An angel arrives in Hell! A demon lord is awakened! There are penguins everywhere! What’s going on here?
Angel assassin-in-training Flonne is on a quest to destroy the demon Overlord. Instead of accomplishing her mission, the ditzy Flonne manages to wake Laharl, the demon lord and heir to the throne, from his two year slumber. Now the pair, along with Laharl’s not-so-faithful vassal Etna and her army of explosive souls in penguin costumes, must restore order to the crumbling Netherworld.
Based on the events of the game Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Makai Senki Disgaea follows Laharl’s journey to squash the demon rebellion, reclaim the throne, and destroy anyone who stands in his path. Or, you know, let them join him on his travels if they really want. Just remember: Laharl is a demon lord. There’s no way he’ll ever show kindness, compassion, or love... right?
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Ohayoo! This is my first anime and my english is bad , so excuse me for my \'lame\' writing... I\'ll review this anime with the 6 elements available. First comes the story: As we all know the set is from the PS2 game. The plotline its easy to understand and very enjoyable to watch closely, but it\'s nothing special afterall. Art: Ok, here comes the great dilemma - the 3d is great integrated in the TV series, the character art is great, the landscape is very good, but i think something is missing. Maybe if there where more details i guess The sound is average. Its pleasurable, ican\'t say anything else. Laharl (about him later) is casted by Kaori Mizuhashi - woman, how do you like that :D (don\'t get me wrong- she\'s a proffesional in voice-acting :))
The main stage Characters in the anime are Laharl, Etna and Flonne. This is the best element in the anime.
One of my favorite characters is Laharl - the brutal evil male demon who\'s obsessed, like a true demonish character, for power,money and ultimate control. A deep development in his emotional level through the anime. A GREAT \'against the grain\' character - one of those evil ones who are always on Backstage , but in Disgaea he\'s the primary evil dude who\'s pulling the anime score up. Just superb! One of the coolest personages i\'ve ever seen :D
Etna is one of those cute and helpless girls, on the first look, but is much like Laharl - she\'s his servant,but there\'s not enough \'screen light\' on her like Laharl. The development of this character is not deep enough,though... But afterall she\'s sadistic and very cute x)
Flonne is an low level \"assassin\" angel. A very lovely angel, who\'s always gabbling about love to Laharl :D She\'s also cute, but not like Etna ;]
The Enjoyment of this anime is Very Good indeed. The final feeling is that you havent wasted your time with this title. The anime has a strange sense of humour, though... I\'ve started to laugh at 7-8 epz. But indeed i have a hearty LAUGH with Laharl and the others.
Overall: don\'t hesitate to watch this - it\'s not one of the \"Must watch!\" but if you want you can watch it only for Laharl sake. That evil character dude is amazing. :D And the humour is really really good when you get to understand it. The plotline isnt that great but it\'s pleasurable,like the Art and the Sound.
ddrcrono
This is worth watching whether or not you've played the game, for Playstation 2 because the plot takes some significant divergances, which I found to be an interesting alternate storyline. (The ending is still very much similar, but how they get there is different enough) The story, in large part is very episodic, so a lot of the time "real" character development doesn't happen. There are, however, a couple of parts where there's some "real" development, generally in the beginning and end, I would say. Though it's generally lighthearted, it has its serious points as well. The characters, I think, are pretty lovable. Ok, not Gordon. ButLaharl, Flonne and Etna are all lovable or hateable in their own ways, and Prinnies are just kind of funny in general. MIDBOSS. <--- Is why you should watch this.
Disgaea also has a sort of...zonky cartoony sense of humor. You might like or dislike this, I kinda liked it.
The action scenes are somewhat...lame, at least most of them. I was expecting a little more of that from an animé like this, but I suppose it was good enough elsewhere that it wasn't a fatal disappointment.
Watch this if you want a relatively light and short watch, it has some good moments and I thought the ending was even a little touching for what was otherwise more on the silly than serious side.
