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->Zagan actually had similar memories.\\
Back when he was scavenging for food from the trash-filled slums, and stealing.\\
''Back then… what did I want to be told…?''\\
Even at the time, he probably wouldn’t have known the answer. But even so, Zagan gently reached out a hand into Nephy’s hair. As he touched her hair with his hand, he understood what was making her shudder. Staying like that, without putting any force behind his hand, he said this.\\
“I bought you because I need you. So don’t go on about dying.”
''An Archdemon's Dilemma: How To Love Your Elf Bride'' (''Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii?'', literally "I, a Demon Lord, Took a Slave Elf as My Wife, but How Do I Love Her?") is a romantic comedy {{Light Novel|s}} series about...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a Demon Lord taking a slave elf as a wife]]. Unfortunately, years of solitude and obsessive study of magic have rusted Zagan's social skills to the point where he can barely hold a conversation with Nephelia, much less confess his love to her. Together this unlikely pair navigate the pitfalls of love and life in a fantasy setting.
The novels are written by Teshima Fuminori and illustrated by COMTA, and the first volume was published by HJ Bunko in 2017. In June 2018, J-Novel Club [[https://j-novel.club/c/an-archdemon-s-dilemma-how-to-love-your-slave-elf-bride-volume-1-part-1 announced]] that it would release an English translation. This was followed in December by translation of the manga adaptation by Itagaki Hako. An anime adaptation was announced in late 2022.
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!!This series includes the following tropes:
* ArcWords: Volume 2 has "Orobas", [[spoiler:the name of Foll's father and the Church's Unification Faction aiming to unite mages and Angelic Knights]]. It seems at first to be the only thing tying together Foll and Raphael's subplots.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: 'Archdemon' is just a title, but it bestows its own unique perks, like [[spoiler: inheriting the previous Lord's demon familiar]]. Unfortunately, [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority only the strongest mages in the world are even considered for the honor]], so competition gets fierce.
* {{Beat}}: After first arriving at Zagan's castle, he and Nephy just awkwardly stare at each other for about an hour, because neither of them know what to do now. The silence is broken by Nephy asking how he's going to kill her.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Mages ''are'' selfish, ungoverned people constantly exposed to temptation (even the few who don't accept it), and the Angelic Knights ''are'' fanatical, self-righteous pawns of a ruthless bureaucracy. But a significant contingent of both regret how they've treated the other side and only fight because they think they have to.
* CrapsackWorld: Of the 'great personal freedom leads to great anarchy' type. There is pretty much nothing stopping any of the hundreds of mages roaming the world from killing whoever they want, except for their own rivalries and the Church, which has both ''really'' good and ''really'' bad people working for it. It's luck of the draw who gets involved in any given situation.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Barbaros, an aspiring Archdemon, has these in the manga adaptation.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: A lot of Zagan's friends and members of his retinue are people who he had defeated in combat.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The good characters do not make use of slavery, but everyone accepts it as a cultural norm- for example, there's no emancipation campaigns, and collars are displayed in shop windows.
* DidNotSeeThatComing: Andras was understandably not expecting a street waif to manifest magic. This is why he's dead before the story begins.
* EnemyMine: If the demons [[SealedEvilInACan come back]], all of humanity is fucked, so the organization [[spoiler:Orobas]], comprised of both mages and Church members, [[TheAlliance is formed]].
* EvilIsEasy: No mage has to use BloodMagic to gain power, but it's the easiest and fastest way. [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil Many are (or become) evil just because of this fact]]- cruelty is just so much more ''rewarding'' than it was when they were normal humans, and mages are in danger just by existing.
* FountainOfYouth: Nephy was turned into a child in Volume 4. Then Zagan got hit by this in Volume 6.
* GossipEvolution: The details of what happened to the people that attacked Zagan or his friends got severely distorted by the time Zagan and his retinue were invited to a large gathering of mages. The most distorted story was that Zagan punished Barbaros for attacking Nephy by torturing him when he actually just subjugated him.
* IMeantToDoThat: Zagan has no EvilPlan and is surprised by most of the dramatic events enfolding around him, but he is ''excellent'' at pretending otherwise.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Nephy (per WordOfGod) and Zagan fell in love with each other at first sight, although she was still terrified he would butcher her for magic ingredients.
* TheNeedless: The first thing most mages learn is how to make themselves immune to illness and lessen their need for sleep. Therefore, most of them live up to a thousand years.
* NonIndicativeName: Archdemons are not actually demons, they're mages strong enough to ''command'' demons. The translations that render "Maou" as "Demon Lord" are a little closer to the mark.
