TV series

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord

2018 · 2 seasons

A silly, fast-paced power fantasy full of fan-service and light comedy, easy to switch off to.

Created by: Tomoya Kunisaki, Takahiro Tamano
Genres: Action & adventure, Comedy, Sci-fi & fantasy
Starring: Masaaki Mizunaka, Yu Serizawa, Azumi Waki

Overview: Sakamoto Takuma was so strong in the MMORPG Cross Reverie that his fellow players came to call him the "demon lord." One day, he gets summoned to another world in his avatar form, and meets two girls who both insist that they're the one who summoned him. They cast a spell used to enslave summoned beasts on him, but that activates his unique ability, Magic Reflect, and the girls end up being the ones put under the spell! And thus begins the otherworldly adventure of a demon lord (pretend) who blazes his own trail through overwhelming power.

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Created by: Tomoya Kunisaki, Takahiro Tamano
Genres: Action & adventure, Comedy, Sci-fi & fantasy
Starring: Masaaki Mizunaka, Yu Serizawa, Azumi Waki

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Tone: lightstrength 3 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
campystrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: power
identity
friendship
love
isolation
Places: fantasy world
Era: timeless
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Horror	1
Humour	7
Realism	2
Romance	5
Tension	4
Darkness	3
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	3

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Genres: action & adventure, comedy, sci-fi & fantasy, animation
Created by: Tomoya Kunisaki, Takahiro Tamano, Wataru Sakaibashi, Yoshie Takagi, Yuri Uema, Fumihiro Yoshimura
Written by: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
Starring: Masaaki Mizunaka, Yu Serizawa, Azumi Waki, Yumi Hara, Rumi Okubo, Emiri Kato, Atsumi Tanezaki, Sayaka Senbongi
Music: Yosuke Yamashita, Yusuke Kato
Cinematography: Teppei Sato, Nozomi Shitara
Length: 2 seasons, 22 episodes, 24 min each
Network: TBS, AT-X
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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