Within anime certain shows like Seraph of the End are sometimes hindered by anime conventions, most commonly taking place in a school. This is most likely due to, what I refer as the myth of the target audience, because as we all know a teenagers only wants to hear stories happening to other teenagers and thus must take place in a school. And this is alike for The Misfit of Demon King Academy as well.
The basic plot is that 2000
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years ago the demon lord, Anos Voldigoad, decided for the good of humanity to made a deal with the human hero Kanon. They would sacrifice their own lives to ensure peace could flourish, additionally 2000 years later that he and Kanon would be resurrected. After the resurrection, Anos comes to a new world where he is enrolled into the demon king academy; A highly hierarchically school with a harry potter style blood purity culture. The school holds a reverence for the demon king, however when someone tells him that the demon king was named Avos Dilhevia he realises something’s wrong. What then ensues is a mystery attempting to uncover what has happened over the past 2000 years for this mistake to happen.
What seems to be a genuinely interesting mystery is however squandered. The show is a fever dream. Moments seem connected with no real meaning. Themes are taken nowhere very quickly by a protagonist that seems to be lost in simultaneously a mystery and incredibility dull school drama and comedy. Alongside all this we have a school setting that is incredibility underused, mind numbing and practically useless to the story.
The show has practically no charm, it’s absurd and over the top but it doesn’t stick the landing. Even if it did it would still be drug down by everything else. Throughout my time watching all I could think of was the show Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto, which also has a perfect character overcoming any problem, in that shows case it aims to be a comedy and thus the audience is aware of what's to come and so his being perfect doesn’t clash or harm the story. The Misfit of Demon King Academy however has large juxtapositions in the story as it will fluctuate from a boring an out-of-nowhere romance to a mystery and Anos being perfect hinders any growth or interest from the viewer as he seems to treat everything with a calm disregard. Anos Voldigoad is a shell of a character that does nothing but make absurd statements that at first make you a laugh a bit but as time goes on makes you wonder whether these comments are meant to be played straight and that question is never answered. He somewhat parallels Jin-Woo of Solo Leveling except there's no way one can contort themselves into thinking anything he does is cool.
Anos’ power if fundamental to the show and his ability to do whatever he wants is important as the story warps and bends to whatever he wants it to do. This however isn’t the same in the animation. The show isn’t a collection of stills, but it also isn’t like watching Disney's Snow White at it’s premiere. In a show about awesome power it must therefore have animation that conveys that too, however often during the show the poses and movement are stiff but convey enough that they are not lifeless at least. The series has a lot of action but much of is very forgettable except for a handful of scenes in the latter half and even those often end up losing quality near the end of the fights. A interesting camera angle will be ruined by a stiff pose or a great fight may decide that without any skill Anos should win and thus he does but this is never animated in an interesting way.
Every-setup in the show is not paid off, a common theme of the show is destiny and how many of them are slaves to it, accepting it as if there is no way to change it. In all cases like this Anos uses his power to, sometimes literately, fight the god of time and change time. Once Anos changes the persons future it is practically never mentioned and the person does not now take their new perspective/chance to live a fulfilling life to explore and grow as a character but they instead stay the same and join out main character to form a bland and forgettable cast of characters that feels forced and has no chemistry.
The Misfit of Demon King Academy is a bland and lifeless story that doesn’t go anywhere. In it’s attempts to do anything it fails. Nothing in the work is developed and thus everything is left surface level and goes nowhere. It follows many trappings of similar anime and does not do it well. All in all it is not worth anyone's time unless you explicitly want a bad time.
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