Mairimashita! Iruma-kun

I was initially skeptical about this anime, but it surpassed my expectations. I haven't laughed this much in a long time. It's truly one of the best anime experiences. All the characters in this anime are just so likable, and that's what makes every little thing in the story interesting and memorable. It's the characters that make this anime special. While the story may not be entirely unique, the time invested in this anime was far from wasted. It serves as the perfect remedy after a long day — if you're seeking laughter, this anime delivers precisely that. Despite the familiar narrative, the enjoyment it bringsmakes it a worthwhile watch for relaxation and amusement.

A truly funny and cute anime. So where can we start here? I still don't know if this is an isekai or not but it probably isn't one. This anime just manages to make me laugh with its comedy and absurdity. The character are just very lovable and likable. They have good chemistry with each other. Story: So we start off seeing Iruma working somewhere in a ship that handles frozen fish? Iruma tells us that his parents are fucking shit since they don't do anything and just forces Iruma to work a lot. The ship starts shaking and lots of frozen food starts falling but Irumadodges all of the falling stuff since his dodge is at least 100. He then suddenly gets kidnapped and arrives into the demon world. A spell is cast on him that lets him speak and understand the Demon language. After that Iruma is sent to school, a demon school that is. He, much like Yoshikage Kira, doesn't want that people pay attention to him but that ain't going to happen. Since his "Granpa" is the headmaster of the school he gets too much attention. He becomes a celebrity overnight after getting into a fight and winning with a suplex. The man who Iruma defeated joined Irumans crew. He then meets a very happy, weird and hyper demon named Clara. We mostly follow their adventures and their school day. Sometimes it is packed with action and stuff and sometimes it is just them doing dumb things. Characters: Iruma is our Protagonist who got kidnapped into the demon world. He for some reason can dodge anything. He is very kind and caring for others and can't refuse anything if someone says "please". He only wants to be the background character but he stands out too much. Alice Asmodeus is the demon Iruma defeated. He then later joined him. Asmodeus is like Irumas bodyguard. He is very competitive and strong. He can utilize fire magic. He is funny and his best scenes are when he is alone with Clara. Clara Valac is very hyper and funny character. She is also kinda dumb but cute as heck. Her first friends were Asmodeus and Iruma. Before that she was just used as a tool. Her magic is kinda powerful. She can take anything out of these two pockets and I mean literally anything. Amelie Azazel is the Student body president. She appears to be very strong. She was the first one to suspect that Iruma was a human. She, for some reason has a lots of Romance manga. And Iruma usually reads it to her. Most of the supporting cast are also very unique looking and funny or cool. The opening is amazing once again. It has very cool visuals and oh boy the song is a banger. The ending is also nice and it has a good song. The background music is also very good. There are relaxing tunes in there but there is also some tunes that gets the adrenaline pumping. Like in the Dodgeball tournament where it was a 1v1 Iruma vs Alice. This much like many comedy anime is very funny but comedy tends to be relative so this might not be the show for everyone. I personally liked it since episode 1 due to the cool designs, the characters, the colors and such. So I recommend this show a lot. It is very funny.

