Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist (Devils and Realist)

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English: Devils and Realist

Synonyms: Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist

Japanese: 魔界王子 devils and realist

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 8, 2013 to Sep 23, 2013

Premiered: Summer 2013

Broadcast: Mondays at 01:05 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, Sotsu

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Doga Kobo

Source: Manga

Genres: Mystery, Comedy, Historical, Demons, Supernatural, Fantasy, School, Josei

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.11¹ (scored by 32,281 users)

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Ranked: #3170²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1317

Members: 86,807

Favorites: 401

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Summer 2013TVDoga Kobo

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Synopsis

The story revolves around William, an aristocratic family's progeny with rare intellect. One day, his uncle lost his possessions after his business failed. Fearing that his family's name has been tarnished, William returns home and searches with his family's butler for anything that can be converted into cash. A search of the premises yields an underground room left by an ancestor. In the room is a magical seal, and William unintentionally summons a devil. The summoned devil tells William his name Dantalion, and reveals that William is the designator who can choose the acting ruler of the demon world.

(Source: ANN)

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Background

Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist was licensed as Devils and Realist for an English release by Sentai Filmworks. It was released on March 3rd, 2015 on both DVD and Blu Ray. It is currently streaming on Crunchyroll, Hulu and Sentai Filmworks official anime streaming site, The Anime Network.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Huber, Dantalion

Main

Terashima, Takuma
Japanese

Cartwright, Sytry

Main

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu
Japanese

Twining, William

Main

Eguchi, Takuya
Japanese

Cecil, Kevin

Main

Fukuyama, Jun
Japanese

Camio

Main

Kakihara, Tetsuya
Japanese

Michael

Supporting

Kamiya, Hiroshi
Japanese

de Rais, Gilles

Supporting

Toriumi, Kousuke
Japanese

Solomon

Supporting

Saiga, Mitsuki
Japanese

Astaroth

Supporting

Kokuryu, Sachi
Japanese

Baphomet

Supporting

Yasumoto, Hiroki
Japanese

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Kon, Chiaki

Director

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu

Theme Song Performance

Eguchi, Takuya

Theme Song Performance

Kakihara, Tetsuya

Theme Song Performance

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"Believe My Dice" by devils and realist (Takuya Eguchi, Takuma Terashima, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Tetsuya Kakihara)

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"a shadow's love song" by devils and realist (Takuya Eguchi, Takuma Terashima, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Tetsuya Kakihara)

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Sep 23, 2013

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Rootz (All reviews)

58 people found this review helpful

Let's cut the chase, and go to what really matters:

Story: one of the most curious plot I've seen in my anime watching life. A rock headed realist with the power to select the new ruler of Hell. A meatheaded demon and his companions/rivals wanting to be selected as the new ruler of Hell. A Victorian England set. Angels in the middle of it. Wait...what? That was my first good impression, the setting was good, the time was good (personal opinion, I love the Ol' England times) and, well, I didn't got disappointed. The plot was amazing, even though sometimes it was quite slow-paced (again, personal opinion, I could live without some "filler-esque" episodes). The episodes were hilarious, or dramatic, but even so they didn't fled the main theme of it, the Hellking must be chosen, and a certain human needs to do it. Amazing, but I can't give full points because I hate slow paced animes, and this was a case of it.

Art: sometimes the show budget is godlike, and the art sucks, sometimes the budget is low, veeery low, and the art is crazily good. This time, I can say, the budget is low, and the art sucks. Repeated scenes! At this time and day! Nothing leaves such a bad impression as the art, and it was terrible. The opening and ending art were good, maybe that's what lifted up the rating, because I was willing to give it a 4. Nothing more to say, watch it and take your own conclusions.

Sound: I already told my opinion about the OP and ED arts, let's talk about music. The songs were great. For me, the anime sound is quite hard to give it an opinion, since I'm not someone that keeps listening to the insert songs. But the sound is something that can raise a good anime to a higher class, and that is what I think that happened here. The art sucks, ok, I said it, but the sound was very good, well done and it fit the "classic Victorian theme" of the anime and the dramatic scenes got awesome insert songs. Good, good.

