Chibi Devil! – 1

Ah yes, the Shojo of Fall 2011 Chibi Devil! I was looking forward to this anime since it looks incredibly cute and well so far it hasn’t let me down in that area! This episode introduces Sawada Honoka, a 14 year old girl that apparently doesn’t have any parents to live with nor does she have many friends. She’s actually bullied into doing school cleaning duties by some girls at school from the very beginning.

Poor Sawada...

In despair over her loneliness she prays for God to help her while she cries herself to sleep. God (or whoever else) then decides to drop a baby on her bed while she’s sleeping. How does that help any situation? I don’t know… So Sawada wakes up to find a baby under her sheets that has demon wings on its head and a demon tail.

Believe me, it's cuter than it sounds. Look for yourself.

She begins with the normal response, which is to freak out but she quickly gets over this when the baby starts crying. Her mother’s instinct kicks in and she tries to make it laugh through making some silly faces. Eventually he starts laughing then it poops itself on her bed. I know right, babies have no manners.

Sawada finds out the baby is actually a baby boy (since she needed to change him) and that his name is Mao through the baby bib that came with him. Mao becomes hungry after a while of shenanigans, so he starts crying. Sawada then puts a baby dinosaur costume she has for no apparent reason on him (but who cares he looks cute in it!) then begins the journey to the store for some milk with Mao.

While on her way she runs into the two girls who were bullying her in the beginning of the episode. They confront Sawada telling her that school is going on and that she’s ditching. One of the girls then threatens to tell the teacher Sawada’s gone if she doesn’t do her and the other bully’s cleaning duties for a month.

Sawada at first refuses but then the girls intimidate her. She then starts crying which gets Mao mad so he then charges his lazer to fire at the two!

No really... see, he's chargin' his lazer!

Yeah then he breathes fire on the both of them. The girls are shocked and so is Sawada but Mao just giggles at the whole situation. So ends the first episode of Chibi Devil!

So what did I think of it? Well there are a couple of glaring questions in the story, such as: why does Sawada live alone? How does she pay for her apartment? Why did God (or whoever) decide that a 14 year old girl whose lonely would do better with a little devil baby in her life? Why did Sawada have a baby sized dinosaur costume?

I’m sure that some of these questions won’t be answered but that’s okay because this is just a shojo. Also Sawada and Mao’s cuteness outweighs some of the story’s strangeness so far. I’ll keep my eye on this anime that’s for sure!