There was this confusion at first. The finale of Hataraku Maou-sama S2 is this the second part or is this the third season? Well, based on the numbering of the episodes, I guess it is safe to say that it is the former. Makes sense since the whole thing is a continuation from where things have left off at the end of the second season and it’s not like we’ve been waiting for years for the finale to come out, right? Speaking of which, thank goodness this is the final! Now I can get over this series and move on with my life! Yeah. This is the final part, RIGHT???!!!
Episode 13
A quick reminder that the demon realm was a lawless place before Satan came along. And Lailah giving Maou the power to know about the world. Finally, MgRonald is reopened! It’s about time. Maou so excited with its upgraded features. Damn, he feels good to be back! When the girls go to have their girls talk, Maou doesn’t care since he is preoccupied with Alas Ramus. However it is not the case for Ashiya. He is suspicious they are doing something behind their backs. If eavesdropping wasn’t enough, he tailed them but soon lost them. Heck, even calling Rika and giving her false hope! Just asking if Emi has been acting weird lately! How disappointing. So the next time the same thing happens, this time Urushihara helps out by using a modern tracker. This leads them to a bathhouse but the guys can’t enter since it has a protective barrier. No perversions today. It couldn’t be a worse timing as they get a letter from Miki-T. Oh sorry, it’s a CD. But thankfully, it’s just to tell them to weed the backyard and she’ll deduct this much from their rent. This also gives the guys an idea. So after all that hard work, time to go take a bath, right? Not sure why the girls can’t put off whatever their secret meeting but Suzuno claims they can’t hide it forever from them. So in the bath, the guys hear ambiguous stuffs from the girls’ side. What kind of training are they doing? Sorry, I think they’re just trolling us if this is about making their boobs bigger! Soon we see this is all part of the training to help Chiho control her power. Maou is so curious now that he is willing to risk police arrest just to head over to check it out. Luckily that won’t happen as Emi reveals the truth. Even if this is not her concern, she still wants to help. Hence the training to control this power has caused her to tire out each time. On the way back, Chiho reveals to Emi that when she got possessed, she also saw a strange memory that doesn’t belong to her. From the way she describes, it seems it could be Emi’s dad. However he utters a word “aciethalla”. Too bad Emi doesn’t know what it means too.
Episode 14
With MgRonald back in business, Chiho might want to tone down her loud voice in greeting customers. Don’t want to scare them away to their competitor, no? Maou tries to learn from Kisaki on how to make great coffee so she explains her dream to be a barman. She lets him sign up for this course to be a barista. Chiho talks to Suzuno about Emi’s change in behaviour. She explains about the truth she has learnt and is lost since her whole life has been about duty and revenge. This might be good for her as it takes her focus off Maou. As for relying on Sariel, Suzuno doesn’t think it’s a good idea since that guy has shrivelled up to a shadow of his former self after that rejection. One night, Maou and Emi bump into each other and she sounds grumpy and in a bad mood. He is not impressed and further stokes the fire until well, she starts having tears in her eyes. It is then Maou thinks of taking over this world again. Emi is not impressed because what about it after he achieves that? Maybe he’ll plunge the world into despair. This makes her even madder because she thinks he doesn’t actually mean it. If he was really a cruel Demon Lord, she wouldn’t be suffering this much. She accuses him of not really wanting world domination but rather for someone to acknowledge him doing something big. Before Maou can counter that, he is whisked away. Before him is fellow demon Farfarello and a little samurai kid, Erone who is human. Farfarello claims his side has captured Ente Isla’s strongpoint and wants Maou to return. Obviously Maou declines. Suzuno realizes too late there is a barrier and now Chiho is missing. Sariel says this isn’t any barrier but one that distorts space. Chiho is now with Maou as Farfarello thinks Maou has abandoned his kind based on what Chiho says. Maou explains he was wrong about world domination then and only thought of expanding his territory. If he continues that path, the hero will kill him and demons will fall. Farfarello vows they won’t make the same mistake but Maou continues to reject him and orders him to return. Farfarello gives Maou some magic orb that will restore his heart to his former ferocity. Maou will hold onto it for now. Sariel breaks the barrier and when Farfarello learns who Emi is, he tries to run but she catches him and threatens him to go back quietly. Because if he tries anything funny, she’ll kill him now. Erone comes to aid him and it seems he is powerful enough to fend off Suzuno singlehandedly. But when Emi is about to strike him, Alas Ramus stops mom. Don’t hurt him. This allows Farfarello and Erone to escape. Emi thinks Erone is like Yesod. Alas Ramus confirms he is. Yesod is to Alas Ramus as with Geburah is to Erone.