Character: that is were the show gets it done. An anime that is not comedy per se, but something in the middle of drama, action and comedy made me laugh it out loud a lot of times. The devils x realist relationship was awesomely well done, and the secondary characters were captivating. Specially the big guys of Hell. The plot was unique, and the protagonists and their counterparts were unique as well. Nothing could get any better (though I really wanted to see God, what a pity), and for that, 10 for you William and Dantalion.

Enjoyment: I don't know what to say here except that I liked it, the plot was unique, the setting was unique (have I told you guys that I love the Victorian theme?), the art was the bad part, but the characters compensate this loss with their awesomeness. Good, that is what I say.

Overall, I recommend it, with one advice. If you, like me, takes art into A LOT of consideration while picking a show, please, give it a try, it is a good show and it was quite the surprise of the season for me. But be warned, the art sucks. Hope you all like it. See you.

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Sep 22, 2013

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

SoEmmazing (All reviews)

48 people found this review helpful

Makai Ouji is definitely something you would probably on first impression be like: This is so unoriginal, the story is boring, why would anyone make this.
But once you actually finish the first episode, you become enticed and deeply connected with the whole story and it's characters, honestly worth your time.

Story: The story is great. It's action packed with jocular/jovial relief. The story centers around a young high-school teenage boy named William Twinning, and the setting is around the same as Black Butler, I would say. William turns out to be the descendant of the great demon tamer Solomon, and William is now forced to balance read more

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Nov 22, 2013

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

cintopaz (All reviews)

39 people found this review helpful

I really wanted to like this anime. Unfortunately after sitting through 12 episodes all I could think about was how it was a complete waste of my time. I haven't read the manga myself so what ever that I say in this review I say it for the anime only.

Basically the entire show was a flatline, nothing special and nothing particularly interesting. At the beginning it shows some promise by leaving a few mysteries here and there which is why I actually stuck with it for 12 episodes, only to find a wall at the end of the tunnel. The story revolves around main character William Twinning who comes from a wealthy family and possesses extraordinary intelligence. He is also supposedly a hardcore realist, so hardcore that he still claims to not believe in anything other than science even after just being slapped in the face by a demon. Despite being a realist, William is constantly surrounded by demons who are all desperately fighting for his attention because he is a descendant of King Solomon, who has the power to elect the next ruler of hell. This part of the story was what originally attracted me to watch this show, I was pining for a good plot with a dark philosophical undertone somewhat like pandora hearts and kuroshitsuji (mind you, the manga not the anime). However all that it turns out was Solomon pimping out demons all the way back in the biblical times and William Twinning being a little twat and using everyone around him to further his academic career. The demon and non-demon characters are all pretty one dimensional and predictable. And if you're hoping for some BL in this anime I regret to inform you that you will be greatly disappointed. All in all, the story is weak with no character development and doesn't really go anywhere beyond flashbacks of Solomon the king pimp and demons fighting over the throne in hell.

The soundtrack is nothing special, I draw a complete blank when I think about how the soundtrack added on to the anime so it really wasn't anything memorable. The art was to say the very least horrifying. Maybe because I had high expectations going in to this anime but the art consisted of all the wrong colors on the palatte that made the anime look cheap and the amateurish. The absolute worst part for me is probably the action scenes. If you are an action fan I suggest that you don't touch this anime even with a ten foot pole. It was all wrong, just thinking about the action scenes gives me second hand embarrassment. You can really tell that there wasn't much going for this anime financially from its production, but they also failed to make up for it in the writing department.

I gave this anime a 1 on my own list but a 2 here because I don't want to completely trash a series before reading the manga. I'm still going to give the manga a try because I've learned that you should never judge a manga-based series from only watching the anime. However if you're thinking about giving this series a shot I highly suggest that you skip straight to the manga. Don't waste your time with this anime that has no enjoyment value.

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Mar 17, 2015

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

symbiotic (All reviews)

13 people found this review helpful

i watched this anime because it was at the point in my anime watching where I really enjoyed the supernatural genre; for some reason I was suggested this.

I don't want to negatively comment on it but the pretence was very misinforming. I thought this was going to be action packed demon brawls (although it does have it's moments), however what I got was a lot of over tones of the shounen ai which I did not sign up for when I started watching it.

some characters do have their good points with a lot of them looking very effeminate and not like men at read more

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