ダンジョンディフェンス

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Protagonist hates his “scumbag” father who lived his life to the fullest while the protag was a sadsack working for corporations only giving the protag “trouble”. Except when his father dies the protagonist finds an absolute massive stack of cash in the basement which is left as inheritance to the protag yet still continues to shittalk the father, immediately gets greedy, and also just stops working entirely only to be an intentional NEET who will never get married or have friends, just do nothing but stay at home all day playing videogames. He doesn’t even clean his room and eventually just tons of trash bags end up piling up inside of it. However one day after completing a videogame a random survey pops up on his screen with tons of weird questions, eventually asking the protag if he can change the game’s ending, to which he accidentally presses “yes” to as a result of getting spooked by the many cockroaches roaming around his pigpen he calls a home. He then gets whisked away to reincarnate as one of the weakest of 72 demon lords in the game he just played

So much of this work sucks ass with the most edgy childish writing imaginable dreamed up by an intj brainlet that it’s absolutely a slog to read. Btw chapter 0 sucks and is pointless so ignore it and immediately start with chapter 1. I don’t know if it’s like bad writing or a bad adaptation, but the early arc has comically dumb villains for most of it that exist solely to make the protag look slightly more intelligent in comparison.

However somewhere along the way it actually changes a little bit and the characters become warped psychopaths with complex ideals entertwining and hurdling towards destruction in a fairly beautiful way. I actually got whiplash from getting caught off guard from seeing kino buried in the trash. ch37 is still the most INTJ thing I have ever read and will probably ever be written in existence, but I don’t hate the work and I can smell what the author is cooking.

The love between the protagonist and the main heroine is incredibly warped and perverse, where the heroine craves authority above all else and wants nothing to do with love, and the protagonist seeks authority above all else himself, yet they both fall for each other for that same purpose/goal and have a transactional relationship in pursuit of those goals while succumbing to their base desires they try to supress. The protagonist is actually unabashedly evil and has no qualms about killing all of humanity despite formerly being human himself and the heroine is a half who was shunned by everybody, so they just collectively have a hot murder party while individually plotting their rise to the top.

Since the protagonist is extremely weak with virtually no physical capabilities of his own, and no real faction to take his side, he spends most of the work trying to out maneuver the other demon lords through trickery and deceit while winning over the court of public opinion to take his side using his future knowledge of the game. There are a few battles here and there but they rarely last particularly long, and it’s mostly just people talking to each other while recounting the various events that happen. I unfortunately don’t know who exactly I would recommend this work to, but I do know that if it ever stops being on hiatus I will read it day one because I want to see how much further this author can cook.

sidenote: This work is originally a korean webnovel, adapted into a japanese webcomic; as far as I can tell there’s no korean webcomic version, but i’ve labelled this as “korean” for language nonetheless despite japanese being the only way you can actually read the webcomic. Additionally I could only find a way to read it on piccoma which is absolutely hostile towards non-jp so you need to use a vpn, etc.