English Dub Review: Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun “The Teachers at Babyls”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Iruma rallies his friends to get the stamped approval of the rest of the teachers within Kalego’s time limit.

OUR TAKE

As mentioned last time, the main highlight of this arc, besides Iruma’s artificial Evil Cycle giving him a lot more confidence, is him being able to finally give a ton of previously useless supporting characters a bunch of moments to actually not be useless. Well, for this arc at least, I can’t say if any of this comes back in their favor for the rest of this season. But this episode is definitely where a lot of them get a chance to shine, from Jazz pick pocketing Kalego’s diary to get a teacher crushing on Kalego to get on their side, to Lied and Elizabetta comboing their respective abilities while playing a weird game that Clara made over night with a different teacher known for beating such games. And we also get to see some interesting steps forward for other characters I figured might have peaked in their first appearances, like Sabnock apologizing to a teacher he attacked awhile ago to establish dominance, but now showing humility and accepting the consequences of his actions. We also get a little nudge forward in the whole Ameri plot when Iruma comes asking for her approval on getting the Royal One, which she gives after some very soft persuasion given how smitten she is.

This is definitely a stand out episode for including so many of these characters in meaningful moments. Series like these don’t necessarily live or die on having big casts like these, in fact they’re often dragged down by introducing so many characters and not having anything to do with them. Naruto was a good example of how to balance most of their supporting cast aside from maybe Choji and Ten Ten, but Bleach often left many of the Gotei 13 high and dry in favor of the more popular members, as do contemporaries like My Hero Academia that has settled into its group to focus on while leaving some glaringly unused. Basically what I’m saying is that massive casts often end up to the detriment of stories like this, mainly because they end up just taking up space. This episode seems to be indicating that at least this show is making use of its cast this time, though hopefully it’s a sign of things to come. Next week brings us to the end of the arc, so we’ll see if the kids of the Misfit Class will get that classroom!