[Rewatch] Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Episode 11 Discussion
#**Episode 11 - [Together with Familiars!](https://i.imgur.com/LIrnF5c.png) & [The Battler's Challenge](https://i.imgur.com/ytLpqZN.png)**
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***Today's lesson is… interacting with your familiars!***
**Questions of the Day:**
1) What would you do if you got stuck with Kalego as your familiar?
2) Were you in a ~~Battler~~ club in high school?
**Wallpaper of the Day:**
[Balse Robin](https://i.imgur.com/Ix060at.png)
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***Today's lesson is… interacting with your familiars!***
**Questions of the Day:**
1) What would you do if you got stuck with Kalego as your familiar?
2) Were you in a ~~Battler~~ club in high school?
**Wallpaper of the Day:**
[Balse Robin](https://i.imgur.com/Ix060at.png)
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[Iruma-kun]>!Ameri is best girl.!<
Which becomes [Iruma-kun]>!Ameri is best girl.!< when you don't break the formatting on purpose like I just did.
Commentaires
[Welcome back, everyone!](#michaelwink)
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- [Iruma asks a good question of himself.](https://i.imgur.com/bCXJF4B.png) [](#thoughtful)
- [I remember being absolutely *convinced* Robin was related to Clara the first time I watched this show.](https://i.imgur.com/6qcoy4H.png) He’s not, but they feel like they *could* be to me.
- [I like how the boys in the background of this shot are blue while the girls are red… except for Clara, Clara is still green.](https://i.imgur.com/NOjqawb.png) [](#kukuku)
- [Clara has the perfect familiar.](https://i.imgur.com/YbOvhD3.png) [](#ohoho)
- [Oh Robin, you have no idea…](https://i.imgur.com/5duoU1k.png) [](#serialkillerlaugh)
- [RIP Kalego.](https://i.imgur.com/YMuKdVp.png) [](#toradorasalute)
- [Of course it is.](https://i.imgur.com/fN7wD5q.png) [](#kukuku2)
- [LMAO](https://i.imgur.com/kBPL8UB.png) [](#laughter)
- [Iruma really is such a good boy, worried about the safety of others and all that.](https://i.imgur.com/W9yGteN.png) [](#anko)
- [That one lady teacher continues to be literally me.](https://i.imgur.com/fr6uMY7.png) [](#trololol)
- [Time to learn about the netherworld’s version of clubs!](https://i.imgur.com/Ywf1t0H.png) [](#seasonalhype)
- [Battlers mean *serious business*.](https://i.imgur.com/1FdMWRt.png) [](#SPORTS)
- [So about that…](https://i.imgur.com/gCgsmdT.png) [](#crazedlaugh)
It's fun that the entire misfit class is still distinguishable even when drawn in "subway sign people" background character form.
[](#neat) [Oh, Clara](#seasonallaugh)
> That one lady teacher continues to be literally me.
[](#kotohoops)
**Thoughts on the episode**
* [New guy!?](https://i.imgur.com/XnDalJN.jpeg) He’s… very green. And has a similar hairstyle as Iruma? He looks like a Pokemon gym leader.
* Rin’s gonna tell Kakeru how she feels!!!! [](#skyhype) Ameri’s faces and reactions to what Iruma is reading are precious.
* Gym leader is a teacher. I see. Balse Robin is a fun name. He’s genki as hell too. Must be a green-haired demon thing.
* Interacting with your familiars sounded cute until I remembered who Kalego is Iruma’s familiar… This is gonna be good.
* [This episode is already very Pokemon-coded](https://i.imgur.com/OJciA2N.jpeg)
* Kalego is NOT happy as expected. Balse’s reaction to seeing his familiar form is me_irl. Poor Kalego got zapped hard by the ring too. I love how everyone in the class just wants to watch Kalego ~~get tortured~~ do familiar bonding activities.
* Got some good lore on why the familiars look like they do. Kalego’s adorable form is because of Iruma. Sasuga Iruma!
* Clara catching the frisbee instead of Falfal was great. Kalego moving slowly to pick it up was pretty good too. Everyone except Iruma and Kalego are enjoying this greatly (me included).
* Azz’s fangirls seem… Intense. But Iruma got the Bet food now yeah!!!!
* The Battlers seem like a good place for Iruma to work toward his next goal. Interested to see where he goes from here!
QOTD:
1) Enjoy messing around with him
2) I was on the Swim Team Battler
You know its going to be a great episode when we start with Ameri and the forbidden texts.
Green Iruma is the new teacher and there is going to be some familiar shenanigans.
I love Falfal already.
Really loved Iruma and Kalego "bonding".
That's pretty intense recruitment.
