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Talk about a series with little potential.This from the creator of Psyren which while had an interesting dynamic ,hadnt gotten close to its true potential.

Kagamigami suffers a much worse situation with it trying to reach new levels of rip-off of other series and nothing unique to standard.

From the plot based on shikigamis like Bleach
Female Character POV like Lucy from Fairy Tail
The Wolf transformation looking exactly like Inuyasha

Even the globe soul henchmens give me reminders of the Minions from Despicable Me which isnt even an anime or manga

At this moment it has the least amount of positive working towards it so far compared to ... Psyren .And I doubt it would move any further at this rate

Never has the term "Never Judge A Book By It's Cover" been more literal than this story has any right to be.
What could have been a generic and unoriginal fantasy RPG story has crafted its self into an amazing concept which deals with an interesting topic not commonly brought up in Fantasy RPG: DISCRIMINATION

(risk of spoilers ahead)
Story:10
The plot starts with a otaku college student being brushed into a fantasy world with 3 other people to save this kingdom and be heralded as heroes.The main lead has given the weakest power(Shield) and has to proven himself from the bottom to the top.

While the beginning starts of ... kind of blah, it takes an interesting turn when the act of betrayal and discrimination plays into affect.The story doesn't focus on how great the hero is, but how he survives his everyday lives when labelled as a criminal.Each chapter has its own unique flavour and yet still has that captivating drive and alpha-dog nature which is makes it all the more enjoyable


Art:9
The art is great for what it is.It is drawn by the same person who did the Persona 4 manga, so its stands as feat with splash pages and unique monster characters images.However it isn't unique enough from any other similar manga to stand out much.But the arts has done its job pretty well

Characters:9
The main lead instantly became my favourite character in the story (first for me in any manga) as it proves something not many manga can do: show a balance of jerk and nice .This has more development and reasons to be a douche, and at same time comes of very likable in many places

The two other female leads also has been done nicely in setting their personalities as likable, cute and at the same time close to the lead.

The villains are delightfully hateable, the side characters have more characterization than they need to.My only issue is aging of the female lead, which came of as unnecessary and more perverted than it had any right to.But it can be easily ignored by her bubbly charm

Overall I feel this manga got me hooked on arrival.Its an seinen manga which delves into ostracization of the lead, in a way that the whole story depends on it rather than it being a plot-point.My little issues havent discouraged me in the least and I look forward to see where this series takes me

When I first came across Defence Devil, I thought of two things, "Harmless dumb shounen fun" or "Absurd concept turn awesomly serious"

Defense devil is about a demon named Mephisto Bart Kucabara, banished from his land as an outcast former prince and takes an interest in human life on earth.He takes up the role of a defence attorney of any innoncent soul who are unfairly judged on their deaths been considered sins.With his sidekick devil Bichura , he battles other devil to protect his client and save their souls from doom.

On the surface it sounds like a cool concept. A Phoenix Wright style manga with ... the concept of being devils and hell as trials and lawyers and in the beginning it does.We see how the story of Kucabara develop with his clients, how attached to human life he really is and how he is determined to fight anyone in his way.

Unfortunately after a couple of interesting stories, the whole thing takes a detour towards typical shounen cliches.Evil brother, fights against species, characters teaming up like a buddy sitcom.It forget that it is a lawyer story and instead focus on generic battle stuff

In terms of art , its really impressive.Sort of a fantasy apocolyspe style which works well, characters look different enough to stand out.Though nothing mind blowing or unexpected.However this is the best part.Everything else is really painfully meh

The story is too fast paced and rush heavy, you can feel plot points being added and dropped as quickly as they appear.And the last 20 chapters are probably the worst part of this story.Trust me when I say that the ending was predictable, confusing, and rushed without any thought given to itThe plot holes were multiple and the plot twists were more non-nonsensical then surprising.You really felt that the writer knew this series was getting cancelled so he cobbled together a half baked climax

The characters are also badly represented too.Apart from Kucabara and Bichura who are genuinely likable and work off each well, everyone else feel so irratatingly unlikable.All unemotional hate fill beings , that you wonder why you should care for them.Special criticism goes to the heroine Idamaria, who plays the tsudere victim to a detestable level .She is supposed to a victim of devils wrath and we want to see her grow away from that. But everytime she utters her absolute hatred for devil despite her constant savings by one.And trust me she stays the same throughout the entire manga.

In conclusion, this had an interesting concept squandered away for a cliche but servicable story which was destroyed by an infuriating and terrible resolution

THE VERDICT IS : GUILTY!!!!!!!

Dont read this manga, there are much better more fun manga than this.And hopefully , we dont have to wait long for a more better courtroom drama style manga