Papart
First of all - Anime is based on Sony Playstation 2 game, with same title. I watched this series after playing sequel of Disgaea game, so I already know about some things in Netherworld. But if someone haven't played it, could have problems with understand some things at the beggining. Makai Senki Disgaea is comedy with supernatural powers. Young trainee angel Flonne was send to Netherworld, home of devils to assassinate king of this world. After long searching she founds he's son, in deep slumber. When she woke him young Devil, Laharl is trying to take his place as King of Netherworld after death of father. This isreally humoristic series, exactly like in game, with some attempts of the creation of epic climate, but still with large amount of humour. It's short so its perfect for small relax after job or school.
mistah-manila
Never have I found a better situation in which to use the letters L-O-L. This short series based of a popular game title gives the aura of a "quest anime" where a group of people (usually under aged little kids or teens) have to travel far and wide to obtain some magnificent treasure. Luckily this isn't one of those dry lengthy traveling series that lack comedy, this anime keeps the humor rolling and displays the most eccentric of characters. The ending was also as well pretty good, with an unseen twist to the very dramatic side. And I stress the word VERY. I give this 10/10.Didn't drag on too long, but didn't fall short.
ktulu007
The Disgaea franchise is, generally speaking, fantastic. They're RPGs with a strong sense of humour & endearing characters. Sort of like another RPG franchise that I reviewed an anime based off of. The anime for this came out in '06 from OLM. That's right, the Gunsmith Cats, Steel Angel Kurumi 2 & Pokemon studio. Let's see how they managed with this one. Story: we open with an angel, Flonne, faffing about in the underworld to assassinate its king. She comes across the king's son, Laharl, who was poisoned and left in a casket. She heals him and the pair swiftly learn that his father died while hewas snoozing. After some confrontations with other demons, and finding a companion in Etna and her Frobisher... I mean prinny squad, they decide to head for the castle so that Laharl can claim the throne.
The biggest issue with the narrative is simply that it's extremely abridged. Things like strong pacing, atmosphere building and some of the more amusing but frivolous dialogue get tossed out in favour of trying to hit all of the major plot points from the game. To be honest, I'm not sure it was the best way to go about it. It might have worked better if the anime was slower and only covered a quarter or a third of the game.
I will give the anime credit for fleshing out the Big Sis Prinny reveal a bit better than the game did. And that's literally the only thing I'll credit it with over the game. It is also kind of nice to see the big scenes in a fully animated form, even if they are shortened in order to cram it all into a twelve episode series. And I'm kind of glad they don't use the game's best ending since it gives viewers more incentive to actually play it.
Characters:
The major characters are pretty decently represented in this series. They don't have all the development they get in the game proper nor do they have all their best lines but, for a short series that's trying to cover everything, they do a pretty good job. And it does feature one of my favourite aspects of Disgaea. Demons with a lot of redeeming qualities and angels who are kind of scumbags. Call it heretical if you like, but I enjoy the subversion and I like that the execution in this franchise is a bit more nuanced since the characters are fleshed out enough that the angels do have positive traits as well, Flonne especially while the demons are significantly flawed.
My biggest issue is that the anime might be too heavy handed with that aspect. The game was better about putting it in and not really drawing a huge amount of attention to it whereas the anime feels the need to shove it in your face.
Art:
The series looks good. They captured the game's aesthetic nicely. Unfortunately, the animation is pretty lazy. There are a lot of scenes where someone talks and their mouth doesn't move or where an action scene starts and ends very abruptly and I'm not sure whether it's because they were "hard to animate" or because they were just rushing to get to the next plot point. Either way, it's not a good impression.
Sound:
This is one aspect where I can give the anime full credit without any "but..." involved. Mizuhashi Kaori, Hanba Tomoe & Sasamoto Yuuko are all fantastic. The soundtrack is really damn good as well. The sound design is just on point all around.
Ho-yay:
There are, maybe one or two scenes where Etna & Flonne read as having tension but it's not exactly a significant thing.
Final Thoughts:
Ultimately, this anime has its strong points. The sound is fantastic, the characters are close enough to their game versions to have a lot of the endearing factors intact, the story has its moments. But its pacing and atmosphere suffer from being too abridged, the big subversion is too heavy-handed, the animation is lazy and it ultimately ends up being an inferior version of the game's story with some changes that do work and others that don't really matter. I give the anime a 6/10. It's decent enough and it might be worth watching if you love the game or if you're on the fence about trying the game and you want something that can give you a good idea of whether or not you'd like it. Because if you enjoy this anime well enough the chance of you enjoying the game is very high. Next week, Ninja Batman. Because I've looked at a few Marvel anime already and it's time to give DC a chance.
heartpulp
A light-hearted story of an angel in training, a devil heir to the throne, and his "servants" who don't exactly serve him the best they can. It's comic and cute, and with a minimal amount of innuendo, Disgaea is suitable for most audiences. If you want to pass some time with a fun, enjoyable anime, this is certainly the one to watch.
