Introduction
Kurou Daijuuji is a poor detective living in Arkham City. One day, he was requested by Ruri Hado of Hado Financial Group, to search for a magic book. While he initially refused, Ruri offered him a large sum of money upon completion of her request, in which bribed Kuro to accept. As Kurou searches for the book, he unexpectedly runs into Al, a pretty girl that is actually a powerful grimoire.
They forge a contract with each other, bestowing Kuro with powerful magic. Soon afterwards, Al also activates Demonbane, a deus machina owned by the Hado Financial Group, to combat the mechanical menace from the Black Lodge. With this, the war between the Hado Financial Group and the Black Lodge begins....
(Source: ANN)
Audience reviews
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Symphogi
READ. THE. VISUAL. NOVEL.
I read the visual novel first then watched this awful horror of an adaptation.
Considering the fact that the main route of the visual novel was at least 60 hours
I can see how they would have a hard time fitting things in.
HOWEVER! this shit is inexcusable, they even cut out characters.
This is one of those cases where you learn what its like to not be a secondary by watching the adaptation of something and instead reading the source material beforehand.
A couple of reasons I disliked this adaptation was the animation, I was actually ok with it but it wasn't the best and neither was the art, they cut out characters but they did at least make a vague appearance at the beginning never to be seen again. Another thing being that the pacing was just awful and a lot o…
Read at the sourceAngmir
I am torn here
My recomendation would be simple - dont watch this anime !
Dont watch it becouse ..... you might actualy like it in the end ...... not knowing how big a crime was commited by its creators.
I must say i hate this Anime - I hate it becouse it is one of the worst Adaptations of The Visual Novels i have ever seen making into anime. It is like a disgrace and profanity of one of the best Action Visual Novels ever released.
Evrything great about the game was wasted in this sorry excuse of an adaptation, flatening the story, cutting mayor characters, even the jokes and art from the anime are just a clumsy imitation of its original form. (especialy Master Terion and West look awfull in comparision to VN). Only the music thames are cut directly from it making this series a littl…
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Well talking about demonbane, its worth watching...
Though the music is so bad, artwork and story can make it worth....
Because artwork is so good. Every time we encounter the grimories, we feel like the character come alive....
And some battle graphics are good..
Other thing is that i expected a surprising and thrilling battle in the final episode but its not upto the mark, the final episode is little disappointing to me.....
Overall i suggest u to take a chance and try this if u love machine battles... :)
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OK, now I'm a BIG HP Lovecraft fan to the point where my coursework for college was based around him. Now, that aside, this anime is a blatant mockery of Lovecraft and all his work, which angers me greatly, but that's not good enough let's piece together the thought processes of the people behind this tragic piece of wasted pixels.
"you know i hear that HP Lovecraft guy is quite popular now, and so is gundam.....i know!!! let's combine the two so we get the audience from both"
MORONS!! is all i can say to that.
HP Lovecraft wrote most of his work in the late 1800's and early 1900's and he was very old fashioned so he used many archaic words in his writing, this show doesn't do him any justice what so ever, so let's look at it piece by piece.
story: 1
How they thought this would go dow…
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This anime isnt that much popular, but i loved it, the reason why is the world created for the anime, the mechas itself ain't big deal, but everything else look great, specially the grimoirs, but what i like the most was the inspiration on [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Lovecraft]HP Lovecraft[/url] work, i would love to get my hand on his books after watching demonbane and getting to know a little about the Cthulhu Mythos...
I would recommend watching the anime after this, SHS subbed it and each ep is rich in notes and references, they actually investigated every concept, everything they could about the Cthulhu Mythos, plus the notes always come with great music to accompany them...
Overall i think the anime was quite good, but not everyone might like it...
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The main attraction for me of Demonbane is certainly conceptual, though the execution was enjoyable, it was the setting that it presented that really appealed to me. It was an excellent and intriguing intermingling of the Cthulhu mythos and giant robot action - the timing of my viewing was also probably quite fortunate in that on Sunday I watched the end of Tenpu Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi (which had some interesting material about wearing gods) and then spent yesterday morning reading all extant material on Hellboy and B.P.R.D. (which is also heavily influenced by the Cthulhu mythos). Really Demonbane appealed to the main reason I consume entertainment media - to acquire fuel and inspiration for my own imagination. Demonbane served excellently in that regard and spawned a lot of interesting ide…
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Original Review (December 2008, see below for later edit):
"Hey, let's buy some guy who can animate a few robot battles with some 3D software. We'll make up some dialogues as fillers and spice them up by throwing in a few old jokes and a crapload of terms from some successful fantasy-universe or something like that to make it look like some intelligent and thoroughly thought through show ... what do you think about this Lovecraft guy?"
I guess that's what a planning-session for Demonbane could have been like.
The battles themselves didn't look that bad, but then again: The ridiculous mecha design gets boring and the fights aren't much better in that regard. Most of the time I got the impression they didn't even bother thinking about details, but rather made a new 3D model and threw it a…
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This anime is a bit too complicated for me. I don't know if it's just because I'm slow or what, but it had so many complicated terms and side stories I can barely catch up.
I did like the concept behind it. It was interesting, talking about grimoires and sorcery and combat, etc. but as I've said it tends to become complicated. The story is good, the execution, not so much. For one thing, there were way too many characters, and some of them popped up out of nowhere, in the middle of the story, making things more complicated. I ended the series without knowing what the woman-with-the-big-jugs' name was.
The relationship between Kurou and Al was kind of bothersome. I know that Al is probably a 1000 year old person, but she looks so young. If I hadn't known her age I would think that she wa…
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