Kuro no Maou

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Kurono Maou is a high school student who is sensitive of his sharp eyes and bad expression. No girlfriend but gifted with friends in his own way, he had been living a peaceful life.

But one day, without any reason, Kurono was attacked by a mysterious headache while in the literature clubroom and fainted. When he finally awoke…Swords & magic, filled with monsters, an orthodox different world summoning.

Associated Names
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KNM
The Black Demon King
黒の魔王
Related Series
Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai (Shared Universe)
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Recommendation Lists
  1. Not masterpieces, but enjoyable enough.
  2. Yandere female leads
  3. The best novel that I've ever read
  4. sad life
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TheOriginOfDeath
TheOriginOfDeath rated it
September 5, 2022
Status: c504
Fight scenes are contrived. People regularly take time to fully explain their thoughts and reasoning, during the middle of a battle. Noone uses their head to properly prepare for the upcoming monster, no matter how competent they supposedly are. The apostles are a dumb concept that ruins any situation they show up in, and throws a wrench in the idea that anything the MC does, matters.

Author should write slice of life, those moments were more enjoyable, even if they aren't what I came for.
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haanhaan
haanhaan
August 6, 2022
Status: c376
I like this novel in the first 100-ish chapters, but after that its start to feel stale.

MC's motivation feels like it damped, also *and this is just me* the MC really need friggin armor on top of his robe, yes the robe have good defense, yes the robe have good effect, but for the friggin lol, its a robe on top of muscle bulky MC body *the manga don't really do good job either on the representation cause the robe is just feels like not fit enough*. Give him armor,... more>> or at least make it a coat, cause MC is close combat mage.

:D <<less
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JackB
JackB
August 6, 2020
Status: --
Not my cup of tea. For me it is like the author took a great premise of a story and just butchered it with bad execution. The story builds up these expectations that never materialist. Mix that with a MC that could have been worthy of empathy or admiration but is just flat out unlikable and you have this. I was rooting for them to just kill him and get the story over with only a few chapters in. It only got worse the further I read.

Readers looking for action... more>> and adventure might enjoy this though so I wont say you shouldnt give it a shot. If you are not hooked after the first few chapters then it unlikely you will want to read any further. This is defiantly for a very specific audience. More mature readers might want to find something else. <<less
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Chourou
Chourou rated it
May 7, 2017
Status: c150
If you are a masochist, this novel is perfect for you. Not gonna spoil anything but I stop reading this after 150. I drop this and never touching it again. Thats how I feel.
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camroc
camroc
November 3, 2015
Status: --
Enjoyable series but the pacing of the story is REALLY slow. The first fifteen chapters you have to dredge through to get to the main plot of the story. The author likes to re-tell the story through different POVs of the MC’s party/affiliates and the enemy’s POV. As well, the characters on the enemy side are very unremarkable and typically annoying. However, this series is one of the few, if not only, yandere heroine which leads to lots of interesting moments.
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Oblos
Oblos rated it
April 11, 2023
Status: v2c1
Honestly, I am not sure what to think of this series. On the one hand, I have heard it gets good later on, or at least the style of interesting enough to explore that I otherwise might enjoy.

On the other hand, it really tries to invoke Berserk syndrome (a personal definition to when a series abuses its main char/cast so much it's not dark or grim, just boring, predictable, and numbing) in the first volume. I get it, bad things happened to poor isekai'd boy. So many bad things happen... more>> to him with extreme exaggeration that I am uncertain if MC is supposed to even be a functional character later on. Apparently, it veers into the usual territory of bland old isekai somehow later on with no consequences from the start. That isn't a smart move, that is bad continuity.

I can't really think of a reason to read this, just go to Arifureta or Abnormal status if you want a "grim start" that changes course into usual isekai flavor later on. Berserk did the whole routine, and this tries to evoke it to decent success (boring me until I dropped it) but then fails to stick the landing later on. <<less
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bankbank
bankbank rated it
December 18, 2022
Status: c300
The apostles ruin everything. If your army has a dozen invincible supersoldiers why would you not use them as a vanguard. Just send them ahead to kill all the enemy leaders and send in the army after to mop up. Or have the army camp outside and have the apostles raid every day and kill a bunch of people until the enemy surrenders. Instead the invaders allow them to sit on the backlines doing nothing as thousands of soldiers die for no reason at all. Or just pop up at... more>> the last minute after everyone else has already failed. Why not do that from the start.

