Mairimashita! Iruma-kun 3rd Season

Following their heroic efforts at Walter Park, the students of the misfit class return to Babyls Demon School after their summer vacation. What awaits them is not only adoration and admiration but also the shocking revelation that, in order to stay in the luxurious Royal One classroom, the entire class must be promoted to Dalet rank before entering the second year.

As the Harvest and Music Festivals are right around the corner, there seem to be ample opportunities to rank up. Doing so will not be simple, however, as no class thus far has managed to accomplish such a feat. Hoping to give the misfit class a chance to achieve the improbable, the school appoints special tutors to aid in confronting the challenges that lie ahead.

With his sights set beyond Dalet, Iruma Suzuki decides to take strides toward the goal of ranking up, starting with gaining acknowledgement from his special tutor: the short-tempered and selfish Bachiko Barbatos.

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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 Japanese

Opera Supporting

Saiga, Mitsuki Japanese

Naberius, Kalego Supporting

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Sullivan Supporting

Kuroda, Takaya Japanese

Balam, Shichirou Supporting

Konishi, Katsuyuki Japanese

Ami, Kirio Supporting

Oosaka, Ryouta Japanese

Shax, Lead Supporting

Yamaya, Yoshitaka Japanese

Sekiyama, Akihiro Producer

Moriwaki, Makoto Director

Gouda, Hozumi Sound Director

Satou, Masafumi Episode Director, Storyboard

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Dec 1, 2024

jazzykitty

Recommended

This anime is my favorite recent anime I've discovered. This show to me in my opinion blows MHA out of the water mainly because the entire class get character development and its just so god damn wholesome. Its impossible not to smile watching this show. As an anime only watcher the whole premise of Iruma-kun becoming the nexr demon king I assume is very interesting and I can't wait to see how it will all unfold. The side characters from the first two seasons get to shine more in this season and we learn more about everyones strengths this season. I can't wait for season ... 4!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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May 27, 2025

Rigga

Mixed Feelings

Where the first two seasons were excellent, this third season of Iruma-Kun falls just a bit flat. There are a multitude of shortcomings this season has in comparison to the previous seasons, so let us run through those briefly:

Animation & Production: This will stand out to most as the most egregious shortcoming. The animation in this season is worse than the previous two, and there is barely any actual animated scenes present. We are stuck with even more panning shots that make the show feel like a powerpoint presentation, at best we sometimes get some paralax animation (basically just multiple layers shifted over one another) ... or animated fire superimposed over Alice. This would be fine if everything looked good despite all that, but characters are more frequently off model and look worse than normal (you will know what I am talking about when you see the Jazz / Schneider training and how Jazz's face is drawn). The animation this season is actually dissapointing considering the high quality art was consistent in the first season and only took the slightest dip in the second season. This third season really doesn't hold a candle to those two in this regard.

Characters: We follow mostly the same cast as the first two season, with a few additions, primarily the tutors and characters from the training arcs prior to the Harvest Festival, along with some more fleshing out of other side characters like the teachers and faculty. Nothing to complain about here; like any other show, we often get more of "what matters in a show" from seeing how established characters react and develop to situations, in opposition to introducing new characters to fill voids. That being said, the lack of solid characters being introduced, aside from maybe the red demon general dude, is a very disappointing trait considering how good many of the characters introduced even in S2 were.

Story: We spend almost the entire season focused on a single arc, being the harvest festival arc. This is essentially just another tournament arc but with the twist that we are essentially witnessing a trial of fighting and foraging, where students are rewarded by retrieving various ingredients and felling various monsters in the wilderness. At the outset it should be clear what will happen, and it is somewhat disappointing that the outcome is so predictable yet takes so long to arrive. For what it is, it fails to provide any suspense similar to that of the first two seasons, so I feel this season falls somewhat short.

Pacing: The long amount of time dedicated to the harvest festival makes this season feel less interesting than the previous seasons. The same issue with the last season and Walter Park, but more exacerbated this time since it takes up even more of the season and has less payoff and development for the main story. That being said, the show still manages to land a lot of its jokes and keep the viewer entertained more than other shows manage, so it should not be taken as an objectively worse experience. I had a great time with many of the gags in this season, and that strange heart teacher thing returns again which always makes my day. The show manages to take too long with the arc, but I don't think that is necessarily the shows fault, rather it is a byproduct of the same problem Naruto faces, where the cast is just too broad and too focused on the side characters to make any meaningful progress. While this initially enraptures the viewer, it becomes burdensome when we are forced to watch it all play out and extend the runtime of the season.

All in all, it seems like the show is still maintaining a steady trajectory, however I also believe the earlier seasons were stronger showings with better art consistency and higher stakes. This story feels somewhat set in its ways already, and there is no chance for a mixup, which means it almost feels pointless. That being said, I still have hopes for the show moving forward and think that if you have already watched the first two seasons, this will be to your liking.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 4, 2023

KANLen09

Not Recommended

"Dear Iruma-kun fans, the lovable human dork is back and better than ever"...is what I WISH I can tell you. But boy, oh boy, Season 3 is to put it simply: a slogfest.

