I'm sure many of these little details and snippets of life in Japan are sourced from stand alone chapters in the LNs.īut that aside, Hataraku really has been the one light in the darkest spring for me since 2009 (which was still better because of FMA brotherhood alone) which is weird considering its about a dark lord. I for one intend to read the novels because I feel that they will be just as good as the anime and that all White Fox did was not f*** things up. Great review but I feel you are not giving Satoshi Wagahara, the LN writer, his due in the same way you would an Urobuchi series or HxH. I’m looking forward to spending more time with Maou and the rest of the cast, and I don’t think we’ll have to wait very long to do so. Throw in a very funny supporting cast and the series’ success at mining humor from the little details and you have a very simple and straightforward show that accomplishes the very difficult task of making it look easy – and nothing is harder to make look easy than comedy. The female leads weren’t quite as exceptional but still likeable and with enough remove from the tropes they represent to be especially interesting (most so Chiho, least so Suzuno). Maou was one of the best male leads in recent seasons, and Ashiya one of the funniest sidekicks (though he wasn’t as prominent in the second half of the season as I’d have liked). It’s relatively rare for a LN adaptation to transcend genre cliche like this one does, to always feel fresh and never stale. Seeing characters you like interact on screen is one of the simple pleasures in anime, and this series delivers that pleasure in droves. Really, though, it’s the writing that makes the difference – the dialogue in Hataraku is some of the most rhythmic and snappy since another White Fox entry, Steins Gate.
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