Episode 15
Maou and co discuss about this and defeating Farfarello will not solve anything since doing so will have another person taking his place. The problem now is that because Maou defended Chiho, he might take her as hostage since she can’t fight. Hence Chiho pleads for Sariel to help train her. He sees no benefit in this until she promises to help him get back with Kisaki. Let’s start training now! So as Sariel trains her in using her voice via singing, Maou and the guys talk how they are taking a gamble with this plan to convince Farfarello that Chiho is on their side. On the way back, they bump into Kisaki who starts talking about her dreams. Not sure what it’s supposed to mean but I figure it’s to give them some hope that it is never too late to chase your dream and are reachable from each small step. Kisaki also takes this chance to unban Sariel from MgRonald since it would be unfair to use her feelings to hurt SFC. But she warns him if he pulls off another stunt like that and hurt her crew, she’ll sue his pants off. Sariel is over the moon. Maou and Chiho attend a MgRonald class. During that, Erone shows up to personally talk to Maou about his intentions about studying. I suppose Japan is a great place to study and prepare for conquest! After that, Erone pops up before Chiho and wants her to come with him. She agrees. Maou rendezvous with the rest and they believe Erone is behind this since they cannot detect her missing presence. With Sariel’s help, he pinpoints Erone’s barrier.
Erone has taken Chiho to see Farfarello. He is surprised she agreed to come. Why? He might have hurt her if she resisted. As he turns into his true form, Chiho explains about Maou’s goal to learn something in Japan for his conquest. Because he doesn’t know what to do, that is why he is learning. She is also trying to find out why he wants to invade Ente Isla. However he is curious why a human would want to help demons. She claims this is not about humans vs demons. In fact, she wants to help Maou achieve a different kind of conquest. A world where both Satan and the hero don’t have to kill each other and both humans and demons can live in peace. By this time, Maou has found them and wants an explanation. Farfarello claims he wants to hear his story from a third party. Maou scolds them that they can ask him anything. He won’t run or hide. Showing Farfarello money, he claims this is more powerful than magic. Once he builds its meaning, they can use it for his world conquest and won’t need magic anymore. Then he has Emi and Suzuno transfer some celestial power into him with the help of Chiho’s singing. This turns Maou back to his true form. Although such force would poison a demon’s body, because Maou is in human form, it had an opposite effect. Now that Farfarello is convinced, he is willing to accept any punishment. But Maou won’t do that. He wants him to return and tell Barbariccia about the new 4 generals by his side: Ashiya, Urushihara, Emi, Suzuno and Chiho. Uhm, isn’t that 5 people?! Emi and Suzuno not too happy but Chiho is over the moon with this ‘promotion’. Farfarello will return with this great news to boost the demons’ morale. With Emi still b*tching about it, Maou tells her to continue watching him so she can truly judge if he is her true enemy or not. Thus, follow him and he’ll show her a whole new world. Too bad the way he says it is so ambiguous and misleading, it makes Emi and Chiho mad. Looks like he has another conquest to clear. Personally, this one feels so much harder…
Episode 16
Alas Ramus wants to sleep over at Maou’s place. And so an argument ensues between Maou and Emi. Basically she is against it because Maou’s place doesn’t even have a decent futon. She doesn’t care about the guys but think of their baby if she is going to sleep here! So yeah, futon shopping! As Urushihara checks the places to shop for one, Maou gives Suzuno some crocodile meat as part of the repayment. Look at how her face lights up. They also talk about because Alas Ramus and Emi fused, they can’t be too far away from each other. Hence with Emi staying here, the rest might have to find somewhere else to sleep. Our lovely family take a train ride for the futon shopping. You bet Emi is going to wince each time people think they’re a couple. Oh, is she going to put on that stupid shocked face each time others refer them to a family? Apparently. Didn’t know futon shopping is so expensive. Well, next door has some that is dirt cheap but it is just for day naps. It ends without any futon being bought but the ‘family’ hang out together. Yeah, really start to look like one. Emi noting her dilemma of doing her duty as a hero or mother (why not both?!) because if Maou becomes the father than the Demon Lord, her job would’ve been much easier. Is she trying to say something?! When Ashiya learns Suzuno left her favourite box of udon packs to them, he feels something is wrong. Could she be going on a journey? Well, she’s not in. Only one person to call for advice. Oh my, poor Rika getting another false hope from Ashiya’s call! Emi is so annoyed that on the train back, Maou slept on her shoulder! She’s pissed! Then Chiho spots them. What are you doing? The baby always speaks the truth, right? Papa and mama picnic together. Going to sleep together. Buying futon! Oh dear. There’s only so much a poor girl can take before she dies of a heart attack! It gets worse with Alas Ramus crying, thinking papa and mama are fighting. Such public drama. As they return, Ashiya tells them Suzuno is missing. They knock on her door and no answer. But soon Chiho could hear something from inside and as they open the door, Suzuno is crying in the dark. Apparently she made some udon curry with that crocodile meat. But she tripped and spilled it all over her favourite kimono. In shock, she gave away her udon to stay away from it for a while. She’s been crying alone ever since. Oh well… As Rika is also having uncertain feelings, Emi calls Emeralda since she too is uncertain over her duty to defeat the Demon Lord. Emeralda hints of a change in pace so Emi believes visiting Ente Isla to sort out her feelings might be a good idea.
