Actually, it was kinda interesting at the start, yet it's turned into a cliche thing.
Starting as a demon lawyer, ended as yet another generic battle shounen manga. Yup, the main character is getting some xtra power for who-knows-where that defy the setting there (Yeah, I bet the author just thinking something new, and put it there)

In summary, if you love that shounen battle manga, then you might find it interesting, but if you're expecting a good structured plot, then skip it, it's not worth your time.

I don't know if it's fair for me to review this manga because I didn't really "read" it. I read the first 20 chapters, literally picked a handful of chapters at random after that, then read the last chapter and from that I had absolutely no desire to read the whole thing.

I thought the theme was brilliant. A demon lawyer who tries to save innocent souls has to be one of the most creative plots I've heard in a while, but it utterly failed to capture my interest which made me very sad because I thought it had wonderful potential.

The art was great, I "liked" the characters though, obviously, I didn't get attached to them, and the theme was ace. I just thought it lacked something. I don't know if I missed the "spark" that got everyone so hyped about this manga, but I failed to enjoy it.

I liked the oneshot, but seeing that same plot used over and over again was so repetitive and boring. Maybe if it was an anime I would be more inclined to watch it since the chapters seemed like episodes (from the few I read) rather then a continuous plot.

And it's bloody rare that I make a "suggestion" for a manga, but I would have preferred it if Kukabara had something like 24 hours to prove that the soul was innocent or both he AND his client would be punished. The fact that the shinigami lollygagged while Kukabara found evidence was quite unsuspenseful.

Well, I could just rant on for bloody hours, but, in the end, I feel bad because I just couldn't get into it despite everyone liking this so much. Definitely would have been better as an anime. Manga form was just too boring.

There are just 4 chapters,so i can't say anything right now , but the story is fine and the art is good.If the mangaka make it good like Shin Angyo Onshi (SAO), it would be great. In my opinion , this manga can't be as good as SAO. For now, let's wait for the next chapters

This is among the worst manga I've read recently and I've dropped several.

Ranting:
The plot is ridiculous, the defenses are supposed to be some kind of detective mystery solving yet are no more than his search for an item and them miraculously coming up with a tale that makes sense and voila! he's innocent!!? no logic, no deduction, no clues, nothing, he learns the truth by osmosis? how is that interesting? Furthermore, the "dark-matter" only envelops sinners yet they are all innocent and have it, the devils can't affect the real world yet they do so all the time, and where the hell is god in all this? watching and having a laugh? by the time the author realized he had forgotten about the "good" side God had already forsaken who knows how many souls to hell. Not to mention the representative of "good" is a renegade nun excommunicated by the church..., so again, where is god?
And the fights? how lame can they be that the shinigamis can't kill someone with no powers? talking about a one-sided fight, he has no powers, the shinigami need no authorization or judgement or due process to condemn souls, if he looses not only the accused goes to hell but he also becomes dust¿?, on the other hand, the shinigami if they loose... nothing happens to them, they have limitless powers, other shinigami allies and all the underworld in their back and go unpunished if putting innocents in danger yet they are in charge of punishing the sinners... even so, he wins every single time saving the poor soul at the last moment when falling to hell... cut the crap.
Devil tennis, Holy cars with gadgets, evil devils that turn good for no reason, the list is long, it doesn't take itself seriously and it doesn't have a pinch of sense.
Then we have the main char, the son of the devil king who with no real reason turned out to be sainter than Maria Theresa, must have been his uprising... or his ridiculous sidekick that can't be more annoying and ain't funny at all.

In a sum, I didn't expected a deep plot or deep mysteries or refinement in the characters in a shounen manga but a little sense and likable chars is a must for me. And I dropped it so maybe some of the things above are answered (as usual in retrospective, a solid story makes sense from the get go, it doesn't try to make sense of things latter as it goes), in any case, it failed to hook me at all and it took some patience to read till ch15 that some said it's were it gets good... but it didn't get any better, so in my eyes, a failure.

Just another shonen battle manga. The original premise seemed interesting enough and could've fleshed out into something brilliant given the right editorial direction... but sadly, it just devolved into one of your stereotypical battle manga.

"sales going down? how about he transforms when he needs to beat someone up...! No?! then add in a cute-but-flawed love interest for the hero...! thats not doing it? what about an enormous 'Beat the Baddie' arc that goes in a totally different direction than the original plot."

By chapter 40 I had given it up for lost but kept reading it in the hope that it would get better, but 30-some chapters later and it still had left me with nothing but disappointment.
Take the advice of me and half of the reading base and don't read it. It seems interesting, but at its core it really isn't.

... Last updated on July 31st, 2011, 10:41am

so far, i must say, the beginning is very shounen in which makes the story boring for more mature readers. Also, i am not really a fan of one shot like stories piled together to make a series (the beginning of the series). I mean, I can always just reread Eatman for that kind of series. Anyways, so far the story is beginning to get better, however, i must say, the beginning rather sucked.

well I love phoenix wright games
so it is normal I love this kind of
manga.

the protagonist is a defence lawyer
all of trials and enemy prosecutor (demons)
also there territory is hot! i mean cool!

love all of trial thingy
at later part it will be focus on
another thing about his kingdom
the lawyer will have to fight this
time not as a lawyer but as a hero!

yep yep nice very nice!

... Last updated on August 3rd, 2010, 9:15am

got to say, i loved shin angyo onshi and island, but while this isn't bad, it's not even in the same league, i wish they could have continued zombie hunter instead, i've always been sincerly pissed that that was cancelled

... Last updated on May 4th, 2009, 4:35am

From Shin Angyo Onshi team huh? well I liked it even though the end was sad, this one looks cool, Defense Devil sound like a layer or something XD I've seen the raw and it looks amazing so far gotta wait for this, for now its in my "must read" list XD

Well, the plot manga was awesome, named as "Akuma bengoshi kukabara" The art was great, the story was really good, ending, everything was good. But when it was serialized, well, It just ost its meaning, wasn't interesting anymore and stuff... I really was disappointed after seeing it's potential at first chapters and the plot manga.