It took a long time, but our favourite MgRonald’s shift manager is back to win at life with The Devil Is A Part-Timer Season 2 Episode 1. Let’s see what domestic adventures await us this time in this review.
The Devil Is A Part-Timer Season 2 Episode 1 Overview
Season 2 of The Devil Is A Part-Timer has been a long time coming ever since the series was first released in 2013 and impressed a lot of viewers with its character development and storytelling. The series is adapted from a Light Novel written by Satoshi Wagahara and illustrated by 029. It is also known in original Japanese as Hataraku Maou-sama Season 2 (stylised as Hataraku Maou-sama!!)
Studio 3Hz is producing this season, the team behind Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online and Princess Principal. It is being directed by Daisuke Tsukushi, who has been part of the productions of shows like Higurashi and My Hero Academia. This episode is also referred to as Hataraku Maou-sama Season 2 Episode 1 (or Hataraku Maou sama Season 2 Episode 1).
– The Devil Is A Part Timer Season 2 Episode 1 Review does not contain spoilers –
The Devil Is A Part-Timer Season 2 Episode 1 Review- Back To Work!
It has been a long time since the first season of this show aired its last episode. Since 2013, there have been various shows that have attempted to achieve what this one did with mixed reactions. The anime landscape has completely shifted since it was on top of the world. Isekai as a genre has exploded in popularity, and this show played a big part in getting it there. The concept was also highly interesting and unique, something that helps it still in the latest season as it has retained the same fresh outlook that it first appeared with.
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Maou is back and is as lively as ever about his job as a shift manager back at MgRonalds. Seeing him being as carefree as ever about everything except making money is as fun as it always was, and he doesn’t resemble the dark lord at all from the extended flashback we got to see at the start of this season. The flashback was reminiscent of the original that aired before the first ever episode of the series, except when it started telling a story which the original never got to. It was an intriguing setup for the new things that are going to happen this season.
In a way, this episode served as a reintroduction to the characters we last saw 9 years ago. Everyone who was involved in the first season made an appearance here, from Maou’s manager at the fast-food joint to the evil manager and part-time angel manager of the KFC knockoff that is next door. The show has an extraordinarily great cast that all got their moment to shine in the first season, and it will be interesting to see which one stands out in the new season.
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It is probably not going to be Lucifer, though. He was famously a low point of the previous season who did next to nothing the entire time he was around except make everyone else miserable. One would have expected the show to redeem him in some form, but the redemption never came, and he remains an unlikable leech to the limited resources that Maou and Ashiya(who is still lovely to watch) possess. Common sense would dictate that he will get a redemption arc this season, but we have been proven wrong before.
A different studio from last time, 3Hz, is handling the production of the show, and let’s just say that this one doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to anime. The animation looks slightly altered from the original season as the features are a little softer, and the colour contrast is a shade off of what it used to be. However, the quality still is more or less the same as the original season. The animation that would have been mindblowing 9 years ago is merely acceptable these days, such is the state of current-day animation.
Verdict
The Devil Is A Part-Timer Season 2 Episode 1 softly puts us back in the world of the hardest working Demon Lord this side of the atmosphere. It was an entertaining watch that promised a lot of fun to come in the upcoming episodes.
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