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* DumbMuscle: Unlike the incredible magical prowess showcased by Maou or the fine-tuned skill of Max, Zenia is both devoid of magical abilities and possesses no finesse in fighting, with her only ability being the application of brute strength. This causes plenty of comedy due to her muscle-brain ideas making things harder for her, such as walking all the way from the castle to Max's apartment without ever considering using human transportation, and when she tries to act as a spy infiltrating the Magic Bureau for intel, with her she constantly fumbles the “stealthy” aspects and ends up doing things like tearing out a door lock or BreakingTheBonds because lock-picking and slipping out of handcuffs is too difficult for her brain to handle.
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* UnskilledButStrong: Unlike the incredible magical prowess showcased by Maou or the fine-tuned skill of Max, Zenia is both devoid of magical abilities and possesses no finesse in fighting, with her only ability being the application of brute strength. This causes plenty of comedy when she tries to act as a spy infiltrating the Magic Bureau for intel, as she constantly fumbles the “stealthy” aspects and ends up doing things like tearing out a door lock or BreakingTheBonds because lock-picking and slipping out of handcuffs is too difficult for her brain to handle.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: Maou considers Max such a close equal and WorthyOpponent that he repeatedly makes offers to have him join his army, ranging from explaining the career benefits, to offering the chance of immortality, one time trying to coerce him with a potential lover, and more. Despite Max refusing him every time, Maou never lets it deter him, waiting for the day he might potentially accept the offer.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: Maou considers Max such a close equal and WorthyOpponent that he repeatedly makes offers to have him join his army, army as his top enforcer, ranging from explaining the career benefits, to offering the chance of immortality, one time trying to coerce him with a potential lover, and more. Despite Max refusing him every time, Maou never lets it deter him, waiting for the day he might potentially accept the offer.
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* CuteMonsterGirl: The idea of attractive inhuman girls is {{Deconstructed|Trope}} when Maou compiles a photo album of the most romantically viable women in his army in part of his efforts to [[WeCanRuleTOgether convince Max to join him]], as while many of them are genuinely quite attractive outside their monstrous aspects and Maou notes their wife-worthy personality traits, Max makes it clear that his tastes are firmly within a human-like normal, finding any bit of monstrosity too much of a turn-off.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: Maou considers Max such a close equal and WorthyOpponent that he repeatedly makes offers to have him join his army, ranging from explaining the career benefits, to offering the chance of immortality, one time trying to coerce him with a potential lover, and more. Despite Max refusing him every time, Maou never lets it deter him, waiting for the day he might potentially accept the offer.
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* InvisibleToNormals: The ghost that haunts Max's room and likes hanging out in the closet is near-imperceptible to most people, with Maou being so weak he can only occasionally hear her voice and Max being unable to perceive even that. The only person that can truly perceive her is Fred due to his high magical prowess, something that turns out pretty bad for him since just the sight of her causes him to become weak-knee terrified and need to get out before he pukes, with him vowing to never go in Max's house again no matter how much he wants to catch the demon staying in there (which unbeknownst to him is the Demon Lord Maou).
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* AntiVillain: Fred is willing to do a lot of morally questionable actions, up to thinking of killing Leo as a traitor, because he genuinely believes what he's doing is for the good of not just the Kingdom but humanity, having convinced himself that genuine peace and cooperation is impossible, only false peace through rigid control. He still cares about Max and would ''want'' to resolve things with Leo, but he too strongly feeds into the rhetoric that the Gamma Republic are terrorists whom must die for the good of the world.
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* BarbarianHero: In the past Leo held to the image and attitude of a KnightInShiningArmor, constantly wearing armor and holding to being chivalrous but fierce with a sword, but after defecting from the Republic thanks to how they mistreated him and his followers, he shed the armor to wear nothing but a loincloth that exposes almost every part of his body's rippling musculature alongside having flowing BarbarianLongHair, returned to his roots of aggressive manliness and hunting for food with his bare hands and/or a spear, and overall holds to being more in tune with nature over society's rigid system of laws and ideals. Despite the brutish image, however, he actually still has his prior heroic and helpful values, he just holds to what ''he'' feels is right rather than letting the Kingdom influence his decisions.
