The Devil is a Part-Timer! is an anime based on a light novel published by Dengeki Bunko and was first made into an anime in 2013. The anime was incredibly well-made and entertaining, and many fans eagerly awaited a second season. After nine years, the long-awaited second season will finally begin in July 2022! So, this time, we've put together a recap of the first season!
Season 1 Recap Part 1: Episode 1: The Demon King Stands in Sasazuka
In the alternate world of Ente Isla, the Demon King's army has invaded the human world, and the Demon King Satan is on the brink of world domination. However, a hero named Emilia Justina suddenly appears, defeating the executives one by one, and the fall of the world is only a matter of time. So Satan and his confidant, Ar Ciel, use a gate to escape to another dimension. However, they find themselves in modern-day Tokyo, Japan, where the concept of magical powers is nonexistent and Satan and Ar Ciel have transformed into human form!
Episode 1②
Unable to easily use their powers, Satan and Ar Ciel find themselves at the mercy of social systems like family registers, housing, language barriers, culture, and insurance premiums. However, they manage to use their remaining magical powers to obtain family registers and addresses, take on the names Sadao Maou and Shiro Ashiya, and survive in modern-day Japan. The two hide out in a rundown apartment in Sasazuka and make a living by working part-time at the hamburger shop, McDonald's. Maou has a good work attitude at his part-time job and is relied upon by his superiors, customers, and junior colleagues. However, one day, he meets a stranger by chance and shows kindness to her, which leads to a feud between them. This woman turns out to be his former enemy, the hero Emilia. Emilia has also come to modern-day Japan in pursuit of the Demon King.
Season 1 Recap Part 2: Episode 2: The Hero Stays at the Demon King's Castle, Prioritizing Work
Finally locating the Demon King, the hero attempts to attack without question, but just as the Demon King has lost his power, the hero has also lost his. Reluctantly, she attempts to put an end to the Demon King with a 100-yen knife, but the incident is reported to the police, who believe it to be a lovers' quarrel. Emilia learns the Demon King's address from a police incident and visits the two men's apartment. However, she is completely shocked to see the Demon Kings living in poverty in a rundown apartment, and to hear that they are earnestly pursuing full-time employment at Magronald's in order to conquer the world.
Episode 2②
In this world, Emi calls herself Emi Yusa and earns a living as an office worker at a telemarketing center. While living a normal, working life, Emi stalks Maou, but Maou lives an honest, honest life with no shame in anything as a person, which completely demoralizes her. Emi calls Maou and tells him to give up on his invasion of Ente Isla, but the two are attacked by an unknown assailant. Emi loses her wallet during the attack, and is forced to spend the night at Maou's apartment.
Season 1 Recap Part 3: Episode 3: The Demon King Goes on a Date with a Junior in Shinjuku
Emi, who works at a telemarketing center, receives what could be interpreted as a declaration of war from someone who knows the true identities of both her and the Demon King. She is also furious when Maou, whose identity was discovered by the police using her bicycle registration number, asks her to act as a guarantor. Meanwhile, Sasaki Chiho, a junior colleague at Maou's part-time job, comes to her for advice.
Episode 3 Part 2
Emi, curious about Maou and Chiho's date, finds Ashiya tailing them. She witnesses the encounter and instantly realizes that Chiho has feelings for Maou. Meanwhile, Chiho reveals to Maou that she's been experiencing strange, mysterious phenomena. Unable to sit still, Emi bursts into the cafe where the two are and tries to warn Chiho, but the cafe suddenly collapses, and Maou is transformed back into his demon king form.
Season 1 Recap Part 4: Episode 4: The Hero Touches the Warmth of the Heart
After the incident, Emi, out of concern for her friend Rika Suzuki, takes refuge at her apartment. Emi, also known as the hero Emilia, was supposed to have left her hometown and been fighting to defeat the Demon King, who had committed every atrocity. However, in reality, the Demon King lives a life without shame in this world. Far from harming humans, he even possesses a strong sense of morality and kindness, shattering all conventional wisdom.
Episode 4, Part 2
The next day, Emi dutifully returns the 1,000 yen she borrowed. She falls down the stairs of her poorly constructed apartment and experiences the ultimate humiliation of needing medical treatment. The Demon King, who burned her hometown, took her family, and imposed a cruel fate on her, was an enemy she must defeat at all costs. Chiho happens to witness this scene, and she leaves with a misunderstanding.
