A Demon Lord’s Tale: Dungeons, Monster Girls, and Heartwarming Bliss Chapter 157 Discussion

I will say that the first ~130 chapters are really good. They live up to the heartwarming title. The romance with the love interest is really good, it develops naturally and is very satisfyingly up to that point.

It does have some problems with how it handles the plot, it sometimes feels a little forced. Like the MC is going out of his way to confront enemies that really don't appear to be threats to him, for very arbitrary reasons. These times simply detract from the fun slice of life aspect that I liked about this series.

The real problem for me are the developments after chp ~140.

Spoiler

After having properly married the dragon girl, for what ever reasons the author starting pushing the series towards some generic harem fantasy. Up to this point the MC had zero romantic feelings for anyone else, and dragon girl clearly loved him too. She was also a little possesive telling the other girls in private that she wouldn't yield him to anyone else and being a little jealous even against people she had nothing to fear from.

However after they got married things started taking a complete 180 turn. Suddenly she will forgive him with a light beating if he cheats and dosn't even care that much if it's with one of the maids.

Judging from the tags and how things are described it is clearly heading towards him basically hooking up with or straight up cheating with one of the maids. And that is not heartwarming at all.

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