Kishin Houkou Demonbane (TV)

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Synonyms: Roar of the Machine God Demonbane, Kishin Houkou Demonbane (2006)

Japanese: 機神咆吼デモンベイン

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: May 19, 2006 to Aug 18, 2006

Premiered: Spring 2006

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Kadokawa Shoten

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: View Works

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi

Themes: Harem, Mecha

Duration: 25 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 6.53¹ (scored by 13,395 users)

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Ranked: #6718²

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Popularity: #3680

Members: 36,796

Favorites: 40

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Kurou Daijuuji is a poor detective living in Arkham City. One day, he was requested by Ruri Hado of Hado Financial Group, to search for a magic book. While he initially refused, Ruri offered him a large sum of money upon completion of her request, in which bribed Kuro to accept. As Kurou searches for the book, he unexpectedly runs into Al, a pretty girl that is actually a powerful grimoire.

They forge a contract with each other, bestowing Kuro with powerful magic. Soon afterwards, Al also activates Demonbane, a deus machina owned by the Hado Financial Group, to combat the mechanical menace from the Black Lodge. With this, the war between the Hado Financial Group and the Black Lodge begins....

(Source: ANN)

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Adaptation:	Kishin Houkou Demonbane, Zanmataisei Demonbane
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Characters & Voice Actors

Azif, Al

Main

Kanda, Rie
Japanese

Daijuuji, Kurou

Main

Itou, Kentarou
Japanese

West

Supporting

Yamazaki, Takumi
Japanese

Winfield

Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito
Japanese

Ennea

Supporting

Naruse, Mia
Japanese

Elsa

Supporting

Sato, Mikako
Japanese

Etheldreda

Supporting

Kanda, Rie
Japanese

Augustus

Supporting

Wakamoto, Norio
Japanese

Hado, Ruri

Supporting

Asami, Junko
Japanese

Titus

Supporting

Nakata, Jouji
Japanese

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Danno, Yoshito

Producer

Chiba, Makoto

Producer

Masuo, Shouichi

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

Takadera, Takeshi

Sound Director

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Opening Theme

"Hito, Kami, Hata - Man God Machine" by Yuichi Ikuzawa

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Ending Theme

"Modern Rose" by Kanako Itou

Reviews

Jan 4, 2010

Uthred

Recommended

The main attraction for me of Demonbane is certainly conceptual, though the execution was enjoyable, it was the setting that it presented that really appealed to me. It was an excellent and intriguing intermingling of the Cthulhu mythos and giant robot action - the timing of my viewing was also probably quite fortunate in that on Sunday I watched the end of Tenpu Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi (which had some interesting material about wearing gods) and then spent yesterday morning reading all extant material on Hellboy and B.P.R.D. (which is also heavily influenced by the Cthulhu mythos). Really Demonbane appealed to the main reason I consume ...

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Jun 19, 2007

jet2r0cks

Mixed Feelings

This anime is a bit too complicated for me. I don't know if it's just because I'm slow or what, but it had so many complicated terms and side stories I can barely catch up.

I did like the concept behind it. It was interesting, talking about grimoires and sorcery and combat, etc. but as I've said it tends to become complicated. The story is good, the execution, not so much. For one thing, there were way too many characters, and some of them popped up out of nowhere, in the middle of the story, making things more complicated. I ended the series without knowing ...

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Dec 31, 2008

Urisk

Not Recommended

Original Review (December 2008, see below for later edit):

"Hey, let's buy some guy who can animate a few robot battles with some 3D software. We'll make up some dialogues as fillers and spice them up by throwing in a few old jokes and a crapload of terms from some successful fantasy-universe or something like that to make it look like some intelligent and thoroughly thought through show ... what do you think about this Lovecraft guy?"

I guess that's what a planning-session for Demonbane could have been like.

The battles themselves didn't look that bad, but then again: The ridiculous mecha design gets boring and the fights ... aren't much better in that regard. Most of the time I got the impression they didn't even bother thinking about details, but rather made a new 3D model and threw it at the main characters robot including some flashy sfx. Between the fights the viewer has to face a redicilous amount of Lovecraft-references that (apparently) don't add anything to the show but pure confusion of the viewer. I can't say whether this show may offer something for a person having read all the lovecraft stuff, but my guess would be, that even that is rather unlikely.

EDIT (May 2012):

It has been almost 4 years since I wrote this review. Looking back at the show as I remember it and at my somewhat updated policy for rating shows on my list I chose to update the scores slightly. Also I ultimately did not end up writing reviews here on this site, but I don't just want to 'delete' this one. I wrote it as my oppinion on the show and by and large it still shows how I think about this show. As such the changes will be the following:

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category: old score --> new score (reason)

Story: 2 --> 4 (Having watched many other animes I acknowledge, that the quality of this shows story is not as vastly below something that can make an enjoyable experience as my former score depicted, though I still consider it to be significantly below average for the reasons stated in my original review.)
Sound: 3 --> 4 (This change basically is made because I have seen enjoyable animes in the meantime that did almost equally as 'bad' as this one. So maybe it was just because the stuff I watched before this show was somewhat above-average for it's time ... be it in soundtrack or voice acting or sfx.)
Enjoyment: 2 --> 3 (2, which for "overall scores" is outside the range I decided to use for stuff that I at least managed to watch till the end, gets updated to 3. I did not enjoy it, but I at least managed to watch the end because I expected it to get better after the first four or five episodes and then the end was already close enough to pull through.)

Overall: 3 --> 4 (The overall rating gets boosted to a 4, as such acknowledging the possibility that someone who can process the Lovecraft references and likes the style of this show might overall find it enjoyable to a certain extent, though still hard to believe for me.)

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