Anime Like You're Being Summoned, Azazel
A deadpan detective treats summoned demons like unpaid interns, and the comedy comes from watching them actually deserve it. Azazel whines through every job assignment with the energy of someone clocking in at a job they hate, which immediately reads as real despite the absurd premise. The show gets its laugh not from "demons exist" but from the fact that even hell's hierarchy has middle management, and middle management sucks everywhere.
SYNOPSIS
Akutabe runs a detective agency with one crucial difference: his clients don't hire him for conventional investigations. They hire him to summon devils and force them into solving supernatural problems. When Azazel, a small-time demon with delusions of grandeur, gets bound into servitude, his life becomes a nightmare of thankless labor and constant abuse from Akutabe and his deadpan assistant Rinko. The real comedy comes from Azazel's pathetic attempts to maintain his dignity while being dragged into increasingly absurd situations. He's a devil in name only, prone to complaining, scheming, and failing spectacularly at everything Akutabe demands. Every case becomes an opportunity for him to suffer in new and creative ways while his captors treat his misery as just another day at the office. Part workplace comedy, part supernatural problem-solving series, this show thrives on the dynamic between a low-ranking demon and the humans who've made him their indentured servant. Quick paced and relentlessly irreverent, it finds humor in cruelty and chaos.
