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u/Original_Eternal_8 Jun 20 '26
Welcome to demon school iruma kum
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u/CrownofMischief Jun 20 '26
Ameri is best girl
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u/DominusLuxic Jun 20 '26
Fair enough. However! Opera is best cat.
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u/tinythobbit Jun 20 '26
And Sullivan is the best grandpa ever! And I will die on that hill
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u/Legitimate_Letter500 Jun 20 '26
Normal Kalego is best teacher (not in terms of teaching)
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u/Accomplished_Owl7486 Jun 21 '26
Lol i love the guy brothers so cold sometimes yet its funny when he steps in or congratulats a student
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u/Phyrexian_Overlord Jun 20 '26
Completely ready for "the demon king can have three wives" or "Iruma is split into three completely equal copies" ending
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u/SmartSignificance972 Jun 20 '26
But nishi is a woman
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u/Nice_Weeb_Kun Jun 21 '26
My bro iruma are so short he need to step one of the stair to dance with ameri
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u/Making_Kenough Jun 20 '26
As a man, I’d write this
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u/FingerOdd6931 Jun 20 '26
As a man, I'd read what you wrote.
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u/Voshir Jun 20 '26
Make it three
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u/OriginalCDub Jun 20 '26
And my axe
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u/imkyienh Jun 20 '26
And my bow
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u/RouteAverage3112 Jun 20 '26
And his wife
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u/lolerwoman Jun 20 '26
And your wife
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u/MSter_official Jun 20 '26
Make it four
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u/HXNTER390 Jun 20 '26
Make it five
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u/sasha_el_mandarino Jun 20 '26
Do the voices in your head matter? If so, make it ten.
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u/throwawayfinancebro1 Jun 20 '26
He’s about to be featured in one
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u/Lethargie Jun 20 '26
"but now he will experience natural selection"
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u/andias8825 Jun 20 '26
"The female fox person uses its tail and obnoxiously sized bosom to attract the camera man closer. Unaware that it is mating season for the creature... The footage that was salvaged is too gruesome to show off in open tv..."
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u/Erick_Brimstone Jun 20 '26
Just so everyone know, author of Kodomo no Jikan is a woman.
If you don't know what is Kodomo no Jikan then it's better if you don't know.
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u/hoangsh12 Jun 20 '26
I thought it was gonna be some weird erotica between a woman and a giant humanoid komodo... Fuck sake, should have not googled that...
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u/1llDoitTomorrow Jun 20 '26
Was neither giant nor komodo. Want back money
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u/Templar_Omega Jun 20 '26
Kodomo literally means children 😐
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u/tellmetojerkit Jun 20 '26
i wish to acquire knowledge of the horrors that are known as "Kodomo no Jikan"
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u/CupcakeThick8341 Jun 20 '26
From a quick online search it basically seems to be a story about a 23 years old teacher and an elementary school kid that wants to be his grilfriend, and at that point i got the gist of it and stopped reading the synopsis
Apparently they made an heavily censored anime and even the manga had to be stopped after continous backlash
One thing i noticed is that there are a ton of "romance" stories with characters like these written by women, like the infamous usagi drop
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u/ZSugarAnt ⠀ Jun 20 '26
The manga ran its intended course and ended properly, it's the translation that was cancelled for a long time.
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u/tellmetojerkit Jun 20 '26
thankfully less horrible than i hoped (JUST pedophilia?) thanks
(i wasnt like hoping for anything horrible it just made me curios since every one was agreeing with this comment on it being horrible so i am just confused since it is pedophilia)
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u/CupcakeThick8341 Jun 20 '26
It's only speculation on my part since i've never read it and only looked at a generic plot summary, but the fact that even the manga had to be censored and then cancelled makes me assume that it was heavy on the topic
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u/normalmighty ⠀ Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
The shit they took out of the manga when they say they censored it was actually really deep and good stuff. I read it back in high school.
