The Second Coming of One Punch Man (Misfit of Demon King Academy) 

The quote "Did you really think that killing me would be enough to make me die" sold me on this show as either a god tier irony or god tier so bad it's good.

"His parents see him through rose colored glasses as perfect in every conceivable way, and it just so happens that they are objectively right about that." - This had me on the floor.

His relationship with his parents is honestly the best. Its not just a gimmick to him. Making them safe and happy is a genuine concern form him.

"Dying? Minor inconvenience" -Anos (probably)

The first episode Anos basically said "Do not cite the deep magic to me witch, I was there when it was written."

Also Anos's parents' smothering affection goes from a comedic gag to something a bit more desperate when you learn that his parents had been trying very hard to have a child, and the child that became Anos almost died before birth, except Anos possessed him. The author actually does put some thought into the reasons why his characters act in such absurd ways.

Anos: Stop trying to kill me and kill me His opponent: That's what I'm trying to do Anos: And there's your problem

So basically watch this if you want to see Saitama with hair and some romance on the side

Fun fact: in the manga when anos meets the fanclub they all want his signature at the same time so in order to do that he stops time to give them his signature all at the exact same time

"there's no use playing a 3D chess maneuver like this against someone who's already made the fourth dimension his bitch" that is one of the best lines in all your videos.

He's not the Demon King of Tyranny, but the Demon King of Irony

I took Anos's trademark "you think..." comments as very large, very obvious winks at the audience. One big thing that makes Misfit so much fun to watch (beyond just chuunibyou giggles) is how it leans into the nonsense and plays it straight while *also* making clear that everyone else in the show itself finds Anos utterly absurd. You know he's ridiculous, and show knows he's ridiculous, but the show refuses to break character and openly admit that, so Anos himself just... is. The other piece that makes Misfit work is the writing of Anos. Like Saitama, his OP powers are less relevant to the story than his attitude and interactions with people. He seems just amused at people not recognizing him as The Badass of History, and his confidence (it's hard to call anything arrogance in his case after he casually bodies the god of time) lets him just ignore the more foolish social norms. At the same time, he clearly appreciates and enjoys his "parents" (whether he bears them filial love is maybe a different question), has a deep love for the people he still considers his subjects, and will subject you to a fate worse than death if you dare hurt them. The power he has is just a tool, and we watchers are more interested in what he's doing with it and why.

fun fact: in the webnovel, after the MC killed teh god of time in the first arc, there was an authors note: "So OP! I’ve made the MC so powerful. How am I going to enliven the story moving forward?" so im pretty sure they knew what they were doing

Anos is the plural for anus in spanish so spanish speakears have named him the "rompeanos" which roughly translates to the "anus destroyer"

"People die when they are killed" - Shirou Emiya Anos: *COUGH*

It's pretty neat because in essence, this is a thought experiment. Overpowered heroes in stories are almost never truly omnipotent to the point where they are devoid of personal goals. They either want to become even more powerful, they want to avenge someone, they want to save someone, they need to experience personal growth... Anos is a static character. He isn't getting any more powerful because he already has all of the power there is (though that doesn't mean he won't regularily produce some extra untold new powers just to show that he's had them all the time, too). Any development he ever had happened those 2000 years ago. Since Anos has no true aspirations left, the question becomes: What do now? In this case, the answer boils down to: 1: Finding out what in the hell (pun somewhat intended) happened while he was gone 2: Fixing all the things that have gone wrong as a result of what happened while he was gone I think Anos is also a well-written concept of perfection. The question is, how would a almighty character act? How would they treat their "peers"? Anos seems like a reasonable prediction in that regard. On one hand, he is incredibly arrogant. That's the expected the result of both knowing you are the best and not having to fear any social repercussions because you are the best. On the other hand, he's typically not rude or demeaning unless provoked. Since he is the best, he doesn't really have any motivation to be afraid and he knows that he cannot expect others to be on his level. Rudeness is typically a social power play, an attempt to attain dominance over another so they will either let you alone or do what you want them to do. But Anos is already dominant. Anos holds no prejudice because prejudice is usually dicated by fear. Anos has nothing to be afraid of and he knows it. It's interesting because Anos kind of dances around the whole Mary Sue issue. Mary Sues typically ruin stories by virtue of either being perfect when the setting cannot tolerate it, or being treated like they are perfect in spite of their flaws. Anos works because he is both written like a character who somehow has attained actual perfection and because the story fully owns up to it. He is all-powerful in a story where power is nothing more than a framing device that cannot fully determine the actual stakes.

