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A beloved manga that I never would have thought would be adapted got an anime adaptation, and I wish it didn't.

Studio NAZ did an embarrassingly poor job adapting Lucifer. For a manga that I would rank among the very best I've read, the anime is a stain on the legacy of Lucifer & The Biscuit Hammer.

READ THE MANGA!

-For a manga made up of fighting, not a single punch in the show actually lands its animation. None of the fight animation feel like it connects. Poor shading and depth perception can be blamed, but it also comes down how NAZ avoids animating any actual fighting ... scenes by just cutting straight to a hit. The animation is always lacking though. Even the characters walking is jarring.

-Backgrounds are stark and boring, the characters feel almost inanimate in comparison to the manga counterparts, and the pacing of the show feels haphazard at its best.

-Some early parts of the manga are cut, and some unnecessary filler in episode 1 is added to the plot.

-There are like 3 boring backtracks used, and they're all generic. The golem fight music is also painfully unlistenable.

-The golems, themselves, look horrible. Daunting and fearful enemies in the manga become CG atrocities in the anime.

-The comedy in the manga is not at all translated well to the anime.

-The most crucial scenes in the show fall flat because of the horrible animation.

-Voice acting is the only real praise I have to give. Besides Yuuhi Amamiya (Enoki, Junya) and Shimaki Hyou (Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu), all of the voices felt good for the characters and were performed well, particularly Noi Crezant (Tsuda, Kenjirou).

-Openings are both poor. Opening 1 has a good track, but is a clipshow of reused in-show footage and stock art assets. Opening 2 has a worse track, but contains about 12 seconds of the best animation of the entire show (that was done by @yooto40010 and not studio NAZ).

I'll say it again. READ THE MANGA! The manga will make you feel hope and joy, whereas the anime will make you feel the opposite. Studio NAZ should never be allowed to adapt source material again.

3/10 (would be 1/10, but good story and characters give it some enjoyment)

Kuroyuri-sou no Henna Ikimono (The Strange Creature at Kuroyuri Apartments) is a strange case of a two volume short with a comedy format that would be used in a longer-running manga.

The story follows Meme, a young demon successor living at a free rent apartment complex where daily hi-jinks happen.

The story is weirdly average, but as stated before, concludes quickly before any development or arcs take place.

The art is above average, but also has weird inconsistencies between the chapter covers, being more detailed, and the actual panel art, which is rather.. eh?

In only two volumes, I must say that Kuroyuri introduces some surprisingly fresh ... character concepts; also not surprising being that all of the characters are stated outright as quirky people to entertain. Out of the main characters, I feel that the mangaka, introduced in volume 2, falls short of the rest of the cast due to not having many chances to develop.

Kuroyuri could have been a much better manga if I was given the time for more characters, more plot details, and possibly an arc. I like Kuroyuri for the above stated reasons, but I couldn't enjoy it for long as it ended fast, and will likely just as fast disappear from my memory.