#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.

[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.

[lexia-solve-e]

charm points

[naehja]

Azz: obviously this year will be like a romance novel, Iruma-Sama and I are the main characters and so that means that we are love interests!

The rest of the Misfit Class: Yeah then what are we?

Azz: you all...are the heterosexual supporting cast ;)

Kerori: i have a girlfriend

Agares: I'm with Gaap

Gaap: *nodding*

Azz:

Azz: you are the supporting cast!

[kenyizsuartblog]

Half-seraph Watchdog of Babyls

Kenyizsu's First Law: Everything that receives my undivided attention shall be redesigned into a fantasy setting sooner or later.

Kenyizsu's Second Law: If said receiver of undivided attention is from a fantasy show.... it is still getting a fantasy redesign. Did I stutter?!

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Normally, the term "half-breed" (or more the vulgar "tar blood") refers to a demon whose one parent is from a well-established clan, while the other is from a "No Name" family. Usually they are also born out of wedlock, bringing their clan a flood of bad PR, gossip, and an ugly stain on their family tree. Thankfully in these peaceful civilized times in the Netherworld, most such half-breed children get to live to adulthood, even if their life path aren't as smooth as those of their full-blooded relatives.

Nobody could have possibly guessed that Professor Kalego - orderly, strict, aloof and old-fashioned Professor Kalego Naberius - would be a half-breed. And his mother is not even from a "No Name" family, but straight out of legends that were on the brink of fading away into history.

After all... angels were only supposed to be stories.

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I like to think that angels for the Netherworld of Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun are like the old gods for our world. Very few people might believe and worship them still, but the overwhelming majority thinks of them as fun stories, ancient myths, basis for fantasy fiction. The only twist is that angels are an actual thing - they just haven't been around in the Netherworld for a couple dozens of millennia, after the demons finally calmed down and started on the path of actual civilization.

Now, full disclaimer: this design is NOT headcanon! In this house we strictly operate by the rule that headcanons cannot harm the actual timeline/storyline/worldbuilding of the story they are from. Angels have yet to be mentioned in the anime, they are non-existent in the worldbuilding. From what I can tell from glimpses into the manga, Kalego clearly has a "full-blooded" Naberius family (although I don't think the mother is ever mentioned?), no mixup around his lineage.

This design is merely for fun, and to work my creative muscles after a brief artblock :) One more sheet is coming with the details.

Development

Silhouette design

Detail callouts

2023.05.13.

[authoratmidnight]

If the show/series doesn’t have a source material to be drawing from it’s not filler. 

Call it something else. I’ve been using the term ‘downtime’ for character driven/not directly tied to the plot episodes/chapters.

Its all “i love putting guys in situations” until were on a filler episode. Where are the REAL putting guys in situations lovers.

[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)

[yuno-karei]

[ID: A Mairimashita! Iruma-kun comic of Sabro in an infirmary bed. He's smiling cheerfully and eating peaches as he says, "I wasn't hurt that badly! Master Balam said all my bleeding was internal, that's where the blood's supposed to be!" He looks at the Love Trio and says, "What? I'm not wrong." Azz stares at him in disgusted silence. Iruma holds up his hands, sweating very hard, and says, "Technically, yes, but..." Clara looks impressed and exclaims, "Ooh!" and Iruma says, "Clara, that's not a good thing." End ID] [ID by @princess-of-purple-prose]

Heartbreaker arc gave me so much brainrot and this boy is the source of most of it

[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

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

[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].

[incorrect-mairuma]

Narnia: One of your kids broke into my house and stole my shit!

Baal: Okay, tell me which one of the Six Fingers it was so I know whose allowance to raise.

[standalone-manga-panels]

Source:

Mairimashita! Iruma-kun

[madmarchhare]

A little bit for @hiddenfolk 's 'Kalego the misfit' AU for M!IK as I absolutely love it. If I got anything wrong about your AU please do correct me, but I wanted to do a scene about it.

