English Dub Review: Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun “Clara’s Toy Box/A Night Filled with Screams”

Overview

Clara reveals her magical pockets have evolved into a dimensional space called Toy Box, filled with every toy and game imaginable. Iruma childishly can’t resist and they play games for hours. Privately, Clara reveals she plans to finally make Iruma fall in love with her…

In a separate storyline, during nighttime, many exhausted students find themselves becoming victims of the more dangerous ingredients and quit the competition in a panic. Many students even require referees to rescue them as the ingredient’s various magical abilities leave them incapacitated. One monster ingredient chases several girls into a castle and wakes up Picero who had been sleeping inside…


Our Take

Finally, we get to see Clara for the first time this season, and it did not disappoint. She learned some new “seducing” strategies and pulled Iruma into her toy box, which is basically a pocket dimension/dream-world-like place that turns turn Iruma him into a little kid and the scenery is every bit as colorful and bizarre in a Drug Trip sort of way. Predictably, Clara misunderstands some of these romance lessons, but at least they had a fun time together.

Consequently, Iruma and Lead lost all their points though, but as night falls, we see how scary the forest can be. People were forfeiting left and right. I can see how dangerous these otherworldly creatures can progressively get and now we’re seeing another group of characters from Iruma’s Misfit class…

Overall, this episode was okay but nothing special. The whole festival thing feels like it’s really dragging on too long when the series is at its best jumping between scenarios that play off of wacky contrasts to our world’s more mundane aspects, but at the very least, the Clara subplot was weirdly wholesome. Aside from that, I feel like this would have worked better had it been a variety of different activities like an actual sports festival than just going all in on this food hunting one that’s starting to get tiresome quickly and I hope it leads to a bigger plot as it unravels.