(L) Hataraku Maou-sama!

[chaos_animagic]

^ da pic...

"Hay, your front is open"
*blushes*

That was sooo cute... LOL

[Dark Wing]

Originally Posted by Guido

The angels featured in both shows display somewhat erratic behavior and creepy obsessions, although I think Sariel was not an obsession, but simply he became too much evil:
1. Ash bid for a world rid of unclealiness and uncleaned ones.
2. Sariel conspired to get rid of the Maou even if the end justified all possible means, meaning that Heaven might be cruel.

Both angelic guys featured and posessed their proper brand of pervertedness:
1. Ash, I won't go into details for that would be spoiler.
2. Sariel, well he got curious to go back to Ente Isla or the Heaven taking Chiho along with him in order to probe her how come a human fell of her own volition to the Dark Lord. With Emi he was forced to resort into attempting to physically extract the Better Half from Emi's body.

What can I say? In most fictional works now a days Angels are dicks...

[Chiibi]

Originally Posted by Sheba

James, you were a terrible terrible villain.

LMAO.

Yes, James was.

And Emi got a hime-dakko scene with Maou! Yay~

Hur, take that, Miss Fanserv-I mean Chiho....

[Renegade334]

Yup, last episode with scenes of the characters going about their lives/business replacing the ED animation.

Spoiler:

And as I expected, it ended with Maou leaving the McRonald's while in a downpour and meeting Emi at a crossroad, where she offers him an umbrella (thus mirroring the manner in which they first met as humans in this world).

[larethian]

The last touch with Emi was nice, otherwise a relatively lackluster last episode. And no confirmation of season 2 either.

[Ghanw]

Originally Posted by larethian

The last touch with Emi was nice, otherwise a relatively lackluster last episode. And no confirmation of season 2 either.

Well based on another poster he/she has said that a second season has been confirmed. Its on the LN thread of this.

[kuromitsu]

Well, this didn't feel like a last episode, I guess they counted on getting a second season.

Spoiler for ep 13:

Anyway, I actually enjoyed this episode quite a bit, it almost made up for the recent string of "meh" episodes (and the "uber-meh" that was the resort ep). The end was pretty abrupt, though, and the post-ED scene was pretty random - not the umbrella part, but more like, when does this happen? The same day the episode ended on? The next day? Two weeks later?

As for a second season, I'm 100% certain that it's coming. I don't know if I'll be watching it, though. I absolutely loved the first 6 episodes, but the second half of the series was a long descent into "ehh, this is not what I signed up for." There's nothing wrong with the show, but I expected more, or something different - I really don't care for the romcom/harem aspect, or the show's general treatment of the fantasy elements/moral issues. In the end, Hataraku Maou-sama is simply not the kind of anime I'm normally interested in, and it's not tweaking the setting and the characters enough to keep my interest up in the long run. (Ashiya getting sidelined doesn't help. :/ He was my favorite, dammit.)

On the other hand, the characters are amusing (to some degree - the demons are fine, though Maou is a bit of a Stu, Emi is okay, Chiho is at least sorta cute, but I don't care about Suzuno, or the boring and clichéd boob shenanigans with Emi and Chiho), and more importantly, the seiyuu are absolutely fantastic. If I watch the second season it will be mainly because I can't get enough of hearing the voices and the acting. Congrats to whoever did the casting, they've assembled an awesome team.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for last episode and final thoughts:

Iya. Only the last few minutes were really needed.


But anyways, it was okay. I mean, the whole Maou and everyone becoming allies after being defeated and all of that isn't new or impressive or characters memorable. But still, it was good in an okay way. (Or okay in a good way?)
The first half/arc was great. Excellent tempo and balance.
But the second half was far more mediocre. Pointlessly slow and a disappointing climax compared to the slow build-up. On top of that, an even more pointless last episode.
Well, I guess I might have tolerated the slow development better if I cared more for the characters and harem part of the series.
The large amount of facial distortions were entertaining, but since facial distortions are usually entertaining and all of the characters do the same type of distortion, I can't really feel it as part of this show's content. Now if one character did something on the Marik level...

So if it was only the first half, I'd give it a 10/10.
But all together, I guess 8/10.

[User68604]

10/10 first 2 episodes

downhill after that

7/10 for total series. very disappointing

[Kyouka]

Op has changed again hehe

[Kanon]

The beginning of the ep was such a troll. I thought it made no sense for Maou to get back to Ente Isla like this, and sure enough, that was just a dream. What is saddening is that Chiho never got that affectionate kiss on the forehead.

The rest of the episode was pretty good. They got into trouble because of Lucifer once again. Why are they just letting him freeload? Tell him to find a goddamn job if he wants to buy stuff. Ashiya and Maou are such irresponsible guardians. The scene after the credit was a very fitting one to end the first season on. It's actually brilliant, even.

This show was definitely the dark horse of the season for me. I never thought something with such a silly premise could be so good. The series lost a bit of steam in the second half, but it remained highly enjoyable. I'm going to miss this series. It was by far my favorite from Spring.

[ChampDream]

nice episode, is good for being the final episode and it feel they will get a second season
a give this series a 8/10

[DuelGundam2099]

Good first half, sort of mixed second half, and the final episode was just pure disappointment. I can get them not being able to return of Ente Isla, but it could have been more conclusive than.... THAT. Not bad overall though.

[Mentar]

This is a show with so many nice small details. Like Emi's sublime smile in the end, followed by her happy twirling of her umbrella.

A solid 9/10 on my end, looking forward for S2.

[ReaperxKingx]

Just to be sure if my head is one straight, the Angel is a M..................?

[thundrakkon]

2 things I noticed at the beginning of the episode.

1) Maou always claims that he does not have enough magic power to return to Ente Isla. He then proceeds to create a portal to Ente Isla and threw Sariel in it, without entering it himself. What does that tell you?

2) Maou fixed a broken city, yet he left his bike in ruins...

[Pen3]

Originally Posted by thundrakkon

2) Maou fixed a broken city, yet he left his bike in ruins...

First of all its not just a bike it is "Dullahan"

[Sumeragi]

I like the "cooling-down" aspect of the last episode. Always nice for a season to end like this.

[NoemiChan]

LOls..... she likes him.... then season 2...

[D-KLAC]

ep.13

chiho had a dream maou was leaving for esta isla but give maou can't due magic limit cause fix the building & take out trash dump fallen sfc guy to a portal which ta-da end-up in mcronald's freezer then trying get maou's female boss til call the cops!!!

emi had similar dream with maou rule it all to avoid greenland then go check to see til maou's loyal sidekick need private meet then notice of maou's need different scked & etc cue emi & chiho to spy in give maou doing construction work cause all need extra pay for neet-lucifer tracking device.

then uh-oh lots of boxes cause neet-lucifer over buy of 128,000 of junk give go the place find maou's sidekick is there too fill all in yea they got scam & almost uh-oh til emi found loop-hole give they put neet-lucifer as 18yrs & being their guardian make cooling off clause with no need pay 128,000 yen.

all good everything fine life goes on as usual end-up maou get umbrella from emi due to from before all fine on it.