Hataraku Maou-sama!! 2nd Season

Following the revelations of the archangel Gabriel, Ente Isla hero Emilia Justina—who lives on Earth under the alias Emi Yusa—starts doubting the validity of her mission to slay the Demon Lord Satan, now reduced to a modest employee of MgRonald's as Sadao Maou. At the same time, Sadao's high school-aged coworker Chiho Sasaki pursues a new dream with hopes to protect not only herself but also her friends. Secretly training with Emi and Suzuno Kamazuki to develop telepathic powers, Chiho's training is cut short when a group of demons abducts her.

As angel and demon attacks threaten the fragile peace between the two worlds, Sadao and Emi need to put their troubled past behind them if they want to have a chance to find their new purpose in life.

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Maou, Sadao Main

Oosaka, Ryouta Japanese

Yusa, Emi Main

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Ashiya, Shirou Main

Ono, Yuuki Japanese

Narrator Main

Houki, Katsuhisa Japanese

Urushihara, Hanzou Supporting

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

Sasaki, Chiho Supporting

Touyama, Nao Japanese

Kamazuki, Suzuno Supporting

Itou, Kanae Japanese

Ramus, Alas Supporting

Kino, Hina Japanese

Suzuki, Rika Supporting

Nishi, Asuka Japanese

Etuva, Emeralda Supporting

Asakura, Azumi Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Nagatani, Takayuki Producer

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Kaneko, Hirotaka Producer

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Jan 5, 2024

Lord_Spoon

Recommended

Season 2 of "The Devil is a Part-Timer", is a series that really needed to have been made a long time ago.

Because of the cultural impact that the first season had back ten years ago, it has been put on a pedestal of being a "Classic". If anything the first season, while good, failed to really deliver any sense of continuity in a meaningful way. Yes, it was fun and quirky, and was a herald of the reverse isekai as a genre; but beyond that what did it actually deliver? Nothing of any real substance that couldn't be delivered in one season, while leaving ... the viewers with a cliffhanger of an ending that promised a continuity of the story that was delivered far too late to remain relevant.

As such, the Second season as a whole, will always fail to deliver on the expectations that people have for something that has been held with such strong cultural regard. Even if the same studio had been animating the second season, even if the second season delivered a truly phenomenal story never before seen by the eyes of any anime fan, it would still be considered some kind of mistake by the people who believe that what they "expect" something to be, is what it "should" be.

Thinking about the second season as if there were no decade-long gap between releases, and removing any sense of cultural significance that the first season has, we are left with a strong follow-up season to a pretty strong first season. The story and the characters get the development that is really needed for this kind of story.

Beyond that, the themes of the show and what it represents are further driven home and expanded upon. On top of that, we have a trickling of interesting lore being fed to us via the story in a way that is both compelling and keeps things interesting. But, most importantly, above that, we have complex themes and storytelling, and yet, this anime remains what it is supposed to be, a comedy. The laughs were good, and the writing was light-hearted enough to carry it.

My critique would be, that at times, the second season seemed to drift and the pacing became a tad too slow in places. That said, that wasn't as big a problem as it could have been, because while the drifting is evident, it's at least enjoyable to watch. I would also have liked to have seen more consistent animating styles between the first and second seasons. While the art was different, it was still good, but at times the animation quality wasn't quite where it needed to be to deliver on some of the more important moments of the story.

All in all...this is worth the watch.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 15, 2023

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

This anime only beckons me to ask y'all a very realistic question: How would the shows you loved in the past turn out to be in a few years' time...or in this show's case, 10 years' time?

In the span of a decade, the reverse-Isekai fantasy comedy surprise that is novelist Satoshi Wagahara's Hataraku Maou-sama!! a.k.a The Devil is a Part-Timer, went from being a classic relic of the early 2010s, to an absolute sad state of a dumpster fire of the 2020s being no different from just about every other Isekai cash-cow work-turned-anime that has been released over the last few years.

As a venerable fan ... who loves Season 1 when it aired back in Spring 2013, to see the Les Misérables of an esteemed work continue with a story that sounds indifferent from many contemporaries from its time and even now, it feels like I (and many others) being shamed for the (now false) hope that Studio 3Hz's treatment in 2023 will be a modern version of studio White Fox's impeccable showing. Oh, how wrong we are, and not in a good way.

The biggest development when it comes to the entirety of Season 2, has only been the *nudge, nudge* "love" interest of Chiho Sasaki, as now she's completely wrapped in the messy matters of Ente Isla that's the same never-ending war between angels and demons. And guess what, even if the anime has literally adapted the LN to its halfway point as of Season 2's sequel a.k.a Season 2, Part 2 here, I don't think I can stomach yet another season if the same treatment is going to be given for the ludicrous ambition to adapt the LN all the way to the end (which LN readers will already know what's up since it ended in 2020). It's clear that the new faces joining the staff team's reprisal had no idea of how the source material is so beloved, that they did a complete 180 to butcher the anime adaptation to the best of their abilities, possibility ignoring all advice that has been set from its predecessor.

I don't really care for nano.RIPE's OP nor Liyuu's ED either, just plain forgettable at best.

I think that we, as the anime community, can collectively agree that if there was a show that HAD to be locked up in the past and stayed dead to preserve its fame and recognition, it's Hataraku Maou-sama!!. So much for being a fan who is SO hyped about Season 2, only to see and watch it being a shadow of its former self.

No more, just no more. Please, anime gods? Just let Hataraku Maou-sama!! rest in its rightful grave, not the abomination that was resurrected just to destroy people's high expectations. Just pretend that Season 1 only existed and let Season 2 be the forgettable dud, the biggest colossal failure in the history of AniManga.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Sep 28, 2023

slavemaster_1991

Not Recommended

To be honest at this point I don't even want this series to get another season. I liked S1 a lot, S2 was disappointing, but there was at least SOME hope things would go better at S3. Well, it didn’t. So here is a quick list for you if you are considering if this anime is worth your time.

-Visuals. Yes, I know I am late to the party, I just thought that I could get used to it. I couldn’t. Everything looks like it is some of those “cute girls doing cute things” slice of life anime on an extreme budget, but we have a ... reverse isekai here, with some magical stuff going on. Most details are gone, expressiveness is gone, personalities are no longer seen. Even if females look tolerable with that artstyle, all male characters, demons and beasts are just a laughing stock. Obviously no great combat scenes to be found here.
-Plot. I don’t know if it is even here at this point. The story repeats itself yet again, with half of the show being old stale jokes about demon king working at Mac and being poor, the other half tries to be action packed fantasy stuff - but at this point it lost all its novelty, the reasoning behind actions is no longer impactful, the combat scenes themselves look dull and pathetic. Overall it just feels like there is much more bland boring stuff than things that actually matter - and it kills all your interest.
-Characters. There is really nothing to say here, even though this season has some major inner conflict for the hero to resolve and shows us the motivation of the demon king - it was all way too predictable and given to us in such a lame way that it is just impossible to care.
-Sound. Even though voice actors try hard - their effort is put onto barren land: there is no animation to amplify the emotions, to show the weight of their words. And apart from dialogues there are no sounds that weren’t taken from a free sound sample library. Even OP and ED feel generic and empty.
-Enjoyment? Well, none. The show was way too bland and boring, after finishing it I simply can’t remember a single good moment that made me feel something.

To be honest, I just wish that the show stayed dead. Instead of 2 seasons of continued interesting story we got 2 seasons of cheaply made bland and generic show that was done solely to milk the fans. Don’t waste your time.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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