Critical Essay

By:Saijou D Candari

CRITICAL ESSAY
Hataraku Mao-Sama

the novel that I read was called hatarku mao sama and the plot is The Demon Lord Satan and one
of his generals, Alsiel, escape the world of Ente Isla through a gate to modern Tokyo, Japan after
being confronted by the Hero Emilia and her companions. However, due to the lack of magic in the
modern contemporary world, both Satan and Alsiel change into forms representing what they would
look like if they were human. In order to survive, Satan takes a part-time job in a fast food restaurant
named MgRonald while Alsiel serves as his houseman. One day, Satan, who now goes by Sadao
Ma, meets a girl who is actually the Hero Emilia, who now goes by Emi Yusa. The story then
unfolds and explores the personalities of each of the characters and their moral values. More
characters show up from Ente Isla and they too face the new world dilemmas, often comically
On this novel the main story drives on how Satan and his friends lives on their normal life in
this modern world what I read was entertaining and the writer Satoshi Wagahara really did a good
job on sticking to the theme of the story which is slice of life, comedy, action, and romance .
I really like the combination on this with fiction and nonfiction situation like in fiction satan is fighting with
the hero in ente isla with an array of magic and sword paring but once they came in this world all their
power were gone because there is no such thing as magic in this world hence fort they try to adapt to the
new environment most likely failing it on the contrary the story is mostly fictional since there is no such
thing as another world called ente isla and there were times when some antagonist displays power such
as angelic powers!? and so on the novel has so far have 16 volumes of its story and I will only
summarize volume 1 since I am still reading at volume 2 so the story opens of a Demon King from the
land of Ente Isla who flees to earth to escape from a great Hero.
After the Hero, Emilia Justina overpowered the Demon King, he fled through a 'gate' together with one of
his Demon generals, Alsiel.
The Demon King and Alsiel find themselves in modern Japan where magic and fantasy were no longer a
reality of life. As such, both the Demon King and his general lost their magic and took on human forms.
In order to survive in Japan, they both took on Japanese personas, Maou Sadao and Ashiya Shiro, and
started working to earn money as well as to research ways to get their magic back. Maou took on a parttime job in MgRonalds.
On one rainy day, Maou encountered a girl with no umbrella. Maou then lent her his umbrella and went to
work. On his way back, he encountered the same girl again and she told him that she saw his attempt to
use magic. She then revealed herself to be Emilia, the Hero. However, like Maou, she had lost her magic
and tried to use a cheap knife to finish Maou off. Obviously she failed.
Later on, Emilia went to find Maou again to convince him to live an honest life in Japan and give up his
plans of conquest. Suddenly both Demon King and Hero get attacked by a mysterious assailant. Both
escaped unscathed but as Emilia lost her purse, she had no choice but to stay overnight at Maou's
apartment.

Maou then went on a date with one of his juniors, Sasaki Chiho, from work. Emilia (now Yusa Emi) upon
finding out, barges in together with Alsiel (who happened to be watching to make sure nothing bad
happens). An earthquake occurs causing the entire underground shopping mall to collapse. At that time,
Maou regains his demonic magic and saves the people there from getting crushed.
The following day, Emi confronts Maou, wondering why he, a Demon King, would be so compassionate to
humans. She then gets emotional as Maou was the one who killed her father. Chiho happened to visit
Maou's apartment at that time. Upon seeing the a crying Emi and a half dressed Maou, Chiho
immediately misunderstands and runs off. The landlady Miki Shiho appears and tells Maou to go after
Chiho as something bad is about to happen.
Chiho encounters Lucifer, one of the generals thought to be killed by Emilia, and he takes her hostage
while causing destruction with Olba Meyers, a former comrade of Emilia's. Maou, Ashiya and Emi
confront the duo only to be overwhelmed. However the destruction and the negative emotions from it
caused Maou and Ashiya to turn back to their demon forms and together with Emi, they defeat Olba and
Lucifer.Maou reveals the truth to Chiho and tells her about their true identities. He offered to erase her
memories but she rejected it angrily.After that incident, Lucifer now stays with Maou and Ashiya and helps
them with magic research. And thus I like the plot of this story which is quite unique and it is my first time
reading this type of story and I am enthralled by it hence forth I conclude my Critical essay of Hataraku
Mao-sama by Satoshi Wagahara