Magatsu Wanashi no Yuushagari (禍つ罠師の勇者狩り, Wicked Trapper: Hunter of Heroes) is a Japanese manga work and Illustrated by Wadapen. A fantasy work that depicts the activities of a young boy who have been given powerful abilities by his master and have been summoned to another world. It has been serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump since November 2019.
Synopsis[]
"The devil game creator challenges the devil difficulty dungeon battle in a different world!"
Echizen is a game designer being ground under the boot of his high-pressure job. His demanding workplace won't even let him do what he's best at: building brutal puzzles and traps for players. When he quits his job, something suddenly sucks him into a hellish dungeon in another world.
His path collides with the alluring demon princess Sophilia, but before she can explain how or why she's summoned him, they're threatened by a party of marauding heroes—and Echizen watches in horror as the "heroes" enact a genocidal massacre on Sophilia's demon friends.
With his life on the line, Echizen uses the world's magic to put his game developer skills to use in Sophilia's defense. The deadly traps he creates give the heroes some brutal comeuppance, but the rush of power unlocks Echizen's most sadistic impulses...leading him down a path he may never be able to turn back from.
Publication[]
Wicked Trapper: Hunter of Heroes, written and illustrated by Wadapen, started in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump on November 19, 2019. Shueisha released its first tankōbon volume on April 17, 2020.
In September 2021, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they had licensed the manga for English physical and digital releases in North America and the first volume is set to be released in March 2022.
Volume[]
| Magatsu Wanashi no Yuushagari 1 | ||||
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| Release Date | JP: April 17, 2020 EN: June 21, 2022 | |||
| ISBN-13 | JP: ISBN 978-4-08-891129-8 EN: ISBN 978-1-63858-180-2 | |||
| Number of Pages | 224 (JP) 232 (EN) | |||
| Echizen is a game designer who is ground under the boot of a high-pressure corporate job. They don’t respect him enough to let him do what he’s best at: building brutal puzzles and traps for players. But after he’s sucked into another world, his overlooked skills will come in handy! Stranded in a hellish dungeon and threatened by marauding heroes, Echizen finds himself siding with Sophilia, an alluring demon princess. Using the world’s magic, he puts his game developer talent to use in her defense in this sadistic tale of brutal comeuppance! | ||||
| Magatsu Wanashi no Yuushagari 2 | ||||
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| Release Date | JP: September 17, 2021 EN: October 25, 2022 | |||
| ISBN-13 | JP: ISBN 978-4-08-891709-2 EN: ISBN 978-1-63858-335-6 | |||
| Number of Pages | 224 (JP) 232 (EN) | |||
| In this Mature-rated manga, revenge is a dish best served over and over.
Echizen is a game designer being ground under the boot of his high-pressure job. His demanding workplace won't even let him do what he's best at: building brutal puzzles and traps for players. When he quits his job, something suddenly sucks him into a hellish dungeon in another world. His path collides with the alluring demon princess Sophilia, but before she can explain how or why she's summoned him, they're threatened by a party of marauding heroes--and Echizen watches in horror as the "heroes" enact a genocidal massacre on Sophilia's demon friends. With his life on the line, Echizen uses the world's magic to put his game developer skills to use in Sophilia's defense. The deadly traps he creates give the heroes some brutal comeuppance, but the rush of power unlocks Echizen's most sadistic impulses...leading him down a path he may never be able to turn back from. | ||||
| Magatsu Wanashi no Yuushagari 3 | ||||
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| Release Date | JP: May 18, 2022 | |||
| ISBN-13 | JP: ISBN 978-4088921990 | |||
| Number of Pages | 192 | |||
| Souta and his friends confront the brute heroes by making full use of "Trap Magic". However, the base is lost due to the fierce attack of the Royal Brave Army. Knowing the huge difference in power between them and the Brave Army, they visited in search of new bases and allies...!? | ||||
| Magatsu Wanashi no Yuushagari 4 | ||||
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| Release Date | JP: November 17, 2022 | |||
| ISBN-13 | JP: ISBN 978-4088925042 | |||
| Number of Pages | 192 | |||
| Souta and Sophie save the town of Tormil from the evil lords. When they returned to their base, they were met by Lilith, Sophie's former educator. Together with her, Sota and the others face even more difficult enemies. The final volume of the devil-class dungeon battle challenged by devil game creators in another world!! | ||||
Character[]
A man summoned from Tokyo to another world. When he was in Tokyo, he was involved in game production as a game creator, and was praised as a "God Trap Master" by those around him and users. He dislikes beings who unilaterally impose his ideas, and hates the fact that humans in another world are slaughtering the demons without question, and decides to cooperate with the demons. When Sophiria Gorgantis, who summoned him to another world as his means of fighting, gave him a magic core and gained the ability to create traps, he sets traps to repel invading humans.
