Maou 2099

Bored of typical fantasy plots and cliches? Enjoy the cyberpunk genre? Happen to like clueless men? Well, Demon Lord 2099 is right up your alley. Jokes aside, this is an incredible show. From the absolutely amazing visuals and art style, to the humor, and the plot's event sequence, this is a winner. I'd argue that there is no way to improve this anime. First off, the premise is perfect. A demon Lord brought back 500 years after being defeated in a fantasy world, and waking up in the year 2099 where everything is futuristic and neon? Sign me up. It's kind of like an isekai, but better, since he already has alliances and a status, and all of the training and combat skills have already been acquired. Similar to an isekai, the MC has to figure out how the world works in this cyperpunk era. We're all too familiar with other animes where the MC has to adjust and learn about this new fantasy world they're in, so Demon Lord 2099 introduces something entirely new, and honestly, watching an immortal demon lord adjust to living in 2099 after being dead for 500 years is one of the most entertaining things I've ever watched. The comedy is done well in this anime. The jokes are funny, the timing is great, and the relatable nature of a few of them are chef's kiss. The way the characters interact with each other, especially the MC (Villain) with his past acquaintances is amazing. Since it's the future and the era MC knew has passed, all of the hostility towards him is gone and it's so fun watching the former enemies eat udon together. Additionally, this show includes some friendship and a bit of romance, which was really sweet, and didn't take away from the main plot at all. The actual plot. I'm sure after readying the synopsis, you're wondering if there's an actual plot to this show. The simple answer is yes, there is. And it's more than decent. This isn't just a slice of life comedy where every episode the characters try a new flavor of ice cream, no. There are enemies and foes to be defeated, people to be saved, mysteries to be solved, and quests to be completed. All around, the plot is surprisingly good for not even being advertised or shown in the trailers at all. It's interesting and exciting, and the balance between turning a few tropes upside down and including some of the familiar good ones too is great. Which brings us to animation and character design. All I can say is that the trailer doesn't do as much justice as it should. The cities, the settings, everything is so good. It perfectly captures the cyberpunk aesthetic. I do have to mention, though, that if you're looking for the usual cyberpunk plot where everything is tech-centered and the world is a dystopian reality, Demon Lord 2099 is a bit different and isn't focused on the nature of humanity in that way (if at all), so please note that. Back to the aesthetic, the character design is incredible, the animation for the fight scenes (yes, there are fight scenes) is good, nothing out of the park but certainly above average. Is the show all lighthearted with no deeper message or meaning? No! Demon Lord 2099 includes a few philosophical thoughts/quotes, which although could be considered light and simple, have a great meaning and add to the plot, and of course can also be applied to your own life :) Overall, please give this a watch! I'm shocked that this isn't more popular than it is, especially for being such a new release. This isn't just some show with a recycled and overused format, it's new and genuinely good and worth your time spent watching it. If you'd like to watch something visually stunning, funny, and with a good plot, give this anime a try. Similarities: I'd say Demon Lord 2099 is a little bit like Veldora from That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime, getting dropped into the world of Edgerunners 2077. Definitely not a perfect comparison, but if you've seen these 2 shows already you'll have a slight idea of what 2099 is like.

