Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou - Interesting premise, bad execution

by feal8727. January 2011 20:08


Hello again,

One of the Light Novel/Manga/Anime I followed recently is "Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou", but before going into details let's see the synopsys :

The story of "love, magic, and battles" revolves around Akuto Sai, a boy who aims to become part of his country's highest order of magicians and contribute to society. His dream is to one day become a "high priest", an exemplar and champion of good. On the day he is admitted into the Constant Magick Academy, his aptitude test predicts the following: "Future Occupation…Demon Lord". Thus begins his difficult school life in which he is resented by his studious female class head, desired by a girl with mysterious powers, and guarded by a beautiful female android.

Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou

You would probably say "that's a generic harem series!!!", and I would answer "What's wrong with it? Laughing". As you probably already understood from reading the previous entries I love harem or comedy series as far as they are well played. 

Unfortunately the anime ends up with poor animation quality and half baked finale...while the high production values of the manga and LN gives better hope for a good ending (unfortunately the manga seems to be at a 10 months delay for each volume, so it's painfully slow to wait)

Here's the covers of the two volumes of the manga (image taken by me) :

Keena is my wife! 

The quality of the graphics of the manga as you can see is astonishing and is consistent for the whole two volumes.

Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou

The characters in the story are quite amiable and you'll get used to their behaviour quite quickly thought there are quite some differences between anime and manga in the history progress so can't say what will happen in the manga in the next volume. Cool

Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou  Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou

In the end I suggest you to start up with the manga right away, its a great pick and if you'll love it, you can switch to the anime to get more of it while waiting for more manga's volumes. (or you can go directly to the Light Novels if you want Laughing)

Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou 

That's all for now. By the way, planning to post some images from the manga when I make some new post about the series I own.

See ya,

feal87

Comments (10) -

3/15/2011 3:53:22 AM #

EmperorG

Since I've become harsher and less forgiving of harems lately, I'll skip this one. I've already got my hands full with the multitude of anime on my reviewing schedule to waste my time on this.
Great review nevertheless for those who wouldn't mind watching this show or reading the manga or novel.

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3/15/2011 10:22:22 AM #

feal87

Well, unless you're in love with harems like me. Most harem anime are very similiar to each other so I can understand if someone want to skip them.

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5/3/2012 1:24:54 AM #

TrinityAdvance

Currently watching this one, on episode 9. From the upper comment, I must say that i'm in love with harems like you.

The girl i choose in this anime is Riri/Lily, the girl with the hat. She looks so innocent and yet sos harp, I like it


Putting that aside, this is one of the more ecchi ones, considering it shows women's "chests."

But I don't really read the manga. Akuto is too different from the anime. For example, he's much more daring with a temper and can be reckless and evil on fights. In the anime, he's muuch more innocent and trys to hold back from fighting.

Overall, interesting and funny anime

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5/3/2012 7:23:04 AM #

feal87

My favourite is Lily too. Wanna fight?!


I'm reading and enjoying the manga as well. Akuto is a bit different, but in the end he is good at heart even there...

Yep, great series!

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5/4/2012 4:48:39 AM #

TrinityAdvance

Alright, Bring it on! Name the battle!


Lol, I guess I can agree with that. It's not like the protagonist himself is a different character from the anime version

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5/4/2012 8:52:53 AM #

feal87

For our goddess Lily, we FIGHT!

Yep, the story changed so his behavious a bit as well, but he's mostly himself.

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5/5/2012 12:51:56 AM #

TrinityAdvance

Yes, We fight! Whatever we throw into it, I'll just say BRING IT ON!

Yes, for the most part, still, it kind of makes me confused because I actually have never seen an anime that has a different personality with the main protagonists (okay, in Rosario Vampire, Tsukune is a badass in the manga and in anime tsukune is wimpy and all, but yeah, you see what I'm going for, hopefully)

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5/5/2012 7:41:39 AM #

feal87

Yeah, Rosario Vampire is a typical example, but I agree with you that its incredibly rare to see a protagonist with a different personality...

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5/5/2012 10:32:13 PM #

TrinityAdvance

Well of course! What kind of anime producer would try to change around the plot by changing the main protagonist's personality?

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5/5/2012 10:34:21 PM #

feal87

yep.

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