what's your favorite thing about kyo kara maoh? been thinking about giving it a rewatch lately so i'm curious.
Ahh, I haven't really thought about KKM in a long time but it was my hyper fixation for like a good 10 years lol
I'll answer but this is just going to be random stream of consciousness lol
My goal was to translate all the novels and I attempted the whole first novel but I'm sure what I did sucks. Back then I was still a novice at translating and still learning Japanese.... maybe I'll go back and redo that someday.... and all the others in the series.... I know there's other translations around but I've never checked them and I really wanted to do it myself. It's been a while since I was really active in that fandom but I'm pretty sure some of them are re-translations from other languages and I've made my thoughts on re-translations pretty clear before....
ANYWAY, back to your question lol
My favorite thing about KKM is Wolfram. He's a fiery hot head which is totally my type lol. I bit of a tsundere but OBSESSED with Yuuri. He hates humans, but Yuuri is a human? Doesn't count he's the Maou. Either way he lightens up over time lol
In their first interaction he didn't believe in Yuuri as Maou and so he pissed of Yuuri so much Yuuri slapped him which of course Yuuri didn't know was a proposal... That's right this is an OG isekai and the isekai part actually matters lol. It's not just high fantasy with normal world rules, there's ridiculous things like slapping being proposals. Yuuri gets into all sorts of hijinks because he doesn't know the rules of this world, but his accidental fiance is about the best mistake he ever made lol.
Wolfram then challenges him to a duel by throwing his knife on the ground, and because Yuuri doesn't know the rules, he picks up the knife accepting the duel. Yuuri has no idea how to fight or even that he has magic, but when he gets pissed off he goes kind of crazy and uses the magic instinctively. He talks in a haughty way and preaches about justice which is known as his "Maou Mode". Wolfram of course falls in love with this and accepts that they're fiances lol. (Yes, I know it isn't really BL and a lot of people ship conyuu instead.... ugh don't talk to me about the ship wars I got into back then, but him accepting the fiance thing is cannon so shhh :p We are Yuuri/Wolfram only in this house!)
So WOLFRAM!!! He's in this weird relationship with a dude that he's obsessed with but he still acts all tsundere about it. He'll be there for Yuuri no matter what but he won't act happy about it. He always hold Yuuri accountable about the dumb things he does and makes sure that he's a good king.
They adopt a kid together! Their family moments are so cute!
Spoilers, but there's a whole arc where Wolfram and Yuuri are separated, Wolfram is chasing after him the whole time trying to help him, and then he finally shows up right as Yuuri is about to fall off a cliff and catches him!! and he's just like
and in the novels/manga we do see Wolfram slap him back
and at this point we all know what that slap means lol
and! There is a Yuuri version of that Wolfram line too!!
The author's humor and the silliness of the other world just resonates with me so much and I just love the author! I really wish she finished the series but it's been so long now I have no hopes about it being completed ;_;
The novels and manga are a lot better than the anime, but the anime is what got me into this series so it will always hold a special place in my heart lol... The first season is pretty decent but it starts varying from the novel story pretty quickly, there's a lot of filler, and season 3 is practically all made up for the anime. Saralegi exists but he's not like he is in the novel at all and they wrote out his twin brother...
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