English Dub Season Review: The Misfit of Demon King Academy Season One
Wish fulfillment is a very appealing feature of many fantasy stories and it’s not hard to understand why. Who wouldn’t want to escape your mundane reality and vicariously live through people with amazing abilities living in an amazing world? If you do this right, you could even end up teaching an audience an important lesson through the means of enticing someone to mentally dive into another reality. But sometimes something that substantive is not the goal, in fact it could end up being something that lacks substance entirely and merely wishes to indulge itself in pointless, tensionless, masturbatory bullshit for three months. Such is the case with The Misfit of Demon King Academy, which seems to have been written in the early 2000’s but was actually written about now, and follows probably one of the most shameless examples of someone simply wanting to live out their own fantasies and get paid for them through publication (or in this case, a tv show).
The series follows the journey of Anos Voldigoad, recently revived Demon King from 2000 years ago who has returned to the world he left behind to regain control of it while everyone else around him comes to understand that they are wrong to doubt or question him at any point. Seriously, Anos is not one of those types of characters who has any sort of arc or noticeable change to his mindset or thought patterns as you might expect. No, this is the story of one person turning out to be right about everything all the time and everyone else just having a problem with realizing it, even when he should really be doing some internal reflection. And as you might imagine, that gets rather boring for me to analyze pretty quickly. I can’t even say it’s about how he inspires the world around him by being so right because the only thing he really does throughout the story is just gather a harem in the double digits (most of which being his cheer squad who only exists to show how he has amassed such a huge following even if the characters themselves are really just the show wanking itself off) and take back all of his stuff that he let go of when he died. Not even the supposed other main characters really get to develop in any significant way past the point that they become part of his harem, while his main antagonist is someone whose horrible implications get totally tossed aside once everything is sorted out.
As you can probably guess by now, I cannot in good conscience recommend this series. I’m sure that many will get plenty out of it, particularly in the teen age group range, but hopefully they grow out of whatever they find appealing about it. The fact that they clearly rushed the ending just to resolve everything tells me this is likely only meant to be a one season show, which would be great because it was awful to look at as it was to listen to. Just…make it go away forever please.
