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“Demon Dante awakens through a boy to destroy humanity, but his motives are more complex than pure evil.”
Maou Dante
魔王ダンテ
6.37
19,553 rank · 2,689 readers · 8 favorites
Shounen
Mythology
Psychological
Fantasy
Horror
Sci-Fi
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Demon Dante awakens through a boy to destroy humanity, but his motives are more complex than pure evil.
The great demon Dante, exploiting the weakness of a boy exposed to his demoniac influence in the dreams, is awakened from a thousand years sleep. The will of this being, a survivor of an ancient and forgotten civilization, is to wipe out the whole human race. Anyhow nothing is so simple: the motivations of the demon aren't so wicked as one could think and they will combine with the life of the boy which hangs between nightmare and craziness. In the meanwhile the satanist will fight against the hierarchy of the church to obtain a justice which is, as it's easy to guess, that of the demon Maou. This series didn't have an ending until it's remake in 2002. Nagai took many ideas from Maou Dante into Devilman. (Source: MU)
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Derived from 3 sampled reviews
3.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
0%
recommend
Score distribution
median 3
mode 1
σ 2.05
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σ 2.05 · split reception
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 2.67
Running avg · Jun 2014 → Jan 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 6 “Mao Danta aka Demon Lord Dante is a rough draft of Go Nagai's later work being Devilman. This short series contains some similarities to the Devilman manga, however Mao Dante is a lot more...”
- 1 “To put it bluntly, Demon Lord Dante is one of the worst manga I've ever read. Nagai corrupts and bastardizes so many elements of western culture, merging them in ways that make little to no such...”
- 3 “(NO SPOILER REVIEW) You might have found this manga when looking into the Devilman universe and Go Nagai's works, that's how I found it. This review is based only on Maou Dante, as I haven't read...”
Verbosity
Short · 0%
Medium · 67%
Long · 33%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 3 vol ch × vol
- Published Jan 1971 – Jun 1971
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M5461 catalog