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* BarbarianHero: In the past Leo held to the image and attitude of a KnightInShiningArmor, constantly wearing armor and holding to being chivalrous but fierce with a sword, but after defecting from the Republic thanks to how they mistreated him and his followers, he shed the armor to wear nothing but a loincloth that exposes almost every part of his body's rippling musculature alongside having flowing BarbarianLongHair, returned to his roots of aggressive manliness and hunting for food with his bare hands and/or a spear, and overall holds to being more in tune with nature over society's rigid system of laws and ideals.laws. Despite the brutish image, however, he actually still has his prior heroic and helpful values, he just holds to what ''he'' feels is right rather than letting the Kingdom influence his decisions.
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* BarbarianHero: In the past Leo held to the image and attitude of a KnightInShiningArmor, constantly wearing armor and holding to being chivalrous but fierce with a sword, but after defecting from the Republic thanks to how they mistreated him and his followers, he shed the armor to wear nothing but a loincloth that exposes almost every part of his body's rippling musculature alongside having flowing BarbarianLongHair, returned to his roots of aggressive manliness and hunting for food with his bare hands and/or a spear, and overall holds to being more in tune with nature over society's rigid system of laws and ideals. Despite the brutish image, however, he actually still has his prior heroic and helpful values, he just holds to what ''he'' feels is right rather than letting the Kingdom influence his decisions.
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** Max was involved in a scandal where he slept with a woman without knowing she was married until after the fact (and is convinced the husband was in on it too to extort him money), horribly beat up some civilians (it's never seen, but he claims they attacked him and hurt them in self defense because they were too fragile for someone who used to massacre demons in hordes), and various women came out claiming he was the father of their children. By the time the revived Demon Lord barges in to announce his return ten years later, Max is a lazy and depressed bum living in a dirty one-room apartment, his sword left with the piled-up trash bags.
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** Max was involved in a scandal where he slept considered useless to society since with a woman without knowing she was married until after the fact (and is convinced the husband was in on it too to extort him money), horribly beat up some civilians (it's never seen, but he claims they attacked him and hurt them in self defense because they were too fragile for someone who used to massacre no demons in hordes), and to fight he was viewed as having nothing else to offer, which was followed by various women came out claiming he was scandals where people framed him for things like cheating and violence for the father publicity of their children. suing the hero. By the time the revived Demon Lord Maou barges in to announce his return ten years later, Max is a lazy and depressed bum living in a dirty one-room apartment, his sword left with the piled-up trash bags.
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* MaouTheDemonKing: Maou had the looks and goals of a classic Demon Lord, being an imposing giant commanding armies of demons who sought to conquer the human realm, but he's actually an AffablyEvil example, being a BenevolentBoss to his servants where he gives them many benefits like one-day work weeks and plenty of monetary compensation, and he took the view of Max as such a WorthyOpponent that he frequently espouses to him WeCanRuleTogether, to the point where when he revives and learns Max has turned into a socially outcast bum he takes it upon himself to help reverse Max's lot in life and restore him to being the hero he remembers him as.
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* MaouTheDemonKing: Maou in the past had the looks and goals of a classic Demon Lord, being an imposing giant commanding armies of demons who sought to conquer the human realm, but he's actually an AffablyEvil example, being a BenevolentBoss to his servants where he gives them many benefits like one-day work weeks and plenty of monetary compensation, and he took the view of Max as such a WorthyOpponent that he frequently espouses to him WeCanRuleTogether, to the point where when he revives and learns Max has turned into a socially outcast bum he takes it upon himself to help reverse Max's lot in life and restore him to being the hero he remembers him as.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: The heroes Max and Leo experienced this after they defeated the Demon Lord Maou, much to Maou's horror when he comes back to life:
** Max was involved in a scandal where he slept with a woman without knowing she was married until after the fact (and is convinced the husband was in on it too to extort him money), horribly beat up some civilians (it's never seen, but he claims they attacked him and hurt them in self defense because they were too fragile for someone who used to massacre demons in hordes), and various women came out claiming he was the father of their children. By the time the revived Demon Lord barges in to announce his return ten years later, Max is a lazy and depressed bum living in a dirty one-room apartment, his sword left with the piled-up trash bags.
** Leo was given a large amount of wastelands as a "reward" and then cut off with his followers. Since they were now forced into independence they created the Gamma Republic and worked hard to cultivate the lands, eventually finding precious magical ore... At which point the kingdom declared them all traitors and criminals illegally occupying their land and threatened a war to try and steal the land.
