History Manga / MaoDante

** Similarly In Shin Mao Dante Kosuke Utsugi, Ryo’s Father, is the archangel Uriel.

* AdaptationNameChange: Ryou's sister, Saori, has her name changed to Aya in Shin Maou Dante 2002. She also has a different hair style.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: In Shin Mao Dante, Dante and Medusa are given the surnames Luther and Gorgon respectively.

* AscendedExtra: Pretty much everyone besides Ryo Utsugi from the original manga is given a greater is given a greater focus in the newer works.

* HorsemenoftheApocalypse: the Four Demon Kings.

HoursemenoftheApocalypse: the Four Demon Kings.

Despite of what others may have claimed, the anime adaptation is indeed very true to the source material (as the manga was literally only 3 volumes long) with only a few minor changes. The anime adds a lot of extra material to meet the thirteen episode limit such as filler set in between scenes from the manga, adding some anime original characters, making connections which weren't really shown nor mentioned in the manga (such as the leader of God's Will being Ryo Utsugi's adoptive father) and writing a conclusion for the story.

Despite of what others may have claimed, the anime adaptation is indeed very true to the source material (as the manga was literally only 3 volumes long) with only a few minor changes. The anime adds a lot of extra material to meet the thirteen episode limit such as filler set in between scenes from the manga, adding some anime original characters, and making connections which weren't really shown nor mentioned in the manga (such as the leader of God's Will being Ryo Utsugi's adoptive father).

Many themes from ''Maō Dante'' recur in other works by Nagai, including ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' and ''Manga/DevilmanLady''. In fact, ''Devilman'' came into being because Toei wanted to make a LighterAndSofter version of Dante.

** As the anime progresses, it would seem that this would be remedied. [[spoiler:Sort of, but not in the way you would think; after God regains the ectoplasm that he had planted into the apes, modern humanity starts reverting back into the mind of said apes and start killing eachother]] which, while still dark, tosses out the {{HumansAreTheRealMonsters}} trope that Devilman established.

** As the anime progresses, it would seem that this would be remedied. [[spoiler:sort of, but not in the way you would think; after God regains the ectoplasm that he had planted into the apes, modern humanity starts reverting back into the mind of said apes and start killing eachother]] which, while still dark, tosses out the {{HumansAreBastards}} trope that Devilman established.

* HotbloodedSideburns: Obviously.

* PowerOfLove: In the final episode [[spoiler:Ryou and Saori's]] mutual love destroys the BigBad. Subverted in that it also [[spoiler:destroys the world, kills everyone else, and puts them in the roles of Adam and Eve of the new world]].

'''''Maō Dante''''' or '''''Demon Lord Dante''''' is a 1971 {{manga}} by Creator/GoNagai. Remakes of the manga were released in 1994 and 2002. A [[TwelveEpisodeAnime 13-episode]] {{anime}} was released in 2002. Unfortunately, the animation of that series was extremely poor, the story was filled with plot holes, and to get it worse, the English dubbed version was dreadful at best.

'''''Maō Dante''''' or '''''Demon Lord Dante''''' is a 1971 {{manga}} by GoNagai. Remakes of the manga were released in 1994 and 2002. A [[TwelveEpisodeAnime 13-episode]] {{anime}} was released in 2002. Unfortantely, the animation of that series was extremely poor, the story was filled with plot holes, and to get it worse, the english dubbed version was dreadful at best.

* FanService: This is written by GoNagai, so it's expected to pop out here and there.

Many themes from ''Maō Dante'' recur in other works by Nagai, including ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' and ''Manga/DevilmanLady''.

* HijackingCthulhu: The title demon tricks Ryo into freeing it, then rewards the boy by eating him. But somehow, Ryo's personality survives this, taking over Dante's body and displacing its previous human identity [[spoiler: [[TheBible Judas Iscariot]] ]].

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* HeroicSacrifice: Ironically, most [[spoiler:demons]] get this treatment, especially [[spoiler:Medusa]] in her CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:God]] speaks to his followers via a pillar of light, but that doesn't keep him from being a CompleteMonster.

* RapeAsDrama: While it was never shown on screen, one can guess how [[spoiler:Lamia]] impregnated dozens of kidnapped women in her dimension/lair. Scene with them hanging down naked and pregnant from her nets counts as one of the rare HighOctaneNightmareFuel scenes in a rather NightmareFail show.

Many themes from ''Maō Dante'' recur in other works by Nagai, including ''{{Devilman}}'' and ''DevilmanLady''.

!!!Tropes

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:God]]

* {{Narm}}: Lots of it. Bad animation and poor dialogs don't help.
* NightmareFail: The demons of this show look like rubber monsters from the Power Rangers.