Episode 17
Emi tells the gang she wants to go home for a while to sort out her feelings. So as the days passed, soon they get worried as Emi hasn’t returned on the day she said she would. Suzuno asking Maou if he has heard anything but nothing. He suggests contacting Emeralda but it seems she too cannot be contacted. Then with the rest suggesting Maou should overload himself with celestial force, he starts thinking they want to go save her. This is when he says he doesn’t care what humans do on Ente Isla. If they kill each other, it is to his advantage. Hence if Emi is in trouble, it is not his problem. Suzuno then asks what if Chiho is the one who is in trouble. He says his conclusion wouldn’t change. Really? Because yeah, Chiho heard all that. She is sad that he is lying and not the kind of person who breaks promises. Especially when he made them part of his generals to show them a new world. She is the one who asked Suzuno to check on him so sorry for tricking him. Ashiya then talks to Maou that nobody would win a fair fight against Emi. This means if they found out she is in Ente Isla, they might play dirty and take somebody hostage. He calls out Maou’s move to name the humans as his generals and send Farfarello home as unwise even if it was to protect Chiho and prevent more demons from showing up in Japan. They think that humans there might get mad thinking Emi and Suzuno betrayed them and that Emi did all this to protect Chiho. If there is someone who wants Emi more than her fighting prowess, it is the angels. As Maou goes to take some driving licence test, he meets a strange father and daughter, Hiroshi and Tsubasa Satou. Tsubasa trying to sniff him?! You bet it freaks him out. Yeah, he smelled familiar. Meanwhile Rika visits Ashiya. No, she’s not desperate for him. Actually, Emi has been away from work for so long and she is worried since she has not contacted her since a week. But that is what shocks the rest. Because Emi has been gone for 3 weeks. Rika shows them an unknown phone call and that voice definitely belonged to Emi. She sounded like she was in a rush. Suddenly a distress call from Chiho. No time to explain. Suzuno and Urushihara start to fly there. Rika can’t believe her eyes in seeing this.
Episode 18
A Malebranche demon is seen wandering about at Chiho’s school. Sorry students, this isn’t cosplay. Chiho tries to contact Maou but it isn’t connecting. Maybe she’ll try Suzuno. What’s worse than Tsubasa trying to smell Maou? Why, trying to lick him! WTF?! She realizes he is the one and takes off her hat. Recognize this hairstyle? Yes, Acieth Alla is Alas Ramus’ big sister. That’s right. The baby is the big sister! So this Hiroshi guy can’t be human too, right? He then converses in Maou in their Ente Isla language. When Maou claims he is looking for Emi, he starts getting frantic as he too is looking for her. As you would have guessed, he is Nord, Emi’s father. Maou is soon contacted by Suzuno who tells him to get his ass right to Chiho’s school as she has sent an SOS. Don’t worry, Acieth can fly them there! Screw the public seeing them! Meanwhile Chiho tries to talk to that demon, Libicocco (better pronounce his name right!). Although he is happy Satan is still alive, he cannot accept his new generals. He is also here to cause havoc as told. Yeah, he is burning down a few houses! Just in time for Suzuno and Urushihara to drop in. Elsewhere, Ashiya is having it hard to explain to Rika about all this. I don’t think she’ll buy that energy drink testing crap! Maou then returns so as to put Nord here before flying off with Acieth. Ashiya and Nord converse in their own language. Nord explains he would’ve remained a farmer till he assumed responsibility to deliver Acieth to the chosen one his wife told him. That chosen one could be Maou. Putting the pieces together, Ashiya knows he is Emi’s father. Rika can’t stand being left out and demands an explanation. Ashiya starts off revealing Emi’s real name and isn’t from Japan. Heck, she is not from this world. If she can’t believe all that, then it will be hard to proceed further. But they soon realize the place is surrounded by some army. Ashiya recognizes them as Efzahan’s second highest knight squad. Nord believes they couldn’t be after him seeing he won’t be here if he had not met Maou. So Ashiya? Maybe. Because he thinks the attack on Chiho’s school is a diversion and that the enemy was targeting all along. Meanwhile we see Amane returning to the city.
