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Maou-sama no Machizukuri! ~Saikyou no Danjon wa Kindai Toshi~
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10 WN Volumes / 223
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8 LN Volumes (Ongoing)
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Weekly Rank: #2000Monthly Rank: #2000
All Time Rank: #121
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Monthly Rank: #465
All Time Rank: #62
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Beings that create and control monsters and demons, beings that build and reign over malicious labyrinths, the chosen individuals to possess an overwhelming Unique Skill… They are the Demon Lords.
Demon Lords entice people to come to the labyrinth they’ve built and eat the people’s despair as their nourishment.
However, Creation Demon Lord Procell has decided that he will obtain people’s hopes and not their despair as nourishment, and built a happy town instead of a malicious labyrinth to collect human beings.
This is the story of an eccentric Demon Lord, his inner thoughts, and his poker face.
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One entry per lineDungeon Builder: The Demon King's Labyrinth is a Modern City
The Demon Lord’s Building a City! ~The Strongest Dungeon is a Modern Day City~
魔王様の街づくり!~最強のダンジョンは近代都市~
The Demon Lord’s Building a City! ~The Strongest Dungeon is a Modern Day City~
魔王様の街づくり!~最強のダンジョンは近代都市~
Related Series
Upstart Pastry Chef ~Territory Management of a Genius Pâtisserie~ (Shared Universe)The Great Demon Lord’s City Development ~The Ideal City Built with Magic, Science, and Monsters~ (Sequel)The Rise of a Pastry Craftsman: Managing the Domain of a Genius Pastry Chef (Shared Universe)Recommendations
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Lots of curb-stompy, OP MC battles where MC absolutely destroy the opponent thanks to his ability to use modern weaponry + special monsters creation powers. So those who like monster summoning and guns in a fantasy world may like this. There's also that anticipation of what type of monster he's going to get with the medals he can combine so gatcha fans may like this. Fairly cute girls too. The Bad:
Okay, so first of all, despite the MC being a Dungeon Master, this is not really a dungeon building story. The main plot revolves more around building a city where the MC can slowly harvest human's DP over time than the quick harvesting that most dungeon masters do when killing adventurers. Fortunately, I'm fairly fond of city-building novels too. However, like with many WNs, this suffers from OP MC concept where every single challenge isn't a challenge since the MC has the power to create modern day equipment from his imagination and the power to create incredibly strong monsters. I don't really mind OP MCs in most of the cases as long as there's some sort of challenge/struggle. Or if there's no struggle, at least some type of focus on SoL or something. However, this MC just utterly curbstomps all of his opponents to the point that I'm actually feeling sorry for them. For example, when
he used gatling guns to wipe out all of the newbie dungeon lord's army in the noob battle, or when he bypasses every single trap his opponent sets up.
Well, he relies on selling rare goods (created by his similarly OP servants), offering amazing incentives to immigrate (also thanks to his special abilities), and providing super cheap services (which is possible thanks to his powers). Although this isn't a bad thing as of itself, there are almost zero chapters spent on him actively developing the city and it's economy; everything is just solved with magic.There's slight more city development now, but it's still mostly reliant on his amazing summons that only he has access to. Tl;dr: Possibly cool concept but has a MC that is so ridiculously overpowered that nothing is a challenged to him in a story that is focused around battles.Procell's the MC and he's a Demon Lord with the ability of [Creation]. Every Demon Lord has one such ability, like [Beast], [Wind], [Alchemy] and so on; each ability grants some powers to the Demon Lord and the ability to create minions of varied capabilities. Procell's [Creation] power allows him to create any object from his memory out of thin air. And for some reason, he has modern-day knowledge (in a european medieval fantasy-type world), so he immediately creates some modern weapons like pistols, rifles etc.
It baffles me that the MC limits his own OP ability to the creation of some 4 or 5 weapons when he could totally overhaul the world he lives in and how its warfare is made with some small stuff like radios for instant communication between troops, night vision goggles, watches, cameras or, idk, some better clothing or armor. In one instance he does create a pair of binoculars, but it's never mentioned again and no one acts with any curiosity towards it. Also, although he does create some computers for Elder Dwarf (one of the main characters and a general in Procell's army) to work with, he does not create other similar devices, like smartphones or any other electronic device whatsoever (and even the computers he made, they're of exclusive use of the Elder Dwarf), which's pretty dumb. ED's computers are powered by a diesel engine, but it never occurs to MC or ED to expand the usefulness of electricity or combustion-powered machines.
What I'm trying to say is that the author dropped the ball hard on the creative department when it comes to MC's powers' versatility. There is some kind of explanation for that, but it's not very convincing and also doesn't tackle this issue directly.
Also, I'd like to say some pretty obvious thing about MC's war strategy: His main thing is that he builds a looong corridor and puts some machine guns on its end, so that the enemy has to take fire all the way across it. Seems an OK strategy, up until you realize that he could just build some freaking grids in said corridor and just let the bullets through without the risk of a quick enemy dodging 'em. Also, if the machine gunners had night vision equipment, the whole corridor could be kept on the dark. Also, the whole floor and walls of the corridor could be electrified or coated in glue. Also, the machine gunners could have some rocket or grenade launchers. Also.... well, you get the point. The author's too weak on the creative department.
