The Devil Is A Part-Timer!: Is The Devil A Bad Guy?
The Devil is one of the most widely portrayed characters in pop culture, and nearly every time he appears it's as the embodiment of pure evil. There have been times when Satan is portrayed as sympathetic, but Satan has almost never been portrayed as a good guy.
The Devil Is A Part-Timer! focuses on the rise, fall, and rise again of the infamous Demon Lord Satan. Satan begins his journey as a warmonger attempting to take over the world. His plan fails when the hero Emilia defeats him in battle. He narrowly escapes death by fleeing to the world of modern-day Tokyo through a gate, where he continues enacting his plan to take over the world in a much more innocent and mundane way.
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To know whether Satan is a good guy good has to be defined first. A large part of what defines good and evil is dictated is culturally determined. There aremajor cultural differences between his native land; Enta Isla, and Tokyo, Japan. Enta Isla is a feudal economy that seems mostly like a throwback to medieval times. Tokyo is obviously a modern capitalist city. Satan's strategy for gaining power changes the same way that methods for gaining power change over time.
Military force and divine right were the most effective way of ensuring a king's absolute power in medieval times. Satan used military force to take over Enta Isla mainly because there were no other ways to gain power, especially since Satan has no way of getting divine support. In modern-day Tokyo the only thing a person needs to gain power is capital, and there are both good and bad ways of doing that. Satan's plan in The Devil Is A Part-Timer!! is to climb the corporate ladder at MgRonald's.
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