Honestly with every season of anime, it’s probably encouraged to watch as much anime as you can. Sure, there may be sequels or highly anticipated adaptations that you want to watch. That’s fine. Do as you please. But it’s worth to give other shows a shot because you might find a gem that you like. I found myself in this situation with this show as I almost didn’t watch before it aired. My gaze was more focused on other shows like No Guns Life, Beastars and Cautious Hero. Shows from fall 2019 that looked more intriguing than this show. It was a last minute decisionand I decided to watch it. What I found was not only one of the more enjoyable shows of fall 2019, but one of the most underrated shows from 2019 in general. Sit back, relax and hope you get abducted by your own daemon grandpa as I present to you the anime review for, Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun. Lets begin shall we? Story: 8/10 Our story follows Iruma Suzuki, a young lad who is forced to work because of his lazy and irresponsible parents that won’t do any labour. However one day, he finds out that his parents have sold him to a daemon by the name of Sullivan. Sullivan takes Iruma to hell where he plans to adopt Iruma as his grandson, giving him a rather luxury life and have him attend the daemon school Babyls. However there is one thing, in order to hide the fact that Iruma is a human, he wants to maintain a low profile to make sure that he is not eaten. Of course this being a high-school comedy anime, that plan goes up s**ts creek from the word go. As he soon finds out that Sullivan is chairman of the school who loves to talk about his new grandson and he took the spotlight from the expected honour student, Asmodeus and get into a fight with him. What follows is some very well done comedic episodes and some well done world building. Like Iruma, we don’t know how the society these daemon run, so we learn slowly how this society is run, their views on the world and on humans and how daemons get their powers. It’s done well and is done sometimes in comedic fashion. It’s not trying to portray it in some dark, gritty fashion, but a more light hearted, goofball fashion that helps set a consistent tone so we know throughout what kind of show Iruma-kun is. Now the show kind of takes a more episodic approach with its storytelling, only really getting into more multi-episode storylines around the halfway mark. But it does help with the pacing of the show. It starts by setting its world and characters and then gets into some more interesting storylines once the setting is established. The show never felt like it was rushing anything in order to get a conclusion to something. But it never felt like it was moving at snail’s pace either. It had a nice balance to it to keep me engaged throughout; with plenty of intrigue to keep you waiting for the next episode. There was a bit of a lull moment during the battler arc for me but it picked itself up rather quickly and quickly got back on track. Characters: 9/10 Iruma is the kind of character that doesn’t have anything unique to them as he is a rather generic, nice guy protagonist, but he does have a certain charm to him that makes him a likeable protagonist. Mainly because he’s flawed and can’t reject a request and say no; even if he thinks it’s a bad idea. That and he has impeccable dodging skills due to all of the labour he has done. It’s his quirks that make him enjoyable because he has that rather nice spirited, selfless mindset yet it ain’t to the point of obnoxiousness where you want to strangle him for it. He hits that nice balance but again, there isn’t anything totally unique that makes him stand out from other protagonists but everything about him is done quite well. Now the rest of the cast is what helps give this show its legs in my opinion. Asmodeus is a great prideful, yet a total suck up character who reminds me of Demiurge from Overlord where he thinks Iruma is a masterfiul genius and everyone should bow down to him and his might and should be respected. And much like the protagonist of Overlord, Ains Ooal Gown, Iruma is just winging it at times. Which does lead to some comedic moments. Clara is where half of the goofiness comes from this show as she is just a ball of playfulness and energy waiting to share it with someone. She does round out a well balanced trio of main leads as she is the most free spirited and carefree out of our main leads; with Asmodeus being more by the book and sensible one, whereas Iruma is somewhere in between. But they ain’t the only ones I like. Sullivan is the other half of the goofiness of this show and his personality really makes you want to have a daemon grandpa of your own. Always smothering Iruma when he gets the chance and becomes the parent figure Iruma deserves. But my favourite character without a doubt is our resident tsundere and class president, Amelie Azazel (who is best girl by the way, come at me bro). The reason being is that her personality is just great. While she isn’t a strict tsundere as she does open up to Iruma more as time goes on, she has a strong will as she is the student council president and must help maintain order in the school. Yet she does have her soft, girly side as she has access to some forbidden texts that she is infatuated by (which I won’t spoil what they are if you haven’t seen it) and develops an affection towards Iruma. This leads to these two having excellent chemistry with one another; which is just the tip of the iceburg with the rest of the cast and how they interact with each other. Of course, I haven’t mentioned characters like Iruma’s homeroom teacher Naberius, Magical apparatus battler leader, Kiriwo or Iruma’s “rival,” Sabnock who are also great characters, which should go to show how much I like these cast of characters. They help bring something to the table and while they may not be fleshed out compared to others, they do fulfill their own niche that makes the cast as a whole enjoyable. Animation: 4.5/10 There’s some good when it comes to the animation and some very bad. First the good. The art style for this show is very bold with its colours and helps make some of the characters rather distinct from one another. As well as the background art that helps set a more light hearted, gothic atmosphere, like how Bablys looks from a drawn out distance. It helps give this fun vibe that makes the light hearted and goofy nature of Iruma-kun more enjoyable while also acknowledging what kind of world our characters are in. Now the bad. This show cheaps out A LOT with its animation As if the animation didn’t feel lacklustre enough with sliding panel shots and still images, they use the same few character models for background characters WITHIN THE SAME SHOT and that’s if they animate a character at all and they just have a silhouette in the background. I know this show ain’t heavy on the action but I would have liked for them to put more effort into the animation quality because despite how good the art style is, it still can be jarring if the animation quality isn’t up to standards. While I do recall a couple of times where the animation was alright, most of the time, it was pretty bad. Sound: 6/10 The sound does do its job to help set the scene, which to be fair, they do a good job of it. But I don’t recall a single point in the soundtrack that really stands out above the rest. I don’t find the soundtrack to be bad in any particular sense, but it never made want to go back and listen to it again. The opening, "Magical Babyrinth" by DA PUMP, certainly matches the tone of the show with a light hearted, hip-hop sound that I didn’t really get bored watching or listening to it. The funky beat and lyrics made the opening more enjoyable than I was expecting. The ending on the other hand, "Devi-Cue" by Yuu Serizawa, was an ending sequence that I tried to get into but didn’t carry the same charm that the opening did. While I like the style that was used to animate the ED, the song was a bit of a turn-off in my opinion. After watching it a few times, I skipped over it, only remembering the very end in order to watch the SU-KI-MAs. Conclusion: While the show is underwhelming from a production standpoint, Iruma-kun surprisingly turned out to be a very fun watch. The story is funny and charming and I really do like the cast of characters that are on display here. It’s a testament to how good writing and characters can overcome lousy production values. It’s worth the watch if you are looking to watch a high school comedy with a fantasy flare to it. All the while, you realise that this is technically an Isekai show. Although is it really? Iruma does get sent to another world, but it’s hell so does it count? Ah never mind. It really is a shame that this show didn’t get enough attention as it did back in the fall season, because it really was one of the best shows of that season, regardless of the faults. So yeah check this one out when you can. My Personal enjoyment: 8.5/10 Overall Score: 7.2/10 Recommendation: Watch It