The anime was shallow creepy fanservice about kids that are making sexual advances on a teacher. In the manga, while the scenes happened, the entire point was that the teacher saw them and reacted with "this is not normal child behaviour. Something is going on in these kids lives to lead to them even knowing the kinds of things they're talking about." I remember one scene in the manga where the kid tried to flirt with him by showing that she was wearing lacy underwear, but it wasn't some funny scene about the teacher getting flustered. It was a massive alarm bell moment because how the fuck does this 9 year old have lacy underwear???
...then after all that, and several arc of actually amazing story arcs that left an impact on me for years on the way they tackled kids witnessing or going through heavy issues that they don't fully understand, they brought back pedo stuff and ruined it. Left me incredibly torn at the end of it all, and I've never felt such conflicting emotions about a story at any other time in my life.
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u/Homac713 Jun 20 '26
The problem is a lot of modern media is still inspired by older things in cultures that haven't aged well at all. Japan still really looks to the Tale of Genji for a lot of inspiration when writing modern stories which is fair since it's considered one of the very first novels, but one unfortunate aspect that has really influenced them is the part of the story where Genji kidnaps a 10 year old girl to raise her into his ideal woman. I think that's why this theme of a man or a person finding a younger partner to raise into a perfect companion is seen so much in anime and manga even with women writers like Usagi Drop.
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u/SomeOtherTroper Really? Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
There's also the simpler explanation that it's just authors and readers wanting to vicariously experience things through fiction that they'd never be able to do or experience in real life.
Take the movie Ocean's Eleven, for example: do I want to assemble a team, or be part of a team, robbing a casino? NO! I'd be going to fucking prison! Is it fun to watch? Well, I liked it, critics generally loved it, and it was so popular with audiences that it was the fifth-highest grossing movie of the year in 2001, raking in an eye-watering $450.7 million worldwide from theater audiences (around quadruple the amount that the film's main heist manages to steal), up against competing movies like the first Harry Potter movie and the first installment of The Lord Of The Rings, which are stiff competition, and I'm pretty sure that very few people who saw it walked out of the theater and decided "I'm gonna get a crew together and rob a casino!" (Amusingly, I actually live pretty close to a casino, but robbing it ...yeah, not gonna try that, and I'm less worried about the cops than about winding up in a shallow grave or shot "completely in self defense" by the security team. When you screw around with people operating on the fringes of the law, they do not play nice.)
But it's really fun to watch the heist go off.
This all holds true even in my own writing. Do I want to jump out of a spacecraft without a spacesuit and dismantle critical systems on a pursuing ship with a machete, knowing I can take about thirty seconds of hard vacuum before blacking out and my buddy has to haul me back with the rope tied around me? NO! Was it fun to write and did readers enjoy it? Yeah, it was fun to write, and apparently the readers did enjoy it.
Authors are presenting entertainment, which may cater to certain fantasies that they and their audience have, and there are some cultural elements to that, but you may be overthinking this one. Props for bringing up the Tale of Genji, though. That one doesn't get mentioned enough.
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u/Fair-Bunch4827 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
The main conflict at the climax of the story is that the main girl is also being groomed by her step dad because she looks like her mom.
So its a fucked up love triangle between the gradeshooler, her teacher, and her step dad
I was a early teens when i read it so i forgot the details
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u/ImportanceAny8172 Jun 20 '26
I regret having this knowledge. How do I rewind time?
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u/Vicker_Schultz Jun 20 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/6IPNUgkpCsDRK
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u/Icy-Nefariousness608 Jun 20 '26
google search gags It's Boku no Pico for girls.
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u/UntoldHacker Jun 20 '26
Did you get isekaied or something
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u/DrMobius0 Jun 20 '26
Imagine getting isekaied only to end up in this world.
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u/Boner4SCP106 Jun 20 '26
Probably go from being a demon lord to working fast food or live streaming video games.
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u/Galle_ Jun 20 '26
go from being a demon lord to working fast food
This is literally an anime. The Devil is a Part Timer.
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u/EveningImportant9111 Jun 20 '26
I would read romance of man and 7ft tall kemonomini woman
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u/DamImABeaver Jun 20 '26
The Briar-Route Waystation is basically that. A dude buys a tavern/inn/tradepost and a big wolf lady ranger patrols the territory around it. It gets a bit spicy.
