Kishin Houkou Demonbane (TV)

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)

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

Danno, Yoshito Producer

Chiba, Makoto Producer

Suzuki, Tomoko Producer

Masuo, Shouichi Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

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Apr 18, 2012

sr467

Recommended

Well talking about demonbane, its worth watching...
Though the music is so bad, artwork and story can make it worth....
Because artwork is so good. Every time we encounter the grimories, we feel like the character come alive....
And some battle graphics are good..

Other thing is that i expected a surprising and thrilling battle in the final episode but its not upto the mark, the final episode is little disappointing to me.....

Overall i suggest u to take a chance and try this if u love machine battles... :)

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 31, 2013

Angmir

Mixed Feelings

I am torn here

My recomendation would be simple - dont watch this anime !

Dont watch it becouse ..... you might actualy like it in the end ...... not knowing how big a crime was commited by its creators.


I must say i hate this Anime - I hate it becouse it is one of the worst Adaptations of The Visual Novels i have ever seen making into anime. It is like a disgrace and profanity of one of the best Action Visual Novels ever released.
Evrything great about the game was wasted in this sorry excuse of an adaptation, flatening the story, cutting ... mayor characters, even the jokes and art from the anime are just a clumsy imitation of its original form. (especialy Master Terion and West look awfull in comparision to VN). Only the music thames are cut directly from it making this series a little bit better, still they arent used that skillfull as in the VN where thay perfecty created a mood. It might sound silly - but even animations in VN were better !!


Despite all of this it is still ... quite enjoyable to watch...

Suprisingly - but I guess, should I never see a VN before, I would probably enjoy this series without regret, but instead after watching this series I am totally cruished in sorrow, that splendit idea and story was wasted that much.
Demonbane had the potencial to become one of the greatest fighting anime ever ... And instead it is a B category show that some ppl bash the story (and they are - in case of the anime at least) for beeing just an excuse to show a bit of Mech fighting.

Zan'nen desu ! Dakara Dai kirai

If you are reading this review - I humbly ask of you - do not watch it - find the game - it is even released in USA fully franslated and compatibie with Western unicode.
Then You will see this original, litle bit silly at first, but ultimately really captivating and masterfully executed work at its best. I can totatly and without hesitation recomned that game to all fans of Acion anime, cute girls, mechs, Cthulhu and to thouse who just like to lough a lot. When I plaied this game first time - I felt like- OMG what I am doing. Is this game for elementary kids or what? But then the story the characters and action showed me, how much wrong I have been.
Then, after trying the Visual Novel for yourself, you can see this anime just to see how much they screwed up.

If you wont listen to me and just go with thee anime you will probably like it a little anyway. Just know that you are only seen a badly executed copy that is far inferior to its original form.

So, the raw numbers for this dreadfull anime in comparition to Visual Novel ( in parentheses)

Story: 6 (9)
Art: 4 (8)
Sound: 7 (8)
Characters: 5 (9)
Enjoyment: 6 (10)
Overal: 6 (9)


In last words I must of course say - do not treat this review to serius - if you want to see this aniem as it is it's fine with me, whenever you take on my advise is your choice.
If you liked this anime anyway - I am sure you will love the game all the more, and there is even untranslated sequel so I have heard.
Whatever you do - have fun !

Sorry for any misspelling or badly constructed sentences.

Glad to be of service.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Aug 1, 2013

Symphogi

Not Recommended

READ. THE. VISUAL. NOVEL.
I read the visual novel first then watched this awful horror of an adaptation.
Considering the fact that the main route of the visual novel was at least 60 hours
I can see how they would have a hard time fitting things in.
HOWEVER! this shit is inexcusable, they even cut out characters.

This is one of those cases where you learn what its like to not be a secondary by watching the adaptation of something and instead reading the source material beforehand.

A couple of reasons I disliked this adaptation was the animation, I was actually ok with it but it wasn't the best and neither ... was the art, they cut out characters but they did at least make a vague appearance at the beginning never to be seen again. Another thing being that the pacing was just awful and a lot of the events were completely inaccurate, they even skipped major parts and minor important plot points.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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