#source: iruma-kun

[writerswho]

Kaminari, whispering: Midobro, I bet... Midoriya, whispering back: Yeah, me too... Kaminari: Midoriya: Kaminari: Hey, Shinsou, we have a question. Midoirya: When do you think a kitten becomes a cat? Shinsou: Uhm... It is hard to know exac-- Midoriya and Kaminaria, sparkling: Wellcome, ally #3.

[yeetzapizza]

LITTLE OPERA AND SULLIVAN DOODLES BECAUSE I LOVE THEM AND THEY ARE FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[asmodeusamaryllis]

Hiroja's rough draft for chapter 2 colour page

[incorrect-mairuma]

Baal: *trying to find Kirio* Has anyone seen a brat with glasses running around?

Baal: He's about this tall, clearly gay, but we haven't had the talk yet.

[nat1vibes]

Father in law got active in Iruma-kun

(Spoilers for chapter 326 of Iruma-kun)

This was very much an Ameri dad chapter. Bro was mad his kid was happy even though they didn't spend much time together. And he found the problem

BRO FOUND OUT. Ain't nothing getting past bro, he just too good. Look at this BOY, the personification of Evil, the Incubus of Babilis. But it's all good, his Ameri is such a goated demon.

* Bro goes on to remember that Iruma is rank 5 in his second year, the grandson of the 3 greats, a demon king prospect, the student of one of the 13 crowns, a confidant to some other 13 crowns, and the dude who stopped the barbatos and 13 crowns war from starting.

Bro was beat, and pulled out the chairs, next chapter we be having the father in law talk. They aren't even dating my guy chill.

[zeravmeta]

iruma kun is such a fascinating story to me because for a series that's 90% a comedy slice of life school days growing up story with a fun flair of it being a Demon School!!! it's also a story you cant see the same way again once you realize it's an unstable postwar narrative where all the adults are adjusting to a less bloody norm and doing their best to provide stable conditions for all the child characters and dealing with the fallouts of said unstable conditions. every adult in iruma kun references the ranking system and the netherworlds current peaceful state as recent developments meanwhile the demon worlds brutal struggle for survival and various famous wars are constantly referenced as present almost exclusively by adult characters while the kids only have passing knowledge of these customs. kalego gaiden showing babyls as an unstable school where violence and disorder reign supreme when he was a 14 years old kid and now as an orderly and respectable school when he's in his mid 30s is such a genius microcosm of this because another major theme of iruma kun is the importance of education. as selfish and brutal and cruel as demons in the netherworld supposedly are there is still a reverence in teaching the youth and properly raising them so that the world they inherit isn't something terrible

it's also telling that one of the 'main' antagonists baal wants an unstable chaotic netherworld where all demons have returned to their evil origins but still values education and greed as a source of growth and specifically targeted babyls because he KNOWS it's a pillar of stability while narnia and demon border patrol specifically enforce the rank system to keep demons in line and maintain a slowly crumbling status quo of demons being subservient to higher ranks and limits the opportunities of races like the many ears to educate and develop themselves so that they remain subservient

the focus on education as a stabilizing force in society is so fucking important to this mangas themes and this entire layer of it explored through a postwar narrative is barely mentioned anywhere within the story and only referenced in passing because the main characters are the misfits class, the kids! and while they will one day inherit and shoulder the world they were left, they are still kids who need time to grow

[otakunews01]

"Ichi The Witch" x "Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun" Mangas Collab Visuals

"Ichi the Witch" is drawn by Shiro Usazaki and written by Nishi Osamu (Mairimashita Iruma-kun)

Source

[weirdocat83]

Welcome to Demon school! Iruma-kun spoilers. Read at your own risk.

Wondering why Sullivan adopted Iruma.

I mean, he claims it’s because he wanted a grandchild but immediately after Opera points out that he could’ve just adopted a demon child (and it likely would have been easier and significantly less illegal). Don’t get me wrong, I love Iruma, but Sullivan doesn’t really seem like a person to do things without reason. Will he explain what he’s doing? Absolutely not. You’ll have to figure that out of your own. But he’s also not careless. He was the former Demon King’s right hand after all. And he clearly has his secrets regarding his past too. We don’t actually know that much about him.

I do have to put out two thoughts I had:

1) Sullivan heard the demon king’s prophecy, was summoned, and took iruma knowing he’d become the next demon king and wanting to help him out

Or 2) the more sinister reasoning. Baal is planning to revive the demon king somehow and needs derkila’s mana to do it. But what if he wasn’t the only one who knew this? What if he brought Iruma to the demon world fully intending on using him as a means to an end? A way to get to the ring of gluttony (because that seems to be the source of “Derkila’s” mana since iruma has no mana (being a human) and has been getting his mana from Sullivan and the ring. He doesn’t say it’s Sullivan’s mana. He says it’s Derkila’s. As if Alikred wasn’t already suspicious as heck. So what if Sullivan knew how to get Derkila back but got attached? He does offhandedly mention in the beginning about potentially eating iruma had he said no to being his grandson and it’s really not clear if that was just a one off joke or not.

