however, if I'm allowed to criticize a masterpiece, I think I liked the first half better. Competent people making intelligent decisions to slowly reform society is exactly the kind of escapism I love, and this manga delivers that in spades. I understand the desire to wrap up with a huge climax, and to explain why the whole demon/human world setup exists at all, but honestly it felt a little distracting from how grounded the earlier stuff was. Luckily the practical tactics, and winning people over through reasoned arguments, never went away. It just all got a bit drowned out by the END OF THE WORLD talk.
On the other hand, it's pretty great how true to its themes it was. "Why not both?" is basically the thesis statement - why not two churches? why not two waifus?why not a half dozen Demon Kings and Heros all milling about at the end? That, combined with the idea of progress to "see beyond the hill" and the importance of freedom and cooperation to achieve that goal for the whole world. Good stuff.