BTW, I must say here that there's some major lazy writing on part of the author on Elder Dwarf's role in this story. ED's basically responsible for everything pertaining to "production" in MC's army and city. She builds buildings, infrastructure, weapons, tools, clothing, everything ---- but we never see any of that. All we know's that ED has a "workshop" and works there, and voilá, when the MC needs something, the author just says that ED made it for him, and it's always the bestest ever thing ever made. Just because reasons.
Up until now there's barely any character growth, but that's OK I guess, since we're still in the beginning of the story. That said, if you like the characters as they are now, you'll most likely like them for the months to come, but I find them rather bland and one-dimensional stereotypes. The MC doesn't truly have a personality, he's just "a nice guy" and the rest of his troup's mainly composed by japanese tropes. As for antagonists, it's quite depressing that the first true villain of the series was the moustache-twirling-kind of villain and he's dealt with pretty easily and effortlessly, not only because he's weak, but because of some bullsh*t cheating by MC's crew during their fight. It's all smooth sailing for our heroes, who never seem to be in any kind of danger or pinch whatsoever - if you're faint of heart and rather take it easy or if you don't like plot twists or major turn of events, then this story's for you.
As for the city-building part of the story, I must say it's pretty lazy and undetailed. We never see anything happening, but get reports from time to time of how things are developing. MC's city's infrastructure's mainly built offscreen by Elder Dwarf and her helpers and the author does not think it's interesting to delve into city planning or things like that. Things just work, don't ask me why. There's no modern structures in this city and MC doesn't give any input or insight towards this area, he just lets things flow naturally. There no drama here.
All in all, this novel's more slice of life than anything else. Very lukewarm, tame and easy-going. Everyone's nice to everybody else, there's always giggles and cute stuff happening everywhere and everything our heroes set out to do turns out successfully, there's no setback at all in anything, it's all handled perfectly. Is there cruelty and evil happening in this world? Sure. But not to our main cast and their marvelous city.
So... Yeah. 3 stars.
Such as Unique Monster Creations, Gathering skills/creature types from other dungeons, creating a city for humans to live in, even fight for my protection (their own home), Small other world introductions, such as city management, apple pie, a casino.
Often found in Japanese Light Novels written for a younger audience, and for easy conversion/transition into Manga/Anime. But the big problem, and it might be a bit more personal, is the use of, or over use of guns. (Sorry gun otakus)
Generally speaking, the inclusions of guns into a fantasy setting ruins the mood.
- It sucks away any action, shoot and their dead. (This story at least has some shotgun action)
- It makes the MC OP.
- I'm to lazy to think of other reasons why....
Also, this story has paragraphs explaining the gun specs, and how it's used.
Honestly, this stories gun use is not as bad as others where the MC is an adventure using gun magic.
Its actually explain, and its not the most op thing, as in magic may be able to get past it... but still, there are a few chapters in a row that only a gun enthusiast would be excited reading.
I find downright creepy the mere fact that the author thinks it is important to specify that the body of a 12 years doesn't invite le*d thoughts. It should be a matter of course! MC has amnesia which is a good excuse for him having no backstory and since he has no backstory, that's obvious that he wouldn't have a personality either. None of his summoned demons (or 'daughters') have a personality either. Well unless you count 'being cute' and 'loving the MC' as a personality. The fact that they are summons also conveniently remove the problem of having to create a backstory for them. There is little to no world building and the building of the city shows that the author doesn't understand the first thing of how a city works or is built. There are no thoughts about economics, politics, position, roads, policies,... and so on. There are lots of description of guns though. Finally, this is a world in which demon lords gain power from the emotions humans inside their dungeon have. So they all design their dungeon in order to have the humans that do come experience the strongest of emotion such as adversity, greed, hope and despair. MC genius and unique idea is to make a city that will attract lots of humans and the story shows that he does benefit from such a dungeon a lot more than his colleagues.
Such a solution is completely obvious! If the rules makes the demon lords benefit from having more humans in their dungeon then what idiot would make it inhospitable? Even a moron should be capable of realizing that a city will host several orders of magnitude more people than an inhospitable dungeon (and you can still provoke strong emotions in them).
This novel loses some likability from when the MC starts making his religion and brain washing people into joining his religion. One thing I hate is when a novel starts story telling about bad things and the author goes his way to explain that it is a good thing.
Not to mention there are many major plot holes before he start his religion, So this one got a 3 stars only rating because you can still pass time reading until volume 6. Volume 7 and onwards aren't recommended to read.
the god told him about himself has fragment of old memories from the ancient time (apparently have earth tech). Basically he can create stuffs from ancient tech because of that, but himself is not a soul who died and reincarnated after several centuries.
The author is pretty talented especially in dark setting...