* NotAfraidToDie: Nephy is eerily calm when submits to the idea of being killed. Both people she has done this too are freaked out by this.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Demons in Japanese stories are often just another race like orcs, elves or dwarves. They may be evil, they might not be. Contrary to this, the true demons of Zagan's World are more along the lines of Western or Middle Eastern thought. Demons are [[EldritchAbomination unknowable incomprehensible creatures from another plane or dimension. Inimical to human life (and all other life), they are very powerful, cannot be communicated with and extremely dangerous.]] Most people on Zagan's World think demons are long gone or were just mythological. Unfortunately they are wrong, they're coming back.
* SatanicArchetype: The first Demon Lord (the one whose [[spoiler: [[SealedEvilInACan seal]] was split into 13 parts that empower lesser, present-day Archdemons]]) was so massively powerful and evil that ''no one'', not even mages, want to unseal him. Apparently it took all of the Angelic Knights fighting together to seal him the first time, and just a sliver of his essence being released in Book 3 requires an unprecedented EnemyMine on the part of everyone in the area. (They ''just'' manage to destroy it.)
* SexMagic: Zagan reveals that bodily fluid exchange can be used to recharge mana. Kissing and sexual intercourse works. Which becomes a problem when Foll wants to become bigger, but Gremory's plan require Zagan to transfer large amount of mana to Foll (due to dragon's innate magic resistance, large amount of mana is required to overcome that), and since having sex with his own daughter is absolutely out of question...thankfully a kiss to Foll's forehead is enough for that.
* SpoilerTitle: The title essentially spoils [[spoiler: Zagan's promotion to Archdemon]], which doesn't occur until late in the first volume.
* TheGoldenRule: Zagan is not a compassionate man, but the reason he's the protagonist is that when he sees someone (Nephy) in the [[HumanResources same situation]] as he was a decade ago, he immediately does everything he can to save her.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: There are 13 Archdemons, and all of them terrify mages and [[ThePaladin Angelic Knights]] just by existing.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: A Non-Video Game example. Needing to use human sacrifices isn't needed to be a powerful mage, however it is one of the quickest ways.
* WithThisRing: [[spoiler: It is very clear that Zagan and Nephy treat her slave collar as an engagement ring when he puts it back on her.]]
* WhammyBid: Nephy was being sold for an opening bid of ten thousand gold, but Zagan [[LoveMakesYouStupid impulsively]] jumped the price to one million, his entire fortune, to the shock of everyone present.
* WorldHalfFull: There are a lot of people actively enjoying their lives and changing the world for the better. The heroes' problem is ''not'' finding people who want to stop the SealedEvilInACan from being released, but in building a society where they can work together effectively without getting into fights all the time.
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->Zagan actually had similar memories.\\
Back when he was scavenging for food from the trash-filled slums, and stealing.\\
''Back then… what did I want to be told…?''\\
Even at the time, he probably wouldn’t have known the answer. But even so, Zagan gently reached out a hand into Nephy’s hair. As he touched her hair with his hand, he understood what was making her shudder. Staying like that, without putting any force behind his hand, he said this.\\
“I bought you because I need you. So don’t go on about dying.”
''An Archdemon's Dilemma: How To Love Your Elf Bride'' (''Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii?'', literally "I, a Demon Lord, Took a Slave Elf as My Wife, but How Do I Love Her?") is a romantic comedy {{Light Novel|s}} series about...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a Demon Lord taking a slave elf as a wife]]. Unfortunately, years of solitude and obsessive study of magic have rusted Zagan's social skills to the point where he can barely hold a conversation with Nephelia, much less confess his love to her. Together this unlikely pair navigate the pitfalls of love and life in a fantasy setting.
The novels are written by Teshima Fuminori and illustrated by COMTA, and the first volume was published by HJ Bunko in 2017. In June 2018, J-Novel Club [[https://j-novel.club/c/an-archdemon-s-dilemma-how-to-love-your-slave-elf-bride-volume-1-part-1 announced]] that it would release an English translation. This was followed in December by translation of the manga adaptation by Itagaki Hako. An anime adaptation was announced in late 2022.
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!!This series includes the following tropes:
* ArcWords: Volume 2 has "Orobas", [[spoiler:the name of Foll's father and the Church's Unification Faction aiming to unite mages and Angelic Knights]]. It seems at first to be the only thing tying together Foll and Raphael's subplots.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: 'Archdemon' is just a title, but it bestows its own unique perks, like [[spoiler: inheriting the previous Lord's demon familiar]]. Unfortunately, [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority only the strongest mages in the world are even considered for the honor]], so competition gets fierce.
* {{Beat}}: After first arriving at Zagan's castle, he and Nephy just awkwardly stare at each other for about an hour, because neither of them know what to do now. The silence is broken by Nephy asking how he's going to kill her.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Mages ''are'' selfish, ungoverned people constantly exposed to temptation (even the few who don't accept it), and the Angelic Knights ''are'' fanatical, self-righteous pawns of a ruthless bureaucracy. But a significant contingent of both regret how they've treated the other side and only fight because they think they have to.