For the 2nd time in a row, I need not mention that mangaka Osamu Nishi's Mairimashita! Iruma-kun a.k.a Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun is a juggernaut of a manga that is and still continues to be seralized weekly in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shonen Champion to high praise and fanfare amongst the hardcore Iruma-kun community since its start in 2017. Along with the anime's debut since Fall 2019 under the likes of Japan's primary ... broadcast network NHK that has continued to reel in anime-onlies about the brillance of the work, brought to the small screen for about 3 years now with the 2 seasons prior.

After the insane high of Season 2 following the Walter Park arc and concluding the First Term Saga story part of the manga, Season 3 is back to trail the Second Term Saga, starting with the Special Tutor Training and Harvest Festival arcs (following the mid of Volume 11 to mid of Volume 17 of the manga) of watching Iruma-kun and the Misfit Class follow through the promises of what it means to be in the ultimate Babyls class of all: the Royal One. The caveat being that if they don't raise their ranking status to Rank 4 Dalet, they will be kicked out of the class. Sounds simple as molasses, ain't it? It's plain as heck, but still drives the great and progressing story at the same fundamental core as it always has been for both Seasons 1 and 2, feeling a sense of home for Iruma-kun fans, both manga readers and anime-onlies.

But in the process, adaptations can still falter if there feels like something is missing, and I'm pretty sure that you can agree with me that Season 3, bites the Iruma-kun's franchise as the worst season to grace the anime scene yet thus far. I would not be surprised that NHK will greenlight a Season 4 in the future to adapt the Music Festival arc, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Iruma-kun, Asmodeus "Azz-Azz", Clara, and the rest of the Misfit Class are about as typical as you can expect if you've been following the anime since its inception, though each of them great in their own right to showcase Osamu Nishi's spectacular writing and crisp artwork, given that at the time of this review, we're now halfway into the adaptation of the overall manga's paces. As mentioned, the Special Tutor Training and Harvest Festival arcs are meant to prepare Iruma-kun and gang on their 1st Year's graduating courses before heading into their 2nd Year, with the arcs being the first in line to progress. And over the course of the run, they would come out better and stronger, aided by the Babyls teachers that would bring them to higher status, mainly the goal of the Harvest Festival arc: being winners a.k.a the Young King, and that's it.

The problem with the adaptation of the 1st of 3 graduating Festival arcs is of course, the adaptation translation from manga to anime. The anime has been rather well-paced since the beginning, so there is no short of great content to adapt throughout its entire episodic run. The issue is that with the pacing, especially with Season 3, while it re-creates the exact same sense of bewilderment of what's to come, you could feel that you are watching the manga's adaptation at a snail's pace. I know I did, and this effect only started to show by the 3rd or 4th episode of the same goddamn arc that felt like little bits of progress, and what resulted the fact that it ultimately never anchored the anime version of how the manga was illustrated at this time, with some of the most nail-biting, jaw-dropping artwork that Osamu Nishi has drawn in her lifetime, being foreboding and expectant of what's to come. That sense of bewilderment is totally gone in the anime, and by the end of each progressing episode, I find myself echoing this over and over again: "When is this long-winded arc going to be done?"

Yes, you could argue the fact that Iruma-kun and Co. are constantly growing themselves in this dangerous journey, coupled with BN Pictures's production that has continued to perform admirably, these are the only values that have held the anime's virtues well. But the Harvest Festival arc was a mistake to essentially the same production staff team that has been helming the anime since the very beginning, and the cracks are now starting to show of the team's laziness in just trying to keep constant and debunkering the hype of manga readers to oblivion. This is not how you want your favourite show to kill off fans who have been expecting more, and I can already tell that Season 3 is the black sheep of the franchise, the dropping point for people, especially if they are anime-onlies. Conclusion: read the manga portion of the Harvest Festival arc, I can swear on my life that you can finish reading it in an episode or 2's runtime and find yourself more satisfied with how the manga is the better executed version overall.

Another problem with Season 3 is the music. Da Pump has pumped out (see the pun there) 2 great OP songs for the prior seasons, so the choice to go for FANTASTICS from EXILE TRIBE to grace the season's OP, kinda is a shocker. I can tell you that the boy group's song repertoire is hideously average at best, and "Giri Giri Ride it out" is quite possibly the worst OP yet for its genericness and constant repetitiveness. You'd think that the ED is going to be any better, but it's not. Wednesday Campanella's ED is to put it simply: an eargasm that pierces your ears so much to bleed blood out of it. The entire song is actually fine...once you get the build-up to the chorus section, and OMG, it is one heck of an unpleasant song to listen to, bar none. Season 3 is the season where the OST is a humongous crash-and-burn of a Royal Flush (in a bad way), and for very good reason.

Overall, I still need to ask the ONE question that will make or break the audience's expectations going forward: Despite issues with the season overall, does this make you still want to come back to the franchise for yet another sequel? I know that NHK will continue to gush and justify for Season 4's existence somehow, but just taking a look at Season 3 now, it just doesn't seem that the manga-to-anime translation will be any better. It's not a total lost cause where the story, characters and production still continue to hold up, but it's just that the overall atmosphere, at this point, doesn't provide the incentive to continue any further.

So, until then, read the manga if you can. This is a momentary dark blemish for Iruma-kun fans, and devi-finitely not a season that's executed well. I will come back for Season 4, that's for sure, but it remains to be seen if there is any improvement at all if or when it returns in the future.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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