Hataraku Maou-sama!! 2nd Season

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.

As much as I'd want to go ranting so hard, I'd just refrain from doing so as it's clear to me now, that this entire season (Part 1 and 2) has been designed for younger audiences. And I'm ashamed for denying that for too long. So me wasting my time on this show is all on me. I've got nothing and no one to blame but my Emi-and-Suzuno-simping self xD

Obstacles that have been set up since the beginning of the series? Taken care of in a matter of seconds.
Characters being kept hostage and/or in a tough situation needing to be saved? Effortlessly saved in a ... matter of seconds.
Long awaited meeting encounters and closures? Undermined by bad execution in just a matter of seconds.
It almost felt like the people working on it really just wanted it to end. Can't blame them though. Even I, a viewer of the show felt as such.

I see a possible sequel, seeing as the situation with Yusa's mom is still yet to be tackled but, unless they get a different studio that could make this show at least as interesting as the 1st season, I just wouldn't give a flying F anymore.

POSITIVES: OP theme
NEGATIVES: Wasted precious time of precious lives

All i can say
- The story got horribly bad
- Forgotten music
- Animation .... damn it
- The characters hmmmm REALLY, you want me to say CUTE, disgusting!!!

To be honest I liked the first season it was interesting to see some of story like that but
when I heard about the completion of the story, i was excited
after that two seasons to shock me, and I was watching and suffering
the series continues to disappointment to worse
... why do I force myself to watch this rubbish

I expect one of the reasons was the budget on this work and the poor studio, with all due respect
i was expecting some good animation and art to this season due to the many negative comments, but they haven't learned their lesson
If the anime had stopped from the first season, it would be better .

I am probably an outlier of most people that watch this show in that I have only just watched season 1 like 1 year ago. So I can say with confidence that the first season seems better by a magnitude than this one. Maybe it's because too many characters where introduced in a too short amount of time. Or the relationship between Emi and Maou seemed to progress in a forced way because of the baby they randomly got. Or that there's a bunch of in-universe lore that we did not know existed with complicated names that's now the No. 1 importance. Or that the ... animation, the consistency of the models, the boringness of the visuals, the (at best) mediocre soundtrack. It has like some moments where it's former glory or the endearingness of it's characters shines through. But even those moments are dulled by the mediocre production and the cluttered, formidably uninteresting and confusing plot. Maybe there's gonna be some development in the things I was interesting in in seeing play out after the first season. I'm only 5 Episodes in. But this is sadly a chore to watch. At least At least I got to see more of Ashiya and Urushihara animated and voice acted. Some of the character intereactiosn are still fun, but it's sadly like 1 tiny moment per episode whereas the rest of the Episode is unengaging. This is almost a chore to watch, now that it's not coming out weekly anymore. I find myself washing dishes when I try to continue this show because it's more fun lmao.

I did not enjoy this season at all. It was frankly super boring and uninteresting.


The biggest flack I have for this show is that it was not really comedic. For a comedy show you cannot have 2/3rds of the season being a super dramatic and nonsensical fight drama.

Speaking of the fighting, when they went back to the Ente Isla it was super boring. The main problem is that there was no weightage. Who were the villains? Why do I care?
Sure they explained throughout the few seasons but I kinda tuned them out haha... because it was so boring.

I just wanted a show which looks into ... the daily lives of these people, I did not expect this much.

It is an isekai after all I guess.

But yea the first season was amazing just because there was little of the enter isla arcs. 2nd Season was super boring as they introduced more ente isla and now this one is all enter isla


The animation is obv great
the first like 3-4 episodes were good before she got teleported

Alus Ramus is amazing and deserves a lot of credit

OP still sucked

4/10 I did like the first few episodes but after that it was bad

Thanks!
-CyanCheetah