How Not to Summon a Demon Lord

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, also known as The King of Darkness Another World Story: Slave Magic (Japanese: 異世界魔王と召喚少女の奴隷魔術, Hepburn: Isekai Maō to Shōkan Shōjo no Dorei Majutsu, transl. "The Other World Demon Lord and the Summoning Girl's Slave Magic") is a Japanese light novel series written by Yukiya Murasaki and illustrated by Takahiro Tsurusaki. The light novels are published in English by J-Novel Club. A manga adaptation by Naoto Fukuda has been running since 2015 and is licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment. An anime television series adaptation by Ajia-do Animation Works aired from July 5 to September 20, 2018. A second season by Tezuka Productions and Okuruto Noboru aired from April 9 to June 11, 2021.

Synopsis
In regards to the MMORPG Cross Reverie, Sakamoto Takuma boasted an overwhelming strength that was enough for him to be called the Demon King by the other players. One day, he gets summoned to another world with his appearance in the game. There, there are two people that insist "I am the real summon master." Takuma gets slave-turning magic used for summoned beasts cast on him by the girls―

However, the peculiar ability "Magic Reflection" is invoked! The ones that were turned to slaves were the girls!

Takuma was bewildered. He's the strongest magician but, he doesn't have any social skills. Panicking, the first words that came out were the ones that he used inside the game role-playing the Demon King?! "I'm amazing you say? Of course I am. I am Diablo... The one feared as the Demon King!"

This is the story the Demon King (acting) that would soon inspire the world and his other world adventure that he plunges through with his absolute strength, raise the curtain!

Light Novels
The light novels are written by Yukiya Murasaki and illustrated by Takahiro Tsurusaki. Kodansha published the first volume under their Ranobe Bunko imprint in December 2014. J-Novel Club announced on September 28, 2017, that they had licensed the series for the North American market.


 * Original Version (Japanese)
 * Released date December 2, 2014 - ISBN 978-4-06-381433-0
 * Released date May 1, 2015 - ISBN 978-4-06-381461-3
 * Released date September 2, 2015 - ISBN 978-4-06-381487-3
 * Released date February 2, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-06-381513-9
 * Released date June 2, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-06-381541-2
 * Released date September 30, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-06-381557-3
 * Released date March 2, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-06-381589-4
 * Released date August 2, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-06-381619-8
 * Released date February 2, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-06-381643-3
 * Released date June 29, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-06-512645-5
 * Released date October 2, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-06-513796-3
 * Released date May 2, 2019 - ISBN 978-4-06-515618-6 / ISBN 978-4-06-516122-7 (Limited Edition)
 * Released date June 2, 2020 - ISBN 978-4-06-519445-4
 * Released date June 2, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-06-523735-9
 * English Version
 * Released date December 4, 2017 - ISBN 978-1-71-831700-0
 * Released date February 19, 2018 - ISBN 978-1-71-831702-4
 * Released date May 7, 2018 - ISBN 978-1-71-831704-8
 * Released date July 23, 2018 - ISBN 978-1-71-831706-2
 * Released date October 8, 2018 - ISBN 978-1-71-831708-6
 * Released date December 12, 2018 - ISBN 978-1-71-831710-9
 * Released date February 26, 2019 - ISBN 978-1-71-831712-3
 * Released date April 29, 2019 - ISBN 978-1-71-831714-7
 * Released date June 15, 2019 - ISBN 978-1-71-831716-1
 * Released date September 8, 2019 - ISBN 978-1-71-831718-5
 * Released date December 2, 2019 - ISBN 978-1-71-831720-8
 * Released date January 26, 2020 - ISBN 978-1-71-831722-2
 * Released date December 1, 2020 - ISBN 978-1-71-831724-6
 * Released date October 12, 2021 - ISBN 978-1-71-831726-0

Manga
Naoto Fukuda launched a manga adaptation of the series on Kodansha's Niconico based manga service Suiyōbi no Sirius in June 2015. Seven Seas Entertainment announced their license to the manga on September 14, 2017.


