Audience reviews
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SakamakiKoyatsu
This is one of those interesting anime featuring Demons, and one of those unique anime set in a fantasy world. Unique considering instead of fighting a demon lord, there then becomes and alliance(Also the demon lord is a female! Go figure) but that the world is set on a planet diametrically opposed rather than there being some interdimensional or interstellar barrier. This the appeal of the anime based on one unique aspect and one interesting aspect of it, to those watcher who like world building and factional based on species differences social dynamics.
Not very iconic due to lack of traction it has gain and what has been covereda bout it is lists of prominent anime but still a lower key watch for those who enjoy watching fantasy anime which curtail bouts of diplomacy or which scream r…
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This feels like the cliff notes version of another show. The premise is an interesting one, but the show moves at such a breakneck pace that nothing proper time to breathe, so scenes and events feel like checking off a list rather than developing naturally into one another. And with so many crucial scenes relegated to flashbacks, the pacing is thrown off even further. We see characters how they have become, then how they were originally — but the progression was cut out. That's the meat of the story! Worst of all is the romance: why is Maoyu attracted to the Hero? Sure, enemies-to-lovers is a classic story, but we don't see how it started, just that she already knows and is infatuated with him. And with Hero: we don't see his feelings of distrust, skepticism, perhaps even bigotry/bias melt…
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Warning: this is political / economy / military fantasy. And one of, if not best in that specific genre. If you like that genre, you'll love this one. If you hoped for anything else - sorry.
If you hope for proper romance, there's a lightweight thread of that on the sidelines (with a bit of harem added for bad measure), action / combat - only small amount. There is a proper drama of the characters involved, but it's not the main focus. Also, the show is an isekai albeit it never outright admits it. Think typical isekai protagonist keeping their earthly origin secret - here, it's being kept secret from the audience too, but you see the hints.
The art and animation is 10/10, absolute masterpiece. The artistic choices in writing are somewhat weird (nobody has names, they are always referred…
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Decent. A little bit of polygon which I don't like but I didn't really put it on my grading. The characters don't have certain names and are only called by their titles. Bad ending. There's a good potential character wasted. Everything else isn't really that special. The pacing was very weird and negatively unpredictable. The fan service was a little bit exaggerated, yet there's nothing special about it. The only good episodes were the very first ones, which actually intrigued me for a moment, but then it just failed abruptly as the episodes proceeded. Quite disappointing if you ask me.
Story & Plot: 4/10
Character Development: 4/10
Romance Dynamic: 4/10
Emotional Impact: 4/10
Animation & Soundtrack: 3/10
Overall: 4/10 (3.6)
Read at the sourcereisuuu
This isn't your typical feel-good fantasy anime with romance to boot. At first, it seems like the anime will provide you the some good adventure-type story with some romance along the way, but it failed at both aspects. However, it's still worth a try if you like fantasy in general.
If you're specifically here for the romance, I doubt this anime will satisfy you. In short, romance wasn't served well. It seems promising at first, but it will leave you disappointed after finding out you've already made it to episode 12 and there's almost no progress in the romance department at all.
Read at the sourceAnggi14
To be honest, this anime was decades old and I was watching it ages ago where Isekai wasn't even a thing.
After giving some thought I tried to re-watch once again just to see how my perspective on anime was and god surely it's feels so good. Firstly I noticed the character doesn't even have common name like your usual fantasy generic things, instead they're using title as a name (seems familiar with one controversial anime back in 18') after giving second and third episode I realize this anime doesn't do your typical anime stuff but rather they took world building as a theme.
In any common sense, if the story don't sold you then the character if not then the world building, by far I think the world building pretty make sense and legit make me want to Re-watch first three episode.
Abou…
Read at the sourcePanzerIV-J
This is a show I cannot say is bad at all, but I cannot say it is a amazing anime.
The main issue seems to be the content is entirely based around 8 episodes throughout the entire show, with 4 of the episodes being misused as bloatware basically, which could've really made the show even better, but much of it lacks reasoning, and much more so the tropes are all evidently blatant in the synopsis.