Episode 19
Urushihara watches Suzuno fight Libicocco. He finds something off. The way he fights, he will eventually lose. Like as though this is a distraction for something. Eventually he loses but Suzuno will not kill him since she has changed. Suddenly fireballs rain down from the sky. Urushihara protects them but takes damage. The girls are surrounded by angel knights. Gabriel’s? No, archangel Chamuel. Meanwhile Gabriel’s side has disabled Ashiya and Nord. He tries to take them back but Rika is trying to stop them. So she’s not afraid of angels? I guess she’s not Christian… Anyway, not sure why an angel disobeys Gabriel’s orders not to kill her but luckily Amane returns in time. She claims she owns this place and has the right to do something if outsiders cause trouble. Gabriel agrees to leave as long as he can take Ashiya and Nord. Kidnapping them? Well, returning them to where they belong. As a huge wind barrier is protecting Chiho’s school, the only way for Maou to get inside is to kiss Acieth? Just trolled us. Just linking their foreheads together. It is then she realizes he is Satan. Libicocco wants Chiho to hand over her shard if she knows what is good for her. Suzuno reminds Chiho never to do that and fights everybody with deadweight Chiho on her back. Eventually she gets wounded as Libicocco seizes Chiho. Before Suzuno gets killed, the return of Maou to save them. He even pulls out a sacred sword to kick those angels’ ass. Chamuel then becomes a rabid mad dog trying to kill Maou but fails. Gabriel is here to pick up Chamuel and as apology, fixes all the damages and rewrites the memories of all those unrelated. That easy. Maou has to restrain Acieth since she too is on the verge of becoming rabid to kick Gabriel’s ass. As the angels leave, Gabriel admits Emi is in their custody. Maou and his injured comrades return home and learn from Amane what happened. Amane tells him Ashiya left him a message. Something about the gates of hell at some art museum. Maou then realizes something. Ashiya has been doing some research on it and it looks possible they can open that gate with an amplifier. Everybody is willing to go on this big rescue mission but what is bothering Maou? He needs to find someone to cover his shift! Oh my, that’s the least of his problems now! We see Emi and Alas Ramus fine in some room in heaven. Orba is also here and tells her that her dad has arrived. As the stage has been set, as long as Emi does as she is told, he will do no harm.
Episode 20
When Emi arrived at Ente Isla with Emeralda, the latter parted ways seeing she is going to look more into Orba as he is viewed as a hero here. They will only meet up a few days later. So welcome back to Ente Isla where everything is so backwards and it makes you appreciate the good life and advancement in Japan! I can understand why Alas Ramus is throwing up a fuss. Yucky food! Emi sees her father’s cornfield and is filled with hope that she can find him. One day, Alas Ramus runs through an invisible barrier and ends up at some house. It seems this house has the same scent as Emi. Emi then asks who her mom is. Lailah. Oh. You mean that question never crossed her mind before?! This agonizes Emi as she wonders why mom saved Maou and then scattered the shards. Trying to put them back together now? Alas Ramus thought she sensed Acieth but starts crying when upon realizing she is gone. This causes the barrier to break and Orba and Raguel to find them. Learning that her father is in their custody, Emi has no choice but to go with them. Suzuno returns with a couple of scooters! Oh, so they’re going to ride this around in Ente Isla?! So does it have gas there?! I guess better than flying around and gain unwanted attention. Because opening the gate requires a lot of power, only Suzuno and Maou will head there. After all, Urushihara has confirmed with Gabriel that Emi, Alas Ramus and Nord are all there at Efzahan. At MgRonald, when Sariel steps in, Acieth suddenly tries to attack him but Maou recalls her. Then they talk to him as Sariel notes Gabriel tried to bring him back but he refused. Then he goes on to say how he doesn’t care for anything else except for Kisaki and lives his life just for her. Creepy. Though, he admits despite he has done nothing to the Tree of Life directly, he reveals heaven’s true goal in messing with it: To prevent a true God from being born on Ente Isla. Maou and Suzuno get ready as they ride their scooter into the gate. Is it me or does it look funny?!
