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NEWS: The Devil Is a Part-Timer!! Novel Series Gets New Volume on September 8

It'll be... interesting to see, I suspect.

I used to enjoy the novels, but after hearing spoilers for how everything ended... abandoned 'em completely.

Really amazing how many series seem to just completely flub their landings. I mean, hell, the Spider LNs wound up being pretty good, but then just nosedived with that final volume last month.

It's not the ending in Devil is a part-timer that's the problem, it's that the middle half of the series -- what we're heading into now -- needed severe pruning. Too much stuff happening, not enough of it mattering. Like a backstory info dump in real time. The last quarter of the series is fine.

(Spider's problem is somewhat different: too many surviving classmates, so half of them are very thinly written, clogging up the back quarter of the story. Too *little* not too much)

IDK, I think if your story's ending manages to peeve off the vast majority of your readers, especially if you're writing a silly little fluff series, then you did something wrong.

No, most story's endings don't turn a huge portion of its fanbase against it. If the plan was this ending all along, he should've written the series in a way that foreshadowed it better and made his audience more open to it.

So this is coming from me, who is still on volume 16 but spoiled the ending for myself. But all of the people who were angry about the ending, just seem to be mad about spoiler[ Emi not winning the relationship. Like Chiho establishes herself in volume 1 as someone who is head over heels for Maou. She spends the series getting to know him and putting in the work to win him over. I'll agree that one can make the argument that Emi should have won but most criticisms seem to disregard Chiho as a character entirely despite her being the most important point of view character on the earth side of the story.]

Also, while there a good handful of people who were angry about the ending, I haven't seen data that suggests that the majority of readers hated it. I feel like the spoiler[shippers] are just being hyperbolic.

Whole-heartedly agree with every bit of this. (And if you're coming to this opinion based only on spoilers and reading through v16, I don't think you'll see anything in the final few volumes which will change your opinion.)