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“Exiled devil lawyer defends sinners to harvest Dark Matter, but his kindness keeps depleting it.”
Defense Devil
DEFENSE DEVIL
7.58
2,670 rank · 39,184 readers · 730 favorites
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Synopsis
Exiled devil lawyer defends sinners to harvest Dark Matter, but his kindness keeps depleting it.
Mephisto Bart Kucabara is a devil lawyer. In order to return to the demon world that he was exiled from, he needs to collect enough Dark Matter. To do so, he creates a plan to claim the Dark Matter from the souls of sinners sentenced to hell; prove the soul's innocence and the Dark Matter becomes his. But how can he gather enough Dark Matter when his kind personality causes him to continually use it up in order to defend the soul from the Shinigami that has come to take them to hell?
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 17 sampled reviews
6.2
/10
What 17 readers settled on.
63%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 6
σ 1.58
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.58 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.2 pts
Recommenders 8.2 · others 4.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 0.82
Running avg · Jul 2009 → Feb 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “By reading the synopsis I was expecting a manga with a lot of talk, a lot of stillness and surely no fights... I was wrong.Sure they talk a lot but they fight a lot too... The story is a shounen...”
- 9 “i like this manga very much. it's true that that there are recurring scenarios like getting a client then defending for him/her to prove the person's innocence and obtaining the dark matter. but...”
- 9 “We all know that we have a “Butler from Hell”- Kuroshitsuji. Now what do we have? – “Lawyer from Hell” – Defense Devil. Meet Mephisto Bart Kucabara. He was a prince from the Demon world but was...”
Verbosity
Short · 35%
Medium · 24%
Long · 41%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 100 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 13h 20m approx
- Published Apr 2009 – Jun 2011
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M9104 catalog