Idk I’m probably thinking about this too much but I find it fascinating that we really don’t know anything about him or even Opera. We know the bare minimum at most. We know Sullivan is a powerful demon who was (at some point) the right hand to Derkila. And now he runs Babyls as its principal. That’s it. Opera isn’t much better either. We know they work as a security demon and now teacher. We know they used to terrorize babyls at large and Kalego specifically and was there because of Sullivan. Everything else is a mystery.

[suudonym]

NHK, a sponsor of the paralympics, has been broadcasting 5-minute shorts made in collaboration with various anime series. episode 18 imagines goalball, a sport for the visually impaired, in the universe of mairmashita! iruma-kun. I'm absolutely starving for content so I translated it to the best of my ability

(disclaimer: I'm weak at spoken japanese and the original video had no jp subtitles provided, so I don't promise perfect accuracy. that said, I don't think I made any huge errors, so it should be a "good enough"-level translation)

if you want to see the original video, read related interviews with nishi and with iruma and clara's voice actors, or look at any of the other shorts, you can do so on the official site (linked in source)

[phantoms-lair]

Batman/Mairimashita Iruma-Kun Cross

Bruce Is a powerful fear demon, the last of a well-respected family in the Netherworld. After losing his parents to an attack by Return to Origins demons, he's sequestered himself away in his family's home, with only his butler for companionship. While he does leave the house to attend to business, he never forms any close bonds with others.

He does, on occasion, get summoned to the Human World. His family's sigil is known, and he's the only one left to respond. It's usually little things, barely worth notice or attention and he takes care of them quickly.

Until one day he's summoned and the offering for the deal is a nine year old boy, bound ropes, radiating rage and fear. Bruce accepts the deal, because he's worried if he doesn't they'll try again and get someone who'll accept and just eat the kid. And if he made sure the money he summoned was easily traceable and would lead the cops right to his summoners, well, that wasn't excluded as an option

He brings the kid back and then has to explain to Alfred why he has a human child and explain to the kid, Dick was apparently his name, that he wasn't going to eat him and had every intention of sending him back to the human world. He just needed to wait a while because the only one he trusted to actually take Dick back and not spirit him away on his own was Jim Gordon, head of Demon Border Patrol, and Jim was away on work. Bruce just needed to...hide Dick for a few days. Then everything will go back to normal.

Those few day were the most chaotic Wayne Manor had seen in centuries. But for all the fuss, Bruce was happier than he could remember being. He was repeatedly charmed but both the anger the boy held, but also the joy. How he could climb and flip off of anything with no fear. And in the quiet parts of the night he told Bruce about losing his parents. How no one wanted him and he ended up in Juvie trying to avenge them and he was used for the ritual specifically because he wouldn't be missed.

And Bruce talked for the first time about seeing his parents die. About feeling unable to trust anyone. About missing them so much it hurt, but having to keep going.

The day before Jim would get back he asks Dick if he wanted to go back to the human world or stay with him. He doesn't call Jim.

Bruce is a lot more methodical than Sullivan, and had five years to prepare. By the time Dick's first day at Bablys comes around he has his own source of mana (Bruce made a contract with him for it. It cost Dick the last cookie for that night's dessert), working wings (THAT took some R&D), and very obvious horns and claws (a simple transformation. Nails, hair, and horns were all keretin after all). As long as he wore cologne to cover his human scent, there was functionally no way to tell Dick was or had ever been human.

Bruce and Dick were both thriving! Dick was incredibly popular with his age and Bruce was actually talking to people and making friends! Then one night, Bruce was summoned away at dinner. He made sure to appear at his most menacing. Bat wings fully extended, eyes glowing, and fangs bared, just to put a fright into whoever interrupted his family time. Only to be met with a bunch of scared kids, their faces immediately revealing that they had not expected this to work. Before Bruce could just deescalate and ask them where they'd gotten his sigil, one of the bigger ones pushed the smallest kid, the one they'd obviously been trying to scare, right at Bruce shouting 'Take him!'. Thus making it an offering and not a contract, the summoning ended leaving Bruce back in his dinning room with a screaming kid and Dick nonchalantly asking if he now had a brother.

"Of course not," Bruce had said.

In the end, Jim wasn't called to take Jason back either.

