YMMV / Makai Senki Disgaea

• Continuity Lockout: Some details from the game were cut from the anime adaptation, but some events that depended on said details were left in without much alteration. As a result, some things make more sense if you've at least played the first game before jumping into the anime. This, naturally, only contributed to its Broken Base.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Maharl claims to be Krichevskoy's daughter and Laharl's sister and is planning to take the throne. Fast forward to Disgaea Dimension 2, in which Sicily, an angel who claims to be Krichevskoy's daughter and makes an attempt to take the throne from Laharl, is introduced. Unlike Maharl, however, Sicily is Laharl's sister.
• Memetic Mutation: Due to the differing quality between the trailer and the final product, fans love to joke that the animation company blew their entire budget on the trailer.
• Moe: Flonne.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Episode 10, Gordon and Kurtis confrontation. Gordon even forgoes his usual hamminess upon learning Kurtis' Dark and Troubled Past.
  • Episode 11, the fate of Big Sis Prinny.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • Part of the problem that many had with the anime was that its original trailer had far better animation and seemed to be a lot more faithful to the game, even hinting that Baal would appear. The final product was sadly plagued with Off-Model animation and while the general plot was the same, there was enough changes to put off several fans. The lack of any real fight scenes only served to hurt the anime.
  • One particular change that put off a lot of fans was the ending, which tried to combine elements of the game's Normal and Good Endings. While interesting in theory, it made Lamington look like a Jerkass who planned for Laharl to commit suicide all along and the lack of Character Development between Laharl and Flonne (Due to the anime being more focused on comedy) made Laharl's sacrifice rather jarring.