Irony is best when you can't tell if it is or isn't and this show proves that.

Future quote: "Just because something won't work on me a second time, doesn't mean it will work on me the first time."

Bro the intro sounded like anime "we didn't start the fire" Battle bros, drama hoes, Comedy fans with nichijous, Lolis, thighs, FBI, Jojo part five. Rem's best girl, Ferris too, Never getting season 2, Giant mechs, sexy mechs, Piloting by preteen sex, Tokyo Ghoul, seee~no! How old's ash in pokemon? HunterxHunter explains nen *R'MEMBER NINA TUCKER MAN?!?* WE DIDN'T START THE WEEB SHIT

What I like about Anos is that he isn't some badass high schooler come from another world to slay the Demon King. First off, he IS the demon king, which isn't new. Obviously. But the key aspect of that which this series genuinely explores with some depth is the KING part. I'm not used to that. You see Anos and how he behaves and understand, "Oh, this guy was actually the king of a nation for a LONG time." He is charismatic, cares about his people, will wipe the floor with you if you question him and viciously punish you if you hurt his loved ones. I unironically like this series for its characters, because he is far from the only well-rounded member of the cast.

He turned a tsunderi in a single night, that is powere beyond everything that has ever existed

I love when he cracks jokes, then it doesn't catch and goes "hummm...that joke would have landed 2000 years ago". XD God this is such a fun anime. ^ ^

As I'm writing this, the show has ended. However, I'm pretty much half-expecting there to be a 14th episode with Anos opening the show saying: "Did you really think that just because the series ended I wouldn't have another episode?"

something you didn't mention is that Anos is so powerful that for some of the episodes he sings the opening song to his own anime.

Any villain: so I killed you right? Anos: yes Any villains: so you should be dead Anos: yea Any villain: so why are you not dead?!!!! Anos: did you think that killing me would kill me

I am willing to admit, without an ounce of shame, that I did not even think about the possibility of this being a joke and just unironically find Anos Voldigoad to be cool and badass. My chuunibyou has reawakened after twenty years of slumber.

I really watched this entire show not even realizing it was ment to be taken as a joke. It was genuinely awesome to me and I love Anos so much. He was a genuinely good man. My favorite moment is of course the moment he saved his mother. The RAGE. It was beautiful

"He's immune to parental embarrassment" the fact he's not even joking just makes that line funnier

About the irony or comedy: In the early fight of the series, Anos kept resurrecting his opponent while explaining the limitation of the spell. He then jokes about the 5 second rule, but he then comments on how it fell flat for the entire in-arena audience. So, he is trying to be funny, but only we laugh at/with him.

i love how the entire video hes like its funny because its ironic.... i think

I watched the first 7 minutes of this vid and it convinced me to watch the show. Not ashamed to say I did it all in one sitting. Loved every second of it.

My favorite Arnos quote: “You think I’d die if you killed me?”

He's the only character I've seen outside of something specifically a sports anime to have his own fight chorus and it's actually kinda catchy

I knew I was invested when the first big arc is literally him saving the twins and making it so that they can make up and be together. This is one of the few shows of this type where I'm actually convinced that the MC actually cares about the supporting characters. And it's not just the girls, he loves his parents and his new friend. All of the ridiculous over the top stuff is both hilarious but ALSO satisfying because most of it is being done in service of positive things for the supporting characters. I mean the last episodes had him repeatedly praising his father's sword in front of a huge crowd after winning a huge battle, which not only made his parents cry but ALSO saved his new friend's mom too. Something about that just feels so nice right now.

Having seen the show and watching this again for fun, I feel I should say: Part of the reason Anos goes along with all his parents doting may have to do with his own mom being killed by humans 2000 years ago, so he's probably just happy to still have them around. Which makes what a certain teacher does later all the more infuriating for him.

My history professor told us a story of when he attended a conference that included a Japanese delegation. According to him, one of the members spoke before the entire group about how the Nanjing events never took place. My professor stated he then took the podium and called him out on his bullshit. Then, he was worried about how the delegation would react, but a high ranking general privately thanked him because that man was only there as a political pick to say exactly what he said publicly

Anos quotes: "Did you think you could kill me by stabbing my heart?" "Did you think you could stop me by stopping time?" "Did you think you could kill me just by killing me?" *WTF*

He's like, the exact opposite of the "People die when they are killed" meme.

It's rare that a so-called parody actually demonstrates how a subgenre can be done right, but here we are. Rewatching this is a joy and Anos' family is relationship goals personified.

