This is one of those series where every little thing goes wrong, and I completely love it. What I don’t like quite as much is the large amount of fanservice/ecchi, but the plot makes up for it.

Akuto is a guy who enters a high-school for mages trying to become a high priest and make everyone happy. However, a spirit on the school that can apparently predict the future with 100% accuracy tells him that he will instead become a Demon Lord and destroy the world, the exact opposite of what he wants to. Because of this, about everyone in the school except a weird blonde boy named Hiroshi literally cowers in fear of him. Hiroshi instead thinks it’s insanely cool to be classmate with a Demon Lord and proclaims himself as Akuto’s minion. After accidentally scaring the hell out of his classmates, he says he wants to do something to help without own gain, and says he’ll volunteer to be a member of the Cleaning Duty – not knowing until too late that “Cleaning Duty” in this school means silencing anyone who finds out the school’s secrets, and just manages to scare everyone even more. Then the girl named Junko whom he befriended on the train after almost getting his face kicked in by her proceeds to attempt to kill him for “betraying” her by being a future demon lord. Akuto instead absorbs her magic and creates an explosion that blows up the entire classroom, apparently without knowing really what he was doing. At some point he also gets an Observer named Korone, an annoyingly flirty android who enjoys teasing him, and otherwise acts a lot like Nagato from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. He also somehow finds his childhood friend Keena, an excentric hyperactive girl with the average maturity of a 7 years old and the ability to turn invisible and fly. She somehow also reminds me of Kaolla from Love Hina – and that’s my favorite character in that series. Those are the most important ones, typically for an Anime in this category there are a few others, like the two-face decieving little bitch Etou who tries to control Akuto because of his incredible power and my favorite, Lily, the girl with a witch hat and a Hayate-style flowing scarf and a mysterious personality.

Like I said, there’s a tad bit too much Ecchi going on, but the rest compensates for this nuisance. There are an awful lot of superpowers, over-the-top firearms, sci-fi weapons and magic flying around all over the place about all the time, in a similar fashion to Toaru Majutsu no Index, and I like that kind of stuff quite a lot. The more the merrier, they say, and there is more than enough magic here.
Purely animation-wise, the series doesn’t impress as much as Angel Beats!, but it certainly isn’t bad as such. Pretty good actually, just not the best. I really like the art style, though, especially the character designs for Junko and Keena. I really hope this keeps the quality up, but I also hope they’ll pipe down the Ecchi a bit. This is really interesting so far(Episode 6 has just been released as of writing) and certainly doesn’t seem to drop in quality in any way.

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