Evade The Hero and Flee! Chapter 230 Discussion

I enjoyed reading this. Years ago I had read the original version and was sad it wasn't fully translated yet. What a treat to have discovered this rewrite years later. The scene where the princess falls in love with the hero reads is the most beautiful romantic scene I have ever had the privilege to read. The Yugrasia arc is one of my favorite comedy arcs. The intermittent flashback scenes are a great "closed" plot with only 3 characters.

The whole concept of the men running away from the yandere girls is funny, but it's boring when all the "romantic" interactions play out the same way. It was fine when it was only Ast and his bar host student running away at every opportunity, but when you have a third character (the Hero and princess) undergoing the same development it gets stale. It makes sense for Ast, but the less mature hero should be more conflicted. It's funnier if at first he is strongly tempted to give in but has to force himself away (or even falls to temptation), but slowly we see his journey to become immune to beauty like Ast or for him to develop venustraphobia. Instead the hero at one point just thinks "something feels eerie about this princess" and then suddenly loses all attraction to her. Why not have the scenes be more fleshed out? All romantic scenes are just the men immediately trying to run away; why not write these scenes to have more romantic tension and interest even if the end result is still the man fleeing?

The characters were a part of what made the story hilarious, but after the Yugrasia arc the characters become stagnant. In each time skip all of the characters are simply copy and pasted with the only change being that their age is +5 years. For example, the character Reia does not change at all. In the flashbacks she felt like a person who happened to be the bu*t of eternally single jokes, but afterwards her entire character is just a setup to jokes that she is not married yet. A scene of her failing a date would have been neat. Also, despite being a main heroine/villian, the Imperial Princess is mainly a footnote outside of flashback chapters. She is such a great character, and has so much more potential than just the passing mentions. Maybe she could have been researching an upgrade to the silver bat that even worked on the protagonist, or maybe we would get scenes of a Yugrasia with a crazy Princess's twist on it. The author has done a great job with these characters, and they need to interact with each other more. Unlike the Yugrasia arc or flashback arc, the story later becomes

too plot driven and the characters feel lifeless (That said, I'm only on CH 220.)

Alice's lack of character development dissappointed me the most. I honestly thought that his daughter would be a dissenting voice aginst her father's antics, because she is the only person that Ast actually listens to (There's a scene when they're still on the farm where she scolds him for lazing around, and she also was willing to give him the silent treatment for months in the Fried Chicken Protest.) I thought this would end up with a comedic twist where she ends up being very opinionated and sometimes in opposition to Ast's plans. I had also thought she would try to matchmake him with the Princess (this was after she and the metal bat consulted with their neighbor about getting their father hitched.) Instead she just gets a rare passing mention as the head of the Chicken department and is just Ast's cute little healing daughter.

At the point I'm at the schadenfreude humor has started getting stale with the Demon continent arc, as the main joke (the demons have to s*ave away at paperwork) is a shadow to the creative mayhem in the Yugrasia arc. Nevertheless I still enjoyed the work a lot. I will be looking forward to seeing the rest translated.