zombie_pegasus
This is an anime based off a video game. It likely isn’t as good, but I still enjoyed it as an anime only viewer. Although the story isn’t the best, it is clear and somewhat interesting. It’s about an angel who has a task to reform the demons who live in hell, but it’s clear from the start that they aren’t as bad as they’re made out to be. The story around the Prinnies, why they exist, and why they work so willingly for something the demon characters seem to have so much of is also interesting. Like most video game adaptations the character designsin this anime are really well done. The main character is a blonde girl, but unlike most anime blondes she isn’t a Westerner, although she technically still is a foreigner. Although the series is set in hell and is about reforming demons the pace of it feels more slice of life so there isn’t much fighting. This isn’t to say the animation isn’t good, but the place where good animation really shines is missing. All of the characters are well animated and the area they live in is well designed for what it’s meant to be, although seeing as it is hell there really isn’t too much going on and everything looks very samey. Although it is sort of an adventure anime the scenery looks fairly boring. The waddle that the Prinnies do is kind of fun to watch and adds a little something to the show.
I watched it dubbed so I can’t really comment on the seiyuu performance, although the dub wasn’t bad so I’ll give it that. As for the theme songs the opening was very unmemorable and although the ending is better it still isn’t very good. I saw this anime a long time ago so I don’t know what say about the soundtrack other than the fact that I can’t remember anything about it.
The personalities of the characters was surprisingly good for this otherwise underwhelming anime. The heroine was given an understandable task to complete and the others have good reasons to not cooperate. The Prinnies which are originally seen as some sort of worthless slave race are later shown a much more interesting reason for existence. I actually found their tale to be more interesting than that of the protagonists.
I watched it on a bus so this was more or less just an easy way to pass the time, but it does a good job with that. It might not be too good of an anime objectively, but it made for a really fun watch. It has a lot of unique attributes.
If you’re looking for a fun way to pass the time this would be a good choice. However, if you care about depth or don’t want a cheesy story about how people who look evil aren’t that bad then you might to give this show a pass.
TheBrainintheJar
Without even trying, Disgaea steps over all those anime about a hero who Wants to Become to the Best. It’s not a deliberate, focused exercise in style or cliches. The only idea behind it is to deliver a simple adventure about becoming an overlord. This form will never die and that’s okay. You can fit many ideas into it. Somehow, Disgaea manages to get it right without fitting any ideas. Other great works in this style – JoJo and Kill la Kill – have a bigger purpose than simply telling a story. One was about testing the limit of how macho you could get. The othercomes from the head of Imaishi, and that guy never stops hallucinating. After all, we’ve seen this pattern of Hero Defeats Enemy plenty of times. Relying on it means falling back on cliches, and cliches are always terrible when they’re crutches.
Disgaea has no such lofty ambitions. It doesn’t push the monomyth further, or tries to get more steam out of its formula. In fact, it has no ambitions besides telling a fun story about an exciting adventure. Unambitious anime are rare, and often terrible. Plenty of time anime fail despite having big aims and trying hard. There was a lot less effort put into Disgaea than other shows, but the result is great.
That’s because telling a simple story isn’t that hard. You just need to remember your story is simple. The problem with doorstop fantasy series and long-running anime is that their size comes back to bite them in the ass. If your story is only about adrenaline and a few oddballs, why stretch it to be as long as life itself?
Free of these limitations, Disgaea lets loose with its wacky world. How it compares to the original game, I have no idea. As an anime, it gets everything right. The focus is both on memorable characters, unique set-pieces and a story that’s bigger than its initial premise. Although it’s mostly comic and light-hearted, it has its powerful emotional moments. It’s another anime that proves that if you make your characters feel alive enough, we’ll be swept away by their troubles.
The characters of Disgaea aren’t psychological. They’re of the grand-mythic type, but even there it’s in a basic form. A megalomanic, a pure-hearted angel and a conniving demon. These templates still work because the characters have an inner drive. Each of them reacts to the situations in their own unique way. Even if their personalities aren’t the most original or developed – they’re never as bizarre as Kill la Kill – they’re still lifelike.
The wacky nature of the world adds excite to the adventure. It’s a free-form world. There’s no internal logic to it. Hell is a bizarre place where weird stuff happens. If that makes the world shallow, these lone set-pieces still achieve the lifelike quality of the characters. The pacing is focused. Each episode stands on its own and has its own arc.