** Max was involved in a scandal where he slept with a woman without knowing she was married until after the fact (and is convinced the husband was in on it too to extort him money), horribly beat up some civilians (it's never seen, but he claims they attacked him and hurt them in self defense because they were too fragile for someone who used to massacre demons in hordes), and various women came out claiming he was the father of their children. By the time the revived Demon Lord barges in to announce his return ten years later, Max is a lazy and depressed bum living in a dirty one-room apartment, his sword left with the piled-up trash bags.
** Leo was given a large amount of wastelands as a "reward" and then cut off with his followers. Since they were now forced into independence they created the Gamma Republic and worked hard to cultivate the lands, eventually finding precious magical ore... At which point the kingdom declared them all traitors and criminals illegally occupying their land and threatened a war to try and steal the land.
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Both Maou and Max experienced this ten years after the former's defeat, with Maou losing most of his power, being reduced to a non-threatening childlike form, and every member of his demonic armies except Zenia still waiting to revive decades later, while Max was abandoned by society and experienced various scandals, reducing him to a lazy nobody living in a one-room apartment. The crux of the story is Maou trying to help Max get his act together and return to the great hero he once was while Maou over time regains his power.
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* CameBackWrong: While Maou was able to revive due to still having plenty of extra lives, his desire to see Max again before he dies of old age causes him to only take ten years rather than several decades, and while he's still decently healthy in body and mind reviving early caused him to only possess a small fraction of his former power, reducing him to a child-like SleepModeSize as his ShapeshifterDefaultForm.
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* ResurrectionSickness: While Maou was able to revive due to still having plenty of extra lives, his desire to see Max again before he dies of old age causes him to only take ten years rather than several decades, and while he's still decently healthy in body and mind, reviving early caused him to only possess a small fraction of his former power, reducing him to a child-like SleepModeSize as his ShapeshifterDefaultForm.
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* CameBackWrong: While Maou was able to revive due to still having plenty of extra lives, his desire to see Max again before he dies of old age causes him to only take ten years rather than several decades, and while he's still decently healthy in body and mind reviving early caused him to only possess a small fraction of his former power, reducing him to a child-like SleepModeSize as his ShapeshifterDefaultForm.
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* MaouTheDemonKing: Maou had the looks and goals of a classic Demon Lord, being an imposing giant commanding armies of demons who sought to conquer the human realm, but he's actually an AffablyEvil example, being a BenevolentBoss to his servants where he gives them many benefits like one-day work weeks and plenty of monetary compensation, and he took the view of Max as a WorthyOpponent that he frequently espouses to him WeCanRuleTogether, to the point where when he revives and learns Max has turned into a socially outcast bum he takes it upon himself to help reverse Max's lot in life and restore him to being the hero he remembers him as.
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* MaouTheDemonKing: Maou had the looks and goals of a classic Demon Lord, being an imposing giant commanding armies of demons who sought to conquer the human realm, but he's actually an AffablyEvil example, being a BenevolentBoss to his servants where he gives them many benefits like one-day work weeks and plenty of monetary compensation, and he took the view of Max as such a WorthyOpponent that he frequently espouses to him WeCanRuleTogether, to the point where when he revives and learns Max has turned into a socially outcast bum he takes it upon himself to help reverse Max's lot in life and restore him to being the hero he remembers him as.
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I just saw the "no recency" thing, and I never read the manga, so I don't know if the ambiguity is present in there or has been clarified, so hiding until a manga-reader finds this and changes it.
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maou in both past and current lives has consistently used masculine pronouns and most people view him as male, but he readily takes to having a female body after reincarnating and when asked by Max if he’s a guy when trying on girly clothes, Maou just questions “if it truly matters”, which combined with being a VoluntaryShapeshifter makes it questionable if gender even applies to Maou unlike demons such as Zenia who have concrete identities.
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* MaouTheDemonKing: Maou had the looks and goals of a classic Demon Lord, being an imposing giant commanding armies of demons who sought to conquer the human realm, but he's actually an AffablyEvil example, being a BenevolentBoss to his servants where he gives them many benefits like one-day work weeks and plenty of monetary compensation, and he took the view of Max as a WorthyOpponent that he frequently espouses to him WeCanRuleTOgether, to the point when he revives and learns Max has turned into a societally outcast bum he takes it upon himself to help reverse Max's lot in life and restore him to being the hero he remembers him as.
