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“Demon policewoman Yama Rikudo protects Japan and her crush Sho from soul-sucking Headmistress.”
Makaryuudo Demon Hunter
魔狩人
5.46
13,150 rank · 4,717 viewers · 4 favorites
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Synopsis
Demon policewoman Yama Rikudo protects Japan and her crush Sho from soul-sucking Headmistress.
Yama Rikudo is not your average teenage girl. With her trademark duo horn-like tufted hair, she’s really a kind of demon policewoman, charged with the duty of protecting Japan from demonic monsters that’ve gone AWOL. Even when her demon superiors try and pull her off the job, because demon-human relations are getting too hot for her to handle, she will stay and fight with her giant scythe, because, while disguised as a high school student, she has fallen for fellow student Sho Kurogane. Now she must save Sho, and his friends, from the evil plotting of the school’s eternal youth seeking, soul sucking, Headmistress. (Source: Chris' Cel Site)
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Derived from 4 sampled reviews
4.8
/10
What 4 viewers settled on.
0%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5
mode 5
σ 1.09
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 1.09 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.75
Running avg · Jan 2019 → Oct 2025
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 6 “it was nice i enjoyed it quite a bit. Nicely paced, animation is not anything special but its very competent. Sometimes it can be slightly above average especially during action scenes. The mood &...”
- 3 “This little one-shot OVA is totally weaksauce. Awful on so many levels. Yama is not your average high school girl. She has secretly been sent from the underworld in order to fight eeeeeeevil! The...”
- 5 “This anime is one of those short OVAs from the late 80s/early 90s that carries the classic atmosphere of its era—dark, gritty, and unapologetically packed with demons, horror, and supernatural...”
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Medium · 25%
Long · 25%
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- Format 1 × 30′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 30m all episodes
- Aired Nov 1989 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R+ Mild Nudity
- Ref. BS-4485 catalog
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- Bandai Producer