Mairimashita! Iruma-kun (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun)

Fourteen-year-old Iruma Suzuki has been unfortunate all his life, having to work to earn money for his irresponsible parents despite being underage. One day, he finds out that his parents sold him to the demon Sullivan. However, Iruma's worries about what will become of him are soon relieved, for Sullivan merely wants a grandchild, pampering him and making him attend the demon school Babyls.

At first, Iruma tries to keep a low profile in fear of his peers discovering that he is human. Unfortunately, this ends up being more difficult than he expected. It turns out that Sullivan himself is the chairman of the school, and everyone expects him to become the next Demon King!

Iruma immediately finds himself in an outrageous situation when he has to chant a forbidden spell in front of the entire school. With this, Iruma instantly earns a reputation he does not want. Even so, he is bound to be roped into more bizarre circumstances.

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Suzuki, Iruma

Main

Murase, Ayumu
Japanese

Valac, Clara

Main

Asai, Ayaka
Japanese

Asmodeus, Alice

Main

Kimura, Ryouhei
Japanese

Azazel, Amelie

Supporting

Hayami, Saori
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Opera

Supporting

Saiga, Mitsuki
Japanese

Naberius, Kalego

Supporting

Ono, Daisuke
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Sullivan

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Kuroda, Takaya
Japanese

Ami, Kirio

Supporting

Oosaka, Ryouta
Japanese

Shax, Lead

Supporting

Yamaya, Yoshitaka
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Crocell, Kerori

Supporting

Touyama, Nao
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Sekiyama, Akihiro

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Moriwaki, Makoto

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Gouda, Hozumi

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Inagaki, Takayuki

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Opening Theme

"Magical Babyrinth" by DA PUMP

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"Devi-Cue (デビきゅー)" by Yuu Serizawa

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Mar 7, 2020

bend_over

Recommended

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 indeed ... thought 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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Mar 7, 2020

El-Random

Mixed Feelings

Marimashita! Iruma-Kun started as a welcome breath of fresh air; the plot, the character designs, the comedic timing, the backgrounds and even the OP looked like taken straight out of a forgotten shounen school comedy from 2002. Like those early noughts series, Marimashita! Iruma-Kun is based on a simple long running gag: Suzuki Iruma is our MC, a human without any sort of magical power who attends a demon school and the only thing he wants is to avoid danger by not standing out. Everything he does to keep his peaceful school life and annonymacy backfires and by the end of every story arc, Iruma ... ends up being more and more admired by his peers.

It was a fun show that, I thought, would stay afloat if it didn’t (a) become to repetitive and (b) try to take itself too seriously.

Sadly, it accomplished neither of those things.

Iruma, the character, too often falls into the “Idiot Houdini” archetype, the “good natured but untalented MC who climbs his way to the top despite lacking any sort of talent, thanks to Deus ex Machina”. That type of character generally walks the thin line between endearing (Forrest Gump) and irritating (Jar Jar Binks) and the plot of Marimashita! Iruma-Kun walks the same fine line: at first the show is dumb but endearing, but as Iruma stumbles his way to an unwanted and undeserved success over and over again it becomes tremendously irritating to watch.

However, if there’s anything more undeserved and unneeded in Marimashita! Iruma-Kun it’s the length of the show. This didn’t deserve nor did it need twenty three episodes to tell the story and like most assets in life who are both undeserved an unneeded, they ended up being thoroughly wasted.

It’s no wonder then that the pacing in this show is horrendously inconsistent. Things move at a good speed for the first half of the show until it hits a tedious wall known as “the Batora/School festival arc” which simply goes on for too damn long until by the end of it, it’s hard to care anymore about what’s happening with the arc and what will happen to the show moving forward. If you felt that the best thing that could happen to the show was Kirio blowing up the entire school, trust me, you are not alone.

The biggest attractive to Marimashita Iruma-Kun it’s the colorful, interesting cast of side characters who range from trope-defying to functional to the story. Asmodeus is the perfect complementary sidekick to Iruma, his general story arc (a powerful demon who is destined to do great things but prefers to take a secondary role and support someone who he deems more powerful) is perfectly symmetric to Iruma’s arc (a demon with absolutely no power who would prefer to stay low-key but is pushed to the forefront at every single chance). Clara is a complete energy ball who continuously generates laughs which are never at her expense. Amerie is an decently written love interest, a strong female character revered by his peers for her power and demeanor without a single trace of the tropes and fanservice that at times plagues the shounen demographic. Sullivan and Callego-sensei both play their roles to perfection and add laughs to the story and the story even nails the comedic timing with some tertiary characters like Sabnock and Kamui.

Sadly most of these characters take a back seat by the second half of the show which seems to focus on annoying secondary characters turned antagonists (Kirio) and probably the weakest character of the show: Iruma.

Overall, Marimashita! Iruma-Kun was a show that had good, fun, lighthearted moments but proved to be too repetitive, long, inconsistent and filled with bad decisions in terms of storyline to be able to fulfill its potential.

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May 28, 2020

DonSarkerus

Not Recommended

Well the synopsis of this anime promised. A boy named Suzuki Iruma is sold by his parents to a demon. Then everything becomes cliche.

The protagonist easily forgets his parents. He is sent to a demonic school where the song itself is supposed to be eating humans. One could be fascinated by how the activities in the demon world will be and how he will survive so that no one discovers that he is human, but what takes away his grace is that they do the same as all humans.

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