This really is one of those shows that just needed a little more effort on the side of the directors/writers, to be made a show constantly brought up on the forums of MAL or other websites. But because it lacks the extra nudge, and it was left behind to some degree on content, it feels very lackluster, but not because it is bad, NO, it is the exact opposite, this could've been EASILY one of the…
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A captivating story(maybe) with interesting focus on trade, economy and politics with some good characters, but sadly the execution wasn't great. It felt too rushed and the 12 eps couldn't expand and show the true potential of the story, the world and its characters. It all went by far too fast for all that happened. It would need 1 or 2 more seasons to expand and explain. But after all the negatives I still enjoyed the show and its world + there aren't many shows like this one that expand their fantasy world and go into its politics and economy and trade which is a big reason for mu enjoyment.
So if you want a fantasy story that explores its world and goes into how it functions then this show is for you beware tho that its not the best in how it explores it.
The main characters don't rec…
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Humans and demons have been at war for fifteen years. However, neither side had a clear advantage. "Hero", the greatest warrior of humans, leaves his comrades behind and storms the Demon King's castle alone. Determined to destroy the Demon King, the Hero sees a beautiful and attractive queen rather than a king. "The Demon King" offers to partner with the Hero instead of fighting because she also wants this war to end, but she thinks that the abrupt end of the war will do more harm to both sides. The hero finds the Demon King's words meaningful and accepts the partnership. Now, the common goal of both is to bring prosperity and wealth to the country and to provide peace.
The anime, which deals with the common cause of the Hero of the people and the King of the demons and their funny but ro…
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This is probably one of the more bizarre isekai I'd seen at the time I watched it. For one thing, it's not even an isekai. I know, I was surprised too when I went back just to make sure, but yuusha-san is just a normal guy from a fantasy world and not a world-hopping Japanese high school dropout. Look what isekai has done to us, we can't watch any fantasy based on western aesthetics without assuming they're trapped in a video game world.
Where the real world does manage to peek it's way in is through all of the modern agricultural and technological advances the demon lord wants to bring to the world. I liked that spin on things where she brings up all the repercussions an end to the demon conflict would bring to human society, and plans to spark an industrial and social revolution in orde…
Read at the sourceB-O-D
Two people want to change how the world works together outside their roles to form a network to stop the suffering among both their people. Despite their roles as enemies, they can see the way things work and will continue to work, just making the rich richer, and more powerful at the sacrifice of the poor.
The idea to see a hero not chasing and killing a demon king was slightly refreshing especially the evil demon king, having more fore and hindsight over what is best for people. The strategy as an adventure/fantasy is smart though i would of liked to see some of the demon armies work with humans against the central regions and think this anime ended too soon, even if was a good clue of what was to come with the ending.
What it failed for me on though is romance, from his doubts, the lo…
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You know right away an anime is trash, if it is lazy to name it's characters... Yeah, the MC was called as "Hero", and the main heroine as "Demon King".
I read a few reviews and it is often mentioned that this show is similar to the Spice and Wolf with the addition of big tits. Well, it is definietly true that the writers tried to copy it. However, they clearly didn't understand why Holo and Lawrance works so flawlessly as a couple. While Holo is really a wise and experienced women who purposefully acts childishly and plays with men, in contrast the Demon King is a child who trying to act maturely, but she doesn't have the charm and experience to do so.
In the S&W the main duo acting childishly only when they have no problems. They do it for fun, but the moment they facing with an issue…
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Anime where the demon king falls in love with the hero. Very funny and easy to see, I like political and economic plots here we can see a lot of that. There is also a bit of romance but too little. The only bad thing about the series would be that it only has 12 episodes. But well something bad had to have. The animation is very good, the soundtrack complies. The design of the characters is good but there is not much development of them, that means that I did not like it. I liked the expansion of the world where they live, but that the protagonists have not even kissed each other seems like shit. It is good that at the beginning they justify it with the fact that the protagonist is a virgin and that, but there is an extreme. I liked it in general lines, I think that the worst of all is tha…
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My biggest problem with this show is that the end of the season doesn't seem to be the end of the story, so we're left with an incomplete work. If I had known that when I started I would be a bit more hesitant to begin watching, but I am ultimately glad I did.
