Maougun Saikyou no Majutsushi wa Ningen datta

I liked this show for the following: - Medieval fantasy setting - No characters seem truly OP yet, all have a weakness and go through trouble - MC has an interesting backstory - Large-scale battles, tactics, kingdoms - Human/demon interactions are interesting - MC has a secret identity I disliked this show for the following: - Harem-like aspects (to be fair one is a pig-demon-man, though) - Ending was weak... I actually didn't realize what I watched last week was in fact the final episode 12 of the season - Fairly predictable plot from episode to episode - MC teleporting around so often, it sacrifices the journey/adventure of traveling in this world, all to increase the pacing of events - MC's secret identity turns out to be not-so-secret as time goes on - Some of the animation is bad at times, like for the mobs - MC has not been put through enough of an ordeal yet, never really felt worried for him personally, but his troops/army/etc sure If 5/10 means 50% like and 50% dislike, this is 7/10. I like the setting a lot, I have gripes about some characters, but overall I enjoyed it. Lately it seems people are systematically review-nuking anything involving fantasy... I get that there is just too much, but you should always watch the first episode of a show if you think it seems interesting... and decide for yourself. Don't rely on the rating number or what other people think. If someone truly hates a show, they would drop it and not finish it! To finish a show means, by definition, that person found the show watchable, or they don't value their own time. The only consideration after that is whether or not you enjoyed it. It is very much NOT fashionable right now to admit enjoying fantasy or isekai.

Weak storyline, the plot is boring. I can't understand why some reviewers talk about "rebirth in another world". I didn't even notice a scene like that. The episodes are action-packed but most of the scenes don't make sense. Like episode 8, for example. The hole in the wall is patched up with a spell, only to then open a new hole in a different place during a counterattack. Military and strategic decisions are absolute nonsense. On second glance, they probably tried to add a "harem touch" but apparently didn't quite follow through with this idea. I really wonder where all these animes without a meaningful story come from. It's truly amazing that they even take the time to animate something like that.

The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human - A demon-parading human wants to be like Tensei Slime's Rimuru to bring demons and humans together? That's quite the ambitious approach that's a long way to realisation. Ask just anyone around if fantasy, like Isekai, has gotten stale no matter how many AniManga works we've received, especially over recent years with a copy-paste rhetoric that has a premise that, despite being generic, is "unique" to the point of creating a story for it. And that's exactly what we get with novelist Ryousuke Hata's Maougun Saikyou no Majutsushi wa Ningen datta a.k.a The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human, whose premise/plot you should be able to capture the nuance by its very descriptive title alone. "Kids, I'm about to tell you a bedtime story, about how a human can disguise his way to becoming part of demons. The TL;DR - just be a person strong in any attribute that's worthy of supporting the race you're fighting for and have a goal in mind to accomplish what you want to be in the organization." Like seriously, the aforementioned human that is simply called Ike, he may be a human whom, in the uncommon case of a kind demon taking after to adopt and teach him magic skills, to which he's grown and now supported by a fellow demon sorceress, he's just someone being built different for his course of events: be a leading figure in the Demon army, hide his secret as much as possible even if the few will by chance know of his humanly demeanour, and keep the status quo pretty much for as long as he shall. But being a human, Ike has ambitions, like bringing both the human and demon race together to co-exist as one entity together, but this ambition is beset by the "needless" war between both races to determine who's superior, because demons are that egoistical to begin with. Alas, that's just really all that Ike's going for, because he seeks harmony with no matrimony for the surroundings, just being a plain average Joe who fights for the sake of the matter. He's a Lawful Good and Evil on that regard. The supporting cast are just as hilarious in their own terms. The demon head honcho that is Dairokuten, exudes demonic and Chaotic Evil, but she comes off as being a Lawful or Neutral Evil due to her teenager-like stance that all she's just good for is being a spokesperson so that she can command Ike on what to do in her regard. Quite a lazy leader, if you ask me. Except for the maid Satie for whom she comes off as a Chaotic Good, the others are just a total misfire, just as is the setting and world-building, which are egregiously missing. But then again, this is a rather simple story plot, so the goal is pretty much what you see going with the 3-episode rule set in mind for this show, which is about the perfect "just one more episode" duration you could give to experience all that it is, because it's barebones as heck and hell to then and back. Basically put, this is a show that has no care given to it, that screams of the people behind this just wanting to finish and be done with so they can wash their hands off of a failing project and move onto the next. Given Studio A-CAT's standards, expect nothing but the worst in both 2D and especially the studio's "signature" 3DCG production (which is actually worse than last season's Highspeed Etoile in all regards), and the music, despite being composed by famed composer Kohta Yamamoto, his talent is wasted and washed dry from the ashes of this anime, from the OST, and even right down to the OP and ED itself sounding like inferior versions of Attack on Titan's OST, if made demonic to begin with. Like some others, I always say: there is good within the bad, but this show proved that assumption completely wrong, because there's just nothing redeemable about this anime, nor even its original source work, which was goodness-graciously not overstretched by the imagination of its estranged author thinking that he could be "inspired" to write as much as possible out of complete genericness for a retarded execution. Sorry to break your bones, but this anime is just barely watchable. Skip this show, you're really not missing much.

