Maou Dante

Synopsis:

Episodes:

• Episode 1: Nightmare (Aired: 08/31/2002)
• Episode 2: Ritual (Aired: 09/07/2002)
• Episode 3: Resurrection (Aired: 09/14/2002)
• Episode 4: Madness (Aired: 09/21/2002)
• Episode 5: Fate (Aired: 09/28/2002)
• ... and 8 more episodes

Characters:

• Gorgon, Medusa (Main) - Voice Actors: Ishizuka, Rie, Fernandes, Samira, Boraschi, Cristina
• Utsugi, Saori (Main) - Voice Actors: Kobayashi, Sanae, Scifoni, Maria Letizia
• Utsugi, Ryou (Main) - Voice Actors: Chiba, Susumu, Ugarte, Víctor, Campos, Marcelo, Chevalier, Davide
• Lamia (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ochiai, Rumi, Ward, Guendalina
• Ooshiba, Sousuke (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sakurai, Takahiro, Rocha, Roberto, Gammino, Roberto
• Zannin, Demon General (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Shibuya, Shigeru, Vilchis, José Gilberto, Iovino, Sandro

Staff:

• Mikami, Tetsuo (Producer)
• Maejima, Kenichi (Director, Storyboard)
• Takahashi, Hideo (Sound Director)
• Egami, Kiyoshi (Episode Director, Storyboard)
• Kamijou, Osamu (Episode Director)
• Noshitani, Mitsutaka (Episode Director)
• Okajima, Kunitoshi (Episode Director, Storyboard)
• Takahashi, Shigeharu (Episode Director, Storyboard)
• Ueno, Fumihiro (Episode Director)
• Morita, Hiromitsu (Storyboard)
• AMAZeus (Theme Song Arrangement)
• Motokura, Hiroshi (Theme Song Composition, Music)
• Seki, Tomokazu (Theme Song Performance)
• Campos, Marcelo (ADR Director)
• Hinata, Masaki (Animation Director)
• Imanishi, Kazuto (Planning)
• Ishimoto, Eiji (Animation Director)
• Kobayashi, Toshimitsu (Character Design)
• Kobayashi, Yukari (Animation Director)
• Kon, Fumiko (Animation Director)
• Masui, Ippei (Key Animation)
• Matsushita, Kiyoshi (Key Animation)
• Morita, Minoru (Key Animation)
• Nagai, Go (Original Creator)
• Nozaki, Reiko (Key Animation)
• Shimizu, Keizou (Character Design)
• Shindou, Mitsuo (Animation Director)
• Suzuki, Shinichi (Animation Director)
• Tsuburaya, Akira (Executive Producer)
• Yamasawa, Minoru (Animation Director)

Reviews:

• User animegorey (Score: 7/10):
  Pretty good for an older anime. Story has creepy elements similiar to Doomed Megalopolis and Devilman. Action is good at times. Violence is fairly well done, although not too gorey. Odd concept is what comes to my mind when I think of this one and that is why I didn't resell it. Kinda boring in parts and whole story would have been better if it only had 9 or 10 episodes.
• User ArtRodriguez (Score: 6/10):
  Recently people have been arguing whether Go Nagai (Getter Robo, Mazinger Z ) can only make giant robots shows. For the most part, they’re right, he can’t do anything other than robot shows well when shows like Kekko Kamen were created under his name. That does not mean that Go Nagai can not create shows that are entertaining as hell like Demon Lord Dante. The plotline to Demon Lord Dante starts off with a bunch of crazy cultists who try to revive the titular Dante. The protagonist of this series, Ryo begins to haveseveral weird nightmares involving sacrificing. Later on, the cultists decide to take his useless, damsel in distress of a sister, Saori as a sacrificial lamb. After a few pointless events, Ryo gets possessed by Dante and can turn into an odd demonic creature at will. From then on, the series just takes a Go Nagai twist. Incest, sacrifice, violence, anything you’ve ever known about Go Nagai happens. One of the most interesting points in the series is introduced when the first of appearance of GOD occurs. It turns out GOD is an evil, evil dude and hates everyone in humanity. What is it with Nagai and God that they just can’t get along? In one of the Getter Robo installments, one of the robots beats the heck outta God. The thing about Demon Lord Dante, is you can’t take this seriously. Honestly you can add an exclamation point after every sentence when you explain what Demon Lord Dante is about. This series really isn’t for religious nuts, and it really would be boring to those who don’t care for Nagai. It’s a relatively boring anime unless you see it in the mindset of a comedy and not a horror.nnThe artwork and character designs of DLD look like stock Nagai character designs. The main character, Ryo looks exactly like Koji Kabuto from Mazinger Z. As far as the supporting cast, there really is no one of interest to stand out. The main point of the series would be the demons. Most of the demons are not terrifying, but they do leave an impression. The eerie eyes, big mouths, large wings and huge height tend to make the series pretty creepy. Add in the fact that they’re fighting God and you’ll for sure need to go to church this Sunday (ff you’re an immoral Catholic like me).nn The soundtrack to this is almost nonexistent. I don’t recall any of the songs adding anything good or bad to the series. The only notable part is the song by Tomozaku Seki which confidently tells you to “RELEASE YOUR MIND” which is what you should do to watch this. The dub is extremely flat and it sounds like everyone has become fatigued of being in the studio. I really can’t speak for the Japanese track since I spot checked it because the dub added a certain spice to it for being so bland.nn As far as characters go, they all do ridiculous…
• User JukeNukes (Score: 2/10):
  This is probably one of the worst if not THE worst anime I've ever seen. The most information you're given on the plot is always the bare minimum, and watching this made me feel like over half the show was just filler because there were multiple times where events that occurred previously were just completely irrelevant. The characters are all pretty boring, including Ryo and his sister who are supposed to be the main characters but just fall flat in every way, most of their interactions in the first few episodes feel like the same scene over and over and over again. The worst partis probably the music, it was pretty funny the first few times I heard the same awful songs being played at least twice every episode but it gets old extremely fast. The animation is incredibly lackluster and somehow makes the fight scenes look just as dull as Ryo and his sister talking in his room for the 900th time. Please don't watch this, it's not even an entertaining bad show it's just straight up garbage. If you wanna know what Demon Lord Dante is all about, just go read the original manga or the 2002 remake.
• ... and 2 more reviews

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