Maou 2099 has a lot of potential, but lack of execution really kills a lot of this show that failed to live up to its full potential. I just love the setting. A reboot of a classic Demon Lord vs Hero. What happens if the Demon Lord actually loses and he gets defeated by the righteous hero? Well, he gets resurrected in a strange, unfamiliar sci-fi world with technology so advanced it might as well be magic. The concept of magic and technology fusing to be magitech is not an uncommon theme nowadays, but the way the sci-fi setting is handled is great. AI powered familia devices power a lot of the logical processing that takes place when trying to create magic, and there's a real reason why Veltol, our main character is unable to use it. The device was made intentionally to exclude and become incompatible with higher level deities and entities so that people like Veltol would be at a massive disadvantage in the future, where their mana reserves and magical prowess are much less pronounced due to advances in technology. While you don't get to see a lot of the world as worldbuilding isn't exactly the focus, just the basic explanations of how the world works makes sense in the scope of the story. There's backdoors in the familia, there's "aether hacking" on magic devices, there's the ubiquitous prevalence of technology in order to apply for jobs, buy groceries, and do day-to-day activities. The setting doesn't go so in depth as to lose focus on the story, but good enough and makes a lot of sense in order to set the story up for success. And despite the sci-fi setting, it pays so much homage to the classic hero on a quest to beat the evil Demon Lord entity. Demon Lord Veltol and Gram are very classic archetypes intentionally crafted that way. Veltol is an arrogant, strong, ruler that wants to defeat humans so as to rule over the world. He uses strength to obtain territory, and while he's not stupid, he's a bit naive and narrowminded sometimes. He demands obedience as the supreme ruler of the immortals, and yet also cherishes his subordinates and truly wishes for both humanity and immortals to thrive in the whole wide world. He's the very definition of what the personality of a typical demon lord would be in a hero's journey type of story. Gram is similarly the hero archetype where he finds kindness to be the greatest virtue. He's humble, fearless, and knows his destiny is to destroy the great evil that is Veltol. Along his journey, he gathers like-minded comrades to vanquish the great evil. This basic set of personalities clash and evolve with each other as the story progresses in a very meaningful way. The motif of hero and demon lord keeps on getting revisited throughout the entire series as Veltol and Gram slowly change. When Veltol fights and gets defeated by Hero Gram, he's very much the older, wiser, and jaded veteran while Gram is the young hero with all the aspirations. Veltol scoffs at the idea of humanity, friendship, bonds as absolute power appeals to him much more. Yet, when Gram defeats Veltol, he has to accept the fact that he truly was defeated by such "unnecessary ideals." Despite his unwillingness to accept defeat, he acknowledges Gram as stronger fighter, and respects him for it. Yet he's still unconvinced with such explanations that "glimmers of life" and hope were the reasons he lost, and with those thoughts, he vanishes. Yet, when Veltol reawakens, he's in more of an infantile state. His personality and memory are intact, but he's much weaker, lacking faith, power, and subordinates. He's a ruler with no subjects and power. Veltol, in his weakened present day self, can't solve problems with violence. He requires diplomacy, relationships, and more. His perception changes as he encounters betrayals and loyalty alike. He has to adapt to the new world, change his worldview, and re-evaluate his previous self and ideals. He's forced to face the present day reality that is magitech and all the strings that come attached with such a product. Meanwhile, while Veltol does his own awakening and reimagining, Gram lived through all life had to offer for over 500 years. If Veltol is learning new things all the time, Gram is now the jaded veteran with more experience in his belt. Lacking even a reason to fight, ironically, Veltol, his sworn enemy, is the only person left in the world that genuinely respects him. And then they meet. If Gram was the hopeful hero and wanted to make changes with a bright future ahead of him and Veltol was the dispassionate ruler, the present day have the roles reversed. Now Veltol's the one with a hopeful outlook in life while Gram seems to have lost reasons to fight as the Hero. 500 years made both of them forget their grudges against each other. Instead, perhaps that 500 year bond is the only thing that's left in the 500 years time. Then, finally, Veltol bows his head to Gram. To borrow his power and to save his vassals, he's willing to ask his greatest enemy in the past to aid him in his cause. With the roles now reversed, Gram's the weary Hero that doesn't believe Veltol can achieve anything, while Veltol's the one with idealistic goals, ambitions, and innocence. While Gram berates Veltol for his statements, Veltol refutes with "I have the solutions to all the problems, not just one! For I am Demon Lord Veltol! And this World is mine to rule!" With those words, perhaps Gram sees his past self in Veltol, and maybe just to help the weak getting exploited as Hero Gram always had done, he joins hands with Veltol to save the city. If you've read this far, you can tell just how much I enjoy the Hero vs Demon being reimagined in this world and setting; it's very fun to watch like that! No edgy protagonist, protagonist with harem, convoluted sci-fi plot, or OP MC. It's a Demon Lord and Hero reuniting after 500 years in a completely different world. I won't write about all the flaws too much or else the review will go on too long, but there's a decent amount of them. The main problem is the pacing. A lot of the fights are really poorly paced with dialogue and fight scenes. There's way too much dialogue and it really makes the potentially tense fight defuse too much. The story is also pretty mediocre. There's always a lot of action and people fighting and dying, but there's never any true buildup. Usually, when there's city level fights, there's different organizations involved, personal armies, or people that Veltol recruits. In this show, it's kind of just Veltol and his crew alongside Gram fighting the like 2-3 enemies that appear. The scale of it all just doesn't really make sense, and the buildup for all of the fights are really bad. For example, a story arc about investigating artifacts to unlock a secret vault just devolves to the evil guy revealing himself and none of the previous setting, worldbuilding, or characters even matters. There's a complete lack of story when it comes to investigations, character interactions, and so on for the scale of the actual plot at hand.

