Demon Lord Dante | |
![]() Cover of the second volume of the Italian release of Mao Dante, as published by d/visual in 2002 | |
魔王ダンテ (Maō Dante) | |
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Genre | Horror,[1][2] supernatural[3] |
Manga | |
Written by | Go Nagai |
Published by | Kodansha |
Magazine | Bokura Magazine |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | January 1971 – June 1971 |
Volumes | 3 |
Manga | |
The True Demon Lord Dante[4] | |
Written by | Aki Fūga |
Published by | Kodansha |
Magazine | Comic Ran |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | 1994 – 1998 |
Volumes | 8 |
Manga | |
Written by | Go Nagai |
Published by | Kodansha |
Magazine | Magazine Z |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | March 2002 – January 2004 |
Volumes | 4 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Kenichi Maejima |
Produced by | Hiroshi Murano |
Written by | Shōzō Uehara |
Music by | Hiroshi Motokura |
Studio | Magic Bus |
Licensed by | |
Original network | AT-X |
Original run | August 31, 2002 – November 23, 2002 |
Episodes | 13 |
Demon Lord Dante (Japanese: 魔王ダンテ, Hepburn: Maō Dante) is a manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The series tells the story of Ryo Utsugi, a student who finds himself in the body of an ancient demon known as Dante and sees himself in the middle of a conflict between God and the devils. Nagai's main influence to create the work was Gustave Doré's illustrations of Dante's Divine Comedy. The series challenged the traditional view of God as good and Devil as bad and was created to provoke the critics of his previous works.
During 1971, Nagai wrote the original Demon Lord Dante manga, which was published in Kodansha's Bokura Magazine. The series ran from January to June, but it ended prematurely because of the magazine discontinuation. In 2002, the manga was officially revived by Nagai, and during the same year a 13-episode anime adaption was created and broadcast in Japan by AT-X. The anime was released in North America in DVD format by Geneon Entertainment in 2004 and re-released by Discotek Media in 2016.
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