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* MaouTheDemonKing: Maou had the looks and goals of a classic Demon Lord, being an imposing giant commanding armies of demons who sought to conquer the human realm, but he's actually an AffablyEvil example, being a BenevolentBoss to his servants where he gives them many benefits like one-day work weeks and plenty of monetary compensation, and he took the view of Max as a WorthyOpponent that he frequently espouses to him WeCanRuleTOgether, WeCanRuleTogether, to the point where when he revives and learns Max has turned into a societally socially outcast bum he takes it upon himself to help reverse Max's lot in life and restore him to being the hero he remembers him as.
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* BrokenPedestal: Maou held Max in great esteem as a hero due to how determined and charismatic he was, so finding Max as a LazyBum jerk was both shocking and saddening. Over time, however, Max shows to Maou that his heroic spirit and heart are still there, just buried under immense cynicism, which results in a RebuiltPedestal for Maou.
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* BrokenPedestal: Maou held Max in great esteem as a hero due to how determined and charismatic he was, so finding Max as a LazyBum jerk was both shocking and saddening.saddening, to which he took it upon himself to try and help restore Max back to the hero he knew. Over time, however, Max shows to Maou that his heroic spirit and heart are still there, just buried under immense cynicism, which results in a RebuiltPedestal for Maou.
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* AffablyEvil: Despite being a CardCarryingVillain who often proclaims the desire to subjugate humanity, Maou is an incredibly friendly individual who not only is a BenevolentBoss to his workers, providing generous pay and many benefits like sick days, but also genuinely holds Max and his allies to be such great {{Worthy Opponent}}s that he frequently gave them offers of WeCanRuleTogether, with him continuing to do so even after finding Max has become a nobody bum, instead taking it upon himself to push Max into regaining his heroic spirit out of the belief that he deserves a better life than to be shunned by society, even becoming his roommate that cooks, cleans, and offers moral support any way he can.
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* MaouTheDemonKing: Ten years ago Maou was a perfect example of a Demon King, being a giant, imposing EvilOverlord residing in an ominous castle who held to EvilIsHammy mannerisms, directed an army of demons to terrorize humanity, and eventually has a climactic battle against the hero Max and his allies. In the present day, however, he's now physically a harmless-looking child, has lost most of his power and influence, and currently acts as the roommate for former hero Max, trading their former destiny as mortal enemies for being borderline friends.
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* MaouTheDemonKing: Ten years ago Maou was a perfect example had the looks and goals of a classic Demon King, Lord, being a giant, an imposing EvilOverlord residing in an ominous castle who held to EvilIsHammy mannerisms, directed an army giant commanding armies of demons who sought to terrorize humanity, and eventually has a climactic battle against conquer the hero Max and his allies. In the present day, however, human realm, but he's now physically a harmless-looking child, has lost most of his power and influence, and currently acts as the roommate for former hero Max, trading their former destiny as mortal enemies for actually an AffablyEvil example, being borderline friends.a BenevolentBoss to his servants where he gives them many benefits like one-day work weeks and plenty of monetary compensation, and he took the view of Max as a WorthyOpponent that he frequently espouses to him WeCanRuleTOgether, to the point when he revives and learns Max has turned into a societally outcast bum he takes it upon himself to help reverse Max's lot in life and restore him to being the hero he remembers him as.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: All demons possess seven lives before dying permanently, with it usually taking decades to centuries between revivals, so Maou sees it as no big deal that Max and his allies slaughtered him and his armies down to the last man, since they'll come back just fine eventually. Maou only experienced his issue of coming back as an underleveled and underdeveloped child because he sped up the process to ten years, meaning his powers haven't replenished yet, under the understandable reasoning that waiting too long would risk Max dying of old age before they met again.
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* MaouTheDemonKing: Ten years ago Maou was a perfect example of a Demon King, being a giant, imposing EvilOverlord residing in an ominous castle who held to EvilIsHammy mannerisms, directed an army of demons to terrorize humanity, and eventually has a climactic battle against the hero Max and his allies. In the present day, however, he's now physically a harmless-looking child, has lost most of his power and influence, and currently acts as the roommate for former hero Max, trading their former destiny as mortal enemies for being borderline friends.
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''Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero'' ([=Lv1魔王とワンルーム勇者=], ''Level 1 Maou to One Room Yuusha'') is a manga written and illustrated by toufu starting from March 2019, detailing the story of former hero Max and former Demon King Maou as they live together and become closer due to bonding over their shared feelings of the modern world.
