I've seen this series too.
The whole "no one has a proper name and are just referred to with descriptors" is basically a blatant (and endearing) parody of cliche fantasy story archetypes. The whole story reminds me of Spice and Wolf meets Dragon Quest, and since I'm probably one of those weird people who doesn't mind learning something while being entertained by manga/anime, I recommend this series too.
I personally like the Ishida Akira manga the best of all the adaptations (good art, decent mix of comedy and drama, classy use of fanservice). The other two manga vary wildly in tone and art style, and the anime is decent but some of the art is sub par, but since the series was originally created as a light novel series and the anime is based off that, it also copied the art illustrations from the same.
For some characters, that wasn't bad at all (Hero and Maou-sama don't look bad at all), but some of the characters just look bad (Grand Princess Fire Dragon got a much nicer appearance in the Ishida Akira manga), and the anime got slightly tacky with the bouncing cleavage of Maou-sama (as opposed to the manga, which was, as stated above, rather classy about it's use of fanservice). Also, the anime is a much condensed, stripped down version of the plot in the manga/light novel versions, so the thinness of the plot is another black mark against it for me.
As for the 4koma, that was extremely hilarious, and I also recommend it alongside the Ishida Akira manga.
The whole "no one has a proper name and are just referred to with descriptors" is basically a blatant (and endearing) parody of cliche fantasy story archetypes. The whole story reminds me of Spice and Wolf meets Dragon Quest, and since I'm probably one of those weird people who doesn't mind learning something while being entertained by manga/anime, I recommend this series too.
I personally like the Ishida Akira manga the best of all the adaptations (good art, decent mix of comedy and drama, classy use of fanservice). The other two manga vary wildly in tone and art style, and the anime is decent but some of the art is sub par, but since the series was originally created as a light novel series and the anime is based off that, it also copied the art illustrations from the same.
For some characters, that wasn't bad at all (Hero and Maou-sama don't look bad at all), but some of the characters just look bad (Grand Princess Fire Dragon got a much nicer appearance in the Ishida Akira manga), and the anime got slightly tacky with the bouncing cleavage of Maou-sama (as opposed to the manga, which was, as stated above, rather classy about it's use of fanservice). Also, the anime is a much condensed, stripped down version of the plot in the manga/light novel versions, so the thinness of the plot is another black mark against it for me.
As for the 4koma, that was extremely hilarious, and I also recommend it alongside the Ishida Akira manga.