This isekai is pretty good, cause you does'nt have to "know" how the MC could get transfer into isekai. But according to Cefiro phrase on last sentence in eps 12, i think Ike is got reincarnate as human in this world. Overall this anime is conclude warfare tactical kingdom, and Ike wanna create his kingdom with all types of race no matter what. If you watching this for batch i think you will looks the storyline kinda slow phase, but the plus is you can known what the MC is trying to think according to what circumstances is having problematic. Not so comprehensive but look so tight the storyline will capable if you just wanna simply watch but does'nt want to think much, let us hear what MC are trying to do and we just look with different view what the cost and what the merit.

The anime is good, better than expected, its story tends to be a little interesting, the affection of the main character makes the anime watchable, as well as the maid and the pig, it also has other interesting things in its story, especially on the side that, there are objects and indications of a much more advanced human civilization that was lost in time (although it does not focus on this, it only mentions it). It is an anime with an interesting premise, but the low budget in animation takes away too much from it, taking into account that after the management of territories, this is the second most important thing, but the story although it has already been seen is interesting, since they do not show the main character as all-powerful, the story is somewhat interesting, but the animation makes it heavy to watch

Introducing a gun in a medieval fantasy anime always a terrible idea, as it disrupts the very essence of magic and fantasy. The mismatch in time and theme gives off an impression of a lazy strategy to conclude story arcs, resembling cheating game. I understand its from the lost civilization but deym, right at the start of the series?! Dunno who came up with that idea, the director, writer or author but it totally wrecks the mc's strategical characteristics. Using a gun ain't exactly what you call a 'strategy' in a medieval fantasy world. The story falls flat, was expecting some 'Overlord' vibes but got let down. And why introduce a useless teleportation if they end up trekking for four days on foot? It's painful to watch. On the bright side, the characters are interesting and funny. The demon lord kinda gives me vibes of the vampire queen Krul.

Quite a good anime, lots of action, interesting battle scenes, beautiful drawing, pleasant music. I didn't understand one thing, where is the isekai here, if this is just fantasy, it's not about the reincarnated main Nero, but simply about a strong mage-commander. But in essence it's like Overlord or Tensai Ouji no Akaji Kokka Saisei Jutsu, fantasy about the strategy of managing a "city/state" and the strategy of war, with accompanying forays for reconnaissance and solving internal problems. I treat it as a diary, which contains records of the great feats of the main character, and most likely this is so. The heroes here are well-written, they are interesting. I like the goals of the main character in many ways. At a certain point, you stop distinguishing demons from people (I saw this in some reviews as a minus), which in my opinion is good, because this is exactly what this anime is trying to show. I wasn't bored, overall the anime left a pleasant impression. What I lacked was a challenge, the hero gets everything too easily. The demon world is not very well written, as is the human world, a little more depth and detail would not hurt. I put the opening and ending in the playlist. Listen, it sounds very nice to match this anime.

"he Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human" is one of those animes that come every season with the typical overly powerful protagonist without much of a personality except for being capable, humble and noble (so that the viewer may self-insert), where women seem to gravitate towards and fight for his attention but he's oblivious and every time someone makes an advance it is interrupted. A dumb relief character, fantasy elements (magic, demi-humans...), and one-dimensional villains can't be missed either. The story is simple, we follow a human working for the demon lord (who is a young looking girl who seems to have a slight crush on him, just like every other girl) who is on a war campaign to unite the races. Along the way there will be rivalries, alliances, many fights (poorly animated, with lots of still images and ugly-looking 3D animation), drama with fanservice sprinkled in between and lots of irrelevant episodic plots that you can easily predict the outcome of. There isn't much I can say in favor of this anime, the fanservice was pretty tame in comparison with what's out there, the characters where hollow and without development but mostly likeable, and the world-building was lacking but what I got to see was interesting. The story was engaging enough for me to finish 12 episodes but I don't think I could withstand another season of this generic slop.