When he was summoned for the third time in under a decade, Bruce decided he was going to have to find a way to have a word with the al Ghuls. They were the last people to summon him before his sigil seemed to become very well known. And since they only seemed to summon him for a good time, it tracked.

At this point he wasn't surprised to see a child. He was, however, mildly surprised to see only a child. When asked why he was summoned, the boy, Tim, was only able to sob "I want to live!"

Bruce talked gently to him and learned that he was the sole heir to his parent's name and estate. His dad had gotten remarried after his Mom died, but after his Dad died his stepmom had to be hospitalized, but was technically the owner of everything.

Then the place the hospital was in was destroyed and now it was all on him, and he'd already heard the 'family friends' lining up to take him in plotting on how to remove him from the picture and he didn't care about the money or prestige attached to his name, he just wanted to live.

And Bruce didn't even think twice before asking if that would mean living as a demon.

They'd only barely gotten Tim to a place where he could conceivably pass as a demon that Jim called him up. There'd been a dustup with some Return to Origin demons trying to break into the human realm, and among those captured had been a child whose father used her as a weapon. And since Bruce had been so good about helping other children, could he take in her as well? And for the first time Bruce really didn't want to. After all, what if she discovered the truth about his sons? What if she ate them?

But before he could make an excuse about Tim needing more time to settle in before adding another child, Dick and Jason both gave Jim the affirmative. This lead to a huge fight between the three, the boys pointing out she was a kid like them who needed help and Bruce pointing out Tim was essentially helpless if the girl turned hostile.

Thankfully all his fears turned out to be for nothing. Cassandra both immediately figured out Tim was human, but decided she liked him better than her father and his friends. She was more than happy to be away from her father's madness, even if it seemed she had more an uphill battle fitting into society than Tim did.

When Talia al Ghul summons him a second time, he's glad for the opportunity to be upset with her about why his sigil has become so common in the human world, but any words die on his tongue as he sees the child next to her. The child with very familiar horns and wings.

Okay, he'd heard the stories about nephilim and cambrians but he thought those were made up! He's only dimly aware of her explaining that the child couldn't be used for the original purpose he was conceived for and offered him back in exchange for something to keep her father's mind hale after repeated exposure to the Lazarus Pit. Bruce agreed to the exchange and gave her an enchanted pendant that would keep his mind strong.

It would also slowly draw his mind into the pendant itself, leaving his body an empty husk while his intact psyche was trapped with no way out. That's what you get for not telling Bruce about his son until you tried to sell him back to him

Damian's integration was the hardest yet. He did NOT accept the new siblings, declared he was the only true son of Bruce, and did not take well to any attempt at discipline. (It later turned out this was partially acting out over insecurities of only being half demon. He had not put it together that his siblings were human, and given his violence towards them, no one was willing to reveal that weakness.)

[writerswho]

Kalego: Do you ever get pre-annoyed? Like you already know someone is going to piss you off?

Balam: What? No, I—

Opera: [enters the room].

Kalego: [clenches jaw].

[i-am-grell]

*slaps poll function* This baby can fit so much anime in it

Hey remember that time I took 4 weeks to watch Banana Fish then marathoned 38 episodes of Sailor Moon in 3 days? Anyway, poll.

If you're new here, we poll anime so I don't have to choose what to watch. Doesn't matter if you're friend or stranger; you have the power to force a person to watch anime. And that's a very great power.

Propaganda* (*yapping) below the poll. You are allowed to reblog for whatever reasons you see fit, in fact I encourage it. You don't have to know me, follow me, like me, or have watched/enjoyed/heard of any of these shows to vote for one - frankly, it's funnier if we're all just winging it, right?

Propaganda:

One Piece - Missing my Straw Hats over here. This poll option will count for Season 7 (196-228 + any movies chronologically in that stretch) of One Piece.

Free! - The deal has always been that the longer Free! stays in the polls, the more 50% Off! quotes I get to use in the buttons. You can vote for it, I encourage it even (democracy, baby!), but just know I am nowhere near out of 50% Off! quotes. I have a notes app note about it, and I haven't even finished a rewatch of the series to collect quotes. Like, I'm not even at the bottle episode, my dudes.

Fruits Basket 2019 - Started watching, got busy doing a Master's, didn't finish. Have been slowly collecting and reading the collector's editions of the manga though.

Food Wars! - Sometimes, I give you the power to do unspeakable damage to my psyche. It's in your hands now.

Kamisama Kiss - I'm never gonna shut up about the fact that I learned that my favourite dub VA is Tomoe from dicking around on Behind the Voice Actors instead of someone kindly informing me.

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun - Looks really cute and funny and honestly? While I haven't heard much about it from many different sources, the ones I have seen talking about this one say it's absolute gold. Very exciting. Give me the paranormal Wattpad fanfic of anime.

