raised in that world, the world building also have that kinda background which is awesome, and the way the author deliver the story is also great, I love this novel so much, isekai story is nice because they have limitless potential and become awesome but you know how most of them goes, so this pure fantasy is a great breath of a fresh air especially since it was very well written, unlike 80% of jp wn recently.

Here light spoiler of the premise of the story (no important plot etc)

(btw if you have hard time getting into this novel since it start of kinda slow then try reading the manga, the anime isnt that great, quite the disappointment to be honest)

Spoiler

the Hero is strong, so strong that he could reach the demon lord alone, as he was about to kill "maou", maou asked, "yuusha, be mine!" of course he refused, and then an epic fight.... didnt happen, they start to talk about the world and unlike what hero initially thought, killing the demon lord won't solve anything, the demon lord knew that well and manage to persuade the kind but naive and not so bright hero, they end up becoming an accomplice, they fake their fight with mutual defeat to gain time.

Finally, the real journey began, they start their world revolution in human world, "how do you change the world? first you need to fix one main problem, food!" on country side somewhere they, or should I say the smart and talented Maou, start to spread some information on how to increase the crops yield and new kinds of crops, also other invention for the better of the masses, and even got title of "Saint" but of course its not all smooth sailing, while the demon king away the hero who is not so bright but strong as hell went to the demon world instead and take care of rebellion and other matter, while in human world the demon king busy with making deal with merchants and of course the nobles and religion would make trouble as usual just cuz they can, alright I admit that it's not the religion, it's the corrupt higher up, just like real world. Although this novel is full of politic, domestic affair, kingdom/World Building, there is also many fan service fluffy situation as a break, there is also light harem (not s*upid harem where the MC would get cute girl every single arc), and some touching scene as well which I absolutely wont spoil.

Although at the start it was kinda slow paced but they take their time building everything nicely, just so you could enjoy the development of the story and they will come nicely with some twist and turn, like drinking bitter coffee and eating a layered sweet and sour strawberry cream cake

Now that you understand the premise of the story I wont spoil the fun any longer, and everything just getting better from there so keep on reading!

Feels like it's written by someone from /r/iamverysmart. If you are 15 years old then this might read like an intelligent novel but it is more boring than enjoyable to read it. The writing is rather unique with only dialogue and minimal descriptions (except to describe the definition of grain that is) , I wouldn't call it bad writing but it's not great either. At the very beginning of it the hero walks into a fortress and the demon lord: says hello and the hero says who are you, it's already written that it's the demon lord talking and this is just such a basic storytelling mistake and having a mistake like this at the start does not inspire confidence in the rest of it. Anyway this is a pretty boring novel imo but you might like it, try to give it a few chapters because the first few are bad

How can anybody like this? Writing is shallow, world building is zero, I don‘t even know how any places looks like or how any character looks like, not much mentioned except for Maou with her big b**bs, which typical for a japanese novel to provide some fan services. At some point I wonder if this a novel or a dialog script for some theater play. There is no description about how the character react or what face they are making during any conversation, everything feel so dull and emotionless.

Dropped at volume 2.

I only read 1 and a half chapters, so I cannot give it a rating or complete review. However, the translation seems pretty good.

I stopped reading because it was really uninteresting to me. The whole 1st chapter is the Hero and the Demon Queen talking to each other about various topics, interspersed with dictionary definitions of various terms. Nothing. Happens (well the 2 characters did make a deal but that's all). These 2 characters are anonymous, they don't even have names. The conversation tells me nothing about the characters, the world or other details about the setting. It's just a list of economic/social/political issues and their definitions. It was extremely boring for me, like listening to 2 people having a conversation centered around reading a dictionary. I thought maybe this is just the intro chapter to show that it's going to be different from the cliche, but the next chapter was similar, so I stopped reading.

The average rating seems awfully high, and the other 2 reviews are glowing. Maybe I have to read more chapters to get to better stuff. For now, I'm going to read other things, maybe I'll come back to this some other time.

I only read 1 and a half chapters, so I cannot give it a rating or complete review. However, the translation seems pretty good.

I stopped reading because it was really uninteresting to me. The whole 1st chapter is the Hero and the Demon Queen talking to each other about various topics, interspersed with dictionary definitions of various terms. Nothing. Happens (well the 2 characters did make a deal but that's all). These 2 characters are anonymous, they don't even have names. The conversation tells me nothing about the characters, the world or other details about the setting. It's just a list of economic/social/political issues and their definitions. It was extremely boring for me, like listening to 2 people having a conversation centered around reading a dictionary. I thought maybe this is just the intro chapter to show that it's going to be different from the cliche, but the next chapter was similar, so I stopped reading.

The average rating seems awfully high, and the other 2 reviews are glowing. Maybe I have to read more chapters to get to better stuff. For now, I'm going to read other things, maybe I'll come back to this some other time.