Right on the verge of taking over the world, evil Demon Lord Satan was foiled by the hero Emilia and was forced to retreat through a dimensional portal.
He ends up in our modern world where he is without powers and without money. In order to pay his way, he gets a part-timer job slinging fast food.
It just goes to prove that you never knew you wanted an anime about watching a demon lord work a part-time job in fast food until you get it. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like The Devil is a Part-Timer, then head on down below.
Anime Like The Devil is a Part-Timer
For Fans of Fantasy Creatures in Mundane Situations
I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job
Dreaming of becoming a hero, Raul joined the Hero Training program. Unfortunately, with the demon king defeated, there is no market for heroes anymore.
Instead, Raul gets a job at an electronics store. He soon finds out that his new co-worker is in fact the old demon king’s daughter.
Both series are different set ups, but lean on the same type of comedy – a demon in the workplace. However, The Devil is a Part-Timer moves onto a larger plot, while I Couldn’t Become a Hero is firmly stuck as workplace comedy.
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
Miss Kobayashi is a programmer that lives alone in her apartment. However, one day a giant green dragon ends up on her doorstep and transforms into a women in a maid outfit.
Apparently, Kobayashi had gotten drunk one night and ended up saving this dragon. Now, dragon Tooru intends to repay her debt through housework.
Both Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid and The Devil is a Part-Timer feature wildly powerful fantasy creatures living like boring people in our world. Both series feature fantasy beings as shut-ins and office workers, and often makes the same kind of jokes. However, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid leans more into found family wholesome moments and less into much a larger plot.
Squid Girl
Terror of the seas Ika Musume has come out of the ocean to punish humanity for polluting her waters. With her ink-spitting skills and tentacles for hair, she is all set for invading Earth, but she didn’t count on two sisters bullying her into working at their seafood restaurant.
While a demon lord is tempered and forced to work a job in order to survive in The Devil is a Part-Timer, Squid Girl features a deity that is forced to work in a cafe by heavy-handed humans. However, Squid Girl still has her keep some of her fieriness, which is often where the comedy comes from.
Noragami
There will be times where you may happen across an odd phone number written in red. If you call it, you will get in touch with a young man who introduces himself as the Yato God.
This Yato God is a minor deity and the self-proclaimed God of Delivery. He dreams of having millions of worshipers, but there isn’t a single shrine dedicated to his name. He spends his time doing odd jobs for spare yen until the day his weapon partner deserts him.
Just as things are looking down, he happens across a young school girl that saves him from a car accident by taking the hit for him. She survives, but her soul becomes loose. Together they set out to find a way to tighten her soul back up.
While The Devil is a Part-Timer initially just seems like it will all be silly comedy, it actually develops a plot, which is how Noragami starts too. However, as Noragami goes on, it does take on a bit of darkness as Yato’s back story is explored.
Regardless, both series love showing off powerful deities being silly.
The Great Jahy Won’t Be Defeated
Feared and respected by her subjects, Jahy was second-in-command of the demon realm. However, one day, a magical girl attacks and destroys the mystic gem, and with it, the demon realm.
Flung into the human world, Jahy finds her powers greatly diminished, forcing her into a child’s form. While she can briefly return to her old form with a shard of the mystic gem, she now has to deal with real problems like paying rent and affording food all while trying to find the rest of the pieces of the shattered gem.
Most obviously, The Great Jahy Won’t Be Defeated and The Devil is a Part-Timer share a basic premise. There are quite a few anime like The Devil is a Part-Timer, but The Great Jahy Won’t Be Defeated is perhaps the closest of them all.
A demon on the verge of victory get foiled in the last moment and they end up in our world with limited powers and zero money. They then commence to be fun comedies about demons in poverty just trying to scrape by with moments of wholesomeness, great comedy, and the occasional more serious moment.
As Jahy is a female who can take on a bustier demon form, it is a bit more lewd at times.
For Fans of Adapting to New Worlds
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
In the distant future, humanity has abandoned a ruined Earth and now lives in the furthest reaches of space fighting their eternal enemy, the Hideauze.
