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“A kindhearted Demon Lord builds a joyful town instead of a despair-feeding labyrinth.”
Dungeon Builder: The Demon King's Labyrinth is a Modern City!
魔王様の街づくり！～最強のダンジョンは近代都市～
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Synopsis
A kindhearted Demon Lord builds a joyful town instead of a despair-feeding labyrinth.
Beings that create and control monsters and demons, beings that build and reign over malicious labyrinths, the chosen individuals to possess an overwhelming Unique Skill—they are the Demon Lords. Demon Lords entice people to come to the labyrinth they've built and eat the people's despair as their nourishment. However, newly born Demon Lord Procell has decided that he will obtain people's hopes and not their despair as nourishment, and build a happy town instead of a malicious labyrinth to collect human beings. This is the story of an eccentric Demon Lord, with all its ins and outs. (Source: Novel Updates, edited)
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Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
5.3
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 7
σ 2.05
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.05 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.0 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 2.0
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Score over time
↑ 0.25
Running avg · Feb 2022 → Feb 2026
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Sometimes I feel sentimental leaving reviews, especially with older series. This manga has been around for years back when I was getting into this hobby. Quite late but the last chapter has arrived...”
- 7 “I went into this thinking it'd be just another city building manga like a dozen others, but with the theme of being a demon lord. Instead I got a genuinely jarring narrative about challenging...”
- 2 “Was excited reading the title thinking this was going to be a city building story, but sadly it's not. The city building is not even 1% of the story, and it feels almost like an after thought. MC...”
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Medium · 50%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 75 × 12 ch × vol
- Total read 10h 00m approx
- Published Mar 2018 – Feb 2025
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M47904 catalog