It’s important for your story to consist of such arcs. Stories that only build up put all their eggs in one basket, and can easily fall apart (Especially if your adventure goes on for a lifetime or two). Disgaea‘s adventure is fun because every moment is meant to be fun. In fact, the series often puts its big climax on the afterburner. It’s more focused on what happens now.
These set-pieces are often bizarre and silly, but why shouldn’t they? Adventure stories are that their best when they’re wild. We’re attracted to adventures because the events are often bizarre in exotic places. The silly nature of Disgaea‘s world makes it both more lifelike and more immersive than any WHOA WORLDBUILDING work by Western fantasists. Sure, Maritn filled with world with details and names. He never made something as attention-grabbing as the Prinnies.
Looking back, the expansion of the climax isn’t so unexpected. The hint that the show is more than Laharl becoming overlord are at the very beginning. It’s still a great decision. When the climax arrives, it’s huge. One climax leads right into another, but it never overloads. Every episode has its own inner story. Thus the climax doesn’t explode from too much content. Rather, it’s divided up and allowed to build tension.
While it gets the basic formula right, Disgaea is still an unambitious anime. That’s the flaw that follows it in every episode. It doesn’t feel like only an advertisement, but the art and the basic nature of things point to an unambitious team. The art is great, but the animation quality is fairly low. It’s not a minimalist art style yet the lack of details in the background make it feel like the creators didn’t think it deserved it.
The character design is also great, but everyone on the side is piss-poor. One episode has a one-time antagonist that looks like it was designed in one minute. The creators are clearly capable of great character design and good background. The visuals drastically improve in the climax (The Prinny redemption episode is especially beautiful). Until then though, it looks so basic and uninspired it takes you out of the anime. Animation quality isn’t everything and art style is far more important. Here, though, the animation quality affects the art when the character design is boring and the backgrounds aren’t as wild as they should be.
The story is also, in the end, about nothing. As the mighty Digimon Tamers proved, an adventure story can definitely be full of meaning. Disgaea doesn’t even try although it’s capable. The Prinnies are a brilliant creation. They’re hilarious and an episode proves they can be emotionally powerful. The series never plays around that. The series never pays too much attention to Laharl’s psychological development although it could. It’s not pretentious. It simply doesn’t try to add psychological depth or even cover it up. I don’t know what is worse – not trying, or covering up.
The flaws prevent Disgaea from being great, but it’s highly enjoyable as a light adventure. Many anime can still learn from this – the characters have inner drives, each episode is focused on a single arc and the climax is bigger than the synopsis says. There really isn’t much to dislike here, although some will be turned off by the lack of ambition.
3 Prinnies out of 5
5Cats
Disgaea is simple, yet well made fun! If you like cute stuff and a good story? Then this is for you (and me!). Watch the short into video "Welcome to Netherworld" for an excellent, no spoilers look at what you'll get. Etna is really the central character, but all 3 MC get plenty of air time and development. If you find Etna adorable? You'll love this show! Story: Seems simple to begin with, but grows in depth and complexity. The finale is terrific, bringing everything to a logical and satisfying end. Except: 12 episodes is too short! But there's no sense of rushing, just a wish wecould see more!
Art: Pretty basic, it may turn some away with its age & cartoon-ish style.
Sound: Is good, and the English Dub is terrific! The OP and ED are catchy and well made.
Characters: While not much can be done in 12 episodes with 3 main and 6+ secondary characters, and the Prinnys! Dood! There is both depth and development that is really well done. If a bit simple.
Overall it was great and I highly recommend it to both new anime fans and veterans. For kids too? Mostly, there's nothing like pantsu or gore, so probably yes. The only thing that stops it from being a 10 is the basic art and it's too short! A solid 9.5 for sure.
PhaiaFox
I initially decided to watch Makai Senki Disgaea because I thought the drawing style was cute. And it was, though MSD was quite different than I'd expected I guess. The first half was okay, but at a certain point I must admit there were moments that I thought MSD was a bit boring, and in the first episodes not much happens, or at least not much very exciting stuff. I kind of missed the "deeper meaning" of the story... But the last four episodes were quite different! From episode 9 on I started to enjoy MSD much more because it gets more interesting and theseries finally start becoming "deeper". But I won't get into details, so you should just go and watch it for yourselves ;D Overall, a 7 because it was close to a six in the beginning, and close to an 8 in the ending :) If you want a "light" anime that is easy to understand and enjoyable I would recommend MSD to you, but if you're looking for an anime with a more complicated plot then MSD is probably not interesting for you. Here just a short point by point review:
Story: Good. Like I said, in the beginning it was quite plain, but towards the ending it got more of a deeper meaning.
