woensdag 27 september 2023

(Average+) The Misfit of Demon King Academy

Series in one sentence:
A super powerful and unbeatable god somehow fails to earn the world's grovelling respect, just because he wasn't born rich.

Series in more sentences:
Tired of fighting with each other,
Voldigoad the demon king and Kanon the hero agree to force a period of peace upon the world by separating the races with magic -requiring the demon king's death.
Voldigoad is reborn 2000 years later and wishes to see the fruit of his sacrifice, but instead, discovers history seems to have rewritten itself and someone else is claimed to be the notorious demon king, while no one knows
his name. A strange power dynamic also seems to have been set, where pureblooded demons are put under higher regard than anyone else.


It's alright, but the majority of scenes are just a ramble of words that barely explain anything. The most fun moments were the fights where Voldigoad just murders people for the lulz, but his resurrection ability makes it so that there are no stakes in the story. Nothing truly matters, because you know this man will win every endeavour, with his friends waiting at the end of the road, no matter how many blades they get shoved inside their stomach.

The only thing in terms of suspense the anime offers is its drama, which is bad, because it requires you to care about these characters you've only known for one episode.

The villain is comically consumed by hatred, and his backstory hardly shows anything, yet you're expected to sympathize with him as he dies. No thanks.
The end battle itself was also boring. It should've ended after
Voldigoad killed himself again, but of course, he had to come back 5 seconds later with another confusingly worded explanation as to how even.

Also, this is one of those series where it claims different races exist, but the vast majority of them look human, or rather, the humans look equally weird and fantastical as the demons. It makes it hard to understand why these groups are fighting at all, and they all use powerful magic as if that's normal, making the reason for their war even more confusing. Chillin' in my 30's had the same problem.


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