Review of The Devil is a Part-Timer! Season 2

Well, this felt like the series everyone was waiting for, doesn’t it? When I picked up this series recently, I had no clue this season was coming out, and after finding the first season as charming as I did, I was excited to see what came next for these characters. There certainly was—rather remarkably, considering the years between the first season and this one—the same, exact charm in this season as there was in the last, and because of that, I got to have a great time with these characters again. However, I do also feel like I was missing something this season, which isodd because, for all intents and purposes, it’s the same, silly, random series it’s always been. I suppose I was expecting a bit more to come from a second season than what did come from it.

I mean, there are certainly dynamics being explored with this season that hadn’t been explored before (the addition of a tiny, adorable child is proof enough of that), but in terms of what was going on the whole season—it felt a bit bland. I have to say, I didn’t think the first season of this series did terribly well with its balance of action versus the mundane, but I still found the more highly-paced sequences engaging enough to sustain my interest. To me, that was lost a bit this season, and the balance felt even more off. Now, that might just be preference in anime, so I think most people who loved the first season will love this one. Ultimately, I don’t think this series was meant to get entirely serious, so I can’t fault it for remaining a bit frivolous. Not everything was frivolous, mind you—I did see some good character development for certain characters that I thought was well done and did a lot to increase how connected I felt to the series and that particular person. I just wasn’t as engaged this season as I wanted to be. I think I’ll still end up coming back to this series, though, because, at the end of the day, it’s still super fun to see the ridiculousness of it all while hanging out with Satan and his friends.