This year was a good one for Denpa Books and the same is true for their BL imprint Kuma. It was sincerely hard for me to choose whether to talk about this one or Harada's Happy Crappy Life, but I feel like I made the choice that gave me the most interesting stuff to talk about.
A HERO IN THE DEMON'S CASTLE (Yusha In Maonchi), written by Inutoki and art by Syohei. First published in 2014 and first published in North America in 2023.
PLOT:
Wisped is a powerful demon king who spends his days exhausted at all of these human heroes who keep barging into his castle. He's tired of having his sleep and hours of lonely brooding interrupted (along with all the holes they leave in the castle after he boots them back to the human realm). Then a hapless young hero named True shows up, a young man whose strength is equaled only by his innocence and his refusal to leave the premises. At first, Wisped takes it upon himself to watch over True in order to educate him a little and keep him from destroying the castle by accident, but as time passes he finds himself caring more and more for this strange, wide-eyed, blond annoyance of a boy.