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''Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero'' ([=Lv1魔王とワンルーム勇者=], ''Level 1 Maou to and One Room Yuusha'') is a manga written and illustrated by toufu starting from March 2019, detailing the story of former hero Max and former Demon King Maou as they live together and become closer due to bonding over their shared feelings of the modern world.
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''Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero'' ([= Lv1魔王とワンルーム勇者=], which is just katakana for the English name) is a manga written and illustrated by toufu starting from March 2019, detailing the story of former hero Max and former Demon King Maou as they live together and become closer due to bonding over their shared feelings of the modern world.
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''Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero'' ([= Lv1魔王とワンルーム勇者=], which is just katakana for the English name) ([=Lv1魔王とワンルーム勇者=], ''Level 1 Maou to One Room Yuusha'') is a manga written and illustrated by toufu starting from March 2019, detailing the story of former hero Max and former Demon King Maou as they live together and become closer due to bonding over their shared feelings of the modern world.
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* FoeRomanceSubtext: After reincarnating, the way Maou acts about Max has strong undertones of being much more than being about a WorthyOpponent, showing a strong obsession over knowing about his life, readily taking to the role of essentially being a housewife, being saddened when Max declines his offer to become an immortal demon because he wants to be with him forever, and overall just showing a desire to be around Max.
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* FoeRomanceSubtext: After reincarnating, the way Maou acts about Max has strong undertones of being much more than being about a WorthyOpponent, showing a strong obsession over knowing about his life, readily taking to the role of essentially being a housewife, being saddened when Max declines his offer to become an immortal demon because he wants to be with him forever, and overall just showing a desire to be around Max. It's to the point that Max grows increasingly concerned over the level of Maou's obsessiveness.
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Cut to ten years later when Maou has now revived… except Maou is physically a child, reduced to level 1, and is androgynous bordering on female. Despite these issues and his attendant Zenia’s efforts to stop him, he decides to go see Max and learn how things have been going for him following Maou’s defeat… only to learn Max has turned into a low-life nobody after society threw him aside like trash thanks to heroes being unneeded without demons to fight.
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Cut to ten years later when Maou has now revived… except Maou is physically a child, reduced to level 1, and is androgynous bordering on female.feminine. Despite these issues and his attendant Zenia’s efforts to stop him, he decides to go see Max and learn how things have been going for him following Maou’s defeat… only to learn Max has turned into a low-life nobody after society threw him aside like trash thanks to heroes being unneeded without demons to fight.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Max repeatedly claims that he only cares about himself and wouldn't be concerned if Maou got hurt or his former friends died, but time and again when a genuine threat to their safety and happiness occurs he utterly crushes the threat, often followed by comforting Maou given his current weakness.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Max repeatedly claims that he only cares about himself and wouldn't be concerned if Maou got hurt or his former friends died, but time and again when a genuine threat to their safety and happiness occurs he utterly crushes the threat, often followed by with him particularly comforting Maou given his current weakness.afterwards despite claiming it means nothing while doing so.
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''Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero'' ( Lv1魔王とワンルーム勇者, which is just katakana for the English name) is a manga written and illustrated by toufu starting from March 2019, detailing the story of former hero Max and former Demon King Maou as they live together and become closer due to bonding over their shared feelings of the modern world.
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''Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero'' ( Lv1魔王とワンルーム勇者, ([= Lv1魔王とワンルーム勇者=], which is just katakana for the English name) is a manga written and illustrated by toufu starting from March 2019, detailing the story of former hero Max and former Demon King Maou as they live together and become closer due to bonding over their shared feelings of the modern world.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In most stories where a man is found being attacked by a woman and defends himself, especially against one pulling a FullFrontalAssault, DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale comes into play and he’s the one punished, but here when a drunk and naked Zenia chases after Max and a brawl is about to start, the scuffle is stopped by police having been called about a public indecency incident and coming to detain Zenia, with it only by Max explaining she was a drunk-crazy acquaintence and pretending her brass knuckles were his that she wasn’t arrested over attempted assult as well.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In most stories where a man is found being attacked by a woman and defends himself, especially against one pulling a FullFrontalAssault, DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale comes into play and he’s the one punished, but here when a drunk and naked Zenia chases after Max and a brawl is about to start, the scuffle is stopped by police having been called about a public indecency incident and coming to detain Zenia, with it only by Max explaining she was a drunk-crazy acquaintence acquaintance and pretending her brass knuckles were his that she wasn’t arrested over attempted assult assault as well.well.