Since he was making games, he wanted to have a serious battle with other people that would burn his soul, so he thinks that another world where he can kill or be killed is heaven.
Abilities[]
"Kill them all!!!!!!"
― Souta Echizen killing all the Heroes.
As being Game Creator his knowledge very fit with his ability to conjure traps or "Magic Trap", basically a practical form of tactics focused on nothing but victory, unsuited for one whose soul seeks out the truth of the true enemy. Yet that is why it is strong, and so brittle.
Souta is good tactician and cunning person able to tricked the enemy to able seize things in the broader perspective of him, such as diplomacy and logistics, in order to decide victory before the fighting even begun. His tactic's my used not for one-on-one combat situations, but for battles where many are mobilized.
- Being Contract as slave by Sophie, she can only boost Souta by giving her magic particle Crystal. Giving her it boosted 2x his ability Souta can performed it only one time used.
- As called Magic trap, this ability able to create or form any kind of trap as the caster willed. As Souta's experience as Game Creator able to create any torture device or equipment, bigger or smaller.
- The Magic Trap able to mark a region as his personal dominion by securing the surrounding as a booby trap into Trap Dungeon.
- The Ability itself never need certain places to active. It can generate or materialized any form of equipment. His eyes' is usable as vision or surveillance to be able to perform any traps he can mark.
- When the master (Sophie) unleashed her true form (As a Demon Lord) The Magic trap boost it effect, it can even annihilate entire squad of heroes in a second.
![Sota's Magic Trap-Eye [Stigma]](/wiki/File:Sota_Echizen_traps_2.jpg "Sota Echizen traps 2.jpg (389 KB)")
"I'm going to keep trapping and trapping and trapping these damned heroes!!"
― Souta Echizen
Stigma: It is when Sophie-sama, a member of the demon king split her "Stigma" or "demonic core" with someone, and as a blessing, it manifests "any abilities that lay dormant in the person's nature". In the former world of Souta as much as I hate to say it, for who was even called the "God Trapper", we can even expect some superior abilities to appear. The Stigma is a carved seal that serves as proof of your contract with a Demon Ruler... That is, it would be a binding contract of master and servant and you cannot travel to another dimension with your master...
- Proof of making a contract with the Demon King's clan. A master-servant contract is established between the master who gives the magic core and the servant who receives it, and the servant cannot move to a different dimension from the master. Instead, it has the benefit of "developing the ability that matches the qualities of the person who received it''. Souta Echizen, who has no regrets about his original world, is given a magic core by Sophiria Gorgantis and gains the ability to create traps.
Souta's Magic is called "Magic Particles", But humans use some material called "Miasma" instead to make traps. And the amount of magical particles available depends on the environment. Being part of the Demon king's family, a vast amount of magical particles accumulate within Sophie's body and by using the right eye that Souta received during the contract that is, by using the "stigma" as a medium, you can harness them. The Strength of the connection of the "stigma" that harnesses her Magical Particles is relative to your distance from her.
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