Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
KimuraTheHatoru
What did the author do to the studio in order for them to absolutely butcher his work like that? They dropped multiple CGI nukes. It was carnage for the viewers eyes.
I've seen plenty of horrible animations across the years.But it's gonna take a literal slideshow with no frames to defeat this one. It's all CGI of the worst magnitude. In like 90% of the frames. But there's no point in ripping in the obvious flaw of the animation. Because i took a little time to search this show's manga out of pure curiosity. And i found out, IT"S SUPPOSED TO BE AN ISEKAI. Like they skipped this entirely at the start of the show. SO it wasn't a hit on the author. It was the isekai treatment. Also, the pig was supposed to be a thinner ORC. Honestly the manga is also meh in drawing quality. The only reason im…
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Quite a good anime, lots of action, interesting battle scenes, beautiful drawing, pleasant music.
I didn't understand one thing, where is the isekai here, if this is just fantasy,
it's not about the reincarnated main Nero, but simply about a strong mage-commander.
But in essence it's like Overlord or Tensai Ouji no Akaji Kokka Saisei Jutsu, fantasy about the strategy of managing a "city/state" and the strategy of war, with accompanying forays for reconnaissance and solving internal problems.
I treat it as a diary, which contains records of the great feats of the main character, and most likely this is so. The heroes here are well-written, they are interesting.
I like the goals of the main character in many ways. At a certain point, you stop distinguishing demons from people (I saw this…
Read at the sourceTasRook
A decent Anime. It's about a Human who is pretending to be a demon in the service of the Dark Lord as they wage war against humanity.
You can clearly see that it's a low budget anime. The animation is not great, the writing is infantile and the story is all over the place. They also frequently pad up the runtime with unnecessarily long interactions that only serve to annoy the viewer. The first half of the Anime is rife with it.
The main problem is that the anime doesn't know what it wants to be. There are episodes of nonstop combat, "tactics" and grandstanding. And then there are lighthearted romcom episodes that feel like fillers. The protagonist is surrounded by silly comic relief characters whenever literally everyone else in the world acts seriously. It can be really jarring at tim…
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"he Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human" is one of those animes that come every season with the typical overly
powerful protagonist without much of a personality except for being capable, humble and noble (so that the viewer may self-insert), where women seem to gravitate towards and fight for his attention but he's oblivious and every time someone makes an advance it is interrupted. A dumb relief character, fantasy elements (magic, demi-humans...), and one-dimensional villains can't be missed either.
The story is simple, we follow a human working for the demon lord (who is a young looking girl who seems to have a slight crush on him, just like every other girl) who is on a war campaign to unite the races. Along the way there will be rivalries, alliances, many fights…
Read at the sourceSeregosa
This should be renamed "The demon army's strongest mage is a modern day human pacifistic dumba*s".
That about sums up why this sucks so much.
Basically, we have this idiot that pretends to be cool and wants humans and demons to get along, despite from what I understand it never actually interacting much with humans in the first place as he was raised by a demon (this is shown from the start, not a spoiler).
He is shown as being collected and "smart" but honestly, his tactics suck and he, despite where he was raised and despite the humans clearly being more evil than the demons in this case, refuses to kill. Not even the most despicable enemy will be killed, when he corners them he simply lets them go, even going so far as to stopping someone who had his people killed and pretty much ens…
Read at the sourceKarysuuwu
From the start, I knew this anime wasn’t going to make it into my top 10 of anything. I noticed right away that it was low-budget, with cheap CGI shortcuts, but I didn’t expect to end up disliking it this much.
The plot is a slow, boring mess, with details thrown in randomly and no real purpose. I was initially going to rate it a 5, since it’s technically average, but I could only make it through by watching at 3.00x speed—just to get it over with. Even at that speed, I was bored and actually wished it would go faster. If I have to watch something sped up just to tolerate it, I definitely wouldn’t recommend it to any regular viewer.
The ironic part? This is supposed to be an action anime, but it’s so slow and pointless that by episode 7, I was asking, where is the spice? And that’s big c…
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It's a poor fantasy anime. The storyline is not good, and the logic of the story is off. The MC is sometimes super strong, but sometimes he is weak and open to obvious ambush. The first episode was eye-opening, and after that, everything went downhill.