Season 1 Recap Part 5: Episode 5: The Demon King and the Hero Save Sasazuka
Then, Chiho is confronted by Lucifer, a subordinate of the Demon King who was supposed to have been defeated by the Hero Emilia. The masterminds behind this incident are Lucifer and the High Priest Orba Meyer, who was once a companion of the Hero. After Lucifer's defeat by the Hero, he secretly conspired with Orba to eliminate the Hero and the Demon King, who stood in his way.
Episode 5, Part 2
Maou and Emi are forced to flee Lucifer's attacks, which destroy the city and draw energy from the people's fear. Maou and Ashiya are shot through with Lucifer's magic bullets. However, their overconfidence in their continued destruction allows the Demon King Satan to be resurrected. Later, together with Emi, they defeat Lucifer. Afterward, Maou uses his magic to restore the city, and returns to human form. In the process, Chiho learns the true identities of Maou and Emi.
Season 1 Recap Part 6: Episode 6: The Demon King Climbing the School Stairs
After being beaten up by Maou and his friends, Lucifer ends up living in Maou's apartment under the name of Urushibara Hanzo. Urushibara is a NEET who spends his days tinkering with computers, but he also dabbles in computer manipulation and hacking. Maou and Ashiya have instructed Urushibara to gather information on magical powers.
Episode 6 Part 2
Among the information Urushibara has gathered is a rumor about a locked door at the school, which may hold clues to magical powers. Since it just so happens to be Chiho's school, they ask Chiho for directions and sneak into the school late at night, only to be suddenly confronted by Emi. Emi spots Maou and the others sneaking into the school late at night, suspecting they're up to no good and following them.
Season 1 Recap Part 7: Episode 7: The Demon King Helps with the Family Finances by Getting Along with the Neighbors
A woman wearing an expensive-looking kimono moves into the rundown apartment where Maou and her friends live. Her name is Suzuno Kamazuki, and while she's a bit of a recluse, the large amount of udon noodles she brings as a housewarming gift is a major help to Maou and her family's finances. Emi witnesses her socializing with Suzuno and, as usual, is suspicious.
Episode 7 Part 2
Somehow, Emi also barges in, but upon seeing Suzuno with Maou and the others, she asks if she's after Maou and subtly warns them not to get too close. Suzuno, impressed, heeds her warning. At Maou's part-time job, rival store, Sentaky Fried Chicken, is reopening. Emi is attacked by an assailant at the convenience store, but escapes after a convenience store employee throws a colored ball at her.
Season 1 Recap Part 8: Episode 8: The Hero Enters the Battlefield
Feeling threatened by Suzuno's appearance, Chiho visits Maou's apartment with Emi accompanying her. To make matters worse, Suzuno, who is looking for work, suggests she work part-time at Magronald's. Everyone except Maou and Suzuno freezes up, resulting in chaos. Suzuno, who is detached from the world, owns no clothes other than a kimono, so Emi takes her to buy some.
Episode 8②
By chance, Emi and Suzuno discover that they have both been making a huge mistake. Emi initially suspects Suzuno of being an assassin from Ente Isla, but ultimately sees her as merely a neighbor to the otherworldly Maou. She mistakenly believes that Suzuno is Suzuno and that Emi understands everything about her. The two, who seem to fit together strangely, have both misunderstood each other. Suzuno's true identity is Crestia Bell, the head inquisitor of the Ente Isla Church.
Season 1 Recap Part 9: Episode 9: The Hero Experiences a Chaotic Situation
Emi meets her friend Rika Suzuki, who finds the relationship between Maou, Emi, and Suzuno absurd and starts interfering. As Emi is slamming Maou at Sen-Tucky, Ashiya suddenly appears. Ashiya had been ordered by Maou to investigate the rival Sen-Tucky. However, he couldn't sit still after hearing Maou's badmouthing.
Episode 9 Part 2
Ashiya's brilliant play, mixing truth and lies, clears up Rika's misunderstanding, but she insists on seeing Maou herself, and visits Magronald's as a customer. Magronald's is in a different league after losing customers to Sentaky. However, thanks to the trust Maou has built up with those around her, she manages to turn the situation around and successfully revive the restaurant.