* {{Tsundere}}: Max repeatedly claims that he only cares about himself and wouldn't be concerned if Maou got hurt or his former friends died, but time and again when a genuine threat to their safety and happiness occurs he utterly crushes the threat, often followed by comforting Maou given his current weakness.
* {{Tsundere}}: Max repeatedly claims that he only cares about himself and wouldn't be concerned if Maou got hurt or his former friends died, but time and again when a genuine threat to their safety and happiness occurs he utterly crushes the threat, often followed by comforting Maou given his current weakness.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the original manga Max's allegations, alongside assaulting civilians (he was beaten on by a group of thugs and framed as the aggressor), were having illicit relations with an underage girl (she claimed to be above consenting age when he went out with her) and drug possession (unexplained but likely set up to be found with them by some jerk). Considering both of those are treated as genuinely serious crimes in Japanese law, the anime adaptation (which is legally required to treat all genuine crimes seriously) changed them to the less criminally severe but still highly scandalous cases of having an affair with a married woman (she claimed to be single) and cheating on ten different women (while he claims he never went out with any of them, given his penchant for drinking they likely took advantage of him for the popularity of sueing the hero).
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* MsFanservice: Zenia acts as the designated recipient for most of the MaleGaze in the series, with her default outfit being a swimsuit that exposes her thighs for frequent LegFocus alongside being so tight it highlights her butt, getting a dedicated ShowerScene that shows many angles of her body, and wearing a form-fitting SpyCastsuit when trying to act like a spy.
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* MsFanservice: Zenia acts as the designated recipient for most of the MaleGaze in the series, with her default outfit being a swimsuit that exposes her thighs for frequent LegFocus alongside being so tight it highlights her butt, getting a dedicated ShowerScene that shows many angles of her body, and wearing a form-fitting SpyCastsuit SpyCatsuit when trying to act like a spy.
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Long ago, one demon named Maou rose the ranks of demon-kind to eventually become the Demon Lord, then proceeded to lead his kind to slaughter humanity and rule the world. During this conquest, one determined hero named Max traveled the land defeating demons in his journey to defeat Maou and save the world, gathering a group of close companions along the way. Eventually this group reached the Demon King and they fought in a gruesome battle, until eventually Maou was finally beaten. Following his defeat, Maou commended the heroes while promising that one day he will revive, and they will clash once again.
Cut to ten years later when Maou has now revived… except Maou is physically a child, reduced to level 1, and is androgynous bordering on female. Despite these issues and his attendant Zenia’s efforts to stop him, he decides to go see Max and learn how things have been going for him following Maou’s defeat… only to learn Max has turned into a low-life nobody after society threw him aside like trash thanks to heroes being unneeded without demons to fight.
After learning about how Max was treated and thinking things over, Maou decides to start living with him and helping him with cleaning and food, hoping to elevate Max back to his former glory, no matter how much Max protests the effort.
''Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero'' ( Lv1魔王とワンルーム勇者, which is just katakana for the English name) is a manga written and illustrated by toufu starting from March 2019, detailing the story of former hero Max and former Demon King Maou as they live together and become closer due to bonding over their shared feelings of the modern world.
An anime adaptation started airing in July 2023.
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maou in both past and current lives has consistently used masculine pronouns and most people view him as male, but he readily takes to having a female body after reincarnating and when asked by Max if he’s a guy when trying on girly clothes, Maou just questions “if it truly matters”, which combined with being a VoluntaryShapeshifter makes it questionable if gender even applies to Maou unlike demons such as Zenia who have concrete identities.
* AttractiveBentGender: Whenever Maou takes on his HumanDisguise of a shool-aged girl (originally to fit the outfit Zenia gave him to wear), various men and women express adoration over how cute and pretty “she” looks, and even Max feels his heart skip at the sight of the form.
* BrokenPedestal: Maou held Max in great esteem as a hero due to how determined and charismatic he was, so finding Max as a LazyBum jerk was both shocking and saddening. Over time, however, Max shows to Maou that his heroic spirit and heart are still there, just buried under immense cynicism, which results in a RebuiltPedestal for Maou.
* FoeRomanceSubtext: After reincarnating, the way Maou acts about Max has strong undertones of being much more than being about a WorthyOpponent, showing a strong obsession over knowing about his life, readily taking to the role of essentially being a housewife, being saddened when Max declines his offer to become an immortal demon because he wants to be with him forever, and overall just showing a desire to be around Max.