The animation itself is still acceptable, given the studio's art style standard. I guess they couldn't make it too fancy with the limited budget as well.
Overall the anime is surpar standard, the only reason I continue to watch is to enjoy the voice of Lelouch jp VA, nothing else.
I don't recommend to watch it unless you are watching to pass your free time or VA that you love is voicing on the character.
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We'll go straight to the points (without mentioning its animations because I already anticipated it):
What's good?
+ Jiron (he's carrying the entire series really hard)
+ Tensura wannabe (?)
+ Generic isekai story, but still interesting
What's bad?
- bad CGI
- brightness - colour composition & details, especially some of their outline that hurt my eyes
- lots of boring scenes that made me sped up to 1.25x
As a crappy Isekai anime watcher, I'm still intrigued for a 2nd season if existing since they haven't dug up enough Ike's story before death and Romberg. However, this needs a slight studio upgrade.
Overall, this anime is recommended only for anime fans with low standards.
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My thoughts are complicated on this one
The premise is good, I actually liked that it didn't take itself too seriously with the inclusion of the pig and succubus characters giving a comic relief (even if I'm in the minority on that) The story itself is fine.
For me, I have issues with a lot of the execution, it thinks it is smarter than it is, Ike is supposed to be a genius tactician yet it is hard to see that being the case. also the use of weapons and siege tactics is often totally wrong.
For a series that is a medieval fantasy and features a lot of medieval warfare, it lacks even a surface level understanding of the subject matter
It felt like the series tried to do too much, tried to be too many things, it needed to focus in more on just a few elements and then it might have been a be…
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I liked this show for the following:
- Medieval fantasy setting
- No characters seem truly OP yet, all have a weakness and go through trouble
- MC has an interesting backstory
- Large-scale battles, tactics, kingdoms
- Human/demon interactions are interesting
- MC has a secret identity
I disliked this show for the following:
- Harem-like aspects (to be fair one is a pig-demon-man, though) - Ending was weak... I actually didn't realize what I watched last week was in fact the final episode 12 of the season
- Fairly predictable plot from episode to episode
- MC teleporting around so often, it sacrifices the journey/adventure of traveling in this world, all to increase the pacing of events
- MC's secret identity turns out to be not-so-secret as time goes on
- Some of the animation is bad at…
Read at the sourceNebucad
Weak storyline, the plot is boring. I can't understand why some reviewers talk about "rebirth in another world". I didn't even notice a scene like that.
The episodes are action-packed but most of the scenes don't make sense. Like episode 8, for example. The hole in the wall is patched up with a spell, only to then open a new hole in a different place during a counterattack.
Military and strategic decisions are absolute nonsense. On second glance, they probably tried to add a "harem touch" but apparently didn't quite follow through with this idea.
I really wonder where all these animes without a meaningful story come from. It's truly amazing that they even take the time to animate something like that.
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This anime is a fine example of "so bad that it's good" while not being too much of a bother to watch.
The title gives away exactly what kind of anime this is. Cheap, generic copy paste isekai, that portrays demons as the "good side" you'd want to root for.
A pleasant surprise was how nuanced it manages to be, especially in contrast to how the storytelling can be rather blunt and rough at times. There's no time wasted with filler content, it is straight to the point and most interactions have plot relevance aside from the very obvious comedic moments.
The pig is whiny and annoying, but not overly so. He can be taken seriously and has an actual useful role, being the main character's tactical right hand.
The girls are all designed overly "sexy", clearly an effort to appeal to fanservi…
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IN A NUT SHELL REVIEW
this anime is teeming with tropes an repetitive notions. the first few episodes will draw you in, but the remainder of the season will have you yawning as our main character hops ceaselessly from 1 "unwinnable" battle to the next. presented as a crazy over powered and genius commander magician, Main character's relationships with others is the main reason for watching this show. yet, as the season progresses those relationships, except for those under his direct command, expire and go no where leaving them as time sink filler to help bring this average work of anime to 12 episodes.
the plot is stagnant for the most part, leaving us at episode 12 seemingly where we began at episode 1, and if animation quality matters to you at all, just do not watch this as its poor/…
Read at the sourceLaZy_as_Neko
Introducing a gun in a medieval fantasy anime always a terrible idea, as it disrupts the very essence of magic and fantasy. The mismatch in time and theme gives off an impression of a lazy strategy to conclude story arcs, resembling cheating game. I understand its from the lost civilization but deym, right at the start of the series?!
