Shinmai Maou no Testament

Title:Shinmai Maou no Testament
The Testament of Sister New Devil
新妹魔王の契約者(テスタメント) (Japanese)
Overall:Unevaluated
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Notables: ASAI Ayaka
BRIDCUTT Emi Sarah
NAKAMURA Yuuichi
Basara Tojou is taken by surprise when his father abruptly tells him that he's remarrying and he will soon have two cute little sisters, Mio and Maria Naruse. Basara's first meeting with Mio could have gone better, but that turns out to be a minor problem when the two sisters reveal themselves to be demons! But Basara has a surprise for them as well.

12 episodes
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Unevaluated Stretch [series:3001#628]
(Part of one episode watched):

Any anime which has the word 'Maou' in its title sets off an alarm within me, because I think I have yet to watch one which was much good. The impression I have been left with is that they tend to try to thrill me with fancy magic and scary 'demons', but in fact the writing will almost invariably be formulaic and the characters uninteresting. Basically, the idea among anime makers seems to be that if you employ magic and demons the show will be a reasonable success whether any significant talent was employed in the writing or not. Episode one of Testament started off in another all too common way, namely relying on T&A, with the sorry 'I have a sister, but not by blood, so I can conceivably screw her' gimmick. I was about to quit the show after eight minutes or so, but decided to fast-forward through the rest to see if anything noteworthy would happen. This was where the Maou part came into play. There's actually a semi-interesting twist to this show: neither the protagonist, his father, nor the two girls who have moved in with them are who we originally thought they were. But when I thought about it, I realized that anybody who had known the complete title of the show wouldn't have been all that surprised. Was there any reason to believe that an intriguing plot might develop from this premise, based on the quality of what I had already watched? No, this show is almost clearly taking the stereotypical, cookie-cutter route to limited success rather than risking anything on novelty. The characters remain two dimensional and neither likeable nor unlikeable, and there's little way a plot can entertain me if I don't care what happens to the people acting it out. The show has already sullied itself so thoroughly with the ecchi at the beginning that there's no way it will regain my respect. No doubt Testament will be a limited success, but I will not be a party to that.

Last updated Tuesday, March 31 2015. Created Saturday, January 10 2015.

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