#ZATCH BELL ALL EPISODES IN ENGLISH SERIES#
If I missed anything that you feel is important to the series appeal, feel free to chime in. So yeah, I'll stop here since I don't want to give anything away for anyone who may want to give this series a try. One of my favorite fights in the series features Zatch and friends getting ambushed by a strong enemy when they're already exhausted and barely able to fight as is, forcing them to work as a team to scrape together a win under dire circumstances. Demons get stronger just by learning specific new abilities rather than getting typical shounen power boosts, and Zatch's spell count doesn't even top single digits 200 chapters in, forcing him and Kiyo to make the most of what few abilities they have instead of regularly receiving new ones whenever it's convenient for the plot. These guys are major characters, and are two of the best in the series.įurthermore, the series handles power scaling remarkably well. The earlier chapters of the series are fairly episodic monster-of-the-week faire, featuring battles between Zatch & Kiyo and the various demons that they encounter, but this section of the series ultimately serves as set-up for when it moves on to lengthier story arcs, which is where the series really shines.Ĭompared to most teams, they're weak as shit, duck boy doesn't even learn any attacking spells. This brings us to the series' dual protagonists: Zatch (Gash) Bell, a kindly, energetic, boy who arrives on Earth with no memory of his past in the demon world, and Zatch's human partner Kiyomaru (just Kiyo in the dub) a student genius who starts the series off as a snobbish loner who doesn't think he needs any friends. If one of these spell books takes any significant amount of damage, it will instantly burn with flames that are impossible to put out, causing its demon owner to be sent back to the demon world in defeat, and the last demon standing gets to be their next king. Each demon is sent with a colored spell book that can unleash their magic powers, but the catch is that the demons are incapable of using the books themselves, they require a human partner to cast spells for them or else they can't use their magic at all. The premise of the series is fairly simple: every 100 years or so, 100 children (or at least adolescents) from the demon world are sent to Earth to participate in a contest that will decide the next demon king (in the dub, they came up the term "mamodo" to replace the word "demon" but to hell with that). Thus, the final arc was never actually adapted at all, and the final 100 or so chapters of the manga are mandatory reading to experience the series' proper ending. Toei Animation ended up making the anime for it, and while it was actually a pretty solid adaptation for the most part, there's a decent amount of filler in-between the major story arcs, and sadly, the penultimate arc is cut short and it rushes to a shoddy conclusion within the final five episodes of its 150 episode run. To open this thread, I'm going to cover the premise and how it ties into what makes this series so good, but I do intend to keep this post fairly SPOILER-FREE just in case someone reads this thread and decides to give the series a go.įor starters, the series ran in Weekly Shounen Sunday from 2001-2007 as Konjiki no Gash!!, and was later localized as Zatch Bell, with the protagonist's name being changed from Gash to Zatch overseas. Zatch Bell is a series that I don't see people talking about very often, but I really think that it deserves more attention than it gets.
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