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Well, I have read many of the negative comments on the page and I can resume their feeling in being that "They don't have patience" and "They are too used to how Light Novels are".With that outside, let's give the most objective opinion I can give.Kuro No Maou is a pretty good novel with interesting development, multiple different and complex characters, and a great variety of abilities and powers.It's a more darker and tragic isekai than your average, with characters dying and being seriously harmed from right to left, so a reader must be prepared to find out a favorite character can be suddenly killed a few chapters after its introduction.The romance takes a pretty important role in the development of the story and multiple characters, being most of the time the conductor between the characters and their decisions, especially in later chapters.The story also has a variety of ideologies which makes it quite common for characters to change their stances from one point to another, making friends enemies and enemies into friends.It Mixes everyday life events, adventuring, Monster hunting, War, politics, and many others.The world-building is an important element too in the whole novel, with multiple chapters dedicated to the explanation of different topics not directly related to the events on the story: These can be chapters describing historical facts, side characters personal stories and monologues, world elements like magic, construction, technologies, religion, etc.The Protagonist and its companions begin being quite weak, here there is no cheat MC, and the power level of them grows slowly since there are no shortcuts nor convenient power-ups. The Strenght of the characters is grown with hard training, multiple efforts, and obtaining powerful equipment. So its best you don't go expecting a overpowered main character who defeats everyone in his way, you will get to see far too many looses before a win. And its quite normal since he confronts the strongest enemies from the very begging in the story.This gives the novel a really slow pace in the developments of the principal events which makes it a long experience.Kuro no Maou is a great story with a big universe and story elements. So it's recommended to tackle it with patience, hard will, and time.I don't recommend this story for those who are too biased on the model of the Light Novels (They are shorter stories with a more direct and fast development), those sensible with harsh story elements (multiple deaths, r*pe, torture, etc.), and those who are only interested in the MC perspective (KnM introduce and develops multiple characters to a deep level, making it quite normal for multiple chapters dedicated to their stories and their perspectives).