Are you tired of isekai? How about a reverse isekai? Maou has a slightly different proposal than the usual isekai where we have the "truck-kun of the selection", here our protagonist is sent to a cyberpunk future where magic and technology mix, from demon lord to an almost salaryman 🤣 who has to use his charisma to regain his former glory, the girls manage to be charismatic and the protagonist is sometimes a bit dim-witted and reminds a bit of Goku's innocence, the villains of the season make you a bit angry because they think too much of themselves and make you want to see them get screwed, the animation is well done and there are no visible flaws, one thing they could have done is put more action scenes or more interactions with the fans during the gameplays but overall it is a good anime and deserves a chance

It has dark souls in it can it get more PEAK???? But fr it was a super fun watch have not had such a fun time watching a new anime in a bit just put it on and chill. At this point I am writing to fill words lmao but I took the time to load up my list rate it a 10 and write a review sounds like a good anime to me. ok so this has to be a lot longer lets talk about the show loved the mc it was great how over the top he was. The style was very cool the city of earth and a magical word in the year of 2099 had it felt super good. I like how we got showen so many small parts I hope the next season ramps up the fights but still keeps showing of the world to the mc and us. ok is that good can I stop writing now???

When you can't win in a fantasy world, then why not try in a cyberpunk world instead? That’s what ended up happening to this demon lord after losing to the hero. This show follows the demon lord Veltol and his subordinate Machina. We see them as Veltol reawakens after 500 years of slumber, where his only subordinate left is Machina and he is not in his usual fantasy world, but a high tech cyberpunk world. First the plot of the show is very straightforward in each arc, with a new goal being clear after one goal is achieved. This is supplemented with a few twists that are built up by minor details throughout the arcs, which helps keep the plot from being too predictable. The pace is also very nice, with it not being too slow or fast and thereby giving room for just the right amount of detail of the world, plot and characters. Combined, does this give the show a great feel for the plot with it making the viewer comfortable in both the world and story, while still keeping it interesting. When it comes to the characters, are they following a similar pattern as the plot, with the characters being fairly straightforward with a few twists to them. Especially looking at the two main characters, since their character type is very much set and does not have the most character development, but still has some significant change throughout. But what really sets the two apart from the others, is their quirks about being immortal and the view at life it brings with it. For the side characters they are the ones carrying the most character development, with that more directly following the plot of an arc, which tangles greatly into the plot. All the characters together give the steady core from the main characters, and with it helping the side characters bloom with the story arcs. The show's animation is great, with it paying attention to both background, characters and the combat scenes. First the backgrounds are both detailed and animated to some degree, which really helps give the feel of it being a cyberpunk setting. While the characters are shown to have details in their movement and facial expression, this really makes the characters seem more alive and enticing. Finally the combat scenes are done with great attention to both magic and melee combat, with it being able to follow in great magical spectacles and high speed clashes. The whole aspect of combining fantasy and cyberpunk is a major thing for the whole show, since it sets both the tone and the atmosphere. There can be many problems in combining these two things if not done right, since one can easily over shadow the other one. But the show really brings the two together by thinking into the way of how magic and technology would work with each other. This is the main reason why this show successfully pulls off doing both fantasy and sci-fi. To conclude, this is a great show, with an amazing plot, nice characters and great animation, which has successfully combined fantasy and sci-fi. So if you are at least a little interested in such a combination can i only recommend this show.

