English Dub Review: The Misfit of Demon King Academy “The Transfer Student”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

After a flashback to Anos granting his most loyal servant the ability to reincarnate without memories (which I can’t imagine will have any baring on future events, no sir), we learn that the staff that he and his team recovered was stolen, so their points are being reduced from 100 to 70. This turns out to be a ploy by their professor to mess with them, though Anos figures this out. One student, Misa, defends them, though she’s not well respected due to being a hybrid and being a proponent of Unitarinism, which believes that all the races should live and work together. She takes Anos, Misha, and Sasha to her club, who turn out to all be Anos fangirls of the obsessive variety, and obviously already believe that Anos is the true demon lord…for some reason. They all wish to join his team, though he asks them to prove themselves first.

The next day, a new transfer student, Lay Glandzulii, shows up one of the Seven Elder Demon Emperors in sword pulling class, though he has no interest in becoming a leader. Rather he would join Anos’ team, so Anos has him lead the fangirls against him, Misha and Sasha first. As expected the girls are no match for Misha and Sasha, especially after their retroactive power boost from changing their sources in the past last episode, but Anos and Lay end up being close to evenly matched. At least, for a little while, since Anos still defeats him without much effort, but does seem to remember him from a past life.

OUR TAKE

Yawn. We’ve got the start of a new arc this week, introducing us to a slew of new characters who are either ardently hating on Anos being super special awesome OR tripping over themselves just to be under his boot heel. I mean, I say a slew, but really it’s just Lay, Misa, and the fangirls, who are just the same character in like twelve different bodies. And not in some fun and interesting way, the writer just added like a dozen characters who are just the same person in different designs. And their continued fangirling over Anos is only going to get more annoying as the arc goes on, though it doesn’t factor into the plot a whole lot so I suppose that’s a plus. Misa is an actual new character who doesn’t SEEM to be an instant drooling fangirl, so that’s a plus, but she’s instead the representation of the in-universe belief of Unitarianism, which believes *GASP* in EQUALITY?! WHAT A FRESH CONCEPT! She does have a backstory which shows why she is so passionate about it, that being that she is mixed race herself and so has vested interest in bringing her own family together, but everyone else in her club clearly does not have the same passion about that subject matter beyond hyping Anos up merely for existing.

And yeah, this episode is more of that: just singing Anos’ praises and showing just how cool he is just for being him, which he obviously has no problem with because why wouldn’t the universe just be head over heels for him? Heck, anyone who isn’t must be an enemy working against him, even if they did use to work for him in the past. Speaking of which, we meet a couple more Demon Emperors today, but they don’t even get the bare minimum fleshing out that Ivis, the last guy did. They might as well have just been thugs or regular teachers like their headroom professor, who I guess is supposed to be one of the emperors too? Unless Wikipedia is lying to me. And since this is getting near the end of the review portion, you might notice that I haven’t really mentioned Lay that much. Mostly because there’s not much to mention that I couldn’t save for next week, but yeah, he’s the guy from the cold open flashback. Don’t worry, he’s not interesting either.