Review of Demon King Daimao

Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou, for future reference it will be called Daimaou, a story about a high school student in a world where the God Suhara, which everyone believes in, is a system created by humans. This system creates a loop of events that occur every 100 years. This includes the continual reincarnation of 2 main characters. The Demon King, and The Law of Identity. But this time, the Demon King is different, can Sai, Akuto, escape the loop of inevitable events created by the one and only god? Whew, Daimou definitely was a roller coaster ride of events that occurred mainly because of the mainplot line behind the anime.
Story:3
Art:8
Sound:9
Character:7
Enjoyment:6
Overall:6
Now to explain my reasons for the scores above. Please remember that when writing a review, the MAL ratings are very unbalanced, which indicates that for each category; it can be considered "decent" from a score of 4 (+). Whereas below 4, is negative.

The Story: The story was very captivating and well done, with an introduction to a harem/ecchi/romance anime that I haven't seen yet, Daimaou was going very well. The main plot line of an almighty God, and The Demon King tested by a loop of events was thrilling to me since the animators didn't leave out a nice development of a shounen main character that also does not entirely fall under the two commonly seen harem main character personalities. Those would be, the kind-hearted saviour, or the useless loser that constantly has to be saved. To my surprise I have recently found similar anime with main characters of a harem that I would like to relate to for Sai,Akuto. Sai, Akuto can be filed as a kind-hearted one, yet does not entirely fall under that category because of the implication of a shounen themed anime. This type of main character can also be seen in Campione!,Hataraku Maou-Sama!, and Princess Lover!. As one can see each main character out of these anime that I have listed aren't the standard types in harem, so they manage to stand apart in their own category. This unique aspect I found very enticing, which is why I found the anime to overall be a score of 7-8, however this is only in the beginning. If I could make an analogy of how the story developed, the simplest would be; The take off of a space shuttle, everything goes optimally well, when a sudden engine failure and the shuttle crashes to the ground. Thankfully, 4 of the 6 pilots managed to survive and crawl out of the wreckage. Got that picture in mind? In other words, they took a very well made anime with a good start, and smashed it to tiny little pieces, then managing to tape some of it back together in the end. To quote one of my favorite Youtube reviewers, GRArkada "The ending is Paramount". In Daimaou's plot line, this was done quite well. The story managed to pick it self back up after horribly committing anime suicide with a load of cliche, power ranger, korean drama shit. The reason I still managed it to be scored as "Fair (6)" overall is because the ending is something one can definitely look forward to.

The Art and Sound: I've never had to complain about an anime's art or soundtrack before, and I don't plan to start now. The animations for Daimaou were well done, very smooth, I couldn't see any breaks in a picture, the action was very well done. All in all, a good job by the animators. The soundtrack complimented the anime well, adding tense music when needed, and badass music where the main character needed it. Although it didn't strike me entirely as "I need to download this OST", it is still worth a mention of supporting the shitty plot line through to the end.

Characters: I'll have to say that the main character reminds me of a recent anime that has just been completed and the theme of both do not fall that far apart from each other. Hataraku Maou-sama! Coincidentally both are Demon Kings xD. The main character has his faults, that coming from the common necessities of a MC from a harem minor themed anime, nonetheless even when the story fell apart, he was IMO the only thing that didn't fall to pieces. The other characters were introduced quite well, although the anime was more plot driven and failed to elaborate enough to satisfaction on the development of each character. The story definitely pushed the anime pace to its limit,which in turn hurt the potential character development deeply.

Enjoyment: To reiterate, the beginning was very well done, and I enjoyed it very much, when the shuttle crashed, I never stopped cursing myself for even clicking on the next episode, when some of the pilots survived, I was mediocrely ( I made that word up) satisfied.

Overall: Those looking for a harem shounen romance drama anime that is mainly plot driven, look no further, but prepare for the ride of ups and downs. It doesn't do too badly in terms of characters, yet one can see the neglected potential. If this anime went maybe for 20 episodes rather than 12 I believe it would have been 5 times better. IMO the score of (6:Fair) is a decent one for Daimaou.

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Thanks for reading,
-Nebarto