Shinmai Maou no Testament Departures

I'm writing this as somebody who has read the novels and understands the entirety of the series plot. Visually Departures is the best the series has ever looked. There were some cool nods to LN fans with some of the characters casual clothes from SWEET! getting animated. The service scenes were never going to be on…

tl;dr: A solid prologue to a new arc that does everything you would expect from it in the context of Shinmai Maou, though ultimately it is just a prologue. This isn't really a proper story but rather a prologue to the next arc in that it ends with them beginning to journey to towards the village. It focuses on…

This did not live up to the hype that was built through months of promotional material promising an animation so lewd that genital organs would spontaneously explode out of sheer excitement and joy. I was so looking forward to Chisato/Basara having an intimacy scene that would top the raw passion of the bath scene in…