Anos Voldigoad is basically just speedrunning life and looks like he is on world record pace

The funniest thing to realize came today in episode 8 A demon who has been reincarnated recently can only use 10% of his original strength All the scenes where he effortlessly spins a huge castle or kills and ressurects some douche 7 times is him using not even a tenth of his power Wow, already 1.2K after a week Thanks everyone

I just love how self aware this series is when it comes to Anos being the biggest fucking chad in all the universes to the point where even people in the show have no idea how to process it. I mean it won't be winning any deep story awards but the characters so far are endearing enough and it's just a fun time, it's a good'ol "switch off and watch a badass do badass things" series and tbfh, we kinda needed that right now. On a related note, I want to see a duel between Anos and Iruma. The strongest offence vs the "impossible" to hit

There are so many things I like about this show. Mostly it's the fact that Anos is unflappable. The show goes all in with the "perfect MC" trope. It gets old when a character has unbelievable god powers, but gets embarrassed if a girl looks at him or is clumsy or nervous all the time, or doesn't want to show off his powers for some reason. Anos is refreshing because of his confidence. But what balances that out is his kindness. He loves his parents, cares about his friends, and doesn't really subscribe to petty vengeance, which makes it really easy to root for him. Also I love the fan union. They are insanely over the top, but you need an insanely over the top fan club to match an insanely over the top MC. They have such absolute faith in him that it doesn't matter what he says, they just immediately do it. "Oh you need us to sing in order for you to do battle...say no more, we have the perfect song for that." No questioning, just, whatever you say demon king. And the fact that they were willing to risk their lives to protect his mother is what makes them so amazing. There was no second thought, no hesitance; they were totally willing to sacrifice themselves. That's true devotion, and Anos honored that devotion too, which was a nice touch.

Anos now: Did you think that ending season 1 will stop me

I love it when the fan club is going nuts over Anos being in the same room as them, and the camera pans back to him with the most unflinching, self-assured face of: "Yes, that's the correct reaction".

I didn't even realise they made this into an anime. I still remember in the manga he said "You think I died just because you killed me?"😂

4:18 Hey hey hey! The dub is strait up bonkers ok? It's honestly some of the funniest shit I've seen recently because it feels more like an Abridged series than anything.

5:11 MB: "..until he's basketball spinning an entire castle on his finger-" Me: "Dammitt you've now got me hooked on this anime"

"He's just right about everything, and tells you that you're wrong, and then he wins." And you say the whole season's like this? Oh, goody, I'll take ten.

In the manga anos makes an internal comment about how mom's home cooking may be the most effective weapon against him or something among those lines *the demon king of tyranny--defeated by his mom's soup*

"It takes you one punch to kill something? How cute." -Anos Voldigoad, Misfit of Demon King Academy This isn't in the anime but it gives me so much joy and laughter

“Let’s not talk about that dub” Imagine not absolutely enjoying every line Ian Sinclair delivers as the Narrator from the Kaguya dub. He’s an entirely different character and amazing in his own right.

Silver Link has hit three home runs this year and after Bofuri, Villainess and this I think it's safe to say I love this studio!

The LN does better on the parents. He is embarrassed slightly by what they do but then he always thinks about how he enjoys having parents and lets them continue on.

I just finished the light novel and in the Afterword it turns out that the author is fully aware that the tropes are cheesy and cliche, but he enjoys them and just wanted to explore a story where, “All my preferences are on display.” Which, respect. That’s what art should be. I think most power fantasies are cringe because the author is trying to be badass, but in this case he’s just having fun and it shows both in the LN and in what the LN has been able to inspire.

The best part is that the show doesn't really care if it's viewed seriously or as a parody. They just decided it would be fun to write a character with zero flaws and unlimited strength. Death can't kill him, stopping time doesn't slow him, and he goes along with everything without losing his confident smile. It feels like this is really what would happen if a God level character lived long enough. There are never stakes for him, he can easily defeat anyone, teleport to his allies and resurrect them, and has unlimited world knowledge. Since there are no stakes, he just has some fun and puts others through tests. He sees his enemies as lab rats, will they press the button to receive food or try opposing his system and starve? This makes the story a series of events where I watch to see what bs solution he comes up with next. Sure, he could just defeat everyone opposing him in seconds. However, it's much more entertaining to fight a master swordsman with a twig on the ground.

If a normal time protagonist is "I'm four parallel universes ahead of you" this dude is "I'm thirteen multiverses ahead of you"

TL;DR: Schrödingers Comedy Anime. You just can't be sure if the whole thing is ironic or not

"People die if they are killed" Anos: Hold my beer

btw the sasha misha plot was heartwarming. specially the trope slaying "lol no i'll fix that" from Anus.