What did the author do to the studio in order for them to absolutely butcher his work like that? They dropped multiple CGI nukes. It was carnage for the viewers eyes. I've seen plenty of horrible animations across the years.But it's gonna take a literal slideshow with no frames to defeat this one. It's all CGI of the worst magnitude. In like 90% of the frames. But there's no point in ripping in the obvious flaw of the animation. Because i took a little time to search this show's manga out of pure curiosity. And i found out, IT"S SUPPOSED TO BE AN ISEKAI. Like they skipped this entirely at the start of the show. SO it wasn't a hit on the author. It was the isekai treatment. Also, the pig was supposed to be a thinner ORC. Honestly the manga is also meh in drawing quality. The only reason im not giving it less is because the story is honestly half-decent . It's nothing special or new, but it's good enough to draw you in. So yeah... if you really ,i mean REALLY wanna pass the time i guess you could watch this, or read the manga? Im not sure how many more changes happend though.

From the start, I knew this anime wasn’t going to make it into my top 10 of anything. I noticed right away that it was low-budget, with cheap CGI shortcuts, but I didn’t expect to end up disliking it this much. The plot is a slow, boring mess, with details thrown in randomly and no real purpose. I was initially going to rate it a 5, since it’s technically average, but I could only make it through by watching at 3.00x speed—just to get it over with. Even at that speed, I was bored and actually wished it would go faster. If I have to watch something sped up just to tolerate it, I definitely wouldn’t recommend it to any regular viewer. The ironic part? This is supposed to be an action anime, but it’s so slow and pointless that by episode 7, I was asking, where is the spice? And that’s big coming from me, because I typically enjoy slow-paced, no-drama, no-action anime! For this one to make me crave something to happen was truly the limit of my patience. I honestly don’t know how this anime has a 6 rating on the platform. Looking back, I’m not sure why I forced myself to continue—dropping it would’ve saved me time. Overall, I’d give it a 4/10 and say skip it; there are far better ways to spend your time!

We'll go straight to the points (without mentioning its animations because I already anticipated it): What's good? + Jiron (he's carrying the entire series really hard) + Tensura wannabe (?) + Generic isekai story, but still interesting What's bad? - bad CGI - brightness - colour composition & details, especially some of their outline that hurt my eyes - lots of boring scenes that made me sped up to 1.25x As a crappy Isekai anime watcher, I'm still intrigued for a 2nd season if existing since they haven't dug up enough Ike's story before death and Romberg. However, this needs a slight studio upgrade. Overall, this anime is recommended only for anime fans with low standards.

The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human , well the name already tell you a lot. A little bit about story. We meet our MC Ike who is a human that works for demons not only that he act like a demon too and its a secret that he is actually a human. He is a in 7th corps under command of Cefiro. We learn about he’s background how he became a 'demon'. Not only that this anime is an isekai so our Ike is i, Reincarnated from earth to fantasy world. Its not the most important part of the story and actually its not get mention a lot expect some moments when Ike uses ideas or instruments from our world. He's main goal is to make peace between demons and humans and we see how he try to make demons and humans live together. So why I dont like it? This anime is mostly about Tactics Ike plans and uses and most of them is not working. Most of them are stupid or very basic for an anime that rely on them. Mostly we see Ike in battles for cities and how he attacks or protects them. Its actually a good idea to make an anime about it and it can be interesting. But its must done wrong.Most of his plans work because of the plot and not because they are good. Not only that story sometimes gets away from the main theme and we have stupid episodes that we don’t even need. About characters its actually 50/50 for me. The cast is not bad but not enough to make this anime decent. Ike is not the worst MC. He has he’s good moments and he is pretty smart. Understand how he needs to act and good at magic. But in the same time he is not that interesting he is just there. In the other hand Cefiro and the demon lord are pretty interesting characters but we dont see them too much. Cefiro is Ike’s mentor a very powerful demon and commander. Sadly we didn’t see her enough, same with Demon Lord, interesting character but they didn’t shown her personality to us. The last people Im gonna talk about is comedic characters which are Satie, Lilith and Jiron. Expect of Lilith we dont need them for story but they are pretty enjoyable. Satie is mostly needed to shown human side of Ike that he cannot shown to others. And its kind of enjoyable to watch three of them fight for Ike’s attention. Basically not the worst cast for an fantasy anime. But I think the humans can be done better. In the end demons fights with humans and that side was pretty boring so the battles did lack at character expect too. Animation was bad. I dont like overuse of 3D and I dont like it its just annoying to me. Overall, its an bad to mediocre fantasy/isekai. Not enough powerful moments to call it good. Its lack tactics and interesting battles, more interesting MC and better world building

