Stray Little Devil

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First volume starts very promising showing interesting plot and setting some very nice drama and likable characters as well as some very good art but somewhere in middle of volume 2 it started to feel less like a genuine story and more like a parody, some of the main characters that had some really nice depth to them in volume 1 and first half of volume 2 had been reduced to friend A and Friend B who only exist to trow punch lines in comedic moments and even protagonist and other characters had lost nearly all depth that they had, story had also lost all ... of it's seriousness and drama and had stopped to develop instead there where tons of dump comedy and pointless fan service, despite mangaka himself clearly saying in the end of volume 1 that this is not that kind of story. In the last 5 volume story starts to develop again and gets a bit more serious but even then it doesn't have a seriousness that it had in first volume but more a mix of some events that are suppose to be serous with a heavy comedy around it true even if it tried to be more serious it would be hard to take it as such after volume 3 & 4. Despite combining some of my favorite genres and sub-genres in one manga (Shoujo-AI, Fantasy, Demon heroine/protagonist, romance between enemies) I can't label this Manga as anything other then wasted potential.

This series was off to a good start at the beginning. What made me give this series a rate of 6 was the last volume. This series was going at a steady pace at the beginning and throughout the first four volumes by showing how the heroine was slowly adjusting to her situation and growing into her powers. I seriously thought the series would be over ten volumes long so when I finally got to the fifth volume and realized it was the last one I was a little disappointed. The ending was very rushed. I, and I'm sure others who have read this series, ... would have liked to see the heroine develop a bit more before the end. All in all, it had some good art, quite a few likable characters, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes stories about devils who are the good guys and about main characters who are sent to a different world.