* FriendlyEnemy: 10 years after Max and friends defeated Maou, and following a short-lived attempt by Maou to be threatening, the duo settle into living together as roommates with only the occasional boasting of Maou about regaining his power and threatening the world again, but eventually even the enemy part is dropped and Maou starts trying various WeCanRuleTogether schemes to have Max renounce humanity over how it tossed him away like trash.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Back when he was fighting against Maou’s forces Max held to being an idealistic and determined hero believing what he did mattered, but once society decided it had no place for heroes in a world of peace and tossed him aside as useless, he lost any sense of care about the world and occasionally claims to believe that Maou regaining his power and subjugating humanity would be something the world deserves for its crappiness.
* MsFanservice: Zenia acts as the designated recipient for most of the MaleGaze in the series, with her default outfit being a swimsuit that exposes her thighs for frequent LegFocus alongside being so tight it highlights her butt, getting a dedicated ShowerScene that shows many angles of her body, and wearing a form-fitting SpyCastsuit when trying to act like a spy.
* PaperThinDisguise: When Max and Maou go to the Gamma Republic, Max expresses concern over being recognized by his former friends there, to which Maou “solves” the problem by having him wear a combo of fake glasses, nose, and teeth. At first it seems like the “disguise” works when they come face-to-face with Leo, but then it’s subverted because Leo didn’t recognize Max not due to the disguise but due to it being years since they last saw each other and Leo forgot what he looks like, with it only through Maou blurting out Max’s name that his cover gets blown.
* RetiredBadass: Max has been reduced to living his life as a low-income bum in a small apartment after society tossed him aside as unneeded and various scandals ruined his reputation, alongside him becoming FormerlyFit due to not keeping his body in shape, but any time somebody tries to pick a fight with him or makes him genuinely angry, he shows himself to have retained his physical prowess by moving faster than most can see and throttling grown adults one-handed.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In most stories where a man is found being attacked by a woman and defends himself, especially against one pulling a FullFrontalAssault, DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale comes into play and he’s the one punished, but here when a drunk and naked Zenia chases after Max and a brawl is about to start, the scuffle is stopped by police having been called about a public indecency incident and coming to detain Zenia, with it only by Max explaining she was a drunk-crazy acquaintence and pretending her brass knuckles were his that she wasn’t arrested over attempted assult as well.
* UnskilledButStrong: Unlike the incredible magical prowess showcased by Maou or the fine-tuned skill of Max, Zenia is both devoid of magical abilities and possesses no finesse in fighting, with her only ability being the application of brute strength. This causes plenty of comedy when she tries to act as a spy infiltrating the Magic Bureau for intel, as she constantly fumbles the “stealthy” aspects and ends up doing things like tearing out a door lock or BreakingTheBonds because lock-picking and slipping out of handcuffs is too difficult for her brain to handle.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Following the defeat of Maou and his demonic forces, Max, Fred, and Leo each ended up experiencing major disagreements over how things should go from then on, which resulted in Fred joining the kingdom’s Magic Bureau, Leo defecting with his closest allies to form the Gamma Republic, and Max deciding to not get involved in their conflict so he wouldn’t be forced to kill one of his friends. The only member of the former hero group still on good terms with everybody is Yuria, who simply retired and settled into a happy normal life.
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Cut to ten years later when Maou has now revived… except Maou is physically a child, reduced to level 1, and is androgynous bordering on female. Despite these issues and his attendant Zenia’s efforts to stop him, he decides to go see Max and learn how things have been going for him following Maou’s defeat… only to learn Max has turned into a low-life nobody after society threw him aside like trash thanks to heroes being unneeded without demons to fight.
After learning about how Max was treated and thinking things over, Maou decides to start living with him and helping him with cleaning and food, hoping to elevate Max back to his former glory, no matter how much Max protests the effort.
''Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero'' ( Lv1魔王とワンルーム勇者, which is just katakana for the English name) is a manga written and illustrated by toufu starting from March 2019, detailing the story of former hero Max and former Demon King Maou as they live together and become closer due to bonding over their shared feelings of the modern world.
An anime adaptation started airing in July 2023.