Episode 21
Emi’s strange dream of trying to find everybody missing and when she finally found Maou, he kills her! Is this a premonition? Orba has Emi don her armour and be the commander of the army who will go slay the demons and retake their city. Hear all the cries of hope? Yes, people are putting all their faith in her. Maou and Suzuno ride their scooter and camp out during their journey. She asks of his intentions to invade Ente Isla. He explains about the demon realm being sh*tty and all. When he managed to reunite it, he realized his miscalculation. You see, demons rely on magic to live and bringing peace while doing away with all the chaos also did away the magic. Knowing the realm would starve if he did nothing, that is why he invaded Ente Isla to restore their depleted resources rather than destroying it. After the invasion, he did his research on humans but just couldn’t get it. Until he stepped into Japan. He only realized humans need food to survive and not magic. So that became the basis for society structure for humans. He felt his sins were betraying the trust of his subjects and drove them to their deaths. His atonement is to be their king until he dies. Suzuno becomes God to absolve him of his sins? Or his guilt? As the campaign against demons rages on, Emi is prevented from taking part. Then she suggests to have the demons surrender but Orba disagrees since it is like allowing demons to live. But looks like without her help, the demons are routed.
Meanwhile Gabriel talks to Ashiya who knows about his plan to have him fight the humans. Gabriel only needs him to keep fighting Emi as long as he can. Ashiya then talks to Farfarello and Barbariccia and chastises them for being duped by heaven into this. They should’ve listened to Maou’s orders and returned to the demon realm instead of wasting lives of their brethren. Barbariccia then points out it seems the shard’s power also works on demons. Realizing that Nord doesn’t have his holy sword, Ashiya can see what Gabriel is planning too. That’s right, Gabriel has waited 2000 for this chance of a new Demon Lord to be born. Albert stumbles into Maou and Suzuno after hearing rumours of weirdoes riding scooters. He tells them of Emeralda’s fate. The day she was supposed to meet up with Emi, she got hauled up by the church. They branded her an apostate and all this was to cover up Orba’s wrongdoing. But it is her position that guaranteed Emi and Albert’s safety. He tried to see Emeralda after that but was prevented any form of contact. Maou suggests they join forces. He tries to demonstrate Acieth by turning her into a sword but it seems she is only able to transform into a small one. She claims Maou is preventing her. Is he? He then starts to vomit and feel sickly. Only then Suzuno realizes something strange. Maou has returned to Ente Isla but why is he not in his original form?
Episode 22
Chiho talks to Amane and wants to know if she is related to the Tree of Life. She claims she is half. Her dad is a sephirah but her mom is human. But Miki T is a child of sephirah just like her dad. Speaking of which, she returns and warns Chiho learning the truth won’t change anything. Even so, she doesn’t want to regret not knowing anything if she keeps running away. Emi’s side easily defeats Malebranche’s leader as Ashiya and his demons have a war strategy meeting. Maou is throwing a tantrum since he won’t be doing anything? Damn, he is even willing to beat up Acieth who is sleep talking about food?! Maou wonders why the heroes let him live peacefully in Japan. They did consider attacking him but Albert felt it was to respect Emeralda and Emi’s wish. Albert is also somewhat grateful to Adramelech. In a battle, he was prepared to die but Adramelech said he will not commit mindless massacres nor killed civilians for fun. Even when Albert requested a one on one fight with him, Adramelech refused such cheap warrior pride. It made Albert think that these demons were more humans than them. Suzuno and Albert’s mission now is to save Emi and the emperor. She believes she understands both sides enough to pull this off. Maou talks to Acieth about stuffs. But WTF she ate too much and vomits, and that vomit propelled them into the sky and then into the forest lake?! Is this supposed to be a joke?! Emi is shocked to learn that Ashiya is leading the demons. She realizes this is all part of Orba’s plan seeing Ashiya is the only demon general whom the heroes never defeated. Doing so will save Nord. But too bad, Maou isn’t here. So why is Emi looking so sad? Because yeah, she has an emotional breakdown since she is conflicted and hates doing all this. She is so lost and doesn’t know what to do anymore. It’s bad when Alas Ramus has to tell her papa will come and Emi even pining her hopes for Maou to come and save her! But soon Emi is called because Ashiya has sent a letter. Well, the rest can’t read this ‘cryptic’ message in Japanese. At first it doesn’t make sense to Emi. A vow to payback for some tofu. Then she realizes the meaning of this code. It means Maou will come and a warning to withdraw if they want to survive. She wants to head into battle immediately and oh boy, she is so relieved to know Maou is coming for her.
