Audience reviews
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Maou_heika
"I'm surprised that a novel with so many plot holes was made into an anime" - series editor GEG
It's just your typical isekai where MC gets flushed down a toilet and ends up in an isekai resembling medieval Europe and turns out that he's overpowered and everyone he meets just falls in love with him. The plot with the boxes had potential but the BL aspects that focus on and romanticize a toxic relationship between Yuuri and Wolfram ruins it all.
Art and Animation:
Even considering that the anime is made in 2004 both art and animation are abysmal. Looks like they wasted their entire budget on drawing Wolfram's pretty face. The characters look terrible when the camera doesn't focus on their faces, art style keeps on changing from episode to episode, sometimes they have these huge eyes othe…
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I LOVE THIS ANIME! It was so cute and adorable and just awwwwwww!
This is the anime that I cried the most in!
I love the action, the adventure, the comedy, everything about this anime is hilarious! It's great for the younger children even though I'm 17 and I felt like a little kid watching scooby doo in the mornings. This absolutely my most favorite anime in the adorable genre!
I loved how it explained everything, there weren't a lot of cliff-hangers, it was a magical kind of anime
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When the first episode involves our hero being sucked down a toilet into a magical world, it certainly sets up a tone. Lighthearted is the key-word for this series, as it aims to deliver a mix of comedy and fantasy-adventure, as well as a lovable cast of bishounens. Lighthearted is also the key-word for what makes the show good, but not great, more on that as I go along.
The production-values are a mixed bag. The quality of the animation may vary from episode to episode as is often the case with longer running shows. At times the motion is fluid, while other times it cuts a few corners. Even with good animation though, it would not be saved from some lackluster directing, as the cinematography and design keeps everything very basic, never taking artistic risks to be more expressive.
The…
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When I first started watching this, I dropped it after 20 or so episodes? However 3 days ago (or was it 4?? Well Eitherway I marathoned it lol) I decided to pick it back up again and give it another chance.
The art work is decent and watchable, very good to be honest for the year it was made.
The music is decent, not really my style but still good nonetheless.
The characters are amusing to watch as they grow throughout the series. I thoroughly enjoyed the little banters and the jokes. It does have mild shounen-Ai but nothing over the top. (If you can cope with a little cross dressing occasionally it's fine).
As for the story. I do have to say it does have plot holes which annoyed me to no end. It was cliché and rather predictable. For me, there was no real plot twists and nothing surpr…
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KKM is a show about relationships and heroics. It is about a boy that wanted a simple life as a teen playing baseball but was forced into being responsible for his nation by his heritage. Some of the running gags are related unrequited love. Forced proposal and of course forced gay characters chasing the main character.
Let me explain. Wolfram and Gunter are gay and both want to be with Yurri. In this world these relationships are fully acceptable. Wolfram repesents the white knight creeper that has no reason to be over protective to Yurri. He stays around the main character even though his advances are shot down everytime. He wants to be with the most exotic important guy in his world and that happens to be yurri. This is the most annoying part of the show for me.
Otherwise, the story…
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I just happen to stumble across this Anime on YouTube and I checked it out!
The story was Great! Even if there was season 2 and season 3 I just wished they put a lot more stories! even if season 1 episode was long I just wish it was longer! :P
The Art was Amazing I even tried to draw it but it didn't really turned as I wanted it to.. The art was great there isn't anything wrong with it!
The sound when he transform and stuff is so dramatic! I was always waiting for that part and the sound! And the characters voices in Japanese or English nothing was wrong it's both great! I specially like the theme song I always listen to it!
The Character is both serious and hilarious at the same time! It always makes me laugh specially Wolfram, Gunter, Gwendal, and a lot more!
Enjoyment....It's really gre…
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THIS ANIME IS HILARIOUS.
But seriously, if you came here after watching some intelligent things and hope to find a new anime to fulfill your epicness needs, you can leave now. This anime is dumb, seriously. But oh boy, I can't even tell how much had I enjoyed this whole thing.
I started to watch Kyou Kara Maou simply because of some official pictures on Zerochan. It looked like that sort of "we're-not-shounen-ai-it's-just-happened-that-everyone-here-is-gay" animes, and of course there was wolfram who's a blond tsundere teen and I LOVE BLOND TSUNDERE TEENS.