Dunno who came up with that idea, the director, writer or author but it totally wrecks the mc's strategical characteristics. Using a gun ain't exactly what you call a 'strategy' in a medieval fantasy world.
The story falls flat, was expecting some 'Overlord' vibes but got let down. And why introduce a useless teleportation if they end up trekking for four days on foot? It's painful to watch.
On the bright side, the characters are interesting and funny. The…
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This isekai is pretty good, cause you does'nt have to "know" how the MC could get transfer into isekai. But according to Cefiro phrase on last sentence in eps 12, i think Ike is got reincarnate as human in this world.
Overall this anime is conclude warfare tactical kingdom, and Ike wanna create his kingdom with all types of race no matter what.
If you watching this for batch i think you will looks the storyline kinda slow phase, but the plus is you can known what the MC is trying to think according to what circumstances is having problematic. Not so comprehensive but look so tight the storyline will capable if you just wanna simply watch but does'nt want to think much, let us hear what MC are trying to do and we just look with different view what the cost and what the merit.
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Well, now that it's over I can say, 5, crying a 6 at most.
To start with, just like other works by the author, this one is just as empty, it's not even his best, and look, his best isn't even well regarded. The Studio is rotten, the best work that this horrible Studio has ever done, has a 6.76 rating, terrible, a Studio so old and managing not to have a hit or a good animation in over 20 years should be a shame for the industry.
However, even with a good animation it wouldn't fill the void of a work without characteristics that remind you of him (in the sense that, like really good animes, you can remember some striking characteristic, like character personality, design, story, plot, animation, or things like that), something that this anime is far from having.
I found the plot cool…
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The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human , well the name already tell you a lot. A little bit about story. We meet our MC Ike who is a human that works for demons not only that he act like a demon too and its a secret that he is actually a human. He is a in 7th corps under command of Cefiro. We learn about he’s background how he became a 'demon'. Not only that this anime is an isekai so our Ike is i, Reincarnated from earth to fantasy world. Its not the most important part of the story and actually its not get mention a lot expect some moments when Ike uses ideas or instruments from our world. He's main goal is to make peace between demons and humans and we see how he try to make demons and humans live together.
So why I dont like it? This anime is mostly about Tactics…
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The anime is good, better than expected, its story tends to be a little interesting, the affection of the main character makes the anime watchable, as well as the maid and the pig, it also has other interesting things in its story, especially on the side that, there are objects and indications of a much more advanced human civilization that was lost in time (although it does not focus on this, it only mentions it). It is an anime with an interesting premise, but the low budget in animation takes away too much from it, taking into account that after the management of territories, this is the second most important thing, but the story although it has already been seen is interesting, since they do not show the main character as all-powerful, the story is somewhat interesting, but the animati…
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This anime does have value, but I don't know what type of person I would recommend it to. If you like the first episode and opening, I guess you'll like the rest, because in my eyes they make clear with how bad it is.
Content: fairly interesting military tactics, war and nation totality picture, et cetera. In shows different strategies utilized and elements that go past the battle/war to have a successful society.
Style: abysmal for most part, but technically, I think this is okay.
Characters: very lame though the MC, the Demon Lord, and one enemy commander, are somewhat interesting, at least to listen to
Side Characters: mostly cookie cutter CGI mess, but doesn't rally matter I guess
Personally, I was happy to watch a new episode every week, it was always bad with the voice lines an…
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The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human - A demon-parading human wants to be like Tensei Slime's Rimuru to bring demons and humans together? That's quite the ambitious approach that's a long way to realisation.
Ask just anyone around if fantasy, like Isekai, has gotten stale no matter how many AniManga works we've received, especially over recent years with a copy-paste rhetoric that has a premise that, despite being generic, is "unique" to the point of creating a story for it. And that's exactly what we get with novelist Ryousuke Hata's Maougun Saikyou no Majutsushi wa Ningen datta a.k.a The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human, whose premise/plot you should be able to capture the nuance by its very descriptive title alone.
"Kids, I'm about to tell…
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