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[[File:shina_dark_v02_013.jpg|framethumb|350px| Our main character, bane of the world.... kinda .]]
 
'''''Shina Dark: Kuroki Tsuki no Ō to Sōheki no Himegimi''''' (シャイナ・ダルク 〜黒き月の王と蒼碧の月の姫君〜, Shaina Daruku, literally "Shina Dark ~King of Dark Moon and Blue Moon's Princess~") is a manga written by Bunjūrō Nakayama and drawn by Yukari Higa. It ran from 2006 to 2009.
 
Welcome to the cursed island of Shina Dark. This island is called home by the dark lord Exoda C. Claw aka [[Satan]]. He's as powerful a being as you could ever hope to meet. Feared and hated the world over for the infinite amount of atrocities he's committed. He's.....actually a really nice guy who just wants to chill out around the castle and relax... After a month long nap he awakens to find that the rest of the world has made up another ridiculous rumor and blown it way out of proportion and that has caused his little island to be crowded with a thousand beautiful women meant to be his mistresses/sacrifices. Worse yet is that since they have set foot on his island they are all believed to be cursed and are now shunned by their homelands. What's a couch potato Satan to do with 1000 women who won't / can't leave? Who can say?
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As the story progresses, Exoda attempts to do a little nation building in an attempt to get the women on the island interested a little more in their own lives and less depressed. Among the women sent to his island there is a princess from each of the two major empires surrounding his island. Not wanting anything to do with ruling a kingdom himself, he sets up the two princesses as the head of the new country. He then works, primarily, in the background to support the fledgling country through some of the problems it faces both from without and from within.
 
Currently, theThe English translators have used "Satan" in place of "Maou" or "Demon Lord". While the translations tend to make more sense this way, from a westernWestern perspective, the use of "Satan" is more of a title than a nickname.
 
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* [[Above the Influence]]: One thousand young women are dropped on Exoda's door step with every expectation of being [[Squick|used, abused and exploited]] as his slaves. Exoda's first response is to send them all home. When it becomes clear that's not an option, he accepts responsibility for their suffering and founds a representative government to secure their rights and freedoms.
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** He probably wouldn't want something like that anyway.
* [[Ecchi]]: Lots of bath house shots of two main busty female protagonists.
** And the [[Meido|maid]]. And even the [[Token Mini-MoeLoli]].
* [[The Empire]]: The Vansable Empire is conquering the world with extremely advanced technology.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Satan actually has a LOT of standards, but he is downright pissed when he finds out he's expected to sleep with Maple, who is under 10 years old. He seems displeased about whats in the book about him as well, given that from the sounds of it, most of it may very well just be pure fiction.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses]]: Shortly after the manga starts, Satan gives up control of the island to Princesses Christina and Galett.
* [[Expy]]: Noel is very similar to Mahoro from ''[[Mahoromatic]]''. Just substitute the two locks of hair growing out of the sides of Mahoro's head for [[Unusual Ears|elf-like ears of about the same length]].
** [[Lampshaded]] in chapter 20, complete with [[Shout-Out]].
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* [[Mistaken for Servant]]: When Exoda is in his casual fishing clothes, it is hard to tell he is the "Satan". When one boy came to the island to kill him, Exoda was able to stay quiet and let the boy think Vincent is "Satan" as he ran off.
* [[Modest Royalty]]: Discussed by the Layla sisters when Noel and company sell a valuable magical artifact to buy food for the inhabitants of Shina Dark, and then the Queen of Estgloria purchases it when her citizens are starving.
** That's partially because what is a priceless artifact for the rest of the world is just another old piece of junk for Exoda, who acquired more treasures and magical items than he cares to list (including a [[Humongous Mecha]] and a sword that was [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]). Heck, the only reason they sold the crown was because it was less troublesome than going trough the trap filled maze and fighting off the dragon that guards the treasure.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: During the [[Beach Episode]], one mage uses an ice spell to make ice for crushed ice treats.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Octovia. You can't have a fantasy ecchi series without at least one tentacle monster.
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* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Of the two main nations, the Vansable Empire (Galett's birthplace) seems to have steam-powered technology.
** And then there's the modern respirator that appears when Christina gets sick.
* [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]: Satan, supposedly. He does sleep for ages and wake when certain astronomical events occur. {{spoiler|This may have been more true [[Love Redeems|in ages past]].}}
** Seems like powerful monsters start awakening worldwide whenever he does.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Satan's basement is basically a very large shoutout to the [[Disgaea]] series.
** Probably unintentional, but...
{{quote| "The numeric gauge shows its life-force at... [[Over Nine Thousand|10,000]]!"<br />
"[[Dragonball Z|What!? 10,000!?]]" }}
* [[Sink or Swim Mentor]]: Exoda tries to ensure that Galett and Christina, and by extension the rest of Shina Dark, can rule themselves without him. Of course, he's also pretty lazy.
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** So it's [[Stealth Pun|an Unwanted Unwanted Harem?]]
** Also noteworthy for being an actual harem of old (namely a king/ruler/lord/husband/sheikh and several lovers), and truly unwanted because he isn't annoyed by advances or anything, but just doesn't want to cope with 1000 women as love interests.
* [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit]]: The First Prince of Estgloria.
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: Exoda enjoys spending his free time out fishing.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]:
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