Hataraku Maou-Sama!

English: The Devil is a Part-Timer!

Synopsis
Devil King Sadao is only one step away from conquering the world when he is beaten by Hero Emilia and forced to drift to the other world: modern-day Tokyo. As "conquering the world" are the only skills the Devil King possesses—and are obviously unnecessary in his new situation—he must work as a freeter to pay for his living expenses!


This anime is hot this season. I think it deserves its own thread.

LunarLexal wrote:

Ovyda wrote:
Just watched Hataraku Maou-Sama! - So far the best show of this season for me! Very good comedy, interesting story and appealing chars

I just barely finished the first episode of that as well! I thought that it was very funny and I like the characters in it to.

Ovyda wrote:

LunarLexal wrote:

Ovyda wrote:MgRonald... Holy Potter and etc. they never stop to surprise me with those titles Most popular one in Japanese would still be brand name Snickers (Znickers, Snickars, Snikerz and etc.) I think.

I always enjoy seeing what titles they come up with for brands/fast-food places. They can be pretty funny some times. At first, when I saw the Holy Potter, I thought it said "Harry Potter" and I thought that it was amazing because they're actually using the real title, but then his head moved and saw that it was "Holy". I had a good laugh with that.

Yeah, I love those titles as well

Supernatural Knight wrote:Hataraku maou sama, how can a series with kind of the same concept of a last season failure be so much better than it after 1 ep? I much prefer these characters especially with the roles reversed so drastically like that.

LunarLexal wrote:

Ovyda wrote:Aw! Such a sweet episode. I like Emilia's voice and she looked so cute in this episode ^^ Also, some mystery was added, looking forward to explanation what's going on. Those earthquakes I guess have something to do with magic.

In the "Enta - something " world, she seemed to be pretty viscous.

I wonder who's causing those earthquakes though. do you think it's one of the four generals?

LunarLexal wrote:

Ovyda wrote:

Uh, I am honestly on three ideas...
1) Someone from demon race saw how weak demon lord is and tries to overtake his thrown.
2) Human from Enta world who doesn't know how Hero looks, therefore attacked both of them considering both are demons.
3) Might be 3rd planet being...

I didn't really put a lot of thought into yet, but I believe it's someone from demon race.

Most likely. Though he'll have to be extremely powerful to retain his magic. Even the demon king could only hold on to a little bit of it.

LunarLexal wrote:

Ovyda wrote:
I think he/she/they just found a way how to use magic and it might be connected to those earthquakes. However, the magic didn't seem very strong.

Yeah, but it was still able to put holes through the signs. That'll be enough to kill anyone. Anyway, I hope that whoever is causing the earthquakes appear soon. I want to know more about how they're blocked off from magic, and I have a feeling this person will reveal something, even if it's a little bit.

LunarLexal wrote:

Ovyda wrote:
The pace of anime is quite good imo, so in the next 1-2 eps we will get to know that person/group causing problems to our demon lord and hero.

I still wonder if that MgRonald's little girl worker is related somehow to the earthquakes or she is just living in a bad place at the bad time, since strong earthquakes appear only her place.

I think the earthquakes were specifically targeting her, maybe to get at the demon king?

LunarLexal wrote:

Ovyda wrote:

Supernatural Knight wrote:I'm enjoying Hataraku Mauo at the moment and I agree with Ovyda that I think the pacing so far is fine. The set up so far has been quite comical so I hope it stays like this since it is also listed as a romance unfortunately.
About the person/group it does seem interesting that there is someone that still has a source of magic. If the demon lord has minimal and the hero that beat him also has such a limited amount then this person should be interesting. About the earthquake, I was wondering if it had something to do with the replenishing of the unknowns magical power. But for it o only affect one place, I then thought it could also just be that the young worker has an obsessive stalker that has broken into her room.

Well... now that you say. it's possible that in her house or near her house someone is living who has limited magic power and because of that her house experiences stronger earthquakes than everyone else... But I doubt...

I actually came up with different theory which is quite impossible but... but what if that young worker is actually a person who has magic power? Would be a nice plot turnaround

Well we know that this unknown knows about their situation, and that he hates them both. So I'm willing to bet that he's from this "Elsa Enta" world, I doubt he'll be from Earth.

Kusanagi wrote:I don't think the plot is too much of it. Besides the mystery of the earthquakes and possibly how they'll decide to get back to their original world, the plot is pretty basic. I think the best quality of the anime is its characters.

Natsu Dragneel wrote:The latest episode, funny and Maou looked really badass for sure and after seeing the comparison between the light novel/manga and anime, the anime looks way better IMO

Spoiler:

Ovyda wrote:After a long wait, finally the 4th ep came out. So many things happened!

Hero's friends/generals are coming.

Lucifer is the enemy ( I bet the reason is that Maou became soft ).

Finally we've got to hear that awesome language again

Who's that old fat lady? o.o

What it has to do with Chi?

Spoiler:

LunarLexal wrote:

Spoiler:

Ovyda wrote:After a long wait, finally the 4th ep came out. So many things happened!

Hero's friends/generals are coming.

Lucifer is the enemy ( I bet the reason is that Maou became soft ).

Finally we've got to hear that awesome language again

Who's that old fat lady? o.o

What it has to do with Chi?

Spoiler:

Ovyda wrote:
Well that's what I thought as well (that Lucifer always wanted to overthrow Maou, but couldn't due to lack of his own power and now he has a perfect chance).

Witch? Hmm... She certainly do have appearance of a witch, but I doubt. I do believe that she's from Enta Elsa as well. Not sure how else she would know about Maou.

So you say Lucifer is getting his powers by eating people's despair or what?

Natsu Dragneel wrote:What's the landlady hiding? Maybe we'll learn as the series progresses, and while we're at it, Lucifer looks kinda cool IMO