How Not to Summon a Demon Lord actresses Azumi Waki, Yū Serizawa, Yumi Hara, Rumi Okubo, and Emiri Katō, and the ending theme, , is performed by Serizawa and produced by HoneyWorks. The series ran for 12 episodes. The light novels had over 1 million copies in print as of March 2018. How Not to Summon a Demon Lord Takuma Sakamoto is a hikikomori gamer who is mysteriously transported to the world of his favourite MMORPG, "Cross Reverie", with the appearance of his own character in the game, the Demon Lord Diablo. The two young girls who summoned him, the pantherian Rem and the elf Shera, attempt
100 episodes lead-in, "I Love Lucy", bringing rise to the industry concept of hammocking. "Becker", for instance, ran for 129 episodes and had high first-run ratings for four of its six seasons, yet was only briefly released to broadcast stations in syndication before a move to HDNet, which took many broadcast programs in the late 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s which did not reach 100 episodes early in its history mainly because they were among the first produced in high-definition television; Universal HD pursued the same programming strategy ("Becker" would return to a wider audience when Antenna TV picked up the series in