A decent Anime. It's about a Human who is pretending to be a demon in the service of the Dark Lord as they wage war against humanity. You can clearly see that it's a low budget anime. The animation is not great, the writing is infantile and the story is all over the place. They also frequently pad up the runtime with unnecessarily long interactions that only serve to annoy the viewer. The first half of the Anime is rife with it. The main problem is that the anime doesn't know what it wants to be. There are episodes of nonstop combat, "tactics" and grandstanding. And then there are lighthearted romcom episodes that feel like fillers. The protagonist is surrounded by silly comic relief characters whenever literally everyone else in the world acts seriously. It can be really jarring at times, especially the "rivals in romance". The anime really shines I'd say in the last two episodes. It's finally taking itself seriously and delivers a relatively good battle without too many unnecessary distractions. There is a promise of a sequel as well. I guess. Overall for what I assume is a very low budget production I'd rate it at 6.5/10 As I finished writing this I just realized that this isn't even an ISEKAI. What the hell. I hate it now.

This should be renamed "The demon army's strongest mage is a modern day human pacifistic dumba*s". That about sums up why this sucks so much. Basically, we have this idiot that pretends to be cool and wants humans and demons to get along, despite from what I understand it never actually interacting much with humans in the first place as he was raised by a demon (this is shown from the start, not a spoiler). He is shown as being collected and "smart" but honestly, his tactics suck and he, despite where he was raised and despite the humans clearly being more evil than the demons in this case, refuses to kill. Not even the most despicable enemy will be killed, when he corners them he simply lets them go, even going so far as to stopping someone who had his people killed and pretty much enslaved because of him from killing the dude. Then when that particular character says he'll regret being a little justice hero p*ssy (slightly modified from the original), he just says nah, who cares, I'll be stronger later. Traitors who literally stab him in the back are also not killed, at most he'll run and tattle to the demon king after confronting them. Like, what the hell. Every single other character isn't much better as all of them exist simply to praise him or for the author to try making the protagonist look cool in some way. The demon king has zero personality, the rest have such a one dimensional personality that it's difficult to believe they actually exist in 2D. Why would they even bother to animate trash like this? Do some people actually go "Damn, I wish I could experience more fake bullsh*t political correctness and self-insert as a bland pacifist justice wannabe teaching those savages in other worlds that killing is wrong even when said people kill dozens, hundreds or even more and do all kinds of vile acts with no law/force to properly govern them." If you told me this dude is actually a generic shounen protagonist from modern day japan who goes "LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP IS POWER" in his spare time and just happened to get isekai trucked while crossing the road, I'd believe you. This dude just doesn't belong in a medieval-type place with wars and conflict everywhere and to place him there is almost offensive, at least in his position. This dude leads a part of the demon army at the forefront of the war, it's not like he's a random farmer or commoner just minding their own business out of everyone's sight and wishing world peace for their own and others safety. This dude decided that despite seeing all this crap and having grand goals of co-existence, he refuses to sacrifice anyone nor kill anyone and he doesn't even want to allow his subordinates to kill, risking their lives unnecessarily too. If he at least killed people in defense but not civilians or people he attacks, I'd respect him a bit more, that'd at least be a better stance to have for world peace. No mercy for those who would massacre his underlings, but mercy for the innocent.

This anime is a fine example of "so bad that it's good" while not being too much of a bother to watch. The title gives away exactly what kind of anime this is. Cheap, generic copy paste isekai, that portrays demons as the "good side" you'd want to root for. A pleasant surprise was how nuanced it manages to be, especially in contrast to how the storytelling can be rather blunt and rough at times. There's no time wasted with filler content, it is straight to the point and most interactions have plot relevance aside from the very obvious comedic moments. The pig is whiny and annoying, but not overly so. He can be taken seriously and has an actual useful role, being the main character's tactical right hand. The girls are all designed overly "sexy", clearly an effort to appeal to fanservice enjoyers. You won't find any nudity or erotic scenes though, and the main character luckily isn't a pervert type, so its not a big deal. This show is by no means a masterpiece, and the storytelling is rather lazy and silly. However, if you're looking to scratch that specific itch for a low-budget generic Isekai in a pro-demon setting, you might just enjoy it like I did.

