[review pros="Beautiful story" cons="Kurtis heroic death is toned down, Kurtis rebirth is removed completely, Gordon seems like a moron and isn't one bit cool unlike in the game" score="99"]

Makai Senki Disgaea is an Animé loosely based on the story of the game Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, and its remakes Disgaea: Afternoon of darkness and Disgaea DS.
Hour of Darkness had one of the absolutely best storylines possible, and i can’t say the Anime is much worse, though Hour of Darkness had sightly better story.

The story follows the Demon Prince Laharl who is trying to take back his kingdom after he took a nap for two years, his manipulative friend Etna who is also the commander of the Prinny Squad(a Prinny is a sort of penguin-like animal), and the Angel Trainee Flonne who came to the Netherworld to assassinate the king – two years after he died from choking on a dark steamed bun. I can’t actually write much of the plot, but it has one of the most beautiful storylines i’ve ever seen.

There are a lot of differences between Hour of Darkness and Makai Senki, and the thing i think is most sad that they changed is that Kurtis’ Death when saving Jennifer is less heroic than in the game(yes, it is possible to make that scene more heroic) and Kurtis’ Rebirth as a Prinny in Celestia, and that Captain Gordon seems like a moron in Makai Senki while he is among the coolest characters in the game(and he joins the party too, along with Jennifer and Thursday). The ending of Makai Senki is a sort of combination between the “good” and the “bad” ending of Hour of Darkness, and is even sadder than the game’s.

The message Makai Senki(just like Hour of Darkness) is delivering is that there is no absolute good or evil, just like everyone has their good and bad sides. And it actually delivers it just as well as Hour of Darkness did. Watch this, it’s far too good to miss. You can find it on the web, but it’s not sold anywhere anymore.

NOTE: The most notable mistranslation is that “Demon” has been written as “Devil” in the subtitles. Just know that it’s supposed to be Demon.