* CrapsackWorld: Of the 'great personal freedom leads to great anarchy' type. There is pretty much nothing stopping any of the hundreds of mages roaming the world from killing whoever they want, except for their own rivalries and the Church, which has both ''really'' good and ''really'' bad people working for it. It's luck of the draw who gets involved in any given situation.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Barbaros, an aspiring Archdemon, has these in the manga adaptation.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: A lot of Zagan's friends and members of his retinue are people who he had defeated in combat.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The good characters do not make use of slavery, but everyone accepts it as a cultural norm- for example, there's no emancipation campaigns, and collars are displayed in shop windows.
* DidNotSeeThatComing: Andras was understandably not expecting a street waif to manifest magic. This is why he's dead before the story begins.
* EnemyMine: If the demons [[SealedEvilInACan come back]], all of humanity is fucked, so the organization [[spoiler:Orobas]], comprised of both mages and Church members, [[TheAlliance is formed]].
* EvilIsEasy: No mage has to use BloodMagic to gain power, but it's the easiest and fastest way. [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil Many are (or become) evil just because of this fact]]- cruelty is just so much more ''rewarding'' than it was when they were normal humans, and mages are in danger just by existing.
* FountainOfYouth: Nephy was turned into a child in Volume 4. Then Zagan got hit by this in Volume 6.
* GossipEvolution: The details of what happened to the people that attacked Zagan or his friends got severely distorted by the time Zagan and his retinue were invited to a large gathering of mages. The most distorted story was that Zagan punished Barbaros for attacking Nephy by torturing him when he actually just subjugated him.
* IMeantToDoThat: Zagan has no EvilPlan and is surprised by most of the dramatic events enfolding around him, but he is ''excellent'' at pretending otherwise.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Nephy (per WordOfGod) and Zagan fell in love with each other at first sight, although she was still terrified he would butcher her for magic ingredients.
* TheNeedless: The first thing most mages learn is how to make themselves immune to illness and lessen their need for sleep. Therefore, most of them live up to a thousand years.
* NonIndicativeName: Archdemons are not actually demons, they're mages strong enough to ''command'' demons. The translations that render "Maou" as "Demon Lord" are a little closer to the mark.
* NotAfraidToDie: Nephy is eerily calm when submits to the idea of being killed. Both people she has done this too are freaked out by this.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Demons in Japanese stories are often just another race like orcs, elves or dwarves. They may be evil, they might not be. Contrary to this, the true demons of Zagan's World are more along the lines of Western or Middle Eastern thought. Demons are [[EldritchAbomination unknowable incomprehensible creatures from another plane or dimension. Inimical to human life (and all other life), they are very powerful, cannot be communicated with and extremely dangerous.]] Most people on Zagan's World think demons are long gone or were just mythological. Unfortunately they are wrong, they're coming back.
* SatanicArchetype: The first Demon Lord (the one whose [[spoiler: [[SealedEvilInACan seal]] was split into 13 parts that empower lesser, present-day Archdemons]]) was so massively powerful and evil that ''no one'', not even mages, want to unseal him. Apparently it took all of the Angelic Knights fighting together to seal him the first time, and just a sliver of his essence being released in Book 3 requires an unprecedented EnemyMine on the part of everyone in the area. (They ''just'' manage to destroy it.)
* SexMagic: Zagan reveals that bodily fluid exchange can be used to recharge mana. Kissing and sexual intercourse works. Which becomes a problem when Foll wants to become bigger, but Gremory's plan require Zagan to transfer large amount of mana to Foll (due to dragon's innate magic resistance, large amount of mana is required to overcome that), and since having sex with his own daughter is absolutely out of question...thankfully a kiss to Foll's forehead is enough for that.
* SpoilerTitle: The title essentially spoils [[spoiler: Zagan's promotion to Archdemon]], which doesn't occur until late in the first volume.
* TheGoldenRule: Zagan is not a compassionate man, but the reason he's the protagonist is that when he sees someone (Nephy) in the [[HumanResources same situation]] as he was a decade ago, he immediately does everything he can to save her.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: There are 13 Archdemons, and all of them terrify mages and [[ThePaladin Angelic Knights]] just by existing.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: A Non-Video Game example. Needing to use human sacrifices isn't needed to be a powerful mage, however it is one of the quickest ways.
* WithThisRing: [[spoiler: It is very clear that Zagan and Nephy treat her slave collar as an engagement ring when he puts it back on her.]]
* WhammyBid: Nephy was being sold for an opening bid of ten thousand gold, but Zagan [[LoveMakesYouStupid impulsively]] jumped the price to one million, his entire fortune, to the shock of everyone present.
* WorldHalfFull: There are a lot of people actively enjoying their lives and changing the world for the better. The heroes' problem is ''not'' finding people who want to stop the SealedEvilInACan from being released, but in building a society where they can work together effectively without getting into fights all the time.
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