**QOTD**
1) Accept my fate and never summon him.
2) Go home club.
Okay this got a good laugh out of me.
[](#laughter)
[](#vashheadscratch)
[](#seasonalshock)
There is one [anime adaptation](https://myanimelist.net/anime/61199/Houkago_Kitaku_Biyori) coming up sometime in the future and one rather obscure anime [all about going home](https://myanimelist.net/anime/18495/Kitaku-bu_Katsudou_Kiroku) (I guess its about go-home club, I've never watched it)
Falfal is such a wonderful creature.
[](#happyclap)
Oh, Robin-sensei finally debuts. Surprised it took him until episode 11. Also, I am just noticing that he and Iruma share the same "wings" hair.
**It's the GOAT, Falfal!!!**
[](#SPORTS)
Kalego's voice while Eggy. The contrast is fun. I feel like his VA puts on extra sauce when Eggy.
> "The one who wrote the teacher's guidelines was Kalego the famil- uh... Kalegon himself."
[Narrator](#laughter)
I bet that one Kalego fangirl teacher would love Eggy as an oshi plushy at her house.
Side note: That one background demon girl, the blonde one in that usual trio. I always felt like her and Eiko have overlapping designs.
A random joke of Dosanko doing a Marilyn Monroe.
[](#kotohoops)
Eggy (Kalego) being forced to fetch. His walk back! We love to see handsome men degraded.
[](#happyclap)
That "Mm~" when being brushed. Eggy (Kalego) likes it.
[](#kukuku2)
School clubs being called "Battlers" is just a quirky thing we do here. Rookie hunts are another quirky and bloody twist.
Kalego's VA is really chewing the scenary with that "**WHHAAT!?**"
[](#justright)
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**Q2)** I actually tried joining a number of clubs at school; anime club, video game club, crochet club. I always fell through on them because I was the most dedicated to the club I loved the most, the going home club.
[](#tiredaoi)
While on the topic, the closest I got to completing a club to the end of the year was what was basically like an afterschool math club. I couldn't refuse a teacher not letting me throw my math skills to waste, so I ended up participating along with some other friends.
Not a club exactly, but I also did a couple of years as a helper at the school library.
It's a shame she's in the wrong continuity to get one.
> I couldn't refuse a teacher not letting me throw my math skills to waste, so I ended up participating along with some other friends.
Did the teacher know the three magic phrases?
Starting off with a new character, I Can't Believe It's Not Clara!
God, Ameri is too damn cute.
Iruma is also too damn cute.
Remember, Ameri has never actually watched an anime before, she probably thinks there's a real chance Rin might confess.
So does the bell monster actually bark Westminster Chimes, or is that just translation convention? And if it *is* Westminster Chimes, how do demons know about Big Ben?
I Can't Believe It's Not Clara! is a teacher. And, believe it or not, not related to Clara.
They vibe really well, though.
Time for more worldbuilding. Robin has a very Pokemon view of familiars.
Sabro is still on about the legs.
Clara's familiar *actually is* a Pokemon.
My guesses on what Pokemon types each Misfit would specialize in:
* Iruma: Normal, because he's human
* Asmodeus: Fire, for obvious reasons
* Clara: Fairy, because they're both cute and mischievous
* Sabro: Steel, because he's a blacksmith
* Jazz: Tricky, but I'm going to say Ghost, as there's some overlap conceptually between ghosts and thievery
* Lied: Electric, because he's a gamer and also because his character design is reminiscent of both Pikachu and Kaminari
* Agares: Ground, for obvious reasons
* Gaap: Fighting, because of his samurai aesthetic
* Allocer: Psychic, because he's supposed to be the nerd of the class
* Camui: Flying, because he's a bird
* Elizabetta: Fairy again, although this time because she's elegant and graceful
* Kerori: Ice, for obvious reasons
Oh, no. Iruma has to summon his familiar.
The beginning of what will become a common theme for Robin: being a menace to Kalego specifically.
Marbas, [Heartbreaker arc]>!you teach *torture*!<, get your shit together, you should not be this easily frightened.
Robin seems more interested that Fluffyego can talk than he does in the fact that this his senpai.
And here we see another, important side of Kalego. Kalego is petty, spiteful, grumpy, and hates children in general and the Misfits in particular. But he is *also* a consummate professional. Teaching is his job, and by devi he's going to do it right, no matter what it takes.
Also important but subtle characterization for Iruma here: he *could* use the familiar contract to essentially enslave Kalego. But of course, he is a Good Boy, so he instead only summons Kalego with the latter's consent. This puts him over the incredibly low bar for isekai protagonists.
One has to wonder what Gorgon Snakes, Kelbies, and especially Falfals all look like in nature.
