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The Devil is a Part-Timer! Light Novel #15
The Devil Is a Part-Timer!, Vol. 15
It's the middle of winter, and the Devil King is training in the hopes of transitioning from part-timer to full-timer. However, his plan hits a road block when Emi's mother, Laila, informs Maou and the whole group about a crisis affecting all of Ente Isla. And his full-time job isn't the only thing that might be put on hold-Emeralda and Chiho are planning to throw a Christmas party for Alas Ramus's first winter holiday experience! On top of that, Rika's feelings for Ashiya remain, giving him pause about leaving Japan, and Urushihara couldn't care less about the past of the angels and the tragedy of the heavens. Are the visitors from another world really going to leave Japan for good?!
208 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 10, 2016
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March 8, 2020
Lots of good reveals with its regular humor
So we finally found out the origins of the angels and demons and it was a lot different than I expected. The big bad should be interesting, as should the major plot shift going forward. I like the narrative twist at the end, should make for some fun stories so I’m glad the author was willing to shake up the formula.
Overall I liked the holiday theme, and the characters are fun as always. The author captures the character interactions with both tact and humor, hard not to empathize with them. Lots of funny moments and heartfelt ones too. They group has become a family at this point, and I like how they all care for each other without any serious in-fighting. Both Maou and Emi have mellowed our and that continues into this book. Their character development has come a long way. Suzuno and Urushihara continue to be the best sources of comic relief, and they better survive the upcoming arc, as I’m sure it’s gonna get intense as they get ready to take the fight to the big bad.
So we finally found out the origins of the angels and demons and it was a lot different than I expected. The big bad should be interesting, as should the major plot shift going forward. I like the narrative twist at the end, should make for some fun stories so I’m glad the author was willing to shake up the formula.
Overall I liked the holiday theme, and the characters are fun as always. The author captures the character interactions with both tact and humor, hard not to empathize with them. Lots of funny moments and heartfelt ones too. They group has become a family at this point, and I like how they all care for each other without any serious in-fighting. Both Maou and Emi have mellowed our and that continues into this book. Their character development has come a long way. Suzuno and Urushihara continue to be the best sources of comic relief, and they better survive the upcoming arc, as I’m sure it’s gonna get intense as they get ready to take the fight to the big bad.
July 4, 2020
Another step forward
Overall the narrative wasn’t executed that poorly, what felt like what was going to be a collection of Christmas/Holiday vignettes turned out to be an actual plot-furthering volume that was written in a more experimental format than most of the previous installments. The stories told where sweet, but the way they all came together towards the end was jarring. The book starts out with Rika and Chiho having a very serious conversation, the next few chapters, which are cute little shorts, turn out to actually be exposition which - in the last chapter - brings us back to the present where Chiho finishes telling Rika of the latest events. Then a rather anticlimactic exchange takes place and we’re in a place that returns to the silly, good-humored tone we started with in the beginning of the series.
From a technical standpoint the volume does everything it should do - bring back some of the levity of the earlier volumes while still pushing us further along with the current arc. It’s just disappointing how much extra “tell” was employed versus how much “show” actually took place. I think this could have, and probably should have, been reformatted and possibly broken up into different volumes. Still I did enjoy it and I am looking forward to the next volume.
I do have a little peeve though, which if you’ve read other reviews of mine will not come as a surprise, but Chiho’s back and forth take on her life and what she really wants has gotten more and more pathetic - even her peers are over it. That to me is just annoying. It’s hard to properly critique teen characters because a lot of their nonsense is typical teenage behavior, but Chiho’s imbalance between her maturity towards her position as an Earthling in the midst of Ente Islans all the time and her immaturity when it comes to her feelings has become so exaggerated that it really isn’t cute or fun anymore. Again, though, I am still looking forward to reading the next volume.
Overall the narrative wasn’t executed that poorly, what felt like what was going to be a collection of Christmas/Holiday vignettes turned out to be an actual plot-furthering volume that was written in a more experimental format than most of the previous installments. The stories told where sweet, but the way they all came together towards the end was jarring. The book starts out with Rika and Chiho having a very serious conversation, the next few chapters, which are cute little shorts, turn out to actually be exposition which - in the last chapter - brings us back to the present where Chiho finishes telling Rika of the latest events. Then a rather anticlimactic exchange takes place and we’re in a place that returns to the silly, good-humored tone we started with in the beginning of the series.
From a technical standpoint the volume does everything it should do - bring back some of the levity of the earlier volumes while still pushing us further along with the current arc. It’s just disappointing how much extra “tell” was employed versus how much “show” actually took place. I think this could have, and probably should have, been reformatted and possibly broken up into different volumes. Still I did enjoy it and I am looking forward to the next volume.
I do have a little peeve though, which if you’ve read other reviews of mine will not come as a surprise, but Chiho’s back and forth take on her life and what she really wants has gotten more and more pathetic - even her peers are over it. That to me is just annoying. It’s hard to properly critique teen characters because a lot of their nonsense is typical teenage behavior, but Chiho’s imbalance between her maturity towards her position as an Earthling in the midst of Ente Islans all the time and her immaturity when it comes to her feelings has become so exaggerated that it really isn’t cute or fun anymore. Again, though, I am still looking forward to reading the next volume.
December 26, 2019
Was this the last book? The whole thing was just backstory and tying up loose ends. In a VERY uninteresting way. Awful. If there are anymore books, I won’t be reading them. Two bad books in a row is enough for me.
August 19, 2020
Lots of reveals, plot twists and character progression in this small volume! :O Also worthy of mention that except a bit at the end, our part-timer devil protagonist barely appears in this one, perhaps because he's about to not be a part-timer?
January 16, 2020
It started off really well and built up towards an interesting ending. But then took a shift and ignored the beginning
March 21, 2020
Mostly backstory, most of which is ok, but the structure and pacing was off for me.
July 12, 2021
Can't believe how large and amazing the story has gotten.
November 17, 2023
Pretty alright book. Liked the theme around Christmas. Personally, always think it’s a great time of the year.
June 29, 2023
This is a strange book to say the least. It adds a great deal to the lore of the series, but it goes in such strange directions that it's hard to tell whether this is a good thing. Maybe the story is at its best when it's more chill and less focused on Ente Isla drama... but that ship has sailed.
December 26, 2019
It's... complicated
I'm giving this volume a high 3-stars for frustrating pacing issues caused by the massive lore dump taking up large sections of the story. Fortunately, the book makes a good attempt at clearing things up with some near-meta commentary in its final chapter. To paraphrase poor Rika, it gets kinda ridiculous, and difficult to wrap your head around, but I'll be back for volume 16.
I'm giving this volume a high 3-stars for frustrating pacing issues caused by the massive lore dump taking up large sections of the story. Fortunately, the book makes a good attempt at clearing things up with some near-meta commentary in its final chapter. To paraphrase poor Rika, it gets kinda ridiculous, and difficult to wrap your head around, but I'll be back for volume 16.
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