堕落の王 [The Lazy King] Vol 1

The Lazy King #1

by Tsukikage, エレクト さわる (Illustrator)

堕落と放棄、逃避と劣化、停止と衰退、惰性と憂鬱……俺は怠惰の魔王である

男の名はレイジィ・スロータードールズ。
かつてしがないサラリーマンだった彼は死後、異世界に転生し悪魔のクラスを得るが、
自堕落に過ごし続けいつしか怠惰を司る魔王になっていた。
その彼に「反旗を翻した暴食の王ゼブル・グラコスを討滅せよ」と大魔王の勅命が下る。
だがベッドからピクリとも動かない怠惰の王レイジィ。
そんな魔王の代わりに臣下である強欲のデジ、色欲のミディアが暴食の王の討伐へと向かうが――!?
欲望渦巻く堕落転生ファンタジー!!

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

310 pages, Paperback Bunko

Published December 26, 2015

Reviews

[Joe Palffy · Rating 2 out of 5]

First of all it's only 2 volumes and it's told (and retold) from many different perspectives, so there is basically no story, and 2nd: what was even the point of it all ? The MC wakes up, stuff happens and he goes back to sleep, the end. Nothing of significance happens.

The ending didn't really feel like an ending, after one of the random battles it just ... ends. Nothing important is ever explained. It really feels like the author wanted to continue but seeing what a poor job he did, he probably had very low sales and had to cancel.

Also I really hated the way the author added in all those irrelevant bits between the dialogues, "i felt this .. I noticed that "... all irrelevant, stating the obvious, needlessly dragging out revealing stuff/people that was hinted at pretty obviously. Talking about useless things, even acknowledging they are useless and yet still including them ...The authors story telling skills ... just awful, but this seems to be a common trait for asian authors, I should stop reading their books.

And what's with almost all the characters laughing at the beginning of almost every sentence ? they're demons, I get it, but stupidly laughing at everything just felt super odd and wrong, completely unrelatable.

I did like that he told the story from so many different viewpoints, but that's about it, the story was short, pointless and lame, the characters had some development but didn't really do anything, they fought a few pointless battles I guess.

It's really no wonder why this didn't get any sort of adaptation, but it's highly rated pretty much anywhere you can find it so some people must find something worthwhile in this, I'd personally want my time back.

[Kate Chaste · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really interesting take on storytelling, I haven't seen such a broad use of POV in a LN before. Nice change of pace
I read the english translated version, but I could only find the japanese version here.

[Coleton Herr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite an interesting way to tell a story I’ve never really read something quite like it with the way it uses POV and how the main character is like a spectator in a story about him.