I would feel sorry for Kalego if he wasn't such a prick and also this wasn't so funny.
Kalego is starting to realize that maybe it wasn't fair to direct his dislike of Sullivan toward Iruma.
AZZ NO HE HAS A TYPE ADVANTAGE
And here we have an Iruma-kun staple that I really like - take a common shounen sentiment and turn it on its head. Familiars are not your "partners", they are dangerous animals, and they need to be treated as such.
Ooh, a mysterious countdown!
Iruma's reputation might have gotten a bit out of hand.
So, yeah, rank discrimination is a thing, the Netherworld has some social problems.
And the countdown is over!
"Battler" is one of the trickier words in Iruma-kun to translate. It's spelled using the kanji for a military division, but katakana indicate that it's supposed to be pronounced as the English word "battler". I honestly think "division", or even "battalion", would be a better translation, as it helps relate back to the idea that these are really just school clubs, but "battler" has clearly stuck as the official translation (sometimes "batra").
Wait nevermind the countdown is still going.
Our boy is starting to grow up.
The Rookie Hunt begins!
Sukima! Eiko's made a huge mistake.
[Music Festival arc]>!No Purson sightings this week, he seems to have been absent that day. His Pokemon type specialty would be Ghost, of course.!<
Oh no, Ameri! She hasn't gotten her trope savvy awareness yet!
[](#howcouldyou)
> My guesses on what Pokemon types each Misfit would specialize in:
[](#awe)
I think all of those fit fairly well. For Jazz, I feel like he is a perfect slot into Dark-type. If we want to avoid overlaps, then I could see Elizabetta using Grass-types. If this were like Scarlet/Violet, where Gym Leaders had 1 Pokemon not of their type, you just know Agares would be partnering up with a Snorlax.
Since Pokemon assignments are always fun, thinking up for some other characters;
* Kalego: Dragon. He is so Dragon trainer-type of character fr fr.
* Robin-sensei: Flying
* Suzie-sensei: Grass
* Grandpa: Ghost, but the twist is that they're all friendly like he is.
* Opera: Not type-specialized. They have a stat-max team built for competitive play.
That is a *much* better fit. In my defense, I completely forgot that type existed.
Az and Sab are entering the Budget Dimension again!
Robin really got Kalego good throwing his own words back at him like that. It seems to have sunk in too - while he's not happy about it he's at least willing to play ball for the sake of Iruma's education and his duty as a teacher.
The Azmodeus Fan Club swung by to give us a handy introduction to the social aspects of the Demon World's rank-based classism! [Future]>!Or they would've if it ever came up again. I don't remember many demons actually caring much beyond this point.!<
Guess the dub settled on "Battlers" after all! It's a little wonky as a stand-in for Clubs either way (presumably it works better in Japanese) but "butler" just makes me think Opera's about to drop out of the rafters.
Rush Week looks particularly literal at Babyls...
Poor Eiko. Trying to get to Iruma through Kalego is like trying to get into an open house by climbing down the chimney.
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> 1) What would you do if you got stuck with Kalego as your familiar?
I'd probably go down a similar route that Robin accidentally did: Remain polite but firmly insist that, while the situation is not ideal, it's my obligation as a Babyls student to carry out the prescribed class exercises to the utmost of my ability. A stick up his ass he may have, but Kalego's not the kind of person to invent groundless reasons to punish his students. Not sure I'd have had the composure to pull that off back in school though.
> 2) Were you in a Battler club in high school?
I was a lead member of the Lego Robotics club and the local Youth Orchestra!
[Iruma-kun manga]>!It isn't always expressed as rank discrimination, but classism definitely comes up fairly often, most recently with the many-ears.!<
* So I'm a little behind so I'm going to watch 3 eps to catch up today
* Asmodeus family? Alice is his personal name?
* Iruma BLUSH
* Iruma's never thought about his dream before?
* Clara is single-minded
* Of course Azz has a 4-poster bed
* Feminine wiles? Oh god
* No incubi? how rude
* ... that's the Fairy Tail "WOW" sound effect
* 2% LOL
* "piggyback" LOL
* Clara is not sexy at all ...
* Stench? oops
* I feel bad for Clara trying so hard and keep failing
* ... a SONG?
* Clara is just too innocent
* ... i knew his Crisis Evasion would save him
* ... pheromone perfume? I wonder if it works differently on demons and humans
* ... oh no, are we actually gonna get ClaraxIruma? What about my IruAzz??
* Welp, didn't have time before work for 3 eps.
09, first timer:
* This IS the birth of a new legend
* Azz has to announce everything
* Execution cannonball??
* OH I was expecting demon dodgeball ...
* it IS dodgeball?
