Last season I promised to release mini analyses of the running anime that piqued my interest/gave us stuff to talk about. Unfortunately life got in the way.

It's actually happening this time around. These threads will be updated regularly and may become essays.

DEMON ACADEMY

This show...

FUCKING SUCKS

*HOLY SHIT*

I feel comfortable in saying that this was one of the worst-written things I've ever experienced in recent memory.

Which means of course it makes a fantastic essay

I haven't even seen episode 2 yet I'm still blown away by how terrible episode 1 was. What the actual fuck.

Where do I even begin?

So there's this dude, right? Who's the demon lord reincarnated. He has infinite power, source of all evil, purger of humanity. And his ultimate plan for world domination is... getting into high school.

Genius

The show is just a vehicle for making this character as overpowered as humanly possible. He fuckin kills a guy over and over again for fun on screen because he can. We're never given any indication that he can lose a fight, and he instantly wins over the people around him so

What's the point of the show? What's the conflict? Why do I care???

I don't!

OOPS

So the guy Anos beats up, right? He's like, definitely coded Indian, yes? He's an "Indu". He's got the jewelry and the earrings. He's the only brown character in the show and he's just this terrible person who exists to be destroyed.

That's a yikes and not okay.

And then we meet this girl, who's basically in love with him because the guy... picked up a letter she dropped?

THAT COULD'VE BEEN ANYONE LADY. But know we're head over heels in love with protagonist-sama of course

He takes her home to his parents episode 1 and they're like "oh you're getting married what do you see in our son?" and she's like "your son is such a warm and kind hearted person"

THE DEMON KING

THE GENOCIDAL MANIAC

KNOWN FOR HIS KINDNESS I'M SURE

THIS WOMAN

WATCHED HIM

KILL AND TORTURE

A GUY

OVER

AND OVER

AND SHE SAYS

WHAT A NICE PERSON HE PICKED A LETTER FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'M S E N T

The show wants to have it both ways. It wants the overpowered protagonists capable of razing his enemies to the ground, and "badass" enough to commit war crimes but still the unambiguously good person who gets the girls and is loved by all.

Anos is Naofumi, is what I'm saying

No but like imagine if we actually cared about the Demon King's character. Imagine if we saw the character traits that made him dangerous 2,000 years ago, instead of him being an overpowered self-insert masturbatory fantasy.

Can't have that. Then the show might actually be good

All the dialogue is extremely functional. Everything is explained in excruciating detail and yet we understand nothing. "World building" happens in the sense that names are thrown out out of context. No logic links any event in the past to any events in the future.

HEY YOU WANNA SEE THE DEMON LORD'S MOM'S TITS HERE YA GO

I haven't lost my shit at an anime like this in FOREVER wow

The Misfit of Demon King Academy has no redeeming qualities to it whatsoever. We're really at the bottom of the fucking barrel with one, folks

So we continue on our journey to find out just how low this anime can sink.

Oh look, ethnostates. Nice.

Fuck, why is it always fascism?

What's really frustrating about Demon Academy is that it has anti-"racism" as a central theme of the show. Time and time again our protagonist is discriminated against because he comes from an impure bloodline, and there's an unfair caste hierarchy that runs demon society

But it doesn't work because the caste hierarchy is based on genetic closeness to the original demon lord who

IS OUR PROTAGONIST

SO HE IS BY DEFINITION GENETICALLY SUPERIOR TO EVERYONE ELSE

It's so poorly thought out but the show KEEPS DOING IT like it's accomplishing something

This is Kill la Kill all over again. You have a protagonist that's supposed to be against genetic hierarchy only for it to turn out the protagonist was the übermensch the whole time.

Except KlK took ~17 episodes to make that mistake. Demon Academy fucked up ep1

The show continues to have no stakes.

Like, there's one bit in the middle of episode 2 where it's he and the white-haired girl against an entire group of students and MC is like "we'll outsmart them don't worry"

But he then proceeds to walk up to them, pick up the WHOLE BUILDING (one handed) where they were (breaking through magical shields and encryption), TWIRLING THE BUILDING ON HIS FINGER LIKE CHARLES BARKLEY and yeeting that shit 3 football fields away

No strategy was involved. He's just too strong for his 10 opponents or whatever. How do I see that and not go "wow yeah there's no reason he's ever losing a fight to anyone in this whole show"? And, if that's the point, why continue to have fight scenes if I know the outcome?

Every time I see an isekai like this with an overpowered male lead I wonder why even have a supporting cast in the first place. Whether it's Shield Hero or 8th son or Demon Academy, the over-centralization of the lead robs all other characters of agency

Oh wow is this a powerful and confident female character? Gosh golly she sure seems interesting. I wonder how long it'll take before her personality is uwu-ified and she has no other purpose other than to lust after MC's dick

Oh, what's that? 5 minutes?

Cool coolcoolcoolcool.

Cool.

Fuck this show

Why tf this show so bad

Episode 3 may have actually been the least bad episode of the show? But then somewhere along the way uwu-ified girl was like...

I can't do it justice how stupid this is. I'll just grab some screencaps

This one goes from kissing MC to

YOU FOOL

I WAS EVIL ALL ALONG

MEN ARE EASILY DECEIVED BY MY WOMANLY CHARMS

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

There's no build-up or anything either. The scene that came before it is like

So

???

??????????????????????????

The show tries to act like this is foreshadowing with how her eyes work with emotion but...

Okay, see, the larger problem is not really that it's unexpected, but that I don't care.

It's episode *3*. We've gone from not knowing who she is to doing a full redemption arc to a full romantic subplot + kiss to ACTUALLY IT WAS ALL A LIE. I don't have the time or spoons to give a shit.

Stuff just happens in this show and I'm forced to accept it

This is someone's fetish I'm sure

At this point I'm going to have a ton of fun tearing this show apart in a real video so this thread may not be updated as much