{"rewrite":{"id":"r_3ef71fcde39578ddd196e005","clusterId":"c_020057fdd3212472388b303f","slug":"moriwaki-and-ito-talk-iruma-kun-season-four-at-anime-nyc","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Moriwaki And Ito Talk Iruma-Kun Season Four At Anime NYC","summary":"At Anime NYC, chief director Makoto Moriwaki and voice actor Setsuo Ito discussed the fourth season of Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun. Ito voices Purson Soi, a background character who becomes prominent this season. Moriwaki praised Ito's clear enunciation despite Purson's fast speech, and described the musical episode \"Lilith's Carpet\" as difficult to produce, requiring double the staff.","whyItMatters":"The panel gives the season's production detail from its chief director and its new lead voice actor, and points to the Demidoll arc and the character Gyari as what comes next.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe fourth season is where Purson Soi moves from the background into the main cast, and Ito said joining a group of veteran actors after so long made him nervous. Moriwaki said she could barely tell: even at Purson\u0026#39;s talking speed, she said, every line lands clearly. She also walked the room through \u0026#34;Lilith\u0026#39;s Carpet,\u0026#34; the season\u0026#39;s all-musical episode, which took double the staff and side-by-side motion capture comparisons to finish. Her other highlights were the Deviculum dance between Iruma and Ameri and Iruma\u0026#39;s birthday party. She named love as the season\u0026#39;s theme and asked the audience to look forward to the rest of the Demidoll arc and to Gyari.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Moriwaki told Anime NYC that \"Lilith's Carpet\" needed double the staff. Iruma-kun's musical episodes cost more crew than its action ones, and that budget line rarely gets discussed when season four is announced.","twitterPost":"Moriwaki said Iruma-kun's \"Lilith's Carpet\" needed double the staff. Musical episodes cost more crew than action ones.","threadsPost":"Moriwaki's Anime NYC answer about \"Lilith's Carpet\" is the production detail that matters: the Iruma-kun musical episode needed double the staff. Musical numbers cost more crew than fight scenes, and that budget line rarely surfaces when a fourth season gets greenlit.","newsletterBlurb":"Anime NYC hosted a Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun panel with chief director Makoto Moriwaki and Setsuo Ito, the voice of Purson Soi. Moriwaki described the all-musical episode \"Lilith's Carpet\" as a difficult production that needed double the staff, and named love as the season's theme. Both pointed ahead to the Demidoll arc and the character Gyari.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2026/all-the-news-and-reviews-from-anime-nyc/the-misfit-class-takes-to-the-stage-an-interview-with-makoto-moriwaki-and-setsuo-ito/.241123\",\"title\":\"All the News and Reviews from Anime NYC 2026: The Misfit Class Takes to the Stage: An Interview with Makoto Moriwaki and Setsuo Ito\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4716,"outputTokens":678,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789740264,"createdAt":"2026-09-18T14:00:31.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-18T14:03:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-18T14:03:21.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_020057fdd3212472388b303f","canonicalTitle":"All the News and Reviews from Anime NYC 2026\nThe Misfit Class Takes to the Stage: An Interview with Makoto Moriwaki and Setsuo Ito","representativeArticleId":"a_631bcdcbe87ef34cb0c405b7","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Makoto Moriwaki\",\"Setsuo Ito\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"anime\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-18T13:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-18T13:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-18T14:03:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2026/all-the-news-and-reviews-from-anime-nyc/the-misfit-class-takes-to-the-stage-an-interview-with-makoto-moriwaki-and-setsuo-ito/.241123","title":"All the News and Reviews from Anime NYC 2026\nThe Misfit Class Takes to the Stage: An Interview with Makoto Moriwaki and Setsuo Ito"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Makoto Moriwaki","Setsuo Ito"],"type":"news","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}