Approx length: Anime has 2 seasons (23 and 21 episodes respectively), there'll be third season, but it'll only start airing during Yuletide. Manga is ongoing with 28 published volumes.
Where to find it: Anime is available on Crunchyroll https://www.crunchyroll.com/welcome-to-demon-school-iruma-kun Manga has only recently had been officially published, but it has a dedicated community
What is it, in summary?: Suzuki Iruma is an unlucky boy with terrible parents who keep using their son's kindness for their own selfish gains. This culminates in said parents selling their son to a demon. Luckily for Iruma, the demon in question bought him, because he intends to make Iruma his grandson. Unfortunately for Iruma, it turns out that humans are considered something of a delicacy in the world of demons. But this potential threat may be a small price to pay for a chance to find true family and friends in this new magical world
What do you love about it?: This canon clearly took some inspiration from Harry Potter, and executes on the same basic premise in a way I found extremely satisfying. It starts similarly with a mistreated boy finding himself in a magical world that's both fascinating and dangerous. However, Iruma-kun puts a bigger focus on how its main character slowly overcomes the damage that years of mistreatment done to him and how he starts to change as a person. At the beginning this story promises that someday Iruma will become demon king, which sounds ridiculous. But at some point you realize that it has become a real possibility and that it had always been a natural progression of Iruma's character, because it was inevitable he would have fallen in love with the demon world more deeply than anyone else ever could
I already took too much space talking just about Iruma's great character arc, so to quickly recount other great aspects: very entertaining side characters, great comedy, a gradual expansion of demon world's worldbuilding that makes it more complex, but never kills the magic of the setting, more serious plotlines manage to effectively cooexist with the comedic aspects of the story, non-binary catperson butler
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Iruma's relationship with local Snape equivalent (Kalego), who is actually a decent teacher. And who accidentally becomes Iruma's familiar. Their fraught, but honest relationship is fascinating to me and I want to see more of their interactions. It feels like there is so much they could teach other given the chance.
Iruma and a young terrorist (Kirio), who might be a bit too into the whole fated enemies concept. There are so many great parallels between them and the slow buildup to the inevitable fallout. Also I ship them so much due to their twisted, but extremely genuine connection.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: The content of the first anime season (or its manga equivalent) establishes the relationships between the characters I plan to request and provides enough information to fulfill my request
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): There are demon terrorists who attempt to do terrorist things, but due to light-hearted tone of the story, their plans so far always end up being folded with no one dying or getting permanently injured. There's some violence and blood, but it's more stylized than graphic. The threat of the protagonist getting eaten is a reoccuring element
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun
Media: Manga and anime
Approx length: Anime has 2 seasons (23 and 21 episodes respectively), there'll be third season, but it'll only start airing during Yuletide. Manga is ongoing with 28 published volumes.
Where to find it: Anime is available on Crunchyroll
https://www.crunchyroll.com/welcome-to-demon-school-iruma-kun
Manga has only recently had been officially published, but it has a dedicated community
What is it, in summary?:
Suzuki Iruma is an unlucky boy with terrible parents who keep using their son's kindness for their own selfish gains. This culminates in said parents selling their son to a demon. Luckily for Iruma, the demon in question bought him, because he intends to make Iruma his grandson. Unfortunately for Iruma, it turns out that humans are considered something of a delicacy in the world of demons. But this potential threat may be a small price to pay for a chance to find true family and friends in this new magical world
What do you love about it?:
This canon clearly took some inspiration from Harry Potter, and executes on the same basic premise in a way I found extremely satisfying. It starts similarly with a mistreated boy finding himself in a magical world that's both fascinating and dangerous. However, Iruma-kun puts a bigger focus on how its main character slowly overcomes the damage that years of mistreatment done to him and how he starts to change as a person. At the beginning this story promises that someday Iruma will become demon king, which sounds ridiculous. But at some point you realize that it has become a real possibility and that it had always been a natural progression of Iruma's character, because it was inevitable he would have fallen in love with the demon world more deeply than anyone else ever could
I already took too much space talking just about Iruma's great character arc, so to quickly recount other great aspects: very entertaining side characters, great comedy, a gradual expansion of demon world's worldbuilding that makes it more complex, but never kills the magic of the setting, more serious plotlines manage to effectively cooexist with the comedic aspects of the story, non-binary catperson butler
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
Iruma's relationship with local Snape equivalent (Kalego), who is actually a decent teacher. And who accidentally becomes Iruma's familiar. Their fraught, but honest relationship is fascinating to me and I want to see more of their interactions. It feels like there is so much they could teach other given the chance.
Iruma and a young terrorist (Kirio), who might be a bit too into the whole fated enemies concept. There are so many great parallels between them and the slow buildup to the inevitable fallout. Also I ship them so much due to their twisted, but extremely genuine connection.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?:
The content of the first anime season (or its manga equivalent) establishes the relationships between the characters I plan to request and provides enough information to fulfill my request
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
There are demon terrorists who attempt to do terrorist things, but due to light-hearted tone of the story, their plans so far always end up being folded with no one dying or getting permanently injured. There's some violence and blood, but it's more stylized than graphic. The threat of the protagonist getting eaten is a reoccuring element