Demon Lord Dante (2002)

Original title

魔王ダンテ

Genre

fantasy anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A student named Ryo Utsugi gets merged with an ancient demon called Dante. He is caught in a war between God and devils where the ideas of good and evil get questioned.

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What happens

Demon Lord Dante (Japanese: 魔王ダンテ, Hepburn: Maō Dante) is a manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The series tells the story of Ryo Utsugi, a student who finds himself in the body of an ancient demon known as Dante and sees himself in the middle of a conflict between God and the devils. Nagai's main influence to create the work was Gustave Doré's illustrations of Dante's Divine Comedy. The series challenged the traditional view of God as good and Devil as bad and was created to provoke the critics of his previous works. During 1971, Nagai wrote the original Demon Lord Dante manga, which was published in Kodansha's Bokura Magazine. The series ran from January to June, but it ended prematurely because of the magazine discontinuation. In 2002, the manga was officially revived by Nagai, and during the same year a 13-episode anime adaption was created and broadcast in Japan by AT-X. The anime was released in North America in DVD format by Geneon Entertainment in 2004 and re-released by Discotek Media in 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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