Episode
Beelzebub: How About Some Demon World Homework?
Overview
The Demon King sends Beelzebub some summer homework, containing a notebook which brings anything drawn in it to life. Next, Hilda brings Oga to Ishiyama High to collect prints of rare, powerful beasts, aka the delinquents, by whacking them with a giant fly swatter. During the chase, Beelzebub ends up planting several carnivorous Demon Plants, one of which grows into a massive giant causing havoc until Oga destroys it.
Details
- Series
- Beelzebub
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 2011-05-15
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
How About Some Demon World Homework? is Episode 17 in Season 1 of Beelzebub. It aired on 2011-05-15. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 16: You're Not a Bad Specimen of a Man
Takayuki is dragged away from his tropical summer vacation against his will to join Oga and Beelzebub to a public pool, though Oga is soon shocked by the fact he could've gone to the tropical resort himself. Whilst chatting with the Red Tails, Takayuki is approached by some delinquents from his old middle school and ends up going against their leader, Takashima, when they start hitting on the girls. Takayuki tries to hide in the pool, but Takashima calls more of his men and tricks the lifeguard into evacuating the pool, leaving Takayuki and a stunned Oga. As Takayuki becomes surrounded, he forces Beelzebub to cry in order to shock all the delinquents before facing Oga's wrath.
Episode 18: I Quit being the Baby on Back Brawler
Beelzebub gets a summer cold, causing his body to give off incredible heat. As his condition gets worse, the Zebel Spell on Oga's hand disappears, leading Hilda to become frustrated towards Oga for showing little care towards him. As Oga tries to decide what to do, he encounters one of Tojo's henchmen, Shojo Aizawa, who seemingly outmatches Oga before leaving. The next morning, both Hilda and Beelzebub have disappeared. As Oga searches for them, he encounters Tojo with Beelzebub on his back, who challenges Oga to a fight. As the two fight, Oga is shocked to see what appears to be the Zebel Spell on Tojo's shoulder, before he is knocked clean into the river.
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Episode 15: The Delinquents Have Changed Into Swimsuits
Takayuki tells Oga about the final member of the Tōhōshinki, Hidetora Tōjō, mainly to get him interested about ditching Beelzebub so Alaidelon will leave him alone. Wanting Oga to get beaten, Himekawa informs them that Tōjō works at the beach. Oga and Tatsumi go there the next day and get mistaken as part-timers for a yakisoba stand, later finding that Tōjō had actually been fire the previous night. As he keeps missing him, Oga asks Aoi to pass on a letter of challenge to Tōjō, whose henchmen find it before Aoi can rip it up. Oga gets held up to their meeting, arriving only finding a pile of beat up gang members, which Tōjō beat all by himself. Despite Aoi's warnings, Oga looks forward to finally meeting Tōjō.
Episode 19: The Doctor Has Arrived
Oga returns home after being defeated by Tojo to find that Hilda has returned from the Demon World with the imperial doctor, Forcas Rachmaninoff, and his assistant, Lamia, to help determine the cause of Beelzebub's illness. He diagnoses the illness as King Fever and when Beelzebub was trying to draw out massive amounts of demonic power, he accidentally severed the link between him and Oga and found Tojo similar to Oga and connects to him. Oga begins a treatment to try and reconnect with Beelzebub and enters a dream world through the effects of a Demon World drug that is shot into his head where he eventually finds a sleeping Beelzebub in the middle of several inscribed circles that are shrouded in an electrical field. After about 6 hours of treatment, Oga still has not waken up and Lamia assumes that he has died and becomes happy. Oga suddenly wakes up and spanks Lamia and claims he is teaching her some manners. Hilda asks Oga how he feels after having gone through the hard part of reconnecting with Beelzebub and Oga says he is in the mood to get Beelzebub back.
Episode 14: Is There a Special Move?
As Kanzaki tries to come up with a new special move to beat Oga, his followers suggest the key to Oga's power is having Beelzebub on his back. Thus, Kanzaki starts training with a weighted baby doll on his back. When that plan doesn't work, they try finding a living substitute, which end in more embarrassing results. Meanwhile, Oga takes Beelzebub to the park where they once again meet Aoi, who has lost track of Kouta. Kanzaki coincidentally finds him and deems him a worthy substitute for Beelzebub. Whilst playing with him, he figures out the key to performing his new special move. After returning Kouta to Aoi, Kanzaki performs his special move, though it just leaves everyone confused. As Kanzaki leaves, Oga admits his move was surprising.
Episode 20: Everyone Assemble
Oga reflects on Lamia telling him to take a shower before going to Tojo and sees a silhouette outside his bathroom window and thinks it's Lamia, but it's really Shiroyama, who takes Oga to Kanzaki and Himekawa who tell him they want to team up to beat Tojo and Oga agrees. On the way to Ishiyama High, they are surrounded by a large group of delinquents, which Oga takes care of swiftly. Upon arriving at Ishiyama High, the rest of the school is there to confront Oga, only to have Kunieda and the Red Tails take care of them for him. Tojo sets off fireworks in order to try and cheer up Beelzebub and all the delinquents are captivated by them. Oga confronts Tojo and Tojo is willing to give Beelzebub back only to have Oga tell him that whoever Beelzebub wants to stay with is up to him. Beelzebub's fever breaks and he immediately goes to Oga and climbs on his head, and a flashback shows Oga reconnecting the bond between him and Beelzebub. Just as the episode ends, Oga and Tojo are about to begin their fight.