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Maou in both past and current lives has consistently used masculine pronouns and most people view him as male, but he readily takes to having a female body after reincarnating and when asked by Max if he’s a guy when trying on girly clothes, Maou just questions “if it truly matters”, which combined with being a VoluntaryShapeshifter makes it questionable if gender even applies to Maou unlike demons such as Zenia who have concrete identities.
* AttractiveBentGender: Whenever Maou takes on his HumanDisguise of a shool-aged girl (originally to fit the outfit Zenia gave him to wear), various men and women express adoration over how cute and pretty “she” looks, and even Max feels his heart skip at the sight of the form.
* BrokenPedestal: Maou held Max in great esteem as a hero due to how determined and charismatic he was, so finding Max as a LazyBum jerk was both shocking and saddening. Over time, however, Max shows to Maou that his heroic spirit and heart are still there, just buried under immense cynicism, which results in a RebuiltPedestal for Maou.
* FoeRomanceSubtext: After reincarnating, the way Maou acts about Max has strong undertones of being much more than being about a WorthyOpponent, showing a strong obsession over knowing about his life, readily taking to the role of essentially being a housewife, being saddened when Max declines his offer to become an immortal demon because he wants to be with him forever, and overall just showing a desire to be around Max.
* FriendlyEnemy: 10 years after Max and friends defeated Maou, and following a short-lived attempt by Maou to be threatening, the duo settle into living together as roommates with only the occasional boasting of Maou about regaining his power and threatening the world again, but eventually even the enemy part is dropped and Maou starts trying various WeCanRuleTogether schemes to have Max renounce humanity over how it tossed him away like trash.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Back when he was fighting against Maou’s forces Max held to being an idealistic and determined hero believing what he did mattered, but once society decided it had no place for heroes in a world of peace and tossed him aside as useless, he lost any sense of care about the world and occasionally claims to believe that Maou regaining his power and subjugating humanity would be something the world deserves for its crappiness.
* MsFanservice: Zenia acts as the designated recipient for most of the MaleGaze in the series, with her default outfit being a swimsuit that exposes her thighs for frequent LegFocus alongside being so tight it highlights her butt, getting a dedicated ShowerScene that shows many angles of her body, and wearing a form-fitting SpyCastsuit when trying to act like a spy.
* PaperThinDisguise: When Max and Maou go to the Gamma Republic, Max expresses concern over being recognized by his former friends there, to which Maou “solves” the problem by having him wear a combo of fake glasses, nose, and teeth. At first it seems like the “disguise” works when they come face-to-face with Leo, but then it’s subverted because Leo didn’t recognize Max not due to the disguise but due to it being years since they last saw each other and Leo forgot what he looks like, with it only through Maou blurting out Max’s name that his cover gets blown.
* RetiredBadass: Max has been reduced to living his life as a low-income bum in a small apartment after society tossed him aside as unneeded and various scandals ruined his reputation, alongside him becoming FormerlyFit due to not keeping his body in shape, but any time somebody tries to pick a fight with him or makes him genuinely angry, he shows himself to have retained his physical prowess by moving faster than most can see and throttling grown adults one-handed.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In most stories where a man is found being attacked by a woman and defends himself, especially against one pulling a FullFrontalAssault, DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale comes into play and he’s the one punished, but here when a drunk and naked Zenia chases after Max and a brawl is about to start, the scuffle is stopped by police having been called about a public indecency incident and coming to detain Zenia, with it only by Max explaining she was a drunk-crazy acquaintence and pretending her brass knuckles were his that she wasn’t arrested over attempted assult as well.
* UnskilledButStrong: Unlike the incredible magical prowess showcased by Maou or the fine-tuned skill of Max, Zenia is both devoid of magical abilities and possesses no finesse in fighting, with her only ability being the application of brute strength. This causes plenty of comedy when she tries to act as a spy infiltrating the Magic Bureau for intel, as she constantly fumbles the “stealthy” aspects and ends up doing things like tearing out a door lock or BreakingTheBonds because lock-picking and slipping out of handcuffs is too difficult for her brain to handle.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Following the defeat of Maou and his demonic forces, Max, Fred, and Leo each ended up experiencing major disagreements over how things should go from then on, which resulted in Fred joining the kingdom’s Magic Bureau, Leo defecting with his closest allies to form the Gamma Republic, and Max deciding to not get involved in their conflict so he wouldn’t be forced to kill one of his friends. The only member of the former hero group still on good terms with everybody is Yuria, who simply retired and settled into a happy normal life.
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