Episode 23
Suzuno and Albert take a secret passage underneath the palace and come out inside the royal toilet. As they go into the bed chamber of the emperor to seek an audience, they find it strange as he is not responding. Unfortunately, Gabriel won’t let them interfere in their plans and teleports them far away to the distant western continent. As ‘reward’, he tells them the emperor is not sleeping here but somewhere else. This is just Nord. Emi begins her fight with Ashiya. Orba tries to stop her since Ashiya is provoking her but Farfarello and Barbariccia stop the old fart from interfering. Emi apologizes for the many demons she has killed but Ashiya notes they are powerless to stop things. As Acieth is feeling better, the crest on her forehead starts glowing, an indication Alas Ramus is fighting. Maou is surprised to learn that she could fuse with anyone because she notes there were a lot of bad side effects fusing with Maou like the loss of his power. It means they were a bad match and she would’ve been more suited to Chiho or Urushihara. This means that it isn’t the sephiroth aren’t the mistletoe but everyone else with knowledge. It’s time to make their move so, uhm, ride scooters? At this point they’re worried about being discovered? As the angels watch Emi’s fight, Chamuel is agitated that Emi hasn’t used to full power of the sephiroth since doing so, Ashiya will not stand a chance. In the case she becomes exhausted, the angels will butt in. Yeah well, it’s been 7 hours of Emi vs Ashiya! Maou and Acieth ride through the guards. You better get out of the way since insurance doesn’t cover you blokes on Ente Isla! Even throwing firecrackers at those chasing them. They’re this close and still riding their scooter? Why not ditch it and fly?! Oh right. Don’t want to wreck it. But it seems the scooters are sturdier than the palace doors! Ram right through it! Maou finally meets Emi and Ashiya. Emi acting weird and apologizing for all the trouble. Awkward. She gets emotional as Acieth brings Nord to her. Finally reunited with her father. Alas Ramus is also happily reunited with hers and also Acieth. Sorry to interrupt this touching reunion but looks like they have to deal with the angels now.
Episode 24
With Emi deciding to side with Maou, Maou insults the angels especially Raguel and considers him lower than Sariel because at least that fallen angel is doing things via his own merits. Meanwhile, what a convenience that Suzuno and Albert stumble into the fake inquisition of Emeralda and put a stop to it to save her. As Maou and Ashiya fight the angels, Acieth notices the shard in Emi is no good. But then she notices it starts to resonate with Ashiya’s. Not sure about the logic of exposing it to magic rather than celestial force, Emi steals it from him to give it to Acieth. Because of that, she now gets to power up Maou and she becomes his holy sword. So apparently there’s some explanation about the sephiroth and that such sacred stuffs are not only limited to heroes and angels and that’s why everybody has got a misunderstanding over it. Not that I understand it either. Suzuno uses her authority to apprehend Orba as she reveals the revelation that there are no real angels and those so called angels are actually humans. You can buy some wings at the mart and call yourself one! Really? She also adds the angels are the one who brought terror to the land and not the demons. If they don’t believe, the emperor is here to vouch for her. Maou defeats the angels and he won’t kill Gabriel just yet. Not until he brings him back to Japan to spill the beans. With everything over, Emi tries to apologize to Maou but he claims it is not her fault to begin with. She only did it because she is the hero and he the devil. After all, there are other people whom she owes an apology for like Chiho and Rika. When they’re back in Japan, Chiho can’t contain her happiness to go see them. Gabriel is handed over to Miki-T and Amane. Rika sees Emi to tell her the bad news that she has been fired. On the bright side, Rika still remains her friend. More good news as Nord finally wakes up. Not a dream. Father and daughter finally reunite. Then everyone has a good meal together.