I'm not sure the correct terminology for how it felt watching this show (as there are terms of art floating around this community), but this show felt very "light" in a good way. Like eating a meal that leaves you refreshed rather than tired and bloated. Its emotions were mostly sweet or reasonable, and there wasn't a wall of angst that the story tries to build itself upon to provide plot impetus. The story's momentum feels more like a stroll than a march or a lunge. I watched each next episode because I enjoyed the previous one, no…
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Hol' up! The demon king is a cute and polite redheaded waifu...that was not part of the plan! (The anime would have ended ep1 if that were not the case so praise the light spirit for these set of oppais). The hero learned pretty quickly that not all demons are actually demons but some humans can be and they pledge themselves to each other. This anime can be best described as watching Maou play a game of Civilization seeing her work her ways around battles, economics, and the abrupt bursts of technology. Its actually quite interesting but some things do go unexplained like why she made fire arrows and rifles (Im sure it was for hunting and stuff) and having only 12 episodes it leaves even more things unanswered. The romance was also a bit underwhelming...The two are cute don't get me wrong…
Read at the sourceCHALOKLAM
this anime serie is a huge waist of time , it's a presentation of a fantasy world and kind of season 1 introduction but there's no season 2 and from what I understand there's no chance to see a season 2 one day ...
= I regret spending time watching an intro
it's a very ambitious anime but after episode 3 it's
go in every-direction and end nowhere ...
it's a concept presentation of fantasy world anime or a story board presentation for a tv producer .
In bonus, you have once again, a main Male character who is selected in the "Most stupid and annoying frustrating etc Anime Male character Chalenge"
> there's way to much competitors in jap anime ... it's appealing
it could have been a good anime if they made a season 2 but without season 2, I highly recommend to not even start watching…
Read at the sourceCuriossity
The person who wrote this deserves to be hailed as a great writer. The person who wrote this also deserves to fall in a river with hopes he can't swim for mislabeling BS as Romance.
It seems that mal is making me write more before I can submit so I'll just say that I liked the mc besides a few very stupid points the hero gets for being...well...stupid. The Demon King was great all the way around. If there's one this I think this series could have fixed it would be the length. This feels like a 24 ep series that was shoved into 12 eps. It doesn't feel rushed but at the same time, I felt like I was missing something.
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Ah Maoyuu, I remember watching this as a kid and now I've decided to rewatch it. The title entails what the story exactly is. There is some highlight throughout the series. Maybe this was skipped from the LN but the worldbuilding was severely lacking, it just didn't feel like I knew the world. The main selling point here is the romance, it's very good. If you're a fan of Fantasy-Romance anime, I'd recommend this. The animation stayed pretty consistent throughout the series. Character designs are also very good. Anyhow I didn't really like the opening at all but it started to grow on me, as for the Ending, I just don't't like it. The characters aren't bad at any means. It's just that they don't have real names and for me that reduces the impact of some scenes quite a bit. I sort of enjoyed…
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Absolutely incredible 10/10 start! The male Hero meets the female Demon King, she charms him up, and all that jazz we all know and love from plenty of cliched hentais, but somehow kept hand-holdingly wholesome despite the addition of immaculate boob physics.
They want peace, but don't actually control their sides so have to go at it in a roundabout way. Enter some political mumbo-jumbo that's above my paygrade. some economics shenanigans, some modern world inventions introduced to the human world by the Demon King, and things sure get quite interesting on the grand scale. The hero also gets a harem, or at least plenty of candidates for one, shown or just mentioned in passing, to test the main ship's stability and add both humor and intrigue.
But ultimately I feel this whole mix ends up s…
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To Put it short
its a world builder anime like Maou-sama, Retry and Reincarnated as slime, if u have seen either u will know what ur getting in to its similar but not same just like other 2 animes i mentioned
where main chars are building up their town
Romance isn't bad (1differance from the others cause others don't have romance) and there is little bit combat to, but romance isn't the focus here so u see it ferry little cause of their work they don't have much time for lovey dove moments and when they have a little she asks more then hes mentally ready for like typical anime virgin and he runs of to work
it shares similarities to Spice and Wolf to a lot of how business works seems to be inspired from Spice and Wolf
Overall 7 cause no second season its not 100% complete story, but…
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