I don't know if I got the feel of it quite right, and I'm worried it feels rushed, but I hope you find it interesting!

Also, I hope we find out Sullivan's last name soon, I don't think Iruma would keep the family name 'Suzuki' if he had a choice.

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Kalego stomped forward down the stone corridor, a agitated grimace twisting his face as he glared forward followed by Shichiro who wore a far more passive expression.

"That stupid principal...! Putting me in the Misfit class for punishing some students...!" Kalego growled, his fists clenched as he cursed the drill-sargent of a principal.

"They can't really condone violence between students like that, even if you were in the right, Kalego-Kun," Shichiro chided, walking just behind the growling pup of a demon. Kalego only responded with a deep frown, agitated but putting it to the side for now. It's not as if he could disobey the higher ranking teachers either. That or the Senpai that put him in his place.

They came to the door of thier class shortly after, the tall wooden entrance worn and chipped, marks of over-painted graffiti staining it a deep black as a ramshackle sign was pinned over the previous. Kalego grimaced at the sight, a mixture of dismay and indignation rotting in the pit of his stomach. Balam looked at it with a somewhat curious expression, though some note of worry was present in his eyes. "This seems to be it..." he spoke, looking around at the door and the surrounding wall with a judging look.

"Well, let's just hope they're quiet." Kalego grumbled as he pushed open the door closing his eyes as he sighed. As he did, he heard the sound of gears and springs suddenly releasing and snapped open his eyes to see a countless amount of spears, swords axes and others being flung towards him. He summoned Cerberus near unconsciously, the golden beast grabbing the weapons in its jaws, protecting both Kalego and Balam behind it. Kalego stared forward with a mostly uninterested but also agitated expression, searching for the source of the attack.

He heard it shouting vigorously to his left. A group of students were all cheering and clapping at the pair, exited expressions lighting up thier features.

"He caught all of them! That's fantastic!" A peach-faced boy with green hair declared, staring at Kalego utterly fascinated his fists clenched excitedly under his chin.

"Guess I won the bet," A blonde boy declared in a sing-song voice holding out a hand to two others, one with maroon coloured hair and the other with black eyes who both begrudgingly handed the first bundles of cash.

"What do you think you are doing!" roared Kalego, snarling at them, "What is the meaning of this?!"

"We were just betting on how many would hit you," a tall boy with brown hair and a mischievous expression explained to Kalego, approaching both him and Balam while accompanied by a short girl with a flower in her hair.

"And why would you do that?" Balam asked, peaking out from behind Kalego.

"To see how strong you were, along with a bit of fun," the boy replied humoursly, a wicked smile on his face.

"Yis," the girl agreed, a cat like smile on her face.

The other students began to reset the trap as the four argued, though only Kalego viewed it that way. One of the boys was cajoled into casting a spell that restored the traps in quick order, murmuring disagreements about the others not valuing pain. Though they were ignored, partially for his own curiosity.

"Anyway, now that that's out of the way, let's introduce ourselves. Dantalion Dali, nice to meet you," Dali led, smiling widely at the growling pup before him.

"Balam Shichiro," Balam introduced himself before Kalego could voice a protest to or a indictment of Dali.

"Kalego Nabirus. Now, I insist that you take down those traps and take your seats this instant! This is a school after all!" Dali wore a light expression in response, about to waive off Kalego's demand when he was interrupted by the sound of the opening door.

"Good morning Class," a light-hearted voice called into the room as a rather short, blue haired teacher pressed open the door with a smiling expression. As soon as the trap was sprung he snapped his eyes open and wore a worried expression, dodging every single weapon or implement while still advancing to his desk, wailing out distressed yells as he did. The class erupted into a roaring cheer at the display, even more that when Kalego had entered. Kalego himself watched the wishy-washy looking educator with a sceptical and somewhat displeased expression, remembering meeting the teacher at the entrance ceremony. "What may I ask was that for?" The teacher asked with a somewhat panicked but not outright terrified expression, the ahoge on his heat stuck bolt upright.

