Saturday, August 1, 2009

Beelzebub

Normally I wouldn't read a series this early in it's serialization, but I had an hour to kill so I breezed through the 23 available chapters of this action-comedy.

The premise is mostly original. The main character, Oga, finds the son of the devil king and is forced to take care of the child as a catalyst until he destroys the human race. Considering Oga's constant fighting and less than stellar attitude toward humanity, he is the perfect catalyst and isn't too shabby as a parent. Since he isn't crazy about the idea of taking care of the devil's kid, the only solution is to find someone stronger and more evil than himself. Being from a delinquent school, he has plenty of candidates to choose from, but unfortunately goes through most of them somewhat quickly. With more delinquents after him each day and him taking them down with relative ease, there's no telling if he'll ever get his wish.

Since there have only been 23 chapters, there hasn't been an epic defining arc yet nor has there been a major villain that lasted more than 3 chapters. It seems like things are heating up as a major delinquent capable of taking down hundreds has appeared but the fight hasn't started yet. With Oga gaining demonic power, there's no telling if the series will reach DBZ levels of insanity but it's definitely possible. I'll have more on the series once we get further in.

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