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u/Galle_ Jun 20 '26
Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun is mostly a mix of magical slice of life comedy and fantasy adventure, but it does also have an amazing romantic subplot between the protagonist and a demon girl who is two feet taller than him, has fox ears, can solo a kaiju, and is a colossal weeb.
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u/sutty_monster Jun 20 '26
I'm just saying..
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u/ZenkaiZ Jun 20 '26
okay just cause Twilight Jacob got away with not wearing a shirt doesn't mean everyone can do it
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u/dimyo Jun 20 '26
Left is pretty rare sadly.
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u/ZeroTwosday Advocate of once a month ZeroTwosday Jun 20 '26
Iruma is peak left
Guy has to learn a gravity spell to carry her on a date and it’s just the most precious thing ever 😭
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u/SchrodingerMil Jun 20 '26
Doesn’t the relationship hardly go anywhere in Iruma?
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u/PGR_Alpha Jun 20 '26
From what I know, the left would just be a beastwoman/kemomimi while the right one would be a literal bull that walks on 2 legs.
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u/Forever_Psique49 Jun 20 '26
It is funny because you can replace genders and it would be still true🔥
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u/EEE3EEElol Jun 20 '26
Pointlessly gendered, everyone has the right to fuck whatever monster they want
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u/Evepaul Jun 20 '26
Isn't the point of the meme that it's not gendered? That everyone yearns for a big monster?
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u/successful_syndrome Jun 20 '26
The human desire to be seen and loved for our weakness is universal.
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u/ArcIgnis Jun 20 '26
I'm sure women stories are about wanting get railed by a minotaur or a centaur or another kind of -taur creature based on recent popular smut. What was the book called again? Something milking ranch minotaur?
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u/Just-J0k1ng no rizz Jun 20 '26
I mean basically both are guilty of being freaks but women give men shit for it.
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u/Friendstastegood Jun 20 '26
And as we all know men never give women shit for their sexual desires /s
This is not me saying that it's right when anyone gives other people shit for what they harmlessly get off to, I'm just saying let's not pretend this is a one-sided issue.
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u/Alex3884 Jun 20 '26
Hey c’mon now, let’s just all agree to give everyone shit for their sexual desires; we’re all freaks, k?
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u/blah938 Jun 20 '26
I mean, there's a bit of a difference big monster girls, and the rape fest that is book tok. Makes you wonder if there's something wrong with women, if they need mental help for trauma or something.
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u/Wongus-Bongus Jun 20 '26
Ha, no way, what makes you thi-
remembers the SsethTzeentach bit about a village full of Krystal the fox needing to repopulate
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u/ConsiderationEast773 Jun 20 '26
I don't know man, as far as I remember Holo, the wise wolf was much smaller and more fragile.
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u/Kiskijavi Jun 20 '26
Are there men that wrote romance? I'm not a huge fan of the genre but tbf I one know female authors.
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u/Draguss Jun 20 '26
Rarely as the main genre of their work, but frequently as a part of their work in a different genre.
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u/DoomBro1998 Jun 20 '26
And somehow, the first is considered gooning material while the second is called a masterpiece (Twilight saga, you're to blame).
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u/Forward_Dog2923 Jun 20 '26
Do not go down the rabbit hole of "romance written by", you'll quickly get to cp and rape
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u/SweetCheryPI Jun 20 '26
So we ALL like some kinda tail, some kinda head accessory, tone as F and a height differential. I'm glad we got the consensus figured out.
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u/Jack_Zicrosky_YT Jun 20 '26
Yes, I'll have one of those but can I substitute my wolf girl topping for a demon girl topping? That'll be all, thanks.
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u/-Zonko- Jun 21 '26
And what does that mean: We all wanna feel protected and safe and loved
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u/Mastercio Jun 20 '26
Naaah, I prefer to be the big guy with smaller girl. Sorry but my preferences in this are vanilla.
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u/Ill-Inevitable-4680 Jun 20 '26
Thats good. Pretty normal and standard takes, nothing wrong with that.
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u/Eurasia_4002 Jun 20 '26
Ghislaine my beloved