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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Demonbane

Anime Review:

Demonbane

Demonbane (デモンベイン Demonbein?) is a series by Nitroplus with mecha and Cthulhu Mythos elements. Beginning as an eroge for the PC, it was ported into a Sony PlayStation 2 non-eroge remake, a sequel visual novel, a prequel novel, a television anime adaptation and a conversion to manga.

Characters


Protagonists

Kurou Daijūji (大十字 九郎 Daijūji Kurō?)
Voiced by: Kentarō Itō (anime), Healthy Tarō (PC)
A financially poor detective and a former magic student at the Miskatonic University, Kurou is one day hired by the Hadou Financial Group to retrieve a powerful grimoire. In his search, he encounters the grimoire Al Azif, who bestows her power for him to utilize, becoming a magius, in order to fight members of the secretive Black Lodge. Although not a natural warrior, his strong sense of justice and morality allows him to effectively wield Al Azif's power and pilot the Deus Machina, Demonbane. When accessing Al Azif's power, his abilities skyrocket to superhuman levels, alongside levitation, adhesive webbing, a magical scimitar and hanguns and the power to generate illusionary copies.
Kurou's name is the Japanese romanization equivalent of the name Titus Crow, the main character in a set of horror fiction novels written by Brian Lumley.
Al Azif (アル・アジフ Aru Ajifu?)
Voiced by: Rie Kanda (anime), Saki Asamiya (PC)
The original copy of the Necronomicon (ネクロノミコン Nekuronomikon?), and likely the most powerful grimoire in existence, it takes the appearance of a young girl. Al Azif makes a pact with Kurou after being chased by the Black Lodge, allowing him access to her near limitless power. When Kurou becomes a magius, Al changes into a super deformed version of herself; similarly, when he gains access to the Demonbane, Al serves as the Deus Machina's secondary pilot. Normally direct, bold and upbeat, Al is also impatient with those who are slow to act in danger, yet realizes whenever she and Kurou are outclassed by more powerful members of the Black Lodge. Unlike her previous masters, she confides to Kurou he is the first person to treat her like a person, rather than a weapon.
The name "Al Azif" is Arabic in origin meaning "that nocturnal sound (made by insects) supposed to be the howling of demons".

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