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    The Forsaken Hero Returns From Death to be the Demon King (Suterareta Yuusha no Eiyuutan)

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    • TerrenceT
      Terrence Premium Member @Guspaz
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      @guspaz said in The Forsaken Hero Returns From Death to be the Demon King (Suterareta Yuusha no Eiyuutan):

      "brainwashing against their will instead"

      The girls all look so happy on the covers though. T_T

      It does sound like from comments that while he does control them, it's so they can be a part of his squad or something? Like, they specifically point out this is not an "R" fantasy, him brainwashing people to be his sex partners or something like many revenge tales have these days. Not that this wipes out enslavement as a point of negative contention, but... it could be worse? I guess we'll see. xC

      I think I'll try reading the Japanese V1 at some point to look into it.

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      • GuspazG
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        The girls hate his guts, absolutely loathe him, so he murders them and then resurrects them as his slaves. I guess some of them are sex slaves?

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        • galactuskahn24G
          galactuskahn24 Member @Guspaz
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          @guspaz if I remember correctly most of the girls loathe him just for existing.

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          • TerrenceT
            Terrence Premium Member
            last edited by Terrence

            Ah, I'll have to check it out to see how bad / offensive the content may be (and maybe I'll check out the WN too to see what they changed? Idk). I got volume 1 since it was on sale on Bookwalker.

            The illustrator for the series is the same as that Demon Lord Orphanage one Sol Press picked up. Probably why I like the color art for volume 1.

            https://bookwalker.jp/author/100865/?acode=WpfPW3yk

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            • GuspazG
              Guspaz Member @galactuskahn24
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              @galactuskahn24 The author never makes any attempt to justify the hate. In Arifureta, you're provided with the reasons behind the hate. In Forsaken Hero, there is no reason, his schoolmates simply beat him to near death on a regular basis for no particular reason other than that they hate him for existing.

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              • galactuskahn24G
                galactuskahn24 Member @Guspaz
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                @guspaz I mean is no reason better than the cliche of main character is an otaku?

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                • GuspazG
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                  Maybe I'm misremembering, but did they even give that as a reason? I don't remember there being any reason given whatsoever.

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                  • galactuskahn24G
                    galactuskahn24 Member @Guspaz
                    last edited by galactuskahn24

                    @guspaz I'm agreeing with you that there was no reason given. But in a lot of isekai the main character was beaten up back home for being an otaku.

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                    • TerrenceT
                      Terrence Premium Member
                      last edited by Terrence

                      The published LN's prologue starts with talking about him being an Otaku who got beaten up for his weight + lack of exercise, his interests in romance games, and his gloominess.

                      When he tries to counter these opinions ("I am trying to exercise, you just don't know; I'm a no friend gloomy loser because of you guys") they ignore his pleas.

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                      • GuspazG
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                        last edited by Guspaz

                        That's something that they fixed in the LN versus the WN, then, I suppose. I don't remember the WN giving those reasons, and their treatment of him goes beyond bullying with them regularly beating him to near the point of death.

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                        • ZingZ
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                          Sounds like somebody remembered to read his official saiyan handbook...

                          Anyhow, now I kinda want to read it just for the heck of seeing what he will do with that OP ability.

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