Devil In Her(o) Heart: Every Hero Has Demons
Uhm… Is that it? Is that really how it all ends? Why does it all feel so flimsy and unsatisfying in the sense that they just ended it for the sake of ending it. I mean, so many stuffs were left unexplained and it was all so rushed. A quick check over the internet as I discovered it seems there is some epilogue and whatever answers to unanswered questions because it ends with Maou ending up with somebody (I shall not spoil it here!). So oh my, are we going to have another season or not?! Perhaps it is not likely and maybe they might just do a few OVAs to cover that. But whatever. I’m so confused and bored that I’m just glad I’m done with this series. Assuming this anime’s season is the last one!
Honestly, I don’t understand what’s going on this season. Actually, I don’t see where the heck it is all going. Rather, I was so bored that perhaps I wasn’t paying actual attention so it could be my bad that my mind was shut off halfway and didn’t understand what’s going on. So yeah, this is supposed to be the final stretch but it felt like one long draggy affair to that finale. In fact, I believe there were a lot of questions that were not answered like Lailah’s goal and the likes. Again, I only have myself to blame since I wasn’t paying full attention. Hence this final stretch feels a bit odd because Emi has been separated from the family-cum-gang about halfway. Then it becomes another draggy affair to go and rescue her. Not even sure why Orba is doing this (don’t really remember, though) and the curious circumstances surrounding angels and humans were possibly from the same race and demons could be too, eluded me like a slippery eel. Whatever it is, I’m glad it is all over!
When you think about angels not really being angels and are just human beings (what a convenient and boring revelation), you have to wonder what are the demons then. Are they humans too? If they’re just some other races, I sure don’t see elves and dwarves around! And where’s even Lailah?! I thought she would show up for some major plot twist but she’s nowhere to be seen. I wonder if the producers forgot about her. And this sephiroth and shards thingy not really fully explained either and why does Efzahan looks so much like ancient China! At least the Chinese influence is so strong and it makes you wonder if there were refugees in the past that ran over to Earth and started a new China. Sorry, went off tangent there but those are some of the more pressing questions bugging me. Anyway, I don’t care anymore. I’m glad it is all over!
So I guess reading comments of this season from the internet, I could say that the fans and viewers are really split on this. Some say it is good and way better than the first season (I bet these people are just simps of Chiho) and the other team is saying everything went downhill and is all just sh*t. Yup, make a guess which faction I belong to. I have not read the light novel source (that ended back in 2020) but those who read it said the ending was sh*t. Yup, just like the one we got here in this adaptation. So it begs the question should it have gone for an original anime ending? I don’t know, either way the series is already like sh*t to me so it doesn’t make a difference. Whether our gang is going to happily continue play this pretend family thingy or Maou goes berserk and destroys the world and everybody else. Yeah. That. For better or worse, I’m glad it is all over. Now, I hope they don’t f*cking animate the other spinoffs of this series! WTF they have a high school spinoff and, uhm, a cooking version?! Please, NOOOO!!!!
I don’t know what to say any more about the characters but I guess I’ll try for closing purposes and keep it simple. Basically Maou trying to redeem himself for the mistakes he did when he tried to unify his people. And yeah, I find it really strange that it is Japan that thought him about all the societal stuffs. Hey, at least this proves that humans have some sort of worth then generally being selfish scumbags. So how is he doing? He is hanging on there and at this rate he might climb the corporate ladder or something. I don’t know, why not try to impose this on his fellow demons? Imagine demons working in an office job or serve food… Yikes. Casting away magic and conquest all for scraps of paper? It’s all about the money. YIKES! As for Emi, looks like she isn’t as irritating as in previous season since she is away. But in some ways she is a bit pitiful because of her conflict to get revenge on Satan for killing her father. And now the fact it isn’t so and her father is still breathing, you could see where the dilemma stems from. Like as though she isn’t sure of her purpose in life anymore. Well, good thing it all turns out well in the end. So is she ready to continue to play the role of mama? Wedding bells with Maou when? This should happen if they’re going to prove coexistence between races is possible! Or would you rather be a racist!
