Review of The Devil is a Part-Timer! Season 2
TLDR; The story is fine, but the quality is really... really bad While Hataraku Maou-sama is essentially a comedy anime, SS1 has real-good quality and solid fighting animation sequences. The show has a good balance of comedy and action blend, which is why people love it so much. After almost 10 years, it returned... just to disappoint everyone. To be fair, I don't mind the new artistic style and understand the studio change. The new art has its charm also, if they do it right, some scenes are pretty good. However, oh boi, they ruined the anime. The overall art is sloppy and lacks detail, I cantell from EP4 that many faces are way off-model even in simple still scenes (not in-between).
The fighting scene is horrible... It's like the characters are just talking, not fighting. It only has beam shooting, simple slashing, and boring punching even in the last EP which is supposed to be the climax. There is no such excitement to be found here.
The problem is the budget and the studio is just a small outsourced one. If you check the end credit names, they're mostly Korean names. The people behind this are not passionate animators, they only finish it to get paid, which is... very sad. I don't want to blame the studio too much. The producer and harsh anime industry are to blame... honestly.
I gave 4/10 because it's below average.
I watch the show because the story and pacing are not that bad and I am a fan of Hikasa Youko and Touyama Nao voices.