I haven't watched this yet. I just saw some pics on Sankaku, and I must say that I'm disappointed. No, I'm not saying that I think that Sankaku's twisted news scheme means that they accurately reported what the entire show is about. On the other hand, I looked at the art style (and outfit for the Demon Lord), and I knew pretty quickly that they were animating the more useless version of this story (I've seen that manga version... there are like 3 of them out by now lol). I've seen the version of the manga where the outfit she is using in the show comes from. It focuses more on the romance than the economics... and worse, the romance isn't really anything special. Combine that with the way they're animating it...
Maybe I'll try to watch a few episodes, but chances are I'll just go back to reading the manga. I've been looking forward to this being animated for a while, too. Sigh.
The Demon King probably has magic powers we haven't seen yet, and she has business knowledge. She has the qualities of both Spice and Wolf. So what's the hero, a trophy husband? Sits there and looks good? What does he know, other than fighting?
I'm not sure how he's portrayed in the anime, but the Hero learns pretty quickly. He's intelligent. And he's not just strong. He's really fucking strong. As in, he's probably at least as strong as her in terms of fighting ability (probably stronger, from what I've seen). He knows a lot of magic, and he's rather mobile. Most of the times when you see him in the manga, he's doing important missions for her, that involve being at point X and doing Y. He's usually also taking on pretty much any type of demon, and disposing of it almost as if he was toying with it. Then again, I don't know where this version will go with him. You have to remember that he wasn't ever contracted to do anything but kill demons. Obviously he wouldn't pick up anything but fighting. The Demon Lord has... well, I won't get into that, I don't know where the show is at, so that'll probably be a spoiler.
If you find the story and underlying themes of war vs economics hard to follow you are probably from the USA, most other countries and cultures will be fine with it, but sadly in modern America there is a cred for being boldly anti intellectual.
Can you tell me what country you're from, so I can start to expand your image upon an entire country, and thus mark wherever you're from as a country of retards? No, seriously. There's a fucking bell-shaped curve everywhere. Your country has retards, too. You're one of them. I've met plenty of "modern Americans" that are quite intelligent. One of them was my roommate in college.
