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(The) Devil Is A Part-Timer! (TV).

Just because she's competent in a fighting context doesn't mean that she's going to be good when interacting with others. Hell, Emi to me is the age-old "Warrior who's extremely good at fighting but utterly baffled by interaction with others" archetype. The only problem is that her job is entirely based in interaction...so I'm not sure if my interpretation is valid.

I started watching this last night and have a question someone here might want to comment on.

Why is Satan suddenly so content to live a docile, law-abiding life as a lowly restaurant worker. Of course that is the title of the anime, but you would think that even after losing his magic power the same guy who ordered wide scale slaughter on four continents wouldn't be going about his comeback this way.

I would expect him more to see opportunities to get rich and powerful through violence, subterfuge and crime. Even the Hero girl can't figure it out. Was there some plausible explanation about why he turned all wimpy that I missed?

I think you're still missing my point about what's bothering me, and that's my fault for not being able to express it clearly enough. I'm not even sure I can.

We've seen her being extremely capable in both worlds, so when she acts like a ten year old having a temper tantrum instead of someone who has led armies against the forces of evil, it just doesn't ring true, unless the gateway gave her a personality transplant. I just think they could have written her differently and still had her be just as funny, but more likeable (to me anyway). Eh, just write it off as my dislike of tsundere characters.

I dunno, try imagining her as being homely and having a voice like Otose's, and see if you think her behavior still seems consistent and reasonable.

A poster speculated that perhaps Satan wasn't really as bad as we assume he must have been back on Isla Enta - the victim of malicious propaganda, perhaps?

We don't have an official answer yet, but I stand by my earlier stance that there was never anything particularly evil about the guy, he's just diligently ambitious.

Blood- wrote:

A poster speculated that perhaps Satan wasn't really as bad as we assume he must have been back on Isla Enta - the victim of malicious propaganda, perhaps?

Yttrbio wrote:

We don't have an official answer yet, but I stand by my earlier stance that there was never anything particularly evil about the guy, he's just diligently ambitious.

I get the point, but at the same time in the prologue we were shown an apparently innocent civilian woman run down and slaughtered with a spear in a fountain of gore. Probably ruined her whole day. The presumption in the story was that this was happening on a mass scale in four island nations at the behest and delight of Satan. A few scenes later he is offering an umbrella to a stranger.

So while I get the points being made that Satan's underlying nature was apparently corrupted by power, the change in attitude seems rather sudden and extreme. However, I would take Blood-'s position that if they can explain it later fine, but for now it seems kind of funny that the Hero is shown to be the zealot not the villain.

Thing is, we haven't seen her leading armies. There's a vast gulf of difference between being a leader and being a good fighter (i.e. the hero.) I personally don't think she was the leader of any armies. I think she was just someone trust into the role, who perhaps had very good swordsmanship.

I am betting on the explanation that spoiler[he did not really understand humans that well, perhaps in his life they were merely things standing in the way of his kin, and his ambitions led him to the war. The cruelty part probably comes from a mixture of not understanding, mismanagement, and the cruelty of at least 3 of the other generals.]

I think that it fits into what we have seen of his ambition, his blindness of certain aspects of his plan, and why he is so friendly to people that are not too different to him.