This is one of those glaring problems that would be solved incredibly easily if the author just made them "really strong" instead of "invincible." Or give them some kind of limit like they can only be invincible for 15 minutes a day. Or even just had them have bad personalities where they don't ever follow orders and just act on their own whims. But he didn't so now the entire invasion feels like a game where the MC wins the battle but then loses in the cutscene.

I don't expect authors to be military geniuses but if you're writing a series like this where you get into army battles and tactics/strategy you can't just give one side a bunch of invincible troops and then have them not use them 99 percent of the time for no reason. <<less
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fir537
fir537 rated it
December 10, 2017
Status: --
Story is pretty slow paced, jumping around here and there without clear purpose. Sometimes the POV changes around to different characters, and then the time rolls back for a different POV. MC doesnt even seem to be an MC other than the fact that he has more POV chapters compared to other characters. Author maybe is being influenced by George RR Martin's series Song of Ice and Fire if you consider the multiple POVs, but is trying to not make it apparent so he slices in 3rd person POV every... more>> now and then.

Story at least from what I have read, is basically Zealots vs MC + others. MC and Others want to live a normal life, while Zealots want to kill them all for the 3Gs, gold greed and glory. Some might actually have a somewhat noble ambition (god instead of greed), but they are mostly composed and influenced by the 3.

Not a spoiler but is quite long so -

Spoiler

Understandably, finding a new unexplored (from the explorer pov) would make them desire it. In some ways it is similar to Europeans 'finding' (someone else already found america before them) the American continent, and staking their claim on it even though the land already have owners. Pushing in with force and invading with disrespect towards the locals. That is how the Zealots in this novel is.

MC is a normal student in modern Japan, summoned over to the otherworld, and treated as lower than human since he isnt a native of the Zealot continent. The Zealots, or the Crusaders of the Ars continent, bear high resemblence to actual Crusaders in the Medieval Era, with the same aim of 3G. Zealots treats anything other than their followers and farm animals as demons, which includes monsters, any humanoid creatures, and foreigners (humans summoned over from other worlds). MC after suffering more than a lifetime's worth (probably still less than Vandalieu/Death Mage) managed to escape to the other continent, and lived a simple life as an adventurer.

The Others, is a collection of every other character that gets a POV and is not part of the Zealot troupe. Part of the Zealot army is also among the others, and so do some of the Ars continent people. They all want to live a simple life and yet due to the 3G their life is either ruined or a mess.

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All in all I will recommend this to someone who likes boring developments and lacklustre despair. If you dont, Death Mage that doesnt want a 4th Time is a good alternative to this. I read this because I have free time and am bored. <<less
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summers
summers rated it
February 4, 2017
Status: c325
MC get summoned to another world. Instead of meeting a princesses and getting s*ave harem he gets tortured by religious nuts. This is the story, about after he escapes, to another continent where humans and demons mix, and religious fanatics persecute them in the name of their god. To me this political stuff is the best part, when it does not drag to long. There is a magic system in this book but the ins and outs of it are spread out by dozens of chapters. The girls are interesting... more>> but they fall into the troupe of being super at whatever they do, the fairy is a super fairy the alchemist is the super alchemist and so on. Its slow, because this guy never wins against anyone important antagonist and this seems to be used to drag out the story cause the author won't know what to do once this 12 big bads are killed.

I will pick this up after series is done or ads another couple 100 chapters that I can binge. <<less
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ChickenSoup
ChickenSoup
August 27, 2016
Status: c291
Personally I think the story isn't really that dark, if you want real dark stuff go see Tower of Karma. Overall I like it. The thing I find bad in the story is that somehow the MC is still your standard japanese MC after all the sh*t that has happened in the story.
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Oklaroma
Oklaroma rated it
February 23, 2016
Status: --
I wonder why people say this novel is dark and such and compare it to GOT. I read this novel until chapter 223 and If you’re really expecting a dark novel with a sh*t destiny for the protagonist where he struggle to keep his sanity and at the same time survive in a harsh world, then you should seek something else. I really don’t know how to put itwithout giving spoilers, but I can say that those tags are wrong.

Spoiler

The MC suffered all kinds of torture and doesn’t break down, he’s been tortured for months and is still someone who easily trusts others, help people he doesn’t even know and is the typical japanese mc: dense, polite, and so on. The tragedy tag seems to come from the fact that a lot o people the MC know die but most of the novel consist of heartwarming scenes between the MC and his friends.

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By no means I hate this novel, but I was sure hoping for something different when I started reading it. So I give it a 3/5 for now.
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