[5][6] Cheat Slayer follows Lute, a villager who respects and wants to join a guild called "Rebels Against God", which consists of people reincarnated into the world and who fight against the Demon Lord's army.

Among the crimes the Rebels Against God commit are burning down a village, breaking a man's neck, and raping the protagonist's childhood sweetheart.

They declared that depicting characters that looked so similar to those from other series as villains would cause problems, as the creators may believe Kawamoto and Yamaguchi were intentionally denigrating particular works.

[14] Kara Dennison from Otaku USA suggested that controversy may have been avoided by rethinking the character parodies, using a more diverse range of crimes committed by the villains, and using the series to make a statement on the isekai genre in general.

[2] On July 22, 2021, it was announced that Kawamoto would be working with Zuzu Kamiya to create another isekai series entitled Humanity's Existence Depends on Love Gambling with Another World's Princess, which debuted in Champion Red on August 19, 2021.