Season 1 Recap Part 10: Episode 10: The Demon King and the Hero Live an Unusual Life
Maoku is assigned by Kizaki, the manager of Magronald's, to work as a temporary staff member at another Magronald's store in Fushimaen Amusement Park. Emi and Suzuno also go to Fushimaen with Chiho and enjoy a swim in the park's famous pool. Emi is shocked by Chiho's large breasts in her swimsuit. Ashiya was originally scheduled to join them, but he had an upset stomach from eating too much udon.
Episode 10②
Emi, Chiho, and Suzuno enter a haunted house known for being so scary it's almost scary they'll die. The unimaginably terrifying scenes leave them screaming and exhausted. A reptile exhibit keeper accidentally drops the cage key, and a monkey trainer picks it up, releasing a horde of crocodiles into the pool, causing a complete panic. However, Maou, who has gained magical powers, manages to contain the crocodiles and calm the situation. Suzuno, seeing this, wonders why the Demon King would help people.
Season 1 Recap Part 11: Episode 11: The Hero Sticks to His Beliefs
As an Inquisitor, Suzuno had experience ruthlessly eliminating troublemakers. However, seeing Maoku and Emi, she struggled with what she should do. While they deepened their relationship by selling the packages sent by their landlord at a flea market, Suzuno confided in Emi and Chiho that they should kill the Demon King Satan, putting them at odds.
Episode 11②
Suzuno doesn't know what Maou is up to, but she decides it's too dangerous to leave them alone, and so they end up having a falling out. Then, Emi and Chiho are attacked. It's the angel Sariel, disguised as Mitsuki Sarue, the manager of Sen-Tucky Fried Chicken. It was Sariel who attacked Emi at the convenience store. Emi's holy energy is ineffective against Sariel, who possesses the Fallen Angel's Evil Eye Light, and Emi is cornered. At that moment, Maou receives a call from her mother saying that Chiho hasn't returned home yet.
Season 1 Recap Part 12: Episode 12: The Demon King Fulfills His Duties
Emi is captured by Sariel, who is immune to her holy energy, and the holy sword inside her body is about to be stolen. Despite her conflicted feelings, Suzuno confronts Emi and tries to stop Maou from approaching, but changes her mind at the last moment and sides with Maou and his men. Upon learning that Emi and Chiho have been captured by the angel Sariel, Maou runs to the roof of a building.
Episode 12②
Maou rushes to their aid as the Demon King and in charge of Magronald's shifts, but with no magical powers, he is easily defeated. However, Orba, who had somehow escaped, conspires with Urushibara to use the radio tower to amplify the power of the moon, the source of Sariel's power. However, this was all a trap set by Urushibara, and the confusion caused by the radio tower's malfunction restores Maou's magical powers. The revived Maou beats up Sariel and sends her flying somewhere using a gate.
Season 1 Recap Part 13: Episode 13: The Demon King and the Hero Work Honestly
Maou and the others regained their magical powers after the incident, but they don't make it back to Ente Isla... They end up using up all of it to repair the building, and as expected, their magical powers are practically depleted. They start working part-time at McDonald's again. After that, they return to their normal lives as if nothing had happened...
Episode 13②
Suddenly, Maou takes a day off from her part-time job, and a large amount of luggage arrives at their apartment. Chiho suspects that Maou and the others have returned to the other world, and Emi also becomes more vigilant. However, it turns out that they are actually working part-time jobs to earn money for the transmitters Urushibara has planted, and that they have been receiving large amounts of luggage from a pyramid scheme that Urushibara has fallen for. They nearly fall victim to a scam, but somehow manage to resolve it with a cooling-off period. After everything is over, Maou and Ashiya treat themselves to a little luxury at their friendly Katsudoon.
[The Devil is a Part-Timer!!] Season 1 Review Summary
We've looked back at the episodes from Season 1 of The Devil is a Part-Timer!!. The original manga for The Devil is a Part-Timer! was published in 2011, and the anime adaptation was released in 2013, so it features several original episodes and is a very rich and content-rich work! If you haven't seen season 1, we recommend you watch it before season 2 begins!