 * Original Version (Japanese)
 * Released date February 2, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-06-376596-0
 * Released date June 2, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-06-390637-0
 * Released date September 30, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-06-390657-8
 * Released date March 9, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-06-390687-5
 * Released date August 9, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-06-390723-0
 * Released date February 2, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-06-510795-9 / ISBN 978-4-06-510419-4 ( LE )
 * Released date July 9, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-06-511981-5 / ISBN 978-4-06-512845-9 ( LE )
 * Released date December 6, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-06-514075-8
 * Released date May 9, 2019 - ISBN 978-4-06-515400-7
 * Released date October 9, 2019 - ISBN 978-4-06-517217-9
 * Released date April 9, 2020 - ISBN 978-4-06-519084-5
 * Released date October 9, 2020 - ISBN 978-4-06-520904-2
 * Released date March 9, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-06-522506-6
 * Released date June 9, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-06-522506-6
 * Released date September 9, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-06-524775-4
 * Released date January 7, 2022 - ISBN 978-4-06-526564-2
 * Released date April 7, 2022 - ISBN 978-4-06-527390-6
 * Released date July 7, 2022 - ISBN 978-4-06-528254-0
 * Released date November 9, 2022 - ISBN 978-4-06-529673-8
 * Released date March 9, 2023 - ISBN 978-4-06-531500-2
 * English Version
 * Released date June 26, 2018 - ISBN 978-1-626927-60-5
 * Released date September 25, 2018 - ISBN 978-1-626928-65-7
 * Released date February 26, 2019 - ISBN 978-1-626929-65-4
 * Released date May 14, 2019 - ISBN 978-1-64275-078-2
 * Released date September 24, 2019 - ISBN 978-1-64275-339-4
 * Released date November 19, 2019 - ISBN 978-1-64275-340-0
 * Released date November 19, 2019 - ISBN 978-1-64505-220-3
 * Released date August 4, 2020 - ISBN 978-1-64505-518-1
 * Released date October 13, 2020 - ISBN 978-1-64505-758-1
 * Released date January 26, 2021 - ISBN 978-1-64505-808-3
 * Released date April 27, 2021 - ISBN 978-1-64827-103-8
 * Released date October 5, 2021 - ISBN 978-1-64827-289-9
 * Released date January 4, 2022 - ISBN 978-1-64827-385-8
 * Released date June 14, 2022 - ISBN 978-1-63858-305-9
 * Released date January 3, 2023 - ISBN 978-1-63858-892-4
 * Released date August 15, 2023 - ISBN 978-1-68579-516-0
 * Released date November 28, 2023 - ISBN 978-1-68579-953-3

Character
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Abilities
"Both in-game and in real life, I've always played solo."

- Diablo On Earth as a human, Takuma Sakamoto has no outstanding abilities except for being an expert at playing video games, especially Cross Reverie. He got his character Diablo to the counter-stop level of 150 as a Sorcerer and mastered all of the Elemental magics and had the Combiner sub-class. The arrangement of his stat distribution and skills, his job-class title is 《Sorcerer of Annihilation》. When he came to the other world and became his game character, he is able to use them as well and he can even adjust it to make an ice cup filled with water appear out of thin air. Also after coming to the other world, he might have picked up the chef sub-class and may have surpassed level 150 as a Sorcerer.

He manipulates a large number of elemental magics that are not widely used in other worlds, and his level is overwhelmingly high, so half-baked attacks will not work. Since magic is reflected by the effect of the item equipped, it boasts no loss except once in the work.

He has been appraised by Emile Bichelberger as level 40 Warrior when they first fought & met. He decides to level up after facing the Fallen who infiltrated the Kingdom of Greenwood in Volume 7. In Volume 8 he trains and ate Gold Fruit to level up to get the current Master Swordsman Graham, Graham Sasara, to teach him to reach pass the limits. At the time of the game, he was only able to use magic, but after being defeated in a match with the Graham Sasara, he was keenly aware of the reality of this, and by increasing his level of swordsmanship with his own knowledge, there is one thing that can be raised. It broke the concept in the game that there is only one.

Tv Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced in January 2018. The series was directed by Yūta Murano and written by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu, with animation by studio Ajia-do Animation Works. Character designs for the series were provided by Shizue Kaneko. Yuki Nishioka was the chief animation director. Yuki Miyamoto provided monster designs and serves as action animation director. Backgrounds were provided by Kusanagi, while Natsuko Otsuka was the color key artist. Photography for the series was directed by Teppei Satō at Asahi Production Shiraishi Studio, and Satoshi Motoyama directed the sound at Half HP Studio. The series aired from July 5 to September 20, 2018, and was broadcast on AT-X, BS Fuji, Tokyo MX, and Sun TV. The s opening theme, "DeCIDE", was performed by the unit SUMMONERS 2+, a group composed of voice actresses Azumi Waki, Yū Serizawa, Yumi Hara, Rumi Okubo, and Emiri Katō, while the ending theme, "Saiaku na Hi demo Anata ga Suki." (最悪な日でもあなたが好き., "I Like You Even on the Worst Day."), was performed by Serizawa and produced by HoneyWorks. The first season ran for 12 episodes.

Crunchyroll simulcast the series worldwide outside of Asia, while Funimation streamed a SimulDub of it in North America. Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the English dub was moved to Crunchyroll. In South and Southeast Asia, Medialink licensed the series. On April 8, 2020, it was announced that the series would receive a second season titled How Not to Summon a Demon Lord Ω, co-animated by Tezuka Productions and Okuruto Noboru, and directed by Satoshi Kuwabara, with the rest of the staff and cast members reprising their roles. The second season aired on TBS and BS-TBS from April 9 to June 11, 2021. The second season's opening theme, "EVERYBODY! EVERYBODY!", and ending theme, "YOU YOU YOU," were performed by Serizawa with collaboration by DJ KOO & MOTSU. The second season ran for 10 episodes.

Trivia
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