This is how
this episode opens. Excellent
tonesetter, huh?
I’m going to
show you the main character. Is it just
me, or does he look a tad familiar?
Blond hair,
green eyes, schoolboy outfit… Art style’s
a bit different, but… It’s Oz! They’re even both heirs to prestigious families! Except one hangs out with a goat butler and
the other hangs out with a giant chain-scythe-wielding black rabbit in a dress. So one’s obviously better.
Okay, jokes
aside, besides his appearance, this guy is nothing like Oz (or most other
protagonists of the almost-but-not-quite-shounen-ai-with-supernatural-stuff
genre).
Most of the
protagonists of this genre are very shota, with high-pitched voices, feminine
appearances, and a sweet, naïve, innocent demeanor. While Oz stood out because he had an
undercurrent of psychological damage (and also made a Schwarzenegger line at
one point), William stands out because he’s almost the opposite of the typical.
Despite his
appearance, his voice is actually a lot more grown-up sounding than I was
expecting, so he actually sounds like a high-school boy instead of a
ten-year-old. He’s also stuck-up, very
commonsensical, and an elitist asshole.
It’s refreshing, really. He
doesn’t believe in magic or anything (he says he’s a man of science), so seeing
him try to come up with explanations for all the weird stuff he sees is rather entertaining. And, again, he’s a bit of an asshole, so
seeing him be bossy and dickish to people that most protagonists would be
terrified of is fun to watch.
He also has
a moe ginger friend, and that gets points in my book.
So, here’s the
plot: *takes deep breath* So, because of a series of events involving debt,
William and his butler are searching his house for money to pay for his
tuition.
They stumble
upon a magic circle in the basement and accidentally summon a demon general from
Hell. Despite his method of appearance
not suggesting that, William assumes that it means that the demon is a crazy
man in a costume that came from some sort of room under his house.
However,
William’s pissed because he wanted money, not demons from Hell. So he has the guy tied up and sashays off to
search the basement room some more. I
think that he should’ve put the demon to work at McDonalds, I’ve heard
somewhere that they’re pretty good at that.
So, while
searching the room, he somehow gets transported to Hell. There, he meets the demon he summoned’s
(Dantalion’s the demon’s name, by the way) butler. One Hell of a butler, I assume?
That’s
either stupid or insanely awesome. My
opinion is leaning a bit towards the latter, though. I want a goat butler now.
The goat
butler tells William that Hell is undergoing a turf war right now, as the
current ruler is napping and needs someone to rule while he gets his beauty
sleep. And William is an ‘elector’,
which makes him important somehow, which is why Dantalion is after him. I think that means that he’s somehow fated to
pick who gets to rule…?
Then, they’re
attacked by this woman.
Excuse me, I’ve
got a phone call… That’s male? But, I
mean, look at her! Long, purple hair,
long lashes… okay, okay, I understand now. *puts down phone* They’re attacked
by this man, sorry.
He’s totally
making the perfect ‘WTF’ face there.
Purple here
wanted to kill Dantalion, but, since he’s out, he decides to kidnap William instead. However, Dantalion’s William senses were
tingling, as he somehow makes it back over to Hell and sorts this crap out.
Purple poofs
away, and William, unfazed, tells Dantalion to stop fighting right now as he
needs to go to school; screw Hell.
However, at
school, after learning that a mysterious donation is apparently paying his
tuition, William is greeted by a decidedly unsettling sight:
Dun da
dunnn!
Great
anime? Probably not, but this was an
entertaining romp. We haven’t seen that
sort of protagonist in this sort of show too many times before, so I definitely want to watch
a bit more to see how he reacts to stuff in the future. And the moe ginger friend. Him, too.
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