The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World Chapter 77 Discussion

Well, supposedly the story changes drastically, in a good way, as another reviewer said, but up to chapter 30, it's still pretty much a mindless slice-of-life through and through. It's not bad, the characters have enough depth to make it an enjoyable enough experience, and it's the same with the world-building.

In his past life, the MC was already someone very smart, and in this new world, he's treated like a genius among geniuses, prompting a lot of scientific mumbo jumbo from the author. On the other hand, his scientific knowledge is pretty much what advances the plot forward, as he produces a vaccine against chickenpox, he invents paper, and so on. It's typical isekai shit, but it's entertaining enough, I guess. There's also some semblance of romance with his cousin (SAO basically) and the princess, but it's so small that it barely deserves the romantic subplot tag.

I know you're not supposed to rate novels according to the quality of translation, but sadly, it's one of the things that kills this particular novel for me. It's just right on the border between 'ok at least I can kinda understand' and 'painful to read.' Sure, I can tell there's a lot of effort into every chapter, but about 30% of each one is completely unintelligible. It makes for a really frustrating reading when most slice-of-life novels are already quite plain, to begin with.

EDIT: after reading up to chapter 77, I can tell that the author is already showing signs of making the plot evolve into a different, more interesting direction. There's a lot more political and economic intrigue I suppose, but it remains mostly as a slice-of-life novel.

Regrettably, I just have to say that the translator simply chose the wrong novel to MTL. The amount of useless exposition the author puts in is almost shocking and coupled with the fact that the novel sometimes goes pretty deep into hardcore scientific explanations, it makes it quite hard to understand despite the translator's best efforts. There's something about this story that keeps dragging me in regardless of all of the above, though. However, I don't think you miss out on much if you simply skip this one. Conversely, if you're interested in reading, you're pretty much risking a cerebral hemorrhage, so proceed at your own caution.