Maoyu
One of the more enjoyable offbeat kind of shows that I’ve seen in the last couple of years has gotten a pickup, albeit one overseas and not for North America (yet?) with Maoyu. Madman Entertainment has picked up the rights to the series for home video release in Australia, the series aired in the spring of 2013 on Crunchyroll but never generated much in the way of news. The series is directed by Takeo Takahashi who has done quite a bit of directing over the years, more recently known to fans for his work on Spice & Wolf, but he’s also done work such as Aki Sora. With this series, we go to the whole realm of humans versus demons for the general idea, though there are quite a few other aspects drawn into it as well as one might expect. Taking us to a time where a war between the two sides has been raging for some fifteen years, we get the classic mold quickly on before it feels as though it moves to somewhat traditional territory in a way.
Plot Concept: Fifteen years have passed since the start of the war. A small band of warriors have set out to defeat the Demon King, but when the Hero, all alone reaches his target, gets more than what he expected.
[Source: Madman Ent. licenses MAOYU]