Review of Demon King Daimao

Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou - Demon King Daimao --------------------------------------------------------- TL:DR Ecchi animes gonna ecchi. Expect boobies not plot --------------------------------------------------------- Demon King Daimao is an interesting story with alot of potential that falls flat during the 12 episodes. While i didn't really hold much hope for it from the beginning when they introduced the first girl named Hattori. You could see straight away that she would be the Will-they-wont-they-tsundere-love-interest which i don't hate but it has been done so many times. The StoryStory resolves around our main character named Sai Akuto, or Acchan as one of the harem girls calls him. He is is an orphan who transfers to a prestigious magic school. First day of he has to take a medical exam in which there is also a magic crow that can tell you what your future job will be. Akuto touches the orb around the crow and thus he is told that he will be a future Demon Lord which scares everybody in the school but that's ok since most of the students don't seem to remember it after few episodes.

I guess the running joke in the series is that Akuto does not want to be a demon lord and tries everything in his power to stop everybody thinking that he would become one. It's fun at start but starts to get boring pretty fast when the humor is supposed to come from constant miss understandings.

Closer to the end we get the more half-assed the plot gets. I think they might have realized that they dont have the funding for second season so they have to force everything in one and thus we get a really rushed ending. I mean the ending resolves around Keena and The blond whats his face guy. Both of whom are really under developed as characters and should serve no purpose as main plot points since everything we learned about them we learned in the two last episodes. How are we supposed to care what happens to them ?

Characters

I haven't much to say about the people in this show. They are all nothing more than cardboard cutouts from the "how to make an ecchi harem anime"
Theres the big boob, medium boob and tiny boobs for all to enjoy. They also have personalities from the previosly mentioned book. There Tsundere girl, girl who is oblivious to everything, girl who constantly seems cold hearted but is totally into him.

The best character in the show is Akuto himself as he is the Demon Lord to be but even he can be so annoyingly oblivious to what the girls are doing. I mean i get that thats the whole point of harem animes but good god man get a grip.

Enjoyment

I have to admit that i did fastforward few scenes 'cause i could already see where it was heading but all in all the show delivers what it set out to deliver. Ecchi Harem Anime and boy if it aint all that. Boob shots everywhere and cloths tearing up during every fight. I'm pretty sure the girls were there just so that the monsters could tear up their clothing.

The fight scenes were cool tho; i wish they had done more with them. The whole idea with magic and such is awesome but they don't play with that idea enough in this.