* Everyone gonna join?
* Sullivan actually has an office?
* Libera summons a dragon?
* Sullivan thinks Iruma is too cute??
* Opera time?
* Is Opera male or female? I'm guessing female but ...
* Ponytail Iruma makes me think of Ponytail Cross ...
* He should keep the ponytail, honestly
* This was a wholesome ep
10, first timer:
* Ponytail resurgence! [](#SPORTS)
* I wonder if Azz will be on the same team as Iruma ...
* "Don't throw the ball at Iruma" Why?
* Oh they're overestimating him?
* The owl char (Camui?) has Mineta vibes
* He doesn't know how to throw it? Use Libera!
* Azz vs. Iruma? [](#SPORTS)
* Azz gonna pitch it to Iruma with full force? [](#uwaa)
* Oh Ameri is coming?
* Not really a fan of the soundtrack thus far
* Of course Sabro is too heavy
* More exams? I hope it isn't always just dodgeball
* Is Sullivan getting jealous?
11, first timer:
* Murase is good at doing female voices
* LOL he's making her wait
* Oh no, now classes are starting? Guess she'll wait some more
* Balse seems young for a teacher?
* He really learns to know how to say No
* Shape and form influenced by master? So it's Iruma's fault Familiar-sensei looks so cutesy?
* Pokemon battles now?
* I wonder if I should ship Balse x Kalego ...
* The girls are kidnapping Iruma?
* Battlers? Huh I was expecting something more YuGiOh-like
* It can't just end THERE? [](#howcouldyou)
1) run
2) No, though I did do band / marching band (clarinet squad assemble!).
Neither; the dub refers to them with they/them pronouns during episode 9, the sub avoids using pronouns with Opera entirely (IIRC), and from what I could tell from a glance at the fan wiki, the mangaka has consistently avoided answering questions about Opera's gender identity.
[](#hikariactually)
Incubi do exist, there's one in one of the spinoff manga. Incubi and succubi are a specific demonic ethnic group.
> Is Opera male or female?
They are not!
> Oh they're overestimating him?
Honestly, I don't think it's even overestimation, necessarily, he genuinely is good at dodging.
> Balse seems young for a teacher?
Robin is the rookie, he's fresh out of school himself.
> I wonder if I should ship Balse x Kalego ...
Modestly popular, although not the most popular Kalego ship.
Today, I was a 0 for the [season 4]>!Purson Count!< I thought a silhouette might work but I wasn't sure.
Man, Iruma really is putting his whole ass into has VA work, Ameri has to appreciate this level of sound effect work. I wonder if she's reading from the same book as him, or if the wall of forbidden texts includes copies to follow along with. Love her ears twitching as she got excited.
The cut between Falfal and Clara's stares really set the tone for that relationship, didn't it? I wonder if the shared look to Murf and Connor is just laziness or if there's really something in it. Probably laziness.
I cant remember if its outright shown in the earlier appearance of Kelpie, but I like the water-fire opposition continued with Azz and Sabro. I wanted to find more in it, but "Gorgon Snake" isnt a creature in itself I know of, and nothing with Sabro goes straight to the drowning, shapeshifting horse-monsters of Scottish legend in my head.
* 1. In the words of Worf, "Die."
* 2. I was a founder and head of a board game club for two years in school. Trying to get a budget, maintaining a teacher sponsor, and recruiting members taught me I would rather kill myself with a spoon than hold a leadership role ever again.
It's the same book, Iruma holds it open and facing her.
I really appreciate how into the manga reading Iruma gets, the different voices. Ameri deserves that level of seriousness.
Clara really does have the best familiar.
You really have to have a lot of respect for how seriously Kalego takes teaching. In spite of this humiliating experience he goes along with it because the lesson is important.
That potential side ship for Kalego with the professor lady who likes him really deserves to go somewhere, it'd be cute.
Absolutely never summon him, I don't want to die.
Yes, assuming stuff like band and choir counts.
Whoops, ran out of time yesterday, just means a double-dose tonight
E10 Quick hits
* Opera gonna do as Opera pleases
* Trading some visual excitement for personality reinforcement with most of the class, I'll take it
* I forgot that Iruma didn't finish it off with a ring assist, and just straight returned it on Azz, good on him
* Always BET on Iruma
E11
* Hatsukoi time! Cute Amei is cute
* Oh no, Robin's here
* [Those background faces](https://imgur.com/a/XPwohVs)
* Fetch!
* !!!?
* Hoist by his own petard
* Dosanko please
* The whole Kalego sequence giving me life
* Battlers! The Rookie Hunt is on
* Eiko, girl, you should know better
1) Summon him as infrequently as possible
2) Drama and Speech