Original manga also celebrates 10th anniversary in March 2027

The “DEVIL’S PARTY! 2” special event for the anime of Osamu Nishi‘s Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun) manga announced in a promotional video on Sunday that the anime’s first film project is launching. The video teases that the film will tell a brand-new story. The video also celebrated the upcoming 10th anniversary of the original manga next year.

The story of Mairimashita! Iruma-kun follows Iruma, a kind-hearted 14-year-old boy whose parents sell him to demons for their own selfish interests. However, the demon he is sold to has no grandson of his own, so he dotes on Iruma and sends him to demon school.

The anime’s fourth season premiered on April 4 on NHK Educational at 6:25 p.m. JST. The season ran for two cours (quarters of a year), and ended with its 24th episode on Saturday. The anime streamed in Japan starting on April 6. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, the CIS, and India.

The anime’s third season debuted in October 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and also streamed an English dub.

The second season premiered in April 2021. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and debuted an English dub in June 2021.

The anime’s first season premiered in October 2019 on NHK Educational, and had 23 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan under the title Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun, and also streamed an English dub. 

Nishi launched the manga in Akita Shoten‘s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in March 2017.

Sources: Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun anime’s website, Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Web

The Mairimashita! Iruma-kun (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun) special event “Devils Party 2” announced an anime movie project for the franchise on Sunday. The official website also revealed an announcement image (pictured above) and announcement promo.

Produced by Bandai Namco Pictures, the first season aired in 23 episodes in Fall 2019. The second and third seasons ran for 21 episodes in Spring 2021 and Fall 2022, respectively. The 24-episode fourth season premiered on April 4 and concluded on September 26. Crunchyroll simulcast the television anime series with subtitles worldwide, excluding Asia.

A television anime adaptation of the spin-off manga Mairimashita! Iruma-kun: if Episode of Mafia was announced for a January 2027 premiere.

Mairimashita! Iruma-kun adapts Osamu Nishi‘s demon comedy manga, which began serializing in Weekly Shounen Champion in March 2017. Akita Shoten released the 50th volume on September 8. The series has over 20 million cumulative copies of its volumes in circulation.

Kodansha USA licensed the manga in English in July 2022 and published the 21th volume on August 4. The 22th volume is scheduled for an October 6 release.

Announcement

Official site: https://www.nhk-character.com/chara/iruma/

Official X: @nep_irumakun

Source: Moca News

NOTHING NEW‘s We Are Aliens (Ware Ware wa Uchūjin) anime film, Honami Yano‘s Eri animated short, and Tomoki Misato and Wit Studio‘s original television anime Candy Caries were all awarded at the 50th Anniversary Awards Ceremony of the Ottawa International Animation Festival, on Saturday. We Are Aliens won the Grand Prize for Animated Feature, Eri won the Best Animated Short Award, and Candy Caries won at the Animation for Young Audiences 7+ Competition. 

We Are Aliens opened in Japan on Friday. Kōhei Kadowaki directed the film. The film screened at the Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, and screened in competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which ran from June 21 to 27. Aside from the Ottawa International Film Festival (OIAF), the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and the New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) also screened the film. The film will screen in the “Japanese Animation Special: Masterpieces of Madness, Exhilarating Prospects 12+1” category of the 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which will take place on October 6-15. 

Kadowaki, who created the second BEASTARS season’s ending sequence and music videos for YOASOBI, served as the film’s planner, scriptwriter, director, storyboard artist, and editor. Yaffle — who previously produced music for Fujii Kaze, Kenshi Yonezu, and others — composed the music. NOTHING NEW planned and produced the film, and French studio Miyu Productions (Ghost Cat Anzu, A New Dawn) collaborated on the production, after joining on the project in June 2025. adieu performs the film’s theme song “Sasakure” (Split).

 Director Honami Yano describes Eri: 

In a world where dairy cows must bear calves to survive, Eri, a Holstein, falls in love with another cow.

Her sighs linger through sleepless nights — will they find their way to the one she loves?

Yano (A Bite of Bone, ChromosomeSweetheart) wrote the script, animated, and directed the Japanese-French production Eri short. It is an adaptation of Kasumi Asakura’s 2008 Hoka ni Dare ga iru (Who Else is There?) novel. The short had its world premiere at the Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival held on May 14.

The Candy Caries original television anime premiered within the Yoru no Brunch variety program on TBS on April 15. Amazon Prime Video streams the anime.

Misato (Pui Pui Molcar) and Wit Studio are credited for the original work. Misato is directing the series at TORUKU from WIT STUDIO. Kenshirō Morii (Anime-Gataris, Grand Blues!) serves as assistant director. Chiaki Nishiaka (The Ancient Magus’ Bride, Shinkalion Change the World) writes the script and Akari Saitō (Etotama, Spy×Family) edits the series. Keigo Hoashi (Summer Time Rendering, Dusk maiden of Amnesia) composes the music.

The Candy Caries anime is a slapstick comedy about Ame, a child who loves sweets, and the tooth decay that lives in her mouth called Caries. Caries lives a carefree life inside Ame’s mouth and even calls her “Mama,” and Ame’s body is always at Caries’ mercy.

Candy Caries was first revealed as a stop-motion anime promotional video in 2021 after Wit Studio had established a stop-motion studio with Misato in December 2020.

According to Misato, he used plastic board and acrylic for Candy Caries, and describes it as a semi three-dimensional animation that’s “flat like an illustration, but plump and thick.”

Source: Press release