I thought Chiho would play some prominent role here. Because I’ve forgotten already whatever power she has and even so, it felt wasted because she was left out from the final stretch. So I really don’t know, did they forget her or it is all just some red herring. Alas Ramus not as annoying as last season since she makes less appearance but still annoying, though. Acieth also equally feels the same but to a lesser degree. Don’t know why I find her my pace attitude to be amusing but still better than Alas Ramus. Yeah, the other shards of sephiroth feel wasted because like Erone, where the heck was he? And what’s this about Miki-T and Amane being related to that? Oh yeah. Great plot twist. I knew they were strange people but somehow for them to be related to this isn’t surprising and somehow it took all my little zest out of them. Will Rika and Ashiya end up together? Still more probable than Sariel and Kisaki!
For the demons, Ashiya being given more screen time towards the end so that we don’t pigeonhole him as someone who freaks out whenever Maou goes over the budget or buys unnecessary stuffs. Like how we did for Urushihara as a hikikomori NEET who loves shopping online. Sure, he has some uses as a fallen angel but he is mostly the former. Remember Camio? No? Yup, me too. I suppose this is just to assure us that somebody is keeping the order in the demon realm during Satan’s absence. Why do they even need to introduce Farfarello and Libicocco is beyond my understanding but I guess it is to show that the Maou has some more allies considering the humans and angels have theirs. Sorry, still need to do double takes in spelling and pronouncing their names! For the angels, can I say better to know the devil than the angels? They could be the devil in disguise and for Gabriel, what is this about his goal to create a new Demon Lord? Does God exist or not? Who the f*ck this Chamuel? Why he so angry at Maou? Did Satan kill his sister or family or something? Raguel still there. With his afro and shades. Doing nothing. F*ck yeah, there are many other more characters that I am close to forgetting but I’m not just going to bother with it anymore. And they all just lost to Maou like that. Oh right. They’re just humans with wings.
Until today, I still cannot get over the downgrade of the visuals of this series, which is also the biggest issue that many of those who saw the first season umpteen years ago have. Yes, the visual quality for this part still sucks ass sh*t hard! I know we all love consistency but please not that only applies to good quality. It is one of the biggest put offs I had while I was watching this season and the last. The biggest demotivation factor that contributed to why I was just freaking bored in watching the whole thing. Story didn’t appeal to me so I wasn’t listening. Now the visuals look like sh*t too and I can’t spend 100% of my eyes watching this garbage, CAN I?! So yeah, sometimes I have to roll my eyes away in fear in staring too long at this crappy garbage animation will cause them to melt and fall off! But seriously, how can they still make such horrendous animation quality today?! Look at how freaking ugly and simple Chiho is! Don’t know about you Chiho simps but she’s a turn off. Good riddance this is all over.
Well, having Tomokazu Sugita voicing as Farfarello sure didn’t help much. I thought Eri Kitahara was back as Acieth something sounded a bit off about her voice. Too bad it’s not her but Madoka Asahina (Kominami in Bokutachi Wa Benkyou Ga Dekinai). The other new casts joining in include Atsushi Ono as Nord (Orochi in One Punch Man), Chikahiro Kobayashi as Chamuel (Sugimoto in Golden Kamuy), Megumi Han as Erone (Sumire in Chihayafuru) and Kenji Nomura as Libicocco (Reystov in Saihate No Paladin). Well, it’s good to know that after all these years, Nano Ripe still sounds the same as always. Yeah. Not good at least in my books. Here she sings the generic anime rock opening theme, Hikari No Nai Machi. And when the opening animation credits starts off with a distraught Emi in tears and emotionally crying, that isn’t a good sign and doesn’t bode well with me. As for the ending theme, Bloomin by Liyuu sounds more like an idol pop because if you don’t know, Liyuu is that Keke girl from Love Live! Superstar series.
Overall, this season has been really disappointing, even more so everything that led up to that bland and strange ending. The whole point is to get everyone together again as a family. Term used in the loosest sense. I’m only glad that this is all over and I can finally take heart that I can put away this anime in one of those boxes that I will never open again until many years into the future for posterity purposes! Heh. So can we say that this series is done for good? Unless… They decided to do a remake to fix that sh*t quality visuals! OMFG!!! PLEASE, NO!!! I want to resign from this series forever! Can it stay that way! When you have a great Satan renouncing his Demon Lord title to work part time at a fast food joint or a great hero taking on a normal office job, and then they both ‘marry’ each other and play family, come to think of it, these characters have a better life than mine! GRRR!!! But I won’t give up my full time otaku hobby for all that!
Chua Tek Ming~*Anime Power*~ !LiVe FoR AnImE, aNiMe FoR LiFe! 