How Not to Summon a Demon Lord

 The latest "evening in the couch with Noshi" anime series we have been watching, this one has been on our MAL Plan to Watch for a while.

And yes, it's another isekai, a genre we quite like!

In the MMO game Cross Reverie, Takumo is the top of the hill as Demon Lord Diablo.  However, one day he is summoned into a real fantasy world resembling the game.  This is due to a ritual performed by the pantheria adventurer Rem and the elf princess Shera L. Greenwood.  But Takuma has retained his powers and level of his online alter ego, and the ritual rebounds enslaving the two girls to him instead.

Now, they must work together to find a way and unbind the ritual, while Rem also carries the soul of a mighty demon lord inside her, Krebskulm.  Diablo vows to help her and crush the evil soul once it is out of her, using all his totally over the top powers in this world to do so.

 

Diablo saves the city and his friends from the Fallen, who planned on launching a major invasion.  But Shera's crazed older brother, Keera, has devised a plot threatening to launch a war between the elven nation and the humans should Shera not bear his child.  As she chooses to live free, Diablo faces off against Keera, teaching him a serious lesson. 

But as he lets the elven prince go, Keera is killed by the leader of humanity, Galford, who wants to use the conflict as a means to invade Greenwood.  Diablo overcomes what has been his strongest opponent so far, and upon return Edelgard appears.  She will teach Diablo the ritual to draw Krebskulm out of Rem.  

The ritual goes well, but Krebskulm, or Krem for short, turns out to be a tantrum throwing loli.  Alicia, their Imperial Knight friend, however wants to awaken the demon lord's true power to bring death to the mortal races and have a better world been born from that.  When a paladin, Saddler, tortures Rem to near dead, Krem fully awakens and it comes down to Diablo to get her back in check.

A fun series, with some serious tongue in cheeck fanservice jokes, this was a nice little season to be watching in the evening.

Now onwards to the second season!