Maougun Saikyou no Majutsushi wa Ningen datta

Alright, guys!!! This is another anime to review in this fantastic season of mediocracy!


Maougun Saikyou no Majutsushi wa Ningen data.

Humans and demons have been battling it out forever... The main character is an OP spell caster in the Demon army. Who happens to be a HUMAN!!! PLOT TWIST!!!!
He was raised and trained by a demon mage who made him strong and smart! However, only a select few can know that he is a human, so he has an elite disguise... a skull mask.
The main gimmick for this anime is that the MC is trying not to kill anyone in the war but ... instead find a way to live peacefully with the humans. Thus, he sometimes runs into conflict on how he spares lives.

He also happens to be building a Harem, and slowly, demons and humans fawn over him.

What this anime has going for it:
It follows your standard cliches that catch your attention and take no real risks to be edgy or unique.

What sucks about it.
It is yet another of the many animes I have watched before, and it has no actual character development or plot movement, which excites me for the next episode.

Overall:

It's a Fine anime to watch, but it's not one you will remember.

The premise given by the title seems unique--a human not only working alongside demons but commanding their respect--but it nosedives straight into a subpar generic plot.

It's impressive that the anime with the most unique title/premise turned out to be the most generic out of a lineup of fantasy and isekai anime with far more generic titles. Granted, I'm only 4 episodes in, but a lot of the promises that were set up in this anime's story have been broken. Of those promises: the MC who is the human in the demon lord army and who is designated the "strongest" is not shown to be the ... strongest (or smartest or otherwise having any sort of interesting quality) in any of his actions; and (not really a spoiler but if anyone truly cares this is a very minor SPOILER) his race being human being a secret to the other demons is not actually a secret and it doesn't even matter.

The problem with an uninteresting character goes beyond the MC. It's not entirely due to the characters themselves, as the plot and pacing tends to breeze by events and moments that could instill character development. And stakes. Golly gee, the characters treat the stakes with minimal care, which subsequently just leave the conflict feeling so benign and unengaging. An example: the MC was given a test on behalf of another character he cared about that put her life on the line. None of the characters treated it as important including the character whose life was at stake, and the MC anticlimactically completed the test in a totally unimpressive way that defeated the purpose of the test.

Outside of plot and characters, the animation and music aren't things I'm going to complain about but they aren't great either.

This show has an interesting setting with interesting characters and even interesting background stories.
Mc was raised by the greatest magician of the demon lords army, so he is basically wise mans son… except he is a human amongst demons.
Even though Mc-kun is human, he has demon friends who know his secret.

Mc-kun isnt sure of what he is, human raised by demons. Should he be what he was born as or what he was raised as? Seems like it would be hard to figure out while in a war against the humans.

Mc-kun is apparently supposed to be cool and awesome but getting ... to hear his monologues makes one think otherwise.

The animation isnt what i was expecting from the cover, its not as bad as some of the others shows airing this season but still somewhat hard to watch.

Having watched the first four episodes, i feel somewhat letdown. What was a show with much potential turned out to be a show with no potential.

I would rate it as bad but ima keep watching, holding my breath for it to suddenly show its true colors.

It's fine. Everything is fine. Nothing is great. Nothing is particularly bad. It's... fine.

That is simultaneously the best and worst thing I can say about this anime: it's fine. The show manages to do everything that it sets out to do, which is basically to "not completely suck" and it manages to do that. However, when not being terrible is the height of your ambition, it's also the best you can hope to accomplish. So this show... doesn't suck; which is not praise. It is forgettable mediocrity: something to pass some time and then forget everything about it in less time than it takes you ... to click on a different show to watch.

The show's title tells you all you need to know about the concept, and once you start watching it, you get this vague feeling like you've seen this all before, and now it's all being delivered to you in the most-slightly-better-than-bad version possible. Everything feels like it's going down a checklist of what you expect to see: the harem that the protag doesn't realize is developing around him; the superior who passes all their work onto him; the overconfident, mustache-twirling villains; the inexplicably ever-increasing number of people who know the secret; and of course the OP protag. If you told me that this anime was written by an AI, I'd believe you.

So, it's fine. If you're just looking for some media content to fill the air, you can do worse. But you can also do better.