English Dub Season Review: The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil Season One

Overview:

Determined to protect his demon world from heavenly angels, demon Masatora Akutsu heads to earth, searching for a charismatic human to rally his kin. Masquerading as a high schooler for his recruitment mission, he’s captivated by the lovely Lily Amane. But he’s in for a wild celestial surprise because she’s his archnemesis—an angel—and she’s set on reforming his demonic ways!

Our Take:

This is going to be a hard series to rate because it wasn’t bad but didn’t do anything special either. The characters were rather forgettable and it felt like the plot didn’t go anywhere. It’s a typical Romeo and Juliet type series where two people from enemy factions fall in love. The problem is this is a story we’ve seen a thousand times before so you need to make it fresh somehow, and I would argue this series didn’t succeed in that regard.

The two leads of the series, Akutsu and Lily are voiced by Brandon Acosta and Lindsay Sheppard respectively. Brandon Acosta has a little less of a track record as of now but he did a good job. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Akutus as a character but I liked the voice well enough. Lindsay Sheppard I have heard a lot more of and she brought a lot of fun and charm to Lily. I had a few problems with the show but the voice acting wasn’t one of them.

I’d say my biggest frustration was this series billed as a rom-com, but there wasn’t much on the romance front. With both leads being an angel and demon I figured there wouldn’t be as much of the annoying feet-dragging you see in series like this but I was wrong. I think there might have been more. Some of that is to be expected with their circumstances but high school behavior was odd because I was under the impression that these characters were very old, relatively speaking. The action was good when it happened but the fight scenes were few and far between. I can vividly remember three which isn’t a good thing in my opinion.

The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil is a series that tries to do too much and doesn’t do well at any of them. It’s not a great action, romance, or comedy and by the time the plot started to get interesting it was over. This is a series that would have benefitted from a second cour or a second season but I bet we’re not going to get one and by the time we do who’s going to care?