Akuma Kun is a oNA (web) anime that premiered in fall 2023, produced by Encourage Films.

About the production: the story comes from a manga, there are 12 episodes of about 24 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are adventure, fantasy, horror and supernatural, with themes such as Detective, Monster Boy, Youkai and Episodic.

On AniList, Akuma Kun has an average score of 67%, a good score, and appears on 9,234 users' lists.

Akuma-kun is a boy who was adopted and risen by the former Akuma: Shingo Umoregi. He works as a paranormal investigator and solves murder mysteries with the helping hand of his half-human partner Mephisto the Third. The show, despite being an alternate story, is set to be the adventure of Shingo's "son", therefore, it could be considered as a sequel to the 1989 original (Source: Netflix)

Official synopsis from AniList.