Maou Gakuen no Hangyakusha: Jinrui Hatsu no Maou Kouhou, Kenzoku Shoujo to Ouza wo Mezashite Nariagaru

Chapter 10 is still in Light Novel Volume 1. You are around 60% of the LN volume 1.

I will try to keep this review spoiler-free, but I can't promise you anything, so tread carefully.

The review will divide into two parts:

Quick review = I will give you a rough explanation of what this series is about (genre, plot, location, similarity to other books, etc.). Quick review is for people who decide if they will watch anime or read the entire manga on a short amount of episodes/chapters.

Standard review = I don't have to explain that.
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Without further ado, let's go for the "quick review":

1, MG is an ecchi genre. 1st LN volume ( 14-18 chapters, precise number in future edits) is introductory and is "tame" in erotic aspects. However, in the first ten chapters of the manga, you will get to see some butt and boobs groping. Later Light Novel Volumes are more erotic and daring.

2, Maou Gakuen no Hangyakusha is as you may already guess about devils (word "Maou"). The main protagonist Morioka Yuuto is the devil king candidate of Lovers Arcana. He's the first human candidate and is preparing for the upcoming "devil king war" (the winner gets the throne, everyone else dies on the battlefield).

3, MG like a lot of ecchi genres has a school setting. The primary location of Maou Gakuen is Ginsei Academy. Ginsei Academy is exclusive to devils. LN volumes 1-3 are primary Ginsei Academy. Volume 4 is mostly primary elsewhere.

4, Bit on Arcana and devil king candidates: Every Arcana has its unique signature magic. Every Arcana has a "nemesis" Arcana ( Random example: Arcana of Tower performs badly against Arcana of Lovers). Ginsei Academy provides every devil king candidate with a palace.

5, The story, as I already mentioned is about Morioka Yuuto. In the beginning, he is a pretty standard ecchi character regarding erotic stuff, braveness, but he grows up. You might not see it in the 1st few chapters, but he will grow.

6, If you are a fan of Highschool DxD ( I've read all the 25 volumes, and I am up to date with Shin), I can recommend you to try Maou Gakuen. You will find similarities between DxD and MG, but both works have their own unique identity.

7, MG is from Kuji Masamune (author of Masou Gakuen HxH), so if you liked his past works, you will likely enjoy going into Maou Gakuen.

Quick review end. It might be longer than the Standard review. However, The Standard review is going to expand with new chapters. "Quick review" will remain the same.
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Standard review (last updated 14.02.2021):

I finished chapter 10. I don't like the inconsistency of MG chapter length as a whole right now. some chapters have twenty pages, some only eight pages like previous chapter 9. I feel the fact some chapters are way too short is hurting Hangyakusha in the eyes of new readers.

Art: I think it's a pretty good art style. I think Gelatin did good character designs. In the latest chapters, the attention to detail of the female body has been good ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

Story: As I was saying earlier, Morioka Yuuto is the devil king candidate of Lovers Arcana. He's the 1st ever human candidate to compete for the devil king throne. Yuuto enrolls into Ginsei Academy. Devil king candidates are studying and preparing for war, are training and building their peerages in Ginsei Academy. They can kill each other even before the "Devil King War" starts. 1st day in Ginsei Academy, Yuuto meets Lizel Himekami. She helps Yuuto during his conflict with a devil student, later joining Yuuto's peerage as his queen along with Yuugaoze Miyabi and Koiwai Reina with the ambition to make Yuuto the 1st ever human devil king.

I like the story overall, 1st volume has a lot of introductory information, but the plot picks up the pace. Maou Gakuen has good potential to be a good series. I rate MG high in the ecchi genre. Hopefully, future volumes will get better and better.

Characters:
Maou Gakuen no Hangyakusha has four protagonists. I found MG protagonists and characters to be entertaining in general. In my Light Novel reading, I found one or two exceptions, but still, I like most of the characters.

Yuuto might seem overpowered in 1st few chapters. From Light Novel experience, I can say he's not the overpowered "I calculated everything, I was planning this all along" type of MC (not even close to OPness of Kirito, Shiba Tatsuya, Ousawa Akatsuki). He will find tough opponents.

When it comes down to character development, MG does a pretty good job. I will expand this section in the future, but for now, I want to write a review of what you can already read in manga.

Villains:
When it comes to villains, I always have high expectations, so how does MG fare?

Volume 1: Well, our 1st villain is the devil king candidate of "World" Linel Aspite. As a 1st villain, he is okay, he wasn't groundbreaking, but he did his job. I will talk about it more once Yuuto versus Aspite concludes. Right now, Yuuto is about to have a confrontation with his "Ace".

Rating:
7/10. I can't give a higher rating to 10 chapters manga. Rating will go to 8/10 once Yuuto versus Aspite conclusion happens, signaling the end of LN Volume 1. The only reason I would not change the score would be inconsistency in Hangyakusha chapter length. It has potential. I hope manga will keep on releasing new chapters. So I can update the review and make it feel less bland and empty.

A tarot card allowing you to be the candidate to become the next demon lord, enroll as a transfer at a demon school and have the ability to make females your property otherwise servant? I guess we all know what that means, gotta catch em all hehe...

Any who enough with the jokes, we got ourselves an underestimated, overpowered mc named Yuuto who gained the ability through a card that forms a contract with females to make her its servant or in the manga the term is called "card" Supposedly Yuuto gains more power by bondage, lust, passion etc.

Hmm gaining power through lust, where have I seen this before... Oh right Highschool DxD. This manga is basically DxD but less lewder which in my book, the more eroge the more better.

Overall its the same ol repetitive same shit that share the same plot of "oh I'm a demon king transfer student and I got several bitches whoring off to me in the first chapter" The author draws hentai yet everything lewd in this manga is basically childs play. This may get better at some point so Ill stick around till the author has balls enough to show some real eroge!