This review contains spoilers. Please do not send these spoilers to the demon world, you don't know what the demons will do with them.
Iruma is just an average boy, until he gets sent to a demon world and enrolls in a school that's filled with demons, will he survive, or will get into antics with all of his demon friends, let's find out in Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-Kun!
THE STORY: 10/10
After Iruma-Kun gets sent into a world of demons, and has to fit right into a crowd of demons. Along the way, he meets the top student Alice and the weird but fun-loving Clara and makes friends with them, he also bumps into Ameri, who begins to fall in love with him after reading one of her manga.
There's a lot of cool arcs in this series, but the most important of them is the Battler Party arc, where the school is trapped under a dome and Iruma knows that Kirio was behind this all, betraying that Kirio wasn't a friend, but an enemy all along, and it even has an intense climax that leads into the Demon School celebrating the festival they had before the dome came along.
THE CHARACTERS: 10/10
Demon School has a variety of demons, uniquely designed for each one of them, even the background characters seen in crowd shots look unique, and each demon, student or teacher, tells their own story, such as the sleepy Picero Agares, or the sweet plant-loving Suzie Stolas.
Even there's episodes focused on other characters, one of them is the Clara-focused episode, "Head Over Heels For Clara", in which she joins the seduction class and learns how to flirt with demons, eventually combining her techniques with all her might on Iruma and learns about her beautifulness, in fact, it's one of my personal favorite episodes for how it's focused on my favorite crazy demon.
VISUALS: 10/10
The art-style of show looks kind of great, seeing how every demon stands out with their unique designs of all shapes, sizes, colors, and species too, it awes me how the character designers of the show makes sure each one stands out from the rest.
Each location also looks unique, fitting in with the spooky theme of the anime itself, such as the haunting orange and purple hues of the school festival in the Battler Party, or Suzie's class that looks like a greenhouse filled with types of demon plants.
SOUND: 10/10
The OP of the show gets you pumped up for Iruma's antics in the school full of demons, and the upbeat pumping tone of it sets the OP's mood. The ED also has also a happy, upbeat vibe to it, showcasing the female demons just having un and partying around, giving hype before the Sukima closes out each episode.
Even Clara's songs stand out, despite then having the same tune, but my favorite one has to go to the "Smooch Smooch Smooch" song they performed in EP. 8, showing how Clara loves her family and vice-versa. Even the song performed in ep. 22, where the trio of Iruma's friend perform on stage, gives off upbeat vibes of being on a Dem-Dol itself.
ENJOYMENT:
At the end of 2023, I started watching this anime and it looks kind of good, it has tons of crazy character designs, a bunch of good arcs, and even the Sukima's had their moments. The Battler Party arc made me think that Iruma will save the day, and he did, hoping that he'll release everybody out of the dome and celebrate the festival after all he went through. I also liked how each episode is a spooky delight, from playing dodgeball demon-style to the Dem-Dols, each one was kind of great for me to sit to.
If you like your high school anime, but want to mix it up with more demon-y elements and magic instead of the usual humans and whatnot, this anime seems right up your alley. It's got that fun-charm it has, and the tones of the show are haunting, but also upbeat too. We could all use an anime that's filled with more demons, and less humans, like this one.