During one of their massive space battles, a young soldier named Ledo and his mech Chamber are flung through a warp hole into space. He crash lands on a strange planet that is covered completely in water.
To his surprise, he finds that other humans also live there aboard massive fleets of boats. Found by the Gargantia fleet, Ledo must navigate this strange new world.
If you don’t mind trading in a fantasy setting for a sci-fi one, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet also tells a story about a man put into a world that is completely foreign to him. Both series feature them trying to adapt, but Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet moves away from comedy in the second half as it focuses on its more serious plot.
Gate – Thus The JSDF Fought There
Japanese Self-Defense Force solider and otaku Youji Itami is in the Ginza district of Tokyo feeding his hobby one afternoon when a gate to another world opens and medieval soldiers flood modern day Japan.
While Itami, in conjunction with the local police, manage to save many civilian lives, his hero status forces him to go beyond the gate with his fellow soldiers to explore a mysterious new world filled with swords, magic, elves, and dragons.
The Devil is a Part-Timer primarily focuses only on fantasy beings coming to our world. Gate, however, is split. Some humans go to a fantasy world while some fantasy beings come and visit our world since the titular gate works both ways.
While much of Gate focuses on a soldier exploring a fantasy land, there are some moments where he hangs out with his fantasy harem in our world too.
How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
In his MMORPG, Takuma boasted overwhelming strength and was referred to as the demon king. However, one day he gets summoned to another world, still in the appearance of his character.
There, he discovers two girls that use the same magic he uses to turn others into slaves. However, due to his magic reflect skill, the spell was turned back on them.
Both shows feature the main characters as demon lords who are actually pretty nice guys to the people around them. However, the situations are reversed.
In How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, he is a human summoned to a fantasy land (as his Demon Lord MMO character) whereas The Devil is a Part-Timer features the devil being brought to our world.
For Fans of Demons Come to Earth
Nyaruko – Crawling With Love
Mahiro Yasaka is just a normal high school student until he is attacked by a monster one day. Just when all hope seems lost, he is saved by a silver-haired girl named Nyaruko who claims to be the deity Nyarlathotep, of the Cthulhu Mythos.
She claims that the creature that attacked him is an alien called the Nightguard that was trying to abduct him. While all that is pretty hard to swallow, it seems Nyaruko has also fallen madly in love with him.
While The Devil is a Part-Timer is about the modern day shenanigans of people from a fantasy land, Nyaruko is more specific in that it is about entities from the H. P. Lovecraft lore. It is also notably different by being a rom-com, but it still has quite the large emphasis on comedy.
Gabriel DropOut
After graduating high school in Heaven, angels are sent down to Earth to guide humans down a righteous path. Heaven had high hopes for Gabriel, the top of her class. However, when she descended, she ended up skipping her duties and getting addicted to online games.
Instead of fantasy beings coming to our world, Gabriel Dropout features angelic and demonic beings coming to our world where they act as humans do. Both series are also excellent comedies, though not remembered for their other plots.
Dropkick on My Devil
The demon Jashin was summoned to Earth by an occult dabbler named Yurine. However, although Yurine successfully summoned her, she doesn’t know how to send her back.
Now, Jashin ends up living with Yurine as her familiar. She knows the only way to go back now is to kill Yurine, but Jashin, incompetent as she is, can’t seem have any schemes go right.
Both series feature the relationship between fantasy creatures and humanity. While The Devil is a Part-Timer keeps that part pretty wholesome, much of the comedy in Dropkick on My Devil is physical comedy where violence is comical.
Blood Lad
Staz Charlie Blood is a powerful vampire that rules the Eastern section of the Demon World. While rumor will tell you he is blood-thirsty and vicious, in reality, he is just a big otaku.
While his underlings manage his world, he spends his days mired in anime and manga. However, when a Japanese girl accidentally wanders into his realm, Staz is thrilled, only to be heartbroken by her untimely death.
Now Staz vows to resurrect her, but probably because it means he gets to go to the human world.
Whereas the comedy in The Devil is a Part-Timer comes from watching him assimilate into our world, Blood Lad features comedy that comes from how much of an otaku Staz is for the human world. He is powerful, but prone to silly antics not unlike the demon lord.
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