IN A NUT SHELL REVIEW this anime is teeming with tropes an repetitive notions. the first few episodes will draw you in, but the remainder of the season will have you yawning as our main character hops ceaselessly from 1 "unwinnable" battle to the next. presented as a crazy over powered and genius commander magician, Main character's relationships with others is the main reason for watching this show. yet, as the season progresses those relationships, except for those under his direct command, expire and go no where leaving them as time sink filler to help bring this average work of anime to 12 episodes. the plot is stagnant for the most part, leaving us at episode 12 seemingly where we began at episode 1, and if animation quality matters to you at all, just do not watch this as its poor/mediocre at best. you'd be better off watching code geass, or OVERLORD, as those two anime literally have the same plot, with more interesting twists and turns, powers at work, animation quality, relationships, etc. my advice? skip this one unless you have nothing better to do or just watch episodes 1-5; nothing different or noteworthy happens from that point on.

Well, now that it's over I can say, 5, crying a 6 at most.  To start with, just like other works by the author, this one is just as empty, it's not even his best, and look, his best isn't even well regarded. The Studio is rotten, the best work that this horrible Studio has ever done, has a 6.76 rating, terrible, a Studio so old and managing not to have a hit or a good animation in over 20 years should be a shame for the industry.  However, even with a good animation it wouldn't fill the void of a work without characteristics that remind you of him (in the sense that, like really good animes, you can remember some striking characteristic, like character personality, design, story, plot, animation, or things like that), something that this anime is far from having. I found the plot cool in a way, with a promise of a cool story, I saw that the anime tended to be a Tensei Shitara Slime, in the sense that the protagonist doesn't get too involved in fighting but rather his army and he stays more with the administrative part, taking care of his land, making treaties with other countries/kingdoms and the like, I found it interesting, but Tensei Shitara Slime (I'll use this as an example even though the work here is not an isekai), has its characteristics which are the ogres with good designs and Rimuru himself being an underestimated slime and it's impactful, besides other little things... I liked the presence of some characters like the beautiful (and hot LOL) mage Cefiro, and the presence of his maid who is pretty standard for the anime genre, in fact if she had a better design and animation both would be remarkable. I didn't think the anime was bad at all, I liked some things, I found it interesting, like how he's very intelligent in how he commands the army and doesn't let them down and doesn't come up with a solution to the problem on his own, we're shown him solving the problems and that's good, the episodes were well adapted, I haven't read the original work, but I didn't see any episode that was too convoluted or too rushed, nor was the forced marriage as a treaty with the other kingdom done there, so as not to be simply thrown aside without a complete resolution.  I don't think having a second season of the anime will do any good for the name of the work, honestly it's better for the author to try to adapt another one, because even if there's better animation in the next season or a better story in the future, it's hard for anyone to want to watch this first season.  That's it, I don't recommend it.

This anime does have value, but I don't know what type of person I would recommend it to. If you like the first episode and opening, I guess you'll like the rest, because in my eyes they make clear with how bad it is. Content: fairly interesting military tactics, war and nation totality picture, et cetera. In shows different strategies utilized and elements that go past the battle/war to have a successful society. Style: abysmal for most part, but technically, I think this is okay. Characters: very lame though the MC, the Demon Lord, and one enemy commander, are somewhat interesting, at least to listen to Side Characters: mostly cookie cutter CGI mess, but doesn't rally matter I guess Personally, I was happy to watch a new episode every week, it was always bad with the voice lines and animation, but there were tidbits of value.

It's a poor fantasy anime. The storyline is not good, and the logic of the story is off. The MC is sometimes super strong, but sometimes he is weak and open to obvious ambush. The first episode was eye-opening, and after that, everything went downhill. The animation itself is still acceptable, given the studio's art style standard. I guess they couldn't make it too fancy with the limited budget as well. Overall the anime is surpar standard, the only reason I continue to watch is to enjoy the voice of Lelouch jp VA, nothing else. I don't recommend to watch it unless you are watching to pass your free time or VA that you love is voicing on the character.

My thoughts are complicated on this one The premise is good, I actually liked that it didn't take itself too seriously with the inclusion of the pig and succubus characters giving a comic relief (even if I'm in the minority on that) The story itself is fine. For me, I have issues with a lot of the execution, it thinks it is smarter than it is, Ike is supposed to be a genius tactician yet it is hard to see that being the case. also the use of weapons and siege tactics is often totally wrong. For a series that is a medieval fantasy and features a lot of medieval warfare, it lacks even a surface level understanding of the subject matter It felt like the series tried to do too much, tried to be too many things, it needed to focus in more on just a few elements and then it might have been a better series, as it is, it just ended up average. Simply put, there are better series out there.