I love how in the latest episode Anos literally pulls a "This isn't even my final form!!" and just get's 10 times more powerful for shits and giggles. Like he wasn't wiping the floor with everyone in the show at the same time with both hands behind his back already.

Shirou Emiya: “People die when they are killed!” Anos Voldigoad: “Did you really think that by killing me I would die?” Shirou Emiya: *Surprised Pikachu face*

"The Misfit of Demon King Academy isn't just like One Punch Man because its protagonist can destroy a whole continent with an errant fart" Bruh. I died.

What if it turns out that this is entirely serious, and the studio was making this completely seriously, with no comedy whatsoever, and we are all hyper-analyzing this anime so much, that we have missed the entire point of the show

WAIT HE'S JUST ABRIDGED KIRITO

This is how they often write Superman stories: when your hero can punch a planet out of orbit, you have to give him a task with serious consequences that he can't just solve by flexing on it.

8:34 Sasha: "It was a kiss between friends!" "Phew, I wanna be her friend!" Me: *lmao* xD

This video made me go watch the show with the intent of having a good laugh. Now here I am, fresh from the last episode, and yeah, it was a ton of fun, but I also unironically love Anos’s parents. They just love and support their kid no matter what. They’re delightful. And the Anos fan club? Iconic. Can’t tell if in ironically or unironically a fan at this point.

TBH I’m convinced this show is more Birdemic than OPM myself, but that moment in episode 7 where the MC beats the shit out of his teacher and turns her into a minority for being racist was comedy gold.

If the main character is only one month old, doesn’t that make his entire harem cradle robbers?

RIP Manga Artist he had pancreatic cancer but instead of getting it treated he worked hard on this series

Misfit of Demon King Academy has to be one of the more uniquely written anime out there. If you take it seriously as an OP MC capable of one shoting villains with ease, you can. If you watch this as a tongue in cheek parody of OP MCs where you can feel the author winking the entire time, you can. There is so much dumb crap but also so much awesome moments I have to applaud the author for this unique gem of unknown value.

The classic, my bamboozling has over turned your bamboozle... But in reality, maybe the real bamboozling is the bamboozle we made along the way.

I’m sorry but every time the line “Necron sisters”, or their respective last names get dropped, all I can see within my minds eye are spoopy space robot skeletons.

Glad at least some people feel this way, I absolutely love Anos. It's SOO nice to see a protagonist who is actually JUSTIFIABLE to be one. And he's not going to get easily tricked by moronic antagonists and fall apart, and he's not RUNNING away from women or spraying blood out his nose! And those two things I appreciate SOOO much. I'm so sick of face palming over moron MCs and I'd take someone like Anos over a fool 98% of the time. I wish they could make more protagonists in the middle, where they aren't morons, or non testosterone having Beta males but weren't OP, but to avoid those things I'll take OP all day.

Mhm, I really like anime’s where the mc actually uses their power instead of just like “oh, I should do this secretly or just help people I guess I have harem now ye*

True Heroes struggle even when they have no chance of winning. And one of them is.. . . *Mumen Rider* Respect.

17:37 ain't that quite literally what created modern Yakuza? Outcasts and misfits that were banished from society due to being half-Korean or half-Chinese, banding together and forming what would turn into powerful criminal organizations?

Already at episode 11 now. I don't regret watching it when it first came out. My initial judgement was not "Oh look another generic anime." but "Oh look a new anime to kill time." But, instead, the series accepts its destiny and the plot moves fowards. It indulges to the viewers desires while also holding back, hence the episode 2 kiss scene. It's moderate, yet never teasing like many other anime series. It gives us what we want to see, and satiates our hunger for entertainment. This is, in fact, the second coming of One Punch Man.

Anos has a great moment where he explains to Misha that he is only *uniquely the greatest at destroying things*, and that he hopes she will surpass him in creation magic. And it just does so much to characterize him as someone that wants to see others grow and knows his own (near unreachable) limits.

Sasha kisses her homies, do you?

I mean he named himself and talked during his "first" day. He's obviously the demon king. Also the mom and dad in this anime is wholesome.

We just watched it yesterday and it was a riot! It felt a lot like a pretty regular shounen action power fantasy thing but instead of the inevitable power escalation, they just threw the whole power curve out of the window right away. No pretenses that the protagonist was ever average in some way, not even a second. In some way, that actually made it feel a little more grounded than those shows where the power levels just grow exponentially. Also, we really liked that pretty much whenever anyone of us said "Why doesn't he just...?" - he did exactly that. For all the ludicrous nonsense Anos gets up to, it was surprisingly... sensible. No conveniently forgotten abilities, no contrived misunderstandings, and actually not all that many random fanservice scenes.