I was unsure, unsure of watching this. I thought it would be so generic and unfunny to roll my eyes. I thought that I'd hate the show and its characters. I thought if I start watching the anime I would have dropped it within the first 5 minutes. I thought of all this and decided to skip it. I decited to not watch it, and I ignored it. I ignored all the memes people were making of the show. I ignored all the videos on Youtube and all the possible outcomes to getting a single picture of the show in front of me. I indeedthought and did all of this. That was my biggest mistake ever. That was something I should have never done to myself. The cover certainly didn't help. The plot either. I hadn't read the manga the anime was based off. I never heard someone talk about this serie before. For a moment I thought that Satan himself brought it to me as a kind of torture. But instead it t was Jesus who gave it to Santa Claus to give it to me. It was an early present, and what a present that was. A masterpiece of an anime. Oh yeah, the best gift imaginable. Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun is by far the most surprising anime I've seen in recent years. No one, with a good understanding of anime would have though that this anime would have been this good. Most of the "elite" people would have gone with the typical answer of "Ah yeah, it seems like another of those generic isekais that we're forced to endure until the end of time". Which, they're Certainly not wrong. As most viewers would do upon watching an anime is looking at the cover and considering this anime as a cover has certainly turned off a lot of viewers on ignoring it (as of myself) because of the genericness the show has (It certainly does have it, to some extent, tho). However, sometimes in order to know the liking of something you have to go balls deep. Sometimes you have to even force yourself into watching something as the final result might actually surprise you. It's not recommendable but sometimes efficient. In my case, it didn't just surprise me as a whole but since the beginning I loved it. I loved every second of it. I loved the environment which resembles a lot to Soul Eater. I loved the characters and their design. I loved the premise. I loved the humor. I loved everything the show had to offer. The main character while not relatable to me I could see why he would be one of the greatest isekai protagonist out there. His charisma and his timing for a funny face of his is something I truly liked. It's funny. While sometimes some clichès can ruin a joke I was relieved that the amount of clichès here found didn't had any effect on them. It was as if they were telling two different jokes and I laughed at both. That kind of thing. The characters are also likable. Very much so. They even tend to overshadow the main character at times on how great they are. Their personalities definitely helps and that's the best part of the show. Their personalities. I keep repeating this but I can't help it on how great their personalities are. They're fun on screen and whatever happens be it good or not they're hilarious at any given time. With that said, there's one thing that I have a complaint with and that is the amount of characters the show has. Because most of the time the story is set at school it leads no time for any character devolvement. There's some but it's not in a gran scale, but then again it's not it has a crazy amount of episodes to accomplish that task. Many of them are fodder, so I guess it doesn't matter. As for the technical sound of the show, I'd say if the second best thing about the show. Especially the opening. The opening has been a blast and it's in English. We usually don't get too many openings on that language so it's a nice touch, i'd add. Also, there weren't too many OSTs throughout the show. It would have been greater if there'd been variety of it. Nonetheless, for what we've gotten, it was awesome. As I previously said, I loved watching this anime. While it didn't bring anything new to the table I still think it's a fresh air of the usual isekai we get, don't you think? It's actually hilarious of an anime and I would recommend to anybody. Ah yeah... I forgot to add. Best female of the show is Amelie. Liked her personality and the design looks so damn good. Definitely waifu material. I had fun watching this, and I hope you did too.

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