Review of Demon King Daimao
This is the single worst anime I've watched and the MAL rating makes me disappointed in the community. To summarize, this has a better MAL score than Black Clover. Just let that sink in for a moment. Anyway, the review: The story seemed very promising. With titles like How Not to Summon a Demon Lord out there, I was expecting a badass protagonist followed by a bevy of hot girls who don't really contribute to the plot other than eye candy and damsel in distress cliche's. That's what I was expecting. My rating for harem anime is skewed to be more forgiving to ecchi andother troupe's. Even with that, this show is hot garbage. The characters are as flat as I wish my EKG was when watching it, the sub and dub are equally terrible, the story makes no sense and even when I'm done with it's run, I'm just as confused, if not more, as when I started it. The art is fine most of the time but that had problems too. The characters change in appearance for relatively no reason with no explanation, the style shifts more times than a teen changes clothes, and when all is said and done, there are just no excuses for DBS Episode 5 level drawings during major fights on a 12 episode series. Oh you wait, because the art is the best part of the show. The sound department couldn't even be bothered to use the actual opening during important fights and used a midi version that just makes you yearn for the sweet embrace of death. The sound effects are either off base, at best, or completely wrong to what something should sound like. The worst part however, for sound anyway, is the terrible voice acting in both the sub and dub. I've never had to question if what I'm hearing is a parody or not. I had to watch an entire episode in both and compare notes but they're both the same dialogue. I'd normally say that's a good thing but the plot is so hard to follow and woefully incompetent that there's no way the VA's could've done better with what they had. There were multiple times where a character would express a feeling, then contradict it and support the opposing feeling within the same scene. There was no growth, no substance, and no plot. This is by far the biggest pile of crap I've ever seen and I feel horrible for anyone who wants the time to watch this. Seriously, pick anything else. Watch Hentai. They have better plots. Sorry for the rant MAL, this show ruined everything I thought I knew and now I need to clear my brain with a good anime that isn't horrible. Hopefully this helps someone from watching the horrible Trainwreck of an anime.