Otakuism

Can I get another “Oh gawd Al is Hawt!”?

I finally mananged to get through the rest of Demonbane today, and I have to say I’m quite satisfied with the ending and the series as a whole. Oh now I know the game is probably a million times better and I would love to play it, but taking Demonbane on it’s own merits I quite liked it. It isn’t a series for everyone really, especially if you like serious anime with competent plots. Demonbane is just about cute moe demon books and hot-blooded mecha action, which is fine with me. I was drawn into Demonbane first by how outrageous everything was and how easy it was to make fun of. After ep. 7 though the show went darker, dishin’ out more plot and battles. Really plot is the show’s biggest weakness, but I still enjoyed the later episodes a lot. I think how over the top each one was compared to the last really helped. This is definately a show to marathon.

Daijuji Kurou: pedophile extraordinaire.

Now a short long plot description from where I last left off with ep.7. Al was dead but Kurou continued to fight anticross with the help of Elsa, killing a lot of them. Eventually Al does indeed come back (I’m not sure how though. I think she never really died in the first place.) and her and Kurou discover the Shining Trapezohedron and use it to kill Claudius. In Anticross Augustus kills the last member, the big red hair guy, and goes insane summoning Chutlu, so Kurou and Al go to fight him. During the fight Augustus is Killed by the mecha Nameless One piloted by Ennea (yeah the little annoying catgirl we thought was dead). Turns out her name is actually Nero (that cool bondage chick we saw) and she’s the last member of Anticross. She and Kurou fight, her wanting Kurou to kill her, but at the last moment Kurou stops to save Ennea and have her be with them. Too bad that can’t happen, as Master Therion (another dead character) bursts from Ennea’s body in a bloody mess. Apparently he’s been reborn, with Nero as his mother and the god Yog-Sothoth as his father. He then uses Ctuthlu to summon Yog-Sothoth and open a gate to the nether realms of space.

Still lookin’ kind of cool there Kurou.

Kurou of course goes after him to stop the world from being destroyed. During their epic fight (seriously this was epic business. I swear every character’s name must have been yelled at least ten times.) we all realize that all the character’s have been traped in some sort of time loop (like Higurashi without the killer loli’s) and this whole fight has been arranged by Nya aka. Nyarlothotep (the big breasted mystery woman) to release the old gods. Though even old gods can’t stand up to hot-blooded yelling and she’s killed by Kurou. Therion and Etheldrea go on to live happily together and Kurou and Al end up floating in space. Using the last of her power Al sends Kurou back to earth. Eventually Al comes back also, apparently helped by…Kurou and Al. Wiki tells me that it’s their elder gods self’s or something. Doesn’t really matter as it was still nice for them to be together.

Elder God’s Al and Kurou. Al needed to wear that outfit more than two episodes.

Whew that’s a lot. As you can see it got kind of confusing with all the dead character’s coming back, but it all worked out. I’m so glad Therion and Etheldrea came back. One, Augaustus was a terrible villian, and two Etheldrea was too cute to die. I’m glad she got a happy ending. Only thing I don’t like is that from viewing the Demonbane fanbook released I know that Ruri and the church lady have bigger parts and I’m sad we didn’t see them, especially Ruri as I really liked her (mostly her striped pantsu). I would reccomend that people should watch Demonbane, but only if you know your not getting into something serious. Best to just make fun of the early episodes, and after it get’s serious you’ll like the charcters so much you won’t care. Wonder what the chances of a translated Demonbane game coming out…?

Awwwwwwwww…