Hataraku Maou-sama

I imagine it's pretty jarring, not to mention confusing, as in the main manga chapter 5's where a major plot point is introduced... Only for chapter 6 to show everyone on a school trip? And everyone (even Emi's friend Rika, who in the previous chapter was shown to ALSO be working) is in high school! XD

edited 7th Apr '13 5:29:34 PM by MyssaRei

It is very jarring, especially since the real chapter 6 seems to have been deleted in the process.

I found chapter 6 elsewhere.

Second anime episode is out.

For some reason I've been noticing the music a lot this season. Probably helps in a series like this when it contrasts with what's going on so much.

I loved it. Still funny as hell.

Chapter seven: A buttload of new characters appear! And it's ridiculously short and ends on a cliffhanger with nothing accomplished! Augghh.

In anime they got (most of them) Early-Bird Cameo now, in second episode.

Ah! Episode 2!!! <3

I never realized Emi's hair was so ridiculously long...or that Chiho's breasts were so ridiculously large...anime.

I hope they don't turn Chiho into some Yandere Clingy Jealous Girl. She was never mean towards Emi or anyone in the manga, just crazy self-conscious and overconcerned. Really nice girl.

We never did find out the identity of the shooter...

I love the Ente Island flashbacks, with the gibberish...and the overly dramatic music when Maou makes his speech about conquering Japan starting by achieving full-time worker status. (Didn't he already do that in the first episode? Idk I'm all confused.) And how Alsiel applauds when he's done. Why can't I have a loyal and adorable subordinate...?

I really want to read the light novels, but they almost certainly haven't been translated into English or even Spanish.

edited 11th Apr '13 6:20:37 PM by Ruise

One of the best things this episode was listening to Emi's gradual breakdown when Ashiya locked her out of the apartment (she was actually blubbering and crying before the scene where Ashiya lets her in). Seriously, if you were a bystander when this was happening, you'd think that Emi and Maou were in the middle of a lover's spat.

I thought it wasn't so much full-time as that he got passed the trial period and was now permanently employed.

Yeah, apparently that was a translation error (at least in some versions). He wasn't promoted to full-time, he was promoted from "seasonal" or whatever.

That breakdown just got me laughing so hard.

Like it was so perfect

Have I mentioned how much I love this show?

'Cause I love this show.

I love the show too

I love this show too.

In a season with 3 mecha shows, this ends up being my favorite, who knew.

The cast is just so great.

And Emi is great. She's tsundere, but it kind of makes sense. I mean how would you feel if the final boss of your world ended up being a pretty nice kid working at Mc Donalds and you had to crash at his place?

This anime sold me. The promise of actual action helped.

She's like having so much dissonance with what she views and what she sees that it's hilarious.

Just watched the first 2 episodes of this, and it's great so far. And as others have said, I loved Emi's breakdown in the last episode.

Things that will not reduce Emi, hero of Ente Isla and chosen one of the gods, to tears: The cruelest of tortures, the harshest of battlefields, the fiercest of enemies.

Things that will totally reduce Emi, hero of Ente Isla and chosen one of the gods, to tears: Basic Japanese home security, five minutes of the silent treatment.

Well played, Maou. Well played.

What a crybaby. I love her.

I hear you.

I might just be making things up to justify my affection for this anime at this point, but she seems surprisingly organic. Usually, secondary leads like her are either with the main character or going through some plot-relevant (Or sub-plot) drama, but here it seems like she actually has a life that is both mundane at times and unrelated to Maou. I guess I'm not expressing this very well, but I'll put it this way: How often do you see secondary leads or side characters having non-eventful experiences without the main leads present? It's similar to The Bechdel Test.

And it's not that we're seeing this a lot in the anime, but it still feels like it's there. That's just the impression I get, mind, and I'm probably biased.

I'm about to start watching this now. I've heard great things about it so far. I'm gonna post my thoughts as I watch it.

For what is supposed to be a comedy show, the production values are really high. Normally, that wouldn't matter. I'm impressed.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this language that the demons are speaking is gibberish right? It's very silly. In a good way, of course.

And now they've suddenly started speaking Japanese. They got used to it rather quickly.

HOLY SHIT, HE CALLED A TAXI!

Holy Sh—Potter.

"We are searching house." This is brilliant.

"I'm in the groove here." Again, this is brilliant.

"Resume forms don't grow on trees, you know." They kinda do.

A rather mundane reaction to an earthquake, huh guys?

And yet an over-the-top reaction to a fryer being broken.

"Life is fail." Indeed it is.

And it just pulled a Persona 4 on me.

Well, there's another show I'm gonna be following this season.

Japan tends to get a lot of minor tremors. Ask anyone who lives on the West Coast of North America hoe little they care about minor earthquakes.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this language that the demons are speaking is gibberish right?

Yep.