YMMV / Maoyu

• Adaptation Displacement: Western fans know of the series mostly from the Akira Ishida^note Not the voice actor, mind you. manga version (the one running in Comp Ace). When the character designs for the anime adaptation were revealed, some complained that they didn't look like the "originals" at all, when actually they are pretty faithful to the Light Novel version.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Hey, remember that giant-breasted cowgirl that only appeared in a brief flashback image in and episode? Yeah, she's slowly becoming this on Pixiv.
• Fridge Logic:
  • People's titles must change with time. Head Maid must at one point have been New Maid (or something similar), and Female Knight must at one point have been Female Cadet. On that note, how would you differentiate any number of people with similar roles? Do you append numbers or adjectives to the given people?
  • In the LN, people with similar roles are not even given numbers. Characters do have names, but the author said the readers are not allowed to know them or supposed to be interested in names.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Remember how funny it was when Demon Queen was far less than Hero expected? When she steps out of the Temple of the Dead, corrupted by the spirits that were sealed there, she's exactly what he expected.
• Hollywood Pudgy: The Demon Queen. It's worth noting that she's the only person who thinks she's pudgy. Certainly made a Double Subversion by Head Maid, who consistently calls Demon Queen's breasts "useless meat." She laments that Demon Queen has a sexy body but a poor mindset to go with it, and eventually flat out states that Demon Queen's "useless meat" will only stop being useless when she acknowledges her worth and puts it to work (ostensibly to seduce Hero).
• One-Scene Wonder: Cow Girl, shown in one shot smothering Hero underneath a set of breasts that are twice as big as both of their bodies put together.
• Spiritual Successor: To Spice and Wolf, down to the anime adaptation having mostly the same animation team and voice actors as the latter's adaptation, though to a more epic scale. It has been joked that Holo was flat-chested, and Spice And Wolf concerned itself largely with Microeconomics, while The Dark Lady is a lot more...sizable and deals in Macroeconomics.

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