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“Genius Kiyomaro partners with lightning-shooting demon Gash in a 1000-year war to become Demon King.”
Zatch Bell!
金色のガッシュ!!
8.36
277 rank · 37,372 readers · 2,317 favorites
Shounen
Action
Adventure
Award Winning
Comedy
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Genius Kiyomaro partners with lightning-shooting demon Gash in a 1000-year war to become Demon King.
Kiyomaro Takamine, genius middle schooler, is greeted one morning by Gash Bell, a boy with a mysterious red book. Tasked by his father to decipher it, Kiyomaro soon learns Gash is no ordinary boy. Able to shoot lightning from his mouth at the chant of a word, Gash is a demon child—one a part of a war that takes place every 1000 years to decide the Demon King. With Kiyomaro being the only one who can read Gash's book, the duty of partner is thrust on him in this exciting tale of friendship, determination, and melons...?
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 14 sampled reviews
8.9
/10
What 14 readers settled on.
92%
recommend
Score distribution
median 10
mode 10
σ 2.09
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.09 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.8 pts
Recommenders 9.8 · others 3.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 0.07
Running avg · Oct 2009 → Dec 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “This was one hell of a fun manga; I never got bored once while reading it. Gash Bell is by far the best tournament manga I have ever read. The story is simple, but that's how it ought to be in this...”
- 10 “There is definitely a lot of bias here since this was the first anime (that I realized was an anime) I watched as a kid. That being said, the reactions I had as a kid reading this was exactly the...”
- 10 “I started to read this manga because I used to watch the anime on the TV when I was 10 years old. I think that was the best election of my life. I enjoyed so badly this manga, I know that the...”
Verbosity
Short · 36%
Medium · 21%
Long · 43%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 323 × 33 ch × vol
- Total read 43h 04m approx
- Published Jan 2001 – Dec 2007
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0806 catalog