"Oh, we were just having some fun while we waited for homeroom to start," Dali responded, a warm facade on his face while Kalego glared at him, about to say something before the teacher began again.

"Oh, I see. Well, for the moment, let's put this away," he replied, seeming to rub a golden ring on one of his hands then waft it in the direction of the various weapons of war that had stabbed into the walls and floor of the classroom now prying themselves out and upending themselves into a storage cupboard closer to the teachers desk. "If you all take your seats I'll begin to take attendance." He informed seeming to let go the trick his students had played on him, infuriating Kalego.

But, he bit his tongue, not wanting to argue with a teacher, and went to his seat, sitting by Balam near the front of the class. After a moment, the other students had all taken thier places, though some still chatted among themselves or played game's consoles, which the teacher did not chide them for. Again to Kalego's chargin.

"I'll begin attendance now, please speak when your name is called: Dantalion Dali,"

"Here!" The brown haired boy Kalego had talked to shouted up, leaning his shoulders on the desk with his arms crossed.

"Stolas Suzy,"

"Yis!"

"Orias Oswell,"

"Yep!" Called the blonde boy who won the bet, the teacher then calling on his neighbours who lost to him, Murmur Tsumuru and Ipos Ichou respectively.

"Robin Bars,"

"Yes, Sensei!" the green boy yelled energetically, and exited expression on his face, to the slight irritation of his neighbours, Buer Blushenko and Ifrit Dijin Eito.

"Marbas March, Morax Momonoki, Raim..." the teacher continued until he had finished the list placing it back onto his desk. "Right, now that that's done, I shall introduce myself. I will your homeroom teacher for your time here, you can call me Iruma-Sensei. I hope we can all get along, and I can help you with your lessons. If you need anything, you can always think of me as a friend," Iruma instructed pleasantly, his students becoming confused at the unfamiliar word, though not bringing it up.

Kalego regarded Iruma with some contempt, disliking the seemingly flippant teacher even with the scant meeting. "Sensei, shouldn't you address the trap first," Kalego snitched, getting a humoured look from some of the other students.

"Oh, I don't think we need to. You are all demons after all, as long as no one was badly hurt." Kalego looked at the teacher in slight disbelief while Dali chuckled under his breath. "In any case, we should move to our first class, follow me!" Iruma instructed while Kalego glowered at the man, not speaking up for sake of rank.

He disliked the teacher already.

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[animehouse-moe]

Welcome To Demon School! Iruma-Kun Volume 1: The Misfits

It's been several years at this point since I stumbled across Iruma-Kun as an anime. Three seasons deep with all sorts of content and arcs, and a mountain of manga chapters and volumes I never thought I'd get in English. But it's here. Somehow, it's made it here and I'm endlessly excited about that. How does it measure up to the anime? How does the source material differ? What's the art style like? Is there any dropped content? How does the pacing compare? So, so many questions that I can finally answer.

The short of it though? People should absolutely be picking up this manga. It's friendly and welcoming for all ages without feeling too childish or mature, Kodansha's giving it a nice and quick release schedule, it's got 3 Seasons of anime to watch to see if you'll like it, and there's plenty of spinoffs that have a chance to make it over here if this release does well!

⚠️Warning: Spoilers Ahead⚠️

I think the most noticeable difference is in the art. To summarize it, Nishi's style in the manga is rather different to the anime. It's what you might call malleable. The proportions, lighting, even aspects of the core character design ebb and flow depending on the scene they're in. Line thickness and texture moves around, shading and color differs from character to character, and even chibi designs have wiggle room in how they're shown.

