Yes. It’s actually a take on Dragon Quest 3 or 9 …

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Comment on Maoyuu Maou Yuusha “Biggest” Anime of Season by KiTA:

Yes. It’s actually a take on Dragon Quest 3 or 9 (the hero and other “PCs” are very obviously based on the DQ3 or DQ9 generic characters) with the following hook:

“What if the Demon Lord was an Economics Major?”

Basically, the hero goes to kill the Demon Lord and the Demon Lord points out that both the Demon World and the Human World’s economies are completely reliant on the war to sustain themselves. Ending the war will kill millions more than the war kills.

Her idea is to use things that — as readers, we recognize as very commonplace sociological advancements such as crop rotation — to break the human world’s Medieval Stasis, making them less reliant on war to sustain themselves.

Now, having said that, this series has like 5 different manga adaptations — I read somewhere that the manga teams were treating his 2ch posts like they’re public domain, but I don’t know if that’s true.

There are:

1. The Standard Version
2. The Economic Theory Heavy Version
3. The Romance-Heavy Version
4. The 4-Koma Parody Version (where the demon lord is a NEET)

Or somesuch. Based on the art style I *believe* they animated the version that was heavier on the romance between Hero and Demon Lord, but time will tell. All of them have the same plot and basic aspects, it just concentrates on others

KiTA made other comments on this post:

• Maoyuu Maou Yuusha “Biggest” Anime of Season:
  

  Yes. The Japanese company specifically did market research to pick what some random person on a English language pornogrpahic blog in the United States would most dislike, and then animated that.

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