Just finished watching this today and what can I say, Urban Fantasy at its finest. Now this could have been easily an 8 in my book but after seeing the second half and watching the finale a "7" is more appropriate. The way this was directed and done is sadly where S2 is quite unlikely to happen, which is a huge shame. So the whole premise is about a Demon Lord, defeated five hundred years ago, wakes up in a neon-soaked cyberpunk future and has to figure out how to rule in a world that's replaced swords with smartphones and navigate around the city. I can say many great things about this show, starting from the obvious great casting of the VAs, like the memorable Ainz (Overlord) voice, now also voicing the Demon Lord of this show, where he really does shine in these goofy but serious role. Also bits like the Demon Lord livestreaming himself grinding a video game for 72 hours, or disguising himself as a transfer student to sneak into a magic academy... and let's not forget the animation, no jarring 3DCG or anything that's distracting and the fight was well directed! All in all there was actual production value. You might be wondering, where's the problem? It all started when the second half of the show begins. Everything felt incredibly rushed, things that should be built up gradually suddenly got thrown all over our face. Character investment that should have been done over several episodes instead got compressed into one or two, leaving the final resolution technically satisfying but emotionally thin. Dare I say the second half even deserved its own season, that's how much they rushed things out. With all that said and done I do still recommend this show. It's an anime that's easy to enjoy in the moment and easy to forget the specifics of a week later, just something perfect to watch when you have your buddy over the weekend.

MAOU 2099 is really fun series! I love the characters and the story itself is not that heavy. Veltol the MC is still strong but not overpowered and he is show his experience in battle with his wisdom and brain. Also, i love Machina and Takahashi support for Veltol to adapt in modern (?) world. The journey of Veltol and co. is worth to watch and interesting to follow them. Art style is not astonishing but still good and fit the story theme. Opening and Ending song is no special but well, still good. Maou 2099 is recommended if you are looking to fun story with a bit of comedy from the MC. Also, if you like Hataraku Maou-sama you will also like this. This anime is easily 8/10 in my book because how much fun and enjoyable when watching it. I JUST WANT NEW SEASON PLEASE!

Cyberpunk meets magic. I think that is the best way to describe this anime. I was pleasantly surprised with this one as I was expecting it to be a bit sloppy, cringy, and recycled, but it felt fresh unique. It was an honest and straightforward anime. I say straightforward in the case that there weren't any "side quests," so to speak. The story was very linear with things happening one at a time, and it made it easier to digest, at least in my opinion. The characters were good, the story was fun, and the visuals were very nice. This isn't a must-watch anime, but it is a good "I've got some free time, let's check out a fun mid-tier anime" anime.

well, it's kinda complicated. this anime have too many genres mixed in up, they got sci-fi, magic, fantasy/reverse-isekai(?) in one anime, so i am not too sure on the world building here. if you love action anime with a good animation, like jujutsu kaisen or chainsawman, this is not for you. the animation is not that good, there is some awkward animation in here and there. comedy?, you can expect some from this one here. there is some misundertanding type of comedy here, like in shadow garden dan overlord, and yeah the Voice actor for the MC here does Ainz from overlord too, so there is some resemblance on it. SO, if you are looking through some new mixed genre experience get this a try.

Reverse futuristic "isekai" with a "Demon Lord" trying to rise-up in a cyberpunk/magic fused world. Content Warning: does contain some intense themes like brutal genocide (briefly, but major point for a while) and mind alteration (briefly) Art 8/10 Animation 7/10 Openings/Endings 7/10 (but for being fitting, 9/10) Plot 9/10 Good Characters 10/10 Bad Characters 6/10 Content: to me, it felt very dry, but very enjoyable. The Demon Lord is very likeable and very straightforward. The other main character (as listed on MAL) is somewhat relatable. There are nice side characters too that are very much lovable. Style: again, felt fairly dry, but had kinda dark cyberpunk feel to art. Animation was mostly good/fine, some people were disappointed in some likely cool fights not being shown at all. Personal enjoyment: again, felt dry, but wholesome and enjoyable. I hated the holocaust curvaball and some other things to lesser degree, but very enjoyable and positive. Such a vibe. I would recommend this to people who like isekai's, reverse isekais, reincarnations, cyberpunk The mains are adults (well more than that) and two of our favorite sides are high schoolers so can't say this is adult cast though because of the mains, felt very mature. This is very different from devil is a part-timer though multiple things give feeling like are watching that. I hope this was helpful in some way <3