As Miss Beelzebub Likes.

ベルゼブブ嬢のお気に召すまま。 (Beelzebub-jou no Okinimesu mama.)

5.0(1)

OtakuDen

7.2(40,490)

MAL Score

Ranked #3603

Popularity #2301

Comedy
Fantasy
Romance
Love Status Quo
Workplace

Episodes: 12
Duration: 24 min per ep
Aired: Oct 11, 2018 to Dec 27, 2018
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Legend paints Beelzebub—one of Hell’s seven princes—as a fearsome fallen angel, exiled from Heaven and destined to rule Pandemonium, where former angels spend their endless days at work. The name alone is meant to inspire dread.

Newly appointed assistant Myurin quickly learns the reality is far less intimidating: Beelzebub is a woman with a soft spot for all things fluffy, and her composed authority in the office doesn’t always carry over to everyday life. Dutiful and easily flustered by any lack of professionalism, Myurin finds himself drawn to her unexpectedly cute habits while navigating the routines of Pandemonium—and meeting its other high-ranking devils, who prove that appearances can be deceiving.

Otaku Consensus

As Miss Beelzebub Likes. earns its affection through Hiraku Kaneko's gentle, unhurried direction, LIDENFILMS' cotton-candy visual treatment, and Yoriko Tomita's episodic pacing, which keep the workplace-romance status quo relaxing rather than inert. The common criticism is real: its 12 episodes rarely push past light romantic teasing and comfort-food comedy, leaving viewers who want dramatic payoff or sharper fantasy worldbuilding with little to chew on.

Why You Should Watch

Watch As Miss Beelzebub Likes. if you want a workplace rom-com that behaves more like iyashikei than sitcom: low-conflict, pastel, episodic, and built around tiny emotional hesitations instead of big confessions. It scratches a similar comfort itch to K-On! in its softness and Wotakoi in its adult-ish workplace framing, but without the louder gag rhythm or relationship momentum those comparisons imply. The appeal is tactile: clouds, ribbons, fur, candy colors, and delicate reaction comedy are treated as the show's language. If your ideal 20-minute anime break is blushing, desk-job absurdity, and romantic stasis wrapped in absurdly plush art direction, this is engineered for that mood. If you need narrative escalation, it will feel intentionally weightless.

Key Characters

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Beelzebub
Fans tend to remember Beelzebub less as a fearsome infernal title and more as the show's central contradiction: regal office authority filtered through an almost weaponized love of softness.
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Myurin
Myurin gives the series its comic voltage by treating professionalism as sacred while constantly short-circuiting under the casual intimacy of Pandemonium's daily routine.

What Makes It Stand Out

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LIDENFILMS leans into visual softness as the production's defining identity, with reviewers repeatedly singling out clouds, candy tones, fur, and ribbons rather than action cuts or spectacle.
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The series is structurally episodic across 12 episodes, matching its AniList tags for Iyashikei, Work, and Episodic rather than behaving like a conventional plot-driven fantasy romance.
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Yoriko Tomita's series composition preserves a romance status quo, which is central to both the show's comfort appeal and its most frequent criticism from viewers frustrated by limited progression.
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Etsuko Sumimoto handled character design and also shared prop design credit with Masahiko Yoda, a fitting production detail for a show whose comedy and atmosphere rely heavily on objects, textures, and cute visual accents.
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The fantasy setting is deliberately de-escalated through office-life rhythms, making the Demon and Afterlife tags function as aesthetic contrast rather than as a dark supernatural conflict engine.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The anime adapts Matoba's original work and aired as a completed 12-episode TV series from October 11, 2018 to December 27, 2018.
Fun fact 2: Its reception sits in the comfortable-but-not-canonical middle: a 7.22 MAL score from 40,331 votes, MAL rank #3550, and AniList score of 69/100 with 516 favourites.
Fun fact 3: The production's softness was not just a fan meme; multiple web reactions describe the show in tactile terms, including one comparing the experience to being hit with clouds and soft pillows for 20 minutes.
Fun fact 4: The core staff includes director Hiraku Kaneko, series composer Yoriko Tomita, art director Kouhei Honda, art designer Eiko Tsunadou, color designer Satoko Kimura, and director of photography Yoshiki Obata.
Fun fact 5: AniList's tag weighting captures the show's unusual blend: Demons at 91%, Iyashikei at 86%, Work at 80%, and Episodic at 72%, with romance-coded tags present but less dominant than the comfort and workplace labels.