It's really interesting, because through these 4 panels, there's not really a stellar amount of visual similarity in how things are drawn. The shading on Iruma's (top left) clothes vs Kalego's (bottom right) is different, and Kalego's hair has shading and texture while Iruma's doesn't. Azz-Kun (bottom left) has heavy line weight while Sullivan (top right) is a far lighter line weight. It's incredibly curious, because I wouldn't say any of these pages bear much resemblance to one another in how they're drawn, but they're undeniably all from the same artist. It's a really great feat to provide so much consistent variance in art style for the series.

Alongside that, I must say I'm impressed with the paneling as well. You can get a really solid grasp of it from Iruma and Azz-Kun's pages above. There's a lot of variance and different approaches to similar content.

There's different perspectives, angles, and everything keep it all fresh and interesting, and the shapes of the panels are really commendable. It constantly refuses to use clear cut rectangles and squares, and tries its damnedest to put a creative spin on it. Even in pages like this one, all of the panels have an irregular side. At least one line in the rectangle is angled or cut off. It's such a simple thing, but it makes it such a more interesting read as you're not constantly looking at a bunch of plain squares.

Though, I guess I should take a break from the visual stuff, and talk about story, yeah?

I'm pretty surprised, there's a lot of great moments from the anime that were extrapolated from very minimal context or interaction, and even some that don't appear in the manga. Inconsequential pieces in terms of story, but really great work to expand on the nature and feel of the manga.

Saying that though, there's just as many moments that go shot for shot between the two, like Iruma and Azz-Kun's fight.

Or Iruma's entrance into the Misfit's classroom.

In addition to that, it's really cool to see how well planned this story is. Being a manga you get to soak up those pieces a lot better, and notice background details and things like that. Just take a look at this panel. Yes, Clara's in it, but there's somebody on the left side as well. Jazz makes an appearance here, and for good reason! Such a fun little detail, and just one example of many that exist within the manga that either didn't make it to the anime, or that I didn't notice in the anime.

Now, the elephant in the room: Lied. His early design is certainly something. I wouldn't say I hate it, but I also wouldn't deny that I vastly prefer his newer/current design a hundred times over. Basically the only design that sees noticeable change through the story, and for good reason. Also, Kerori in the background.

Also, I really just have to give it up for Nishi's art. You get a taste of it in the anime, but it feels so much stronger throughout this first volume of the manga. They like their perspective pieces, and they really like playing with heaver line weight to create tension and energy, and I'm all for it. It's a really fluid experience overall, and is great at selling readers on a more dynamic feel to the art and characters.

Pieces like this where the lines of the panels begin to warp and change, just such cool details that really show how pervasive Nishi's style is to the overall work, how when the style shifts, the whole perception of the sequence does.

I also feel like this spread is a really great example of why I like Nishi's character designs. They're all incredibly unique, and share very little to tie them to one another. All different outfits, proportions, and features. Clara's got a completely different style to Iruma, who's got a completely different style to Azz-Kun. It's a world of characters in a single story, and really never gets old.

And lastly, here's one of those perspective pieces I was talking about earlier. Nishi doesn't blindly use it to make for cool and more 3 dimensional panels or pages, but to convey something. A stretched out panel of Iruma fretting over being a human at a demon school, or in this case, a skewed perspective to sell the scale and grandeur of the Demon King. We're only at his feet, out of the entirety of his presence, Nishi is showing us where we're at in the story currently. It's a really great idea that just blends implicitly with "big Demon King is cool as hell".

So, at the end of this first volume, I'm thoroughly impressed with both the anime and the manga. The anime really grasps the material well and finds a way to heighten a lot of it, while the manga loses very little expression despite its relative handicap to the anime. Both are undeniably great, and both are certainly worth experiencing.

The energy remains apparent, the story is untouched and in its purest form, the art is all over the place in the best way, and the feel of Iruma-Kun is still so wonderfully strong. The silly nature that will have you breaking out in a laugh at the smallest things remains, and that warm feeling you get from the cuter moments is still there. It's still the same Iruma-Kun I know and love from the anime, and still places at the top of shounen manga that everybody should give a chance.