Maoyu Complete

- Synopsis: An untraditional story about a blossoming relationship between two long-time enemies: a Hero and the Demon King. The story takes the viewer to when the Hero confronts the Demon King to finally put an end to the war. However, he wasn't expecting a beautiful red-headed Demon King welcoming him with open arms and an ample bosom. After some persuasion, the Hero and Demon King bound themselves to a consensual contract to change the world for the better for both sides: humans and demons.===========================================================================================================- Comments: This anime is refreshing, albeit short, and turns a common situation into a unique and interesting development. It has low amounts of fan-service and is suitable for many viewers. It is dialogue-heavy and gives the viewer a reminder how some of the things we take for granted first had to start off. So, it is also educational, too. The romance in this anime also helps establish various moods and shows that demons and humans may eventually be able to peacefully coexist.- Analysis: The concepts of good and evil aren't as black and white as many people may think. Consider people such as Robin Hood, in which he stole from the rich and gave to the poor. While many people may have conflicting notions of whether that is right or wrong, this further emphasizes that good and evil is highly complicated in certain situations. Likewise in this anime, the notion that demons are evil by default and that humans are not evil is highly shallow-minded. As both humans and demons are capable of kindness and cruelty.Another overlooked concept is that many people focus on what makes others different. They ignore or often fail to recognize that other people are more similar to themselves than they may think. So, discrimination and racism are only born out of ignorance or the delusional refusal to accept the truth. Not only is this present in animes such as this, unfortunately, this concept is prevalent in reality.- Features: Japanese audio with English subtitles. It's about 5 hours long and comes with all 12 episodes on one Blu-ray disc. Rated TV-14 for violence and some fan-service.- Conclusion: Overall, it's a nice change of pace involving the traditional hero and is loaded with exposition. Suitable for more mature audiences that enjoys dialogue. Also shows that despite the differences between humans and demons, there also many similarities between them. An often fundamentally overlooked concept (think religion, politics, and other various ideologies).===========================================================================================================- Recommendations: Bakemonogatari, Spice and Wolf, Hataraku Maou-sama!, Mayo Chiki!, Yusibu, Kobayshi-san Chi no Maid Dragon, Otome Youkai Zakuro, Buso Renkin, and Chobits.

Maoyu is a show I wanted to love and say buy it right now, yet there are many glaring flaws that if you're a devote anime watcher,like myself, you'll notice immediately. The good first, the animation is really well done and the characters, despite having names like hero and demon king, are intriguing and unique. The bad comes from the characters, plot and overall pacing. The show does a lot of skipping time, like months and years will pass in two episodes, and there are 13 episodes. This creates a story that seems to go too fast and too slow at times, nothing is fully fleshed out and characters never get explained enough to care about. Even the main two characters end up being characters you won't care for much by the end. Top all of this off with a horrible ending that resolves nothing between characters and you're left with a story that just feels rushed and underdeveloped. I said in my headline think spice and wolf because in a lot of ways this tries to be that show. Instead of epic fights or confrontations you get a more focused view of how developing lands works. Characters trade items like compasses and potatoes where they apparently never existed and how they affect life in towns. Look I go on and on about this shows flaws but it was an okay watch. It doesn't do much to warrant re watching it or even buying it but one watch will at least be worth the short amount of time the series has.

Maoyu expertly adapts the trappings of Japanese fantasy tropes to an innovative, if not wholly original approach to medieval-age fantasy. Discarding the simplicity of Good vs. Evil, the story presents a world of grey wherein the "right" action and the "just" action are in consrconstant flux.The plot is similar to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in that the protagonists are attempting the feat of developing the world beyond its current state, though their motivation is to end the war that has been raging for a hundred years between humanity and "demons" by obviating its economic necessity. Overall, it's a fascinating deconstruction of epic fantasy, and well worth viewing.

I did not know what to expect when I receive this animated movie other than I read from the other reviewer. I was surprise to see the movie has a good story line. The animation was well done. It reminds me of Hayao Miyasaki's animated work. My only seatback was I was to busy reading the subtitle instead of enjoying the movie. (FYI I read really slow) So if you don't mind subtitle and you can read fast I highly recommend this movie.

I had seen this online well before the DVD release but it is a sweet Fantasy romance comedy anime series. It has no real fighting but portrayed political maneuvering in a medieval magic Fantasy setting. Character development is a strong suit. The animation is gorgeous and the ending was not bad at all even though it was left with things that could yet be further covered.I really like the DVD cover design for the Maoyu set. I would certainly agree your getting an exceptional anime series.

It came in good condition

Love the mix of romance, medieval lore,and also hidden lessons in micro economics woven into this awesome but short series.

Great series saw on tv app and blue ray. They need to continue a second season where they left off at the end but no ending music until they are done talking.

It arrived before it was estimated which I was happy about, and the discs were in great condition, my only issue was the box wasn't very sturdy and looked low quality, however I most definitely don't regret buying it, I'm really happy with it and recommend it. ^^

A comapct series, enjoyable story line with excellent detailed art work, engaging visuals and character deveopment and lively Japanese voice acting as usual. Genre is very similar to Spice and Wolf (humans are only as evil as, or more evil than spirits and demons), but here an interesting interpretation of war and politics by rules of economics. Overall quite an improvement over Spice and Wolf on all aspects except for the soundtrack. A gem and worth keeping.

It is a good video has room for a second and do hope comes out soon well worth getting

Awesome show!

何年か前にＴＶで見たことがあり、最近また見たくなったのでブルーレイを買おうかと検索してみました。するとブルーレイボックスが１６，０００円！　まじすかー　で諦めていたら、４，０００円台で売ってました。レヴューもまだなく大丈夫かいなー　と思いましたが買ってしまった。パナのＤＭＲ－ＢＲＸ２０２０で再生不可。　ＳＯＮＹリージョンフリーＢＤＰ－Ｓ６５００だとさすがに再生可能で日本語音声の字幕なしＯＫでした。２枚で１３話入ってまして、画質はいわゆるＤＶＤ画質でした。内容はやっぱりおもろいです。　一気に見てしまいました。戦争は巨大財閥が裏でゴソゴソするのは学校でも教わることで多くの人は知ってはいるのでしょうが、教育がいかに重要かのくだりは実は皆認識していないと思うところで、そういえば２ｃｈひろゆきが同じことを言っていたなー　なんて思いながら感心してしまいます。また、虫じゃなくて人間のくだりでは涙が出てきたり、やっぱりまじめな部分がしっかり入っている作品は見ていて面白いです。（おっぱいの揺れも必要ですが・・・）これは素晴らしい作品です。学校で教育として使っていいのかもしれません。　なんて思ったりします。