Art: Great, beautiful character design, and the computer images really fit in perfectly and all the effects are wonderfully done!
Sound: Very good. Overall the sounds and music really were suitable for the story though some scenes could do with a change of soundtrack and there were also scenes that the music just brilliantly intensified your emotions.
Character: very good. Overall the characters are quite stereotypical, but especially in the last few eps you really notice their character changes, which makes the story better and more interesting.
Enjoyment: Good. Like I said, in the first few eps, it wasn't really particularly enjoyable, aside from some funny (visual) jokes. In the last few eps it becomes more enjoyable, though most of the jokes remain plain and not very spectacular in my opinion.
rxvt
Makai Senki Disgaea is an adaptation of the first game in a series of games that has taken the RPG gamer community by storm, combining wit and intriguing combat mechanics to keep players entertained for weeks on end. How much from the original is left? Hardly anything. Is that a bad thing? Not really. The story of anime diverges heavily from the very beginning: Flonne finds Laharl sleeping in a garbage dump, far away from the castle. However, this allows watchers already familiar with the source material to discover something new, albeit unexpected, given that the trailers promised a more faithful adaptation. However, seasoned players will getexactly what they expect: more of the characters they've grown to know and love.
Makai Senki Disgaea is heavily episodic with little interaction of individual plot points up and until the ending, which is a good suit; the show, as does the source, relies heavily on quirky humor delivered in a lighthearted style. The changes made to the overall storyline thus does not affect enjoyment in the least. While delivering new content is one of the strengths of this anime, I cannot help but feel that character development was rather lackluster. This was balanced out, though, by the three final episodes stringing the way to the ending beautifully.
Despite the lack of development, the cast is and stays unique, which is partially owed to the source material providing a fantastic point to start from. The most memorable exchanges between the characters have been kept. It is most difficult for all but the most demonic of watchers to not feel any connection to the characters and not getting dragged along for the ride.
Surprisingly, the potential for fan service was barely harvested, which is a nice touch; jokes just cannot be delivered as well if there are panties on-screen every few minutes. However, if were to make you think that the show takes itself too seriously, I must disappoint you, as the animation suggests otherwise. Horribly clunky and off-model visuals for even the lowest of low-budget anime, the interaction between characters, which is the heart of any comedy, can only be described as an accident. The less-than-stellar animation did not ruin any scenes per se, yet it is noticeable enough that it is at times detrimental to the overall experience.
Good though the art style may be, which was a straightforward copy of the design in the game with more color to it, the contrast with the backgrounds is insurmountably large. At times, a truly beautiful view, albeit not even close to scenery porn as seen in Aria: The Animation, causes a jarring contrast to the protagonists' actions. This stark difference in quality is further amplified by the soundtrack, which consists of remixes of tunes heard in the game and a few well-made original pieces that did truly help the visuals along and set a fitting atmosphere at all times.
The soundtrack deserves far more recognition than it does – it is difficult to obtain by now, but every single track is worth finding someone still selling the soundtrack CD. While the voice acting was neither remarkably good nor bad, it was good enough to go under the radar and the seiyuu did fit their respective roles; the opening and ending are standard “show the characters off and promote some J-Pop band” tunes with visuals that any seasoned anime watcher could expect.
Once one is able to see past the glaring problems with animation, however, Makai Senki Disgaea presents itself as a light comedy. Unfortunately, this means that those who were looking forward to great fighting scenes will be disappointed; seeing some battles is a reasonable expectation if one keeps in mind that the source material is heavily based around combat. The few scenes of that kind are short and use sub-par special effects to make up for the visuals, which is a failed attempt at damage control.
The anime is a must-watch for anyone already familiar with the source material and everyone looking for a one-cour show to watch between seasons, though it is not worth your time when you already have a long plan-to-watch list. However, once all the gags have been delivered, watching the series for a second time will be quite boring as the novelty of it wears off quickly. Nonetheless, Makai Senki Disgaea is a fun ride that is neither exceedingly good nor horribly bad.
