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Welcome to Demon School!
Hopeless pushover Iruma Suzuki finds himself in a devilish dilemma. His irresponsible parents have sold his soul, forcing him to live and study in the Netherworld. However, with his unique survival skills and the unwavering support of his doting demon grandfather, Iruma is determined to navigate this hellish experience.
He'll need to outsmart rival classmates, summon familiars, and more—all while keeping his human identity a secret. Should be as easy as aleph, bet, gimel, right?
(Source: Kodansha)
Official English: Kodansha
If it was a story that is in CoroCoro, like Pokemon Adventures, or other kids manga like Shugo Chara and Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, it'd be the king of its class. (a 10/10) Hence the decision making of making the characters around 14 years old (though I personally find them act more closer to 12 years old due to how innocent they are.)
But individually to stand on its own (void of the restrictions imposed by the publisher), the plot progression can get repetitive and predictable. The biggest strength of this series is its character roster (an ensemble student cast), where each of them are more or less unique and likeable. But because of its target audience, it's also designed to be void of drama, it can feel pretty sanitized to read it, but well it's for kids.
It's a feel-good, slice-of-life series. It's not really exceptional but does well with what it tries to achieve.
One thing that particularly irks me that I personally find unnecessary is the having some boys classmates constantly ogling the girl classmates, it is not really funny and probably made this scene to be relatable for little boy readers but can be a miss and fall flat if you can't really relate for it. (Think of Mineta from MHA, do you really want more Mineta's? What do they contribute other than be "relatable" if you have traits like him? Oh well.)
Onto the technicalities
Pros
Cons
I like the story; everyone is a well-written character, and there is nothing to hate except the antagonist. I love everyone, especially the Misfits class and the teachers. I don't know why some people hate the flow of the story but I really enjoy watching the anime and reading the manga.
looking forward to another arc. can't wait to meet Purson Soi and hear him playing Trumpet at the music festival. This anime and manga are really underrated. This deserves more popularity than ************ people who hate this story didn't enjoy their high school life.
It's for kids. The jokes are rarely funny, the characters are all extremely stupid, and it's basically yet another 'friendship power' type of action manga. One of those mangas where the only way character development can occur is by making the MC start at the very bottom. Disgustingly nice MC, afraid of everything including his shadow, and a complete pushover who only manages to survive due to ridiculous amounts of plot armor. The 'evasive power' is the worst offender. It's the often repeated gag that helps the MC bullshit his way through everything.
This manga made me understand that I'm just too old to read shounen now. I gave it 80 chapters to change my mind, but it didn't. It's basically just a bunch of filler loosely tied together. It tries so hard to be funny that when it tries to be even slightly serious, it just falls flat.