This mange freshly turned into an anime comes at an interesting time for human society. Our news casts are often populated with racially-related news and events; from politicians that reinforce the race stereotypes to common joes and janes who act on them...
All the way to those who vehemently defend their religious views without missing those who believe that they should impose them unto everyone else either by conviction or force.
The manga deals with an adventurer-monster slasher from the human race. Somehow there are "monsters" from other races that need to be exterminated and this character, "Dale" does this task along with others who bump into the story as it progresses.
It seems that Dale is a very skilled, highly efficient adventurer-monster slasher. One day he bumps into a small demon child who apparently is left alone when her progenitor dies. So Dale does a humanity-mercy deed and not only buries the corpse of the progenitor, but also takes the child with him.
First chapter of both the manga and the anime deal with this event. From here on, the storyline talks about the life of the child in the human world. As with most "slice of life" mangas and animes, there is so far little events that shock the world of the small child.
At the beginning of the post I mentioned that this manga deals with the problems with human society. From the start up that the character goes "all the way" to take care of a demon-race child, means that there are other races that also have communication skills, intelligence and children. . . In addition, they care for their young and cherish them.
While the child grows in the middle of the human society, she learns that not all humans are friendly and more than one is willing to bet everything into how a person or being looks like.
Naturally, Mangakas take on the news and events of their surrounding world to create their own universes. Therefore, it is not strange that they reflect this on their work, and it is still a wake up call and something that we should all reflect on.
But let's leave that aside. There are a few things I want to share with you regarding differences between the manga and the anime. Personally, I do like how the anime has been done, though the manga is not -by far- a second place.
One kudoz for the producers of the anime is that when the characters speak "demon" there is a hiragana-kanji translation underneath. For the many Japanese students around, it is a help and good practice to read and understand.
Now, in terms of the drawings themselves. While the drawing of the manga are far more sympathetic and cute; the execution seems too dark and many potentially interesting details go unnoticed. This does not happen with the anime; though the characters themselves lack that "punch" that the manga has so much of.
Overall; I do recommend this topic. Either manga or anime, it's a nice way to spend an un-agitated afternoon of sweet relaxing.
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