🌃 Izuku Wearing The Billion Dollar Suit

The cutest girl in the whole world

Once more I need to talk about Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun! Specifically about Mephisto.

As such, manga spoilers ahead!

I've been thinking of the Scala exam a lot recently, and about Mephisto's reaction to Iruma. I realized that this is the first time in the manga that we see someone contrast Iruma from Delkira instead of compare him to.

If you think about it, it is often repeated through the series about how similar Iruma is to Delkira. Asmodeus saw him as Delkira during his first evil cycle when sitting on the throne. Repeatedly Sullivan sees Delkira in Iruma. Amduscias saw Delkira in Iruma during the musical festival. We are pretty consistently reminded the similarities between Iruma and the previous Demon King. It's kinda like we start to see Delkira as this amazing, never wrong being.

I think that is why it is so shocking when we get Mephisto's view point on the very beginning of Delkira as Demon King. For the first time, we see someone viewing Delkira in a negative light. We see Delkira be greedy and selfish enough that someone was essentially fired from the position that they had held for centuries. Mephisto was cast off on the whims of Delkira.

I think it is so interesting that it takes hundreds of chapters to get to this point. When I first read it, it felt wrong. Like 'that's not right.' Iruma is compared so often to this person that seeing something negative about them feels off putting. It's a reminder that Delkira was not perfect.

I also think that is why the conversation between Mephisto and Iruma is so beautiful. Mephisto realizes how different Delkira and Iruma are from each other, and because of those differences, Mephisto sees a future king in Iruma. That Iruma cares so much that he would never cast aside anybody. Everybody is important to him no matter who they are. This is the first time we finally get someone looking at Iruma as a future demon king because he is different from Delkira.

No one means ill by comparing Iruma to Delkira. Instead everybody means the highest respect by doing that, but there is something so refreshing about Iruma being seen as a future leader for being Iruma. For being greedy in a different way. Instead of making it all about himself and his desires, his greed stems from wanting everyone to be happy and fulfilled.

I was not expecting this outcome from the Scala exam. Initially I was very wary of Mephisto, but now I've come to love his character. He just wants to feel needed again, and Iruma offers that without even realizing it. Iruma is so clueless to the impact he has on the demons around him.

I hope my rambling was coherent. Basically, I am really excited for the series to continue and to see how this all progresses. To see Iruma continue to make a name for himself, as himself. This manga is just so beautifully done.

To add onto the Kalego thing :')

In the anime (I'm getting through the manga rn) there's a handful of times where Kalego is like ???? Why WOULDN'T you summon me? In a very 'you SHOULD' have summoned me way.

Then him picking out the mentors for the harvest festival.

THEN Iruma finally popping up with the seed of beginnings and him being like !! I don't care about the plant! Are you hurt? Are you going to forefit? It gives worried dad energy then 😩

Man I just love Kalego, I think

Right?! I just love how he goes from so against the idea of being Iruma's familiar to getting genuinely annoyed when he isn't used as a familiar. And the small moments that show he worried, like the harvest festival 😭 I also just really love him

I’m saying this AS a deku stan. my literal favorite character in the whole goddamn world. what HAPPENED to him?

where is the "kacchan and everyone else" deku…

"what would kacchan do?"

"in the heat of battle I can't help but mimic you because you're my image of victory"

"all might was my hero, but you were the one actually in my life"

“I always chased after you”

"I can't imagine a world in which kacchan doesn't exist"

the "control your heart" deku.

the deku that only ever looked at katsuki with an awestricken, admirable expression. the deku that was so obsessed with katsuki.

katsuki was deliberately targeted by the villains because of this… I liked that deku was flawed in this way. that he prioritized someone in his life that was awful to him in the past. it’s one of the things that made him so interesting! that he was SO hopeful and so determined to be friends with katsuki again. (it added a comedic contrast to their dynamic too. like ‘wow he still wants this guy in his life so badly despite the bullying?’ YES.)

deku fans, deku haters, EVERYONE used to have something to say about his katsuki obsession. it was a repeated, central discussion for YEARS. even in parodies by non-shippers, deku’s katsuki obsession was constantly poked fun at. even if you hated bkdk you couldn’t deny how dedicated deku was to katsuki.

WHAT HAPPENED????

something something history rhymes

The girls of 1-A and a small caterpillar Aizawa

The vigilante and his adopted dad :) decided to do another drawing based off my fic on AO3

We Pick Up the Pieces and Make Ourselves Stronger

alwqys grabbing each other

So I started watching Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun, and immediately loved it enough to bing all three seasons and then get completely caught up on the manga... then start reading it again. I love the queer platonic polycule. I love the sunshine character that is over powered and protective. I love the found family. I love just how much impact Iruma has on everyone he meets. Everything about just makes me so happy and giggly (except the villain I honestly hate him with every fiber of my being but isnt that waht makes it good?) 🩷💚💙

So I have a vigilante Deku fic I have been posting on AO3 for a bit. Decided to share one of the drawings I did for it :)