YMMV / The Misfit of Demon King Academy

• Awesome Ego: Anos deals with everything around him with nonstop confidence, constantly looks down on whoever challenges him, and readily proclaims himself the greatest being around. However, fans absolutely love him because this confidence is well-placed, as anybody that faces him really is beneath him and he truly is the greatest person among most of the people he meets. It helps that despite that confidence and power, he's not arrogant in any way, only demeaning people that do so to him first, while to everybody else he's neutral at worst, and in fact is generally quite kind and helpful to people who show themselves as deserving of it.
• Awesome Music: The opening of the series, "Seikai Fuseikai", by CIVILIAN, is a powerful yet solemn rock song that sets the spirit of the series perfectly. And if you thought the normal version is awesome, wait until hearing the one sung by Anos himself along with the lead vocalist of CIVILIAN, Hidekazu Koyama.
• Cliché Storm: The series is not going to win a prize in originality anytime soon, displaying a lot of the cliches and tropes present in many other works of similar nature. However, the show precisely won over many viewers thanks to how it executes those tropes, with Anos in particular being praised for being a relatively refreshing take of the average overpowered light novel main character.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Anos' antics get so ridiculous, over-the-top, and oftentimes so offensive and gory it just becomes absolutely hilarious.
• Fan Nickname: Is not uncommon for fans to twist Anos's surname into Voldigoat ("goat" here being an acronym to Greatest Of All Times) due his general awesomeness.
• Ho Yay: While Anos gets Ship Tease with Sasha and Misha, alongside being a Chick Magnet to many women, and Lay gets heavy Ship Tease with Misa, which eventually blossoms into an Official Couple, both guys have such immense respect for each other, frequently complement one another, and occasionally each express the desire to protect the other's future and dreams, that these Heterosexual Life-Partners are very easy to see as not fully qualifying for the "heterosexual" part, to the point shipping the two is more popular than their canon love interests.
• I Knew It!: Some fans correctly guessed the twist that Lay is the reincarnation of the hero Kanon during his debut episode (rather than a reincarnation of Anos's former top subordinate Shin, like the series tried to make viewers believe) since he acted very friendly with Anos just after meeting him (as both Anos and Kanon promised to become friends in case both of them would reincarnate in the world of 2000 years after) and had a predilection for swords just like Kanon with his signature weapon, the holy sword Evansmana.
• Memetic Badass: Unsurprisingly, Anos has become one thanks both to how absurdly powerful he is and his carefree yet cocky attitude, eventually being compared with other memetic badasses from other power fantasy light novels such as Kirito or Tatsuya.
• Memetic Mutation: Anos is surprised that modern demons think dying is such a big deal, since they don't know Ingall. This caused readers and viewers to repeat Shirou Emiya's memetic line about people dying when they're killed. That memetic line gets paraphrased when he defies death in episode 4, and is one of the most memorable moments of the show.
  Anos: Did you think killing me would be enough to make me die?
• Narm Charm: In a rare example, the series both works as a bog-standard edgy power fantasy and an extremely over the top parody whose appeal lies in it taking every last possible power fantasy trope and exaggerating them while otherwise playing them completely straight.
• Signature Scene: While the series has quite the memorable moments, the utter beatdown Anos gives to Zepes Indu at the start of the first episode (where he injures him with his own heartbeats at first before killing and resurrecting him multiple times with a simple snap of his fingers) is the most remembered scene of the show and what sets the overall tone of the series for the remaining episodes.

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