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Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun

Japanese manga series by Osamu Nishi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun , also known as MaIruma (魔入間) or Iruma-kun (入間くん) for short, is a Japanese manga series by Osamu Nishi about a teenager who is sold by his parents to a demon who adopts him as his grandson and enrolls him in a school for demons. It has been serialized in Akita Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion since March 2017, with its chapters collected in 50 tankōbon volumes as of September 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.