Believing this anime is going to be another of these try-too-hard too long fantasy animes, I invented a friend of mine to watch the first episode together.
HE JUST FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET OK. AND FIND HIMSELF IN PARALLEL UNIVERSE.
The…
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A quick note on the shounen-ai aspect of this series: (For those interested in watching Kyou Kara Maou! for the BL and those who hesitate because of it.)
KKM does not truly fall on the BL spectrum. The series was meant to be highly slashable as a source of humor.
Nonetheless, as always, if something offends you even in small degrees, just avoid it.
My initial reaction was to label KKM as a sort of carefree-fantasy; not exactly slapstick, but quite a few steps away from serious, as well. But I quickly found out that it does have its serious moments; there are many scenes that are sad or heart-warming, even if they don’t evoke tears. I found myself cheering on multiple occasions. By the end, stuff had gotten real.
I think the best thing about this series is its humor; even though it is a bi…
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OK, Kyou Kara Maou is one of those long-run series that had really caught my attention since the first time watching.
This is the case. I love classical things. So naturally, I also love the setting in this anime, which is some sort of a parallel world decorated like ancient Europe. The idea of 'this kid has some great powers which he's not even aware of' also matches me pretty well. Then again, I love this series.
What do we have as a story? Basically this series is about how a normal teenage boy advance on becoming a king. Being a king isn't easy, duh? There are lots of conflicts going on and as a king, one should somehow find the best way to solve it. Yuuri Shibuya, as a character, is typical: a naive kid with a strong sense of justice and despises fighting so much. Actually, in this…
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Kyou Kara Mao is one of the Animes that truly makes me become an Anime Otaku. It is one of the Animes that are truly creative with how the main character would be flushed down a toilet bowl to travel to another world. It was truly an opening that you would not have expected!! It just thrilled me to how the story would progress from there!
With its story mainly focuses on the beautiful boys or as they would say bishounen, it nevertheless makes it an even thrilling anime for me! In the beginning it was truly hilarious and light with how they slowly introduced the characters and as we delve further into the story, it turned out to be filled with interesting plots and mystery surrounding the main character, Shibuya Yuuri and the previous Mao.
It is an Anime that not only filled with fantas…
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Most people would say this anime is hilarious...and it is. I mean, boy gets flushed, becomes king of some weird place, tries to bring justice to the world in some very weird ways. Only, I think it's very good because it's not just hilarious.
Somehow, it's hilarious but also tragic. But not full on crying your head off tragic. It's almost like admist the comedy and the light side there's this dark side seeping out.
The plot takes really unexpected twists and turns. But not so sudden that you're taken by total surprise. You're hinted at it, but you only actually realise what you were hinted at until something actually happens. Although this mainly happens at the end of the anime, where things start to go wrong, which is also when it's most interesting.
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I found this anime totally by chance, and I am SO HAPPY I did. I started rewatching it almost as soon as I was done (I don't rewatch shows often), and I forced a bunch of my friends and family to watch it with me.
One important point is that I was told it was a shounen ai, but I wouldn't watch it for that alone, or you'll be disappointed: Yuri insists he's not gay, and thinks male/male relationships are weird, although there are characters who seem to crush on him despite that.
All the characters are awesome. Wolfram is my favourite, but that's a close one. Even the minor characters tend to be recurring, and have more than enough personality and backstory.
My favourite thing about the show is how well it can switch between comedy and seriousness. It starts off rather light, but it has ma…
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It took me just three weeks to completely finish watching all 117 episodes. It was just that good!
Beautiful art and sountrack, a brilliant plotline and some FANTASTIC characters!
There is some shounen-ai but that's really only to add to the comedy element of this anime, which is already massive. There are some really funny moments, sentimental moments, sweet moments and just pure EPIC moments!
Trust me when I say that you won't be disappointed!
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Enter Kyo Kara Maoh, a mediocre adventure of a preteen named Yuuri, who is suddenly thrown into another world to become the next Demon King of the Great Demon Kingdom.
Alright, this anime is NOT BAD, but neither is it able to shine among the other anime shows. Sometimes the story becomes a little lackluster, other times it keeps my attention. Some of the filler episodes and even the main story in Kyo Kara Maoh can be extremely boring and predictable. Other times though, Kyo Kara Maoh delivers such as when Yuuri, Wolfram, Conrad, and other Demon tribesmen go to the human world. Also, the last couple episode will keep you tense on your feet.
