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The Devil Is a Part-Timer Manga #21
The Devil Is a Part-Timer! Manga, Vol. 21
THE DEVIL KING IS HIRING!
In the heart of the Bluehorns’ fortress, a young Satan confronts the enemy chief, Adramelech. Defeating him would mean adding the clan’s strength to Satan’s army, but the Bluehorns are merely one step on the road to uniting the demons under a single banner. Years later, Satan will be challenged by an even greater foe―Alciel, leader of the Iron Scorpions! How did the future Devil King meet his most loyal general?
In the heart of the Bluehorns’ fortress, a young Satan confronts the enemy chief, Adramelech. Defeating him would mean adding the clan’s strength to Satan’s army, but the Bluehorns are merely one step on the road to uniting the demons under a single banner. Years later, Satan will be challenged by an even greater foe―Alciel, leader of the Iron Scorpions! How did the future Devil King meet his most loyal general?
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178 pages, Paperback
First published May 26, 2023
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July 22, 2024
Such a good volume, reading the backstory of all the demons has been great and the next volume will be just as good I can feel it!
August 29, 2025
boring ass backstory like sorry
December 23, 2024
Here is where I'm increasingly annoyed at the translation, because the devil hasn't been a part-timer in quite a while! (Is he a "working devil king"? Sure!) Capitalism says it's *probably* a bad idea to have a bunch of dissimilar things with similar names, though, like Cells at Work! and Bros at Work! and The Devil at Work! ...hmm.
This is still Alciel's/Ashiya's flashback to how he started serving under Maou, getting to the point where Baby Satan finally grew up and oh no, he's hot... :O
I mean, I expected him to be SOMEWHAT attractive, since Chiho fell for him in his human form pretty quickly (it's strangely difficult to tell what characters are "supposed" to be attractive/unattractive in-universe unless they're deliberately drawn with snot dripping out of their noses and whatever), but he actually looks pretty dang gorgeous here! What I recall of his "initial" devilness was after he had been rather battletorn, I think—so, broken horn, a bit broader/heavier, definitely older, vs. here he's peak youth and... *physical* maturity, anyway. Probably what they were going for, at least.
Anyway, the story is still mostly just Satan going around and trying to recruit everyone he fights, using his heretofore unmentioned ability to just copy whatever others are doing. Maybe it was mentioned before and I just missed it. That WOULD explain how he would be able to so quickly move up in the MgRonalds ranks, though.
Not a lot else to say about it—flashbacks have that downside of we already KNOW what happens at the end, so most of the dramatic tension is gone. It's really only interesting in seeing, for instance, Lucifer/Urushihara complain that Satan used to be his height but then had a HUGE growth spurt in ten years, haha. Otherwise, I don't know... lots of military tactics and so on, but I can't really follow it that well, since it's trying to describe the movements of THOUSANDS but only a few characters at a time ever appear due to the limits of hand-drawn media. I mean, what's there is a good effort, but I'm totally going to forget what happened without this review. Heck, I forgot what happened in the prior book (though part of that is I have never found and read the books in order).
Recommended for anyone following the series and unable to wait for the anime to catch up, I guess. It's not really a compelling series, otherwise.
This is still Alciel's/Ashiya's flashback to how he started serving under Maou, getting to the point where Baby Satan finally grew up and oh no, he's hot... :O
I mean, I expected him to be SOMEWHAT attractive, since Chiho fell for him in his human form pretty quickly (it's strangely difficult to tell what characters are "supposed" to be attractive/unattractive in-universe unless they're deliberately drawn with snot dripping out of their noses and whatever), but he actually looks pretty dang gorgeous here! What I recall of his "initial" devilness was after he had been rather battletorn, I think—so, broken horn, a bit broader/heavier, definitely older, vs. here he's peak youth and... *physical* maturity, anyway. Probably what they were going for, at least.
Anyway, the story is still mostly just Satan going around and trying to recruit everyone he fights, using his heretofore unmentioned ability to just copy whatever others are doing. Maybe it was mentioned before and I just missed it. That WOULD explain how he would be able to so quickly move up in the MgRonalds ranks, though.
Not a lot else to say about it—flashbacks have that downside of we already KNOW what happens at the end, so most of the dramatic tension is gone. It's really only interesting in seeing, for instance, Lucifer/Urushihara complain that Satan used to be his height but then had a HUGE growth spurt in ten years, haha. Otherwise, I don't know... lots of military tactics and so on, but I can't really follow it that well, since it's trying to describe the movements of THOUSANDS but only a few characters at a time ever appear due to the limits of hand-drawn media. I mean, what's there is a good effort, but I'm totally going to forget what happened without this review. Heck, I forgot what happened in the prior book (though part of that is I have never found and read the books in order).
Recommended for anyone following the series and unable to wait for the anime to catch up, I guess. It's not really a compelling series, otherwise.
July 27, 2024
Good solid backstory episode volume
It's been so long since the last volume came out but I honestly couldn't remember where the last one ended. So when I started reading this when I was very confused. Apparently it's a flashback to the time when Satan is building his army. A c i e l is telling the story as he recounts how he came to know Satan through conflict. It's a very interesting story, and really shows Satan's personality being consistent. Unfortunately, it cliffhanger ends right when the climactic dual is about to begin at the end. So we're going to have to wait some months before we get to see the super cool showdown between our two favorite demons... Sigh.
It's been so long since the last volume came out but I honestly couldn't remember where the last one ended. So when I started reading this when I was very confused. Apparently it's a flashback to the time when Satan is building his army. A c i e l is telling the story as he recounts how he came to know Satan through conflict. It's a very interesting story, and really shows Satan's personality being consistent. Unfortunately, it cliffhanger ends right when the climactic dual is about to begin at the end. So we're going to have to wait some months before we get to see the super cool showdown between our two favorite demons... Sigh.
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