Is As Miss Beelzebub Likes It Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read

Quick facts
Format	Manga, 83 chapters, 12 volumes
Run	2015–2020 · completed
Community score	AniList 7.4
Where to read	Yen Press — official

Overview

Mullin lands his dream job working under Beelzebub, one of the Demon King's top administrators — and quickly learns she's nothing like the fearsome reputation implies. She's quiet, painfully competent, obsessed with anything soft and fluffy, and utterly unaware that her new hire is falling for her. As Miss Beelzebub Likes It builds its whole story around that slow-burn crush, set against a demon-realm office full of similarly mismatched pairings.

What it does well

The central relationship is the draw, and it works because it's built on something sturdier than a typical rom-com hook: Mullin likes Beelzebub because she's good at her job and quietly kind to the people around her, not because of a dramatic first encounter or a forced misunderstanding. That gives their slow burn a warmth that a lot of workplace romances skip past on the way to conflict. The fantasy office setting also earns its keep — swapping cubicles for a demon-realm bureaucracy gives familiar rom-com beats just enough of a fresh coat of paint to stay entertaining.

The supporting cast helps too. Side pairings like the bickering Astaroth and Sargatanas add variety and comic relief without ever threatening to pull focus from the main couple, and the demon-realm setting gives the manga room for sight gags and worldbuilding jokes that a purely mundane office comedy couldn't manage.

Where it falls short

The tradeoff for all that warmth is a near-total absence of actual plot tension. There's no rival suitor, no external threat, no real misunderstanding arc — just two people slowly, slowly closing the distance between them. If you need a story engine beyond "will they finally get together," this will feel thin well before the manga wraps up. Some of the recurring jokes, particularly Beelzebub's obsession with soft and fluffy things, get repeated often enough to lose some of their charm by the later volumes, and the overall pace is unhurried even by slow-burn romance standards.

Verdict

Nothing bad ever really threatens this couple, and somehow that's the whole appeal — it's comfort reading, not drama, and it knows exactly what it is.