Lets talk about the art and sound in Kyo Kara Maoh. The artwork is neither bad nor good, just like the story. Some of the soundtracks, such as when…
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Honestly, when i started watching KKM, i really got hooked to the anime... It's not 'that' interesting, but I really don't know why I got so addicted... Perhaps the story lines were very funny... I really laugh my heart out whenever I watched those episodes. Even the characters were simly amazing, they always have their ways to make me smile.
And of course, the story where it revolves was one of my favorite genre that i loved watching. It also has some twist that it makes the story NO BORING.
From the very start of the episode, it was indeed great, especially when Yuri Shibuya got flushed on the toilet bowl... i really can't get enough until the next episodes, the plot was good, its climax was good, everything else, I could say for myself, was great...
It was all worth watching 'til the en…
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Great. Excellent. Fresh.
I could think of another million good words to describe this anime. I mean, the plot is fresh and goes smoothly, the art is excellent, the seiyuus are just right for the characters, there's a balance of seriousness and comedy, and there's shonen-ai. What more can you ask for?
If you're looking for something enjoyable and funny and light, you must certainly pick this one.
Although the story is ridiculously long (OMG I haven't finished yet), it's quite worth it in the end. Even the character developments are good; it's quite rare to find an anime where the characters actually change for the better (or for worse) overtime. Taking Wolfram as an example, he was grumpy and too suspicious of Yuuri at first (and of course he's still all "cheater" on Yuuri but myeh ^.~)…
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If you want to marathon a long anime and you don't like shounen-ai style anime, DO NOT START HERE! Hehe. If anyone knows me at all, you know darn well how much I dislike shounen-ai, and this show has it in spades. There is even a "reverse harem" for the main character. But its not hard core boy love like most come to associate with an anime labeled with "shounen-ai" its very mild and as such, isn't really that bad to watch for anyone who enjoys a decent adventure/shounen anime. The story evolves around a teenage boy named Yuri Shibuya. He's a normal teenage boy who loves baseball and enjoys normal things fifteen year olds like. But the story starts to progress when a bunch of bullies give him a swirlie (dunking his head in the toilet). In the toilet water, a portal opens up to an alternate…
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After months of passing over KKM in favor of other animes, I'm finally glad to be able to watch it or else I would have missed such an amazing anime. The summary at the back of the dvd doesn't really capture how interesting KKM is, it actually makes one think that this is just one of the animes with the same story.
Now if you get passed that notion and actually watch it, the first episode alone would piqued your curiosity. And the lines! The characters and the story itself are backed by amusing, witty, and clever lines. As Yuuri gets sucked into the demon world, you travelled along with him, also taking in with wonder/amazement at this strange world that might have been mistaken for old england, as well as laugh at the unusual customs like slapping one's cheek as a form of proposal, picki…
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My initial reason for starting Kyou Kara Maou! was the shounen-ai premise (boy is transported—or rather, flushed down a toilet—to another world where the laws are extremely different and ends up accidentally proposing to one of the Maou's sons; sounds like fun to me!) and I became a little disappointed when I realized it wasn't a strictly shounen-ai anime, or even one that focused largely on romance, but after only a handful of episodes I was addicted to the humour and characters and there was absolutely no return.
Kyou Kara Maou! is a truly hilarious anime, and it's filled with so many great characters that it's impossible not to have a few favourites. The characters and the interaction between them all was what made the anime so good in my opinion, and even though I must adm…
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I have to say - it took me almost three months to watch the whole thing. I had the first season on DVD, and I had to watch most of the second season on youtube since I only acquired a fansub recently. It was worth the wait. What will I do now? No more Kyo Kara Maoh! for me?
Let's start with the story. I think the first episode usually defines how a series will go. I was laughing my pants off the first episode alone, and it was like that for most of the series. I really liked the concept - it did remind me of Fushigi Yuugi a bit, another seemingly normal teenager shipped off into a new world, rather flushed into a new world. That was only an initial reaction though. I forgot about comparing it to Fushigi Yuugi after a few episodes. I also have to note that this anime is easy to understand.…
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