After watching through the anime to come back to this video, I think I agree with you a lot on this! Misfit of Demon King Academy toes the line of satire and seriousness in such a *delightful* way that watching this power fantasy wasn't the usual pain it is for me. The characters are well developed and the lore behind it feels like it was put on the same level as the power fantasy itself. Heck, the narrative feeds into the lore and the lore feeds the narrative, as a good piece of writing should. One thing you skipped on that I'm surprised by (and this might be my poor memory) is that Anos, in the same episode regarding Creation magic, actually mentions he believes Misha could surpass him in it, almost as though he's, yanno, not perfect at everything. Which is a delightful twist on this genre of anime, having the main character want to have another surpass him. Sure you touch on him wanting them to get stronger but this line caught me off guard when I first watched it. As a few of the other comments have touched on, Anos really does play into the role of the Demon KING not just "demon badass who is also a king". He... you know, gives a shit! Plus the lore surrounding him two thousand years ago, that delightful twist, it's all just *so good.* Hopefully the second season follows up on the first's grand opening I need to see how buck wild this gets.

My favourite thing about this series is just how much he loves his parents. It's really cute.

Not gonna lie I wish they would show less girl fan service because Anos himself *IS THE FAN SERIVCE*

"you really think that killing me would be enough to make me die?" -Anos Voldigoad

I watched about 6 minutes of this video and felt like I absolutely had to watch this show, and holy shit was it amazing! seeing how benevolent and frankly wholesome Anos is, is just so good, this is such a great feel good action anime, and I fricken love his parents, they are honestly my favorite part!

Fun fact: according to the latest episode, all his feats form this video where made with just 10% of his power.

A number of quotes that can apply to Anos: "Check your priviledge"-anonymous "Do not cite the deep magic upon me witch, I was there when it was written" - Aslan "My stick is born from a log, everyone can see it's better than bacon" - Yoda "That was funny in my days" - some old guy "The moment he was born, he spoke to his mother, naming himself and asking for his father, grabbed his father's bolo and went to kill his father's killers" - and old epic from the Igorots "The more you exist, the more the laws of this universe gets defied" - some MC's ally, probably " it will take then 3(?) Steps before they realize I am ten steps ahead" - Swain.

"Im gonna wake you up personally next time" "Grabs her house and does a basketball trickshot"

"I want to be her friend" this fucking killed me LMAO

So this dude has the power of Saitama, Arrogance of Gilgamesh, and the hair of almost every current anime Protagonists but cooler I'm intrigued

I went into this series with extremely low expectations but over the course of the first few episodes I found it to be the show I most anticipate watching every week.

This video convinced me to watch this show and I loved it so much, it was a heartwarming and wholesome. This show had every opportunity to go full creep with wish fulfillment but remained wholesome despite its jokes and the cheese of it all and feel good vibe of it has helped ease my depression at least a little so: thank you.

After I watched a few episodes of the second season of One Punch Man and, looking for hope amidst one of the most hopelessly boring seasons an anime can have (that I still haven't found the time to sit through and finish), I watched this video... The first season of The Misfit of Demon King Academy just finished airing today (I'm assuming there will be more seasons to come, hopefully), I sat down and watched this video again. I love Saitama as a character and what he represents, but in the second season he became the boring, listless man he claimed he was in the first season. Anos is such a great character, and I almost feel like he one-ups Saitama in terms of likability (see what I did there?). Anos loves people, and he loves his life, and his friends, and his family, and their friends, and their families, and so on. Except Jerga, fuck that guy. Like you said, Anos has worked through the bullshit Saitama is currently working through well over 2,000 years ago. I don't think Saitama will ever learn to just accept himself and his life, but it is a nice thought. Anyways, I loved the show and this video is what brought it to my attention. So thank you, and thank you for taking the time to read this. ❤︎

I believe he is the Most Savage MC I have ever seen in terms of Strength, Action, & Attitude. When he gives 0 F, its absolute 0. When he actually cares its always above 100. There is no middle ground with him. This is a shining example of a True Demon Lord/King/God.

“Immune to all forms of damage, including parental embarrassment” ...just...yes so perfect

The ending is one of the best I've seen, the way the story ends with no lose ends and with a plot twist

7:11 dont forget: "Did you really think that killing me would be enough to make me die?"