Under the tutelage of the great demon warlock Romberg, Ike grew up with knowledge regarding an ancient advanced civilization that once ruled the land. Coupled with his innate talent in magical arts, this upbringing allows Ike to quickly rise in the Demon Lord's army ranks, leading his brigade to consecutive victories against humans.
However, Ike has a secret—he is a human himself. Despite knowing all too well the consequences if this information is ever to leak, Ike is willing to face such immense danger to achieve his goal: find a way for humans and demons to coexist and stop the war that has been carried on for far too long.
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mecchist
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.
Nebucad
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.
WardJulii
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, thisis 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
dazedcowcow62
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.
KANLen09
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 Magicianin 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.
kirA_-_
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 storyand 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
AntonyAV
"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 havea 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.
silverwolf63
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 passyour free time or VA that you love is voicing on the character.
Seregosa
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 thiscase, 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.
TasRook
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.
Karysuuwu
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 watchsomething 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!
Yukilol_1
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 remindyou 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.
LilyVarbik
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.
inari121
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 isstagnant 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.
13ad
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. Ilike 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.
mrfried
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 lotof 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.
Moleque
Okay, the show has an interesting premise - someone who would not otherwise belong somewhere is OP in that responsibility. However, even though IKE (the main character grew up in this world and learned from his predecessor it fails to explain something critical - this is not an issekai, so how on (name planet of the show) does IKE know what a firearm is? It doesn't mention at all his origin from another world, nor anything of the like. He did not die and reincarnate (as far as we know) and yet he knows things that do not even belong in the world - that isa stretch, one which caused me to rate this as a 6 instead of a 7 or 8.
Aside from this, it has promise, as long as no other glaring issues (such as the above) arise or as long as they can explain why IKE knows these things he shouldn't.
Will2miNB
This anime is a clear example of how a great opportunity for innovation in the genre can be wasted—not by revolutionizing it, but by settling into such a state of creative laziness that it ends up being boring. The plot is overly simplistic and basic, and the supporting characters are more like puppets, unfortunately in a negative sense. They're used as mere props for the protagonist, with shallow, caricature-like traits that rely on repetitive and tired stereotypes. The battles are almost nonexistent, with only a few rare exceptions. They unfold in one of two ways: either you're bored watching the protagonist lift a staff, or you're subjectedto awkwardly animated monsters that move clumsily, though at least they follow some kind of logic.
One of the few strengths of this work, however, is the protagonist's intelligence and cunning in battle, which is highlighted through comparisons with other generals, both demonic and human. His intellect makes him far more interesting as a character than his embarrassingly underwhelming combat style, marred by poorly depicted and awkwardly executed magic.
In conclusion, while the protagonist's strategic mind offers some redeeming qualities, the anime falls flat due to weak storytelling, bland supporting characters, and uninspired battle sequences. It ultimately squanders what could have been a compelling narrative.
Gilded
This is honestly a weird adaptation While i have not read the source material, i could tell that story is quite rushed I wonder if its a problem with adaptation or with source material itself Cut this adaptation in half like Phil Swift and it would been way better as pace could been made slower The pace is like watching a drag race, you start the episode and the next moment episode is finished and you are left a bit confused where your time go or its 12-13min episode Its not the "product" of being absorbed into the episode due to it being thanks to intricate yet well paced storytelling...
Its closer to bombarding you with so much content that its similar to TikTok's or Shorts
Not a good thing but certainly not a bad one to a degree
For example i didnt even knew this is Isekai series, i have not noticed a single mention of it. I was impressed this is more of a fantasy adventure anime
That might be me just missing it, but thats one of the problems of this high speed story telling
Character development was ok, no matter the series it always can be better..
Sadly due to pace of the anime some interaction consequences were not explored more which is a shame honestly
Post battle interactions and recovery is usually as interesting to see as the battles themselves
They did use some classic cliches that are tad bit overused and the time could been used to explore other aspects or even mention them
Battles were main focus ofc, and you can see they paid more attention to them, maybe it gets a bit stale due to the usual formula but overall good enough
OP was kinda OK pick, but ED... Idk its hard to put it in words.
Maybe it was picked to give you a brief moment to relax from the pace the adaptation was at
Sound design was ok, nothing too special but no bad easily noticeable mistakes
Animation was relatively consistent, there are flaws of course but mostly on background characters
Like sometimes MC's "lich core" looked more like png than something with depth
CGI was blended well enough for me to not see anything standing out too much unless i really looked for it
Overall 8/10
Better than average adaptation these days