Episode 13: Baby Beel's Assessment Test / Hilda: Dear Great Demon Lord
As Ishiyama High holds an assessment test for its studyphobic students, the Great Demon Lord also holds a test for Beelzebub, requiring him to earn points by beating up various things, or run the risk of both he and Oga facing remedial classes in the Demon World. With Beelzebub not showing much hope, Oga decides to try and dump Beelzebub on whoever scores highest on the test. When a rival school interrupts the test, Oga fights them off to allow the other students to keep on the test, earning enough points to avoid remedial lessons, later learning that the smartest student it actually Takayuki. Later, Hilda prepares a letter to the Great Demon Lord, writing reports on Oga, his family and the Tōhōshinki.
Episode 21: Who Do You Think Is Ishiyama's Strongest?
Furuichi is woken up by Alaindelon at 4:00 A.M. and is teleported to Ishiyama High to watch Oga and Tojo's fight with Hilda, Lamia, and Forcas Rachmaninoff. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, Himekawa, and Shiroyama confront Aizawa and Karou and begin to fight, but are quickly beaten by them, but they refuse to give up because of their stubborness. Natsume shows up and defeats Karou in one blow, and is about to deal with Aizawa. Kunieda and the Red Tails finish dealing with the delinquents and go to watch Oga and Tojo's fight, with Oga at a disadvantage. Beelzebub activates the Zebul Spell, thinking Oga cannot win, shocking everyone. Lamia accidentally sets off one remaining firework and it's aimed at Oga and Tojo. Oga easily stops the firework and causes a giant flaming Zebul Spell to appear on the ground. Oga orders Beelzebub to not interfere in his fight, promising he will win and Beelzebub erases the Zebul Spell. Oga and Tojo resume their fight, which goes on until dawn, and just as it looks like Tojo is about to win, Oga spins around and performs a suplex on Tojo, winning the fight. Oga tells Beelzebub he won the fight and Beelzebub tackles Oga to the ground. Tojo's past is revealed, showing a man he looked up to who taught Tojo the ture meaning of fighting and had a Zebul Spell on his shoulder, which Tojo got tattooed on his shoulder in order to look like him, and Tojo tells Oga he is now the strongest at Ishiyama High.
Episode 12: I Won't Let You Sleep Tonight
Beelzebub has been crying all night for the past three nights, which is causing Oga and the whole neighborhood to get very little sleep. Wanting to stop his night crying to avoid being chased out of their house, the Oga family attempt to play with Beelzebub all day in order to tire him out come nighttime. Despite managing to get him to sleep, Beelzebub still wakes up and cries in the middle of the night. After Oga spends the day dealing with a sleep deprived Tōhōshinki, Hilda brings a toy that calms Beelzebub down, but is even noisier than his crying.
Episode 22: Secluded Mountain Training
Baby Beel's fear of insects prompts Oga to give him some special training up in the mountainous village of Mapputatsu. There, he stumbles across Kunieda carrying Kōta in the disguise she wore at the park with her grandfather. While Oga is still unaware of her true identity as Kunieda, her grandfather develops an interest in him.
Episode 11: There was Something Money Could not Buy
Himekawa plots revenge against Oga by setting him up with a poisoned sandwich, but it doesn't affect him due to his resilience to Hilda's cooking. He next attempts to use a popular costumed character in order to try and capture Beelzebub, but Oga and Beelzebub notice that he's a fake due to differently colored chopsticks. He later attempts to seduce Takayuki into giving him Beelzebub, but Alaindelon intervenes, transporting Himekawa and his gang to a far off island. The resulting failures leave Himekawa with no money to hire any more henchmen. Ans as he tries to attack Oga by himself, he gets caught up in fighting against a rival gang also attempting to kill Oga. Afterward, Kanzaki offers him one of his yogurt drinks, to which Himekawa repays him with a year's supply with a month long lifespan.
Episode 23: You Kidding Me? The Demon World
As the Zebub Spell is restored, Lamia and Dr. Forcas begins to return to the Demon World through Alaindelon. While they were being transported, Baby Beel grabbed onto Lamia and refused to let go, causing Furuichi and Oga to be transported as well. All 4 of them landed in Vlad's Haunt, one of the most dangerous areas in the Demon World, with Alaindelon unconscious. Lamia manages to contact Hilda through her cellphone, and is informed that Alaindelon's daughter might be able to transport them home safely. A Yople alien shows up, which Oga punches, causing the Yople to call the creatures in Vlad's Haunt to attack the group. As the group escapes to find Alaindelon's daughter, they encounter numerous creatures, with Furuichi suffering the worst of their attacks. When the group finally reaches their destination, they realise the place was ransacked by bandits, Gare and Edda, who have kidnapped Alaindelon's daughter. As Oga defeats the bandits easily, the episode ends with Furuichi realising how attractive the daughter is.