[umeji-writes]

Why the manga Mairimashita! Iruma-kun is a masterpiece, part # (idk at this point)

Spoilers for the latest M!IK chapter (332) under the cut ♡

Okay, I was loving this art-focused arc already, as someone who after... several years (hi I'm old)... decided to learn illustration for good. But unholy shit I wasn't expecting an actual storytelling lesson from Nishi-sensei!!! I'm specifically referring to these two pages:

..........do you see what Nishi did????? See, I always found the characters in M!IK to be exceptionally alive, as if they had independent lives outside the pages we can read. Basically all named characters are consistent and three-dimentional, even if they appeared for a couple of chapters at most. And there are LOTS of them, I tried to compile a spreadsheet for personal use and we are well beyond 100 at this point (I'm not done yet). This is most likely Nishi's writing method. It fits: "when it comes to terror designing characters, what's important is the foundation. When, where, from whom, and from what was that terror were that character's motivations born? Without that, art doesn't live". See all the crumbs of information Nishi left along the chapters, in text or drawings, or in the Q&As. M!IK's characters are alive, like the Bowing Palome. Clearly this is not new when it comes to storytelling in general, and to manga specifically. As an example, there's a whole chapter dedicated to character design in Hirohiko Araki's Manga in Theory and Practice, The Craft of Creating Manga (most recommended read btw), that goes over the data to collect even before drawing a character. I imagine that's among a mangaka's best practices. But that's the point, Nishi actually follows the rules of the Golden Way*, and created a work which is nearly perfect from any point of view: the four fundamentals (characters, story, setting, and themes), and even rhythm, art, comedy... I'm in awe. I know I sound like a smitten fan, and I am at this point, but seriously, this manga is qualitatively great, and it's a pity it's so underrated. *The set of rules/tips Araki compiled, which if followed would lead to a manga being successful, according to him. I guess there are other sources as well out there, like illustration schools? But this what I can tell you, as an outsider :D

[incorrect-mairuma]

Kalego: I don't have favorites, but I do have a least favorite and it's Robin.

[ubercharge]

media showcase............ 2!

Ichi the Witch (story: Osamu Nishi, art: Shiro Usazaki) In this world, witches must hunt down their magic! Deep in the forest, the terrifying king of magic and the strongest witch are locked in deadly combat. But suddenly, a young boy joins the fray. His name is Ichi and he is just a hunter. But he has the power to flip the magic world upside down in this magic hunting fantasy epic! (Source: MANGA Plus)

it's pretty rare i recommend an ongoing story with only a handful of chapters out (roughly 40) but this is shaping up to be a good one. nishi's fun and bold writing and usazaki's gorgeous and dynamic art make for a perfect combo in a magic + fantasy + action story.

nishi, also the mangaka for Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, is an expert at creating endearing characters. MC ichi is a little wild mountain boy with hunting skills tossed into the female-only world of witches and he is so funny and silly while being thrilling to watch in action scenes when his survival/hunter instincts kick in.

i think you guys would really love desscaras (black-haired lady in white below) the capable veteran top tier witch and kumugi (teal hair) the ... i mean i don't want to call her a cringefail girl per se but she's kind of a lil nervous hamster girl 😭

NOTES: found family, largely female cast, stunning art!!

ANILIST SCORE: 77% avg / 78% mean MY SCORE: 8.5/10 - very promising work by two incredible creatives. i look forward to its speedy developments every week, ready to get my emotions pulverised by nishi when i least expect it

more recs: [ #media showcase ]

[orangepeel98]

I'm laughing my ass off. Why did I make this.

I deeply apologize to all of my fellow Mairuma and JoJo's fans /silly

Specific sources for the audio and visual clips if anyone's interested (also an explanation if you don't know what exactly this video is (also also a link to the inspiration)):

- All of the welcome to demon school Iruma-kun clips come from episode 2 of season 1

- First jojo's bizarre adventure audio clip comes from the fight against kakyoin in episode 2 of part 3 (he's threatening to crush kakyoin's head)

- Second clip also comes from the kakyoin fight

- Third clip comes from the first episode of Stardust Crusaders (the opening scene where he yells at Holly to shut up)

- Fourth clip comes from the Steely Dan fight during episode 17

- Fifth clip is Josuke retaliating against the group of delinquents in episode one of part 4

- Last clip is Holly saying goodbye to Jotaro in the second episode of part 3

For anyone who doesn't understand what this video is supposed to be: I've found that my two current obsessions share a LOT of voice actors and decided to create my magnum opus by putting the jojo voices over animation of the demon school characters

It was also inspired by this:

There are quite a few more characters that share vas (funny enough, that includes Kalego's english va too) so I might make more in the future idk