The Devil Is a Part-Timer! (light novel)
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| The animation is getting worse and worse. I hate to hop on a band wagon but i paused a few times and it was atrocious... |
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| episodes like this where i thought ya know maybe this didn't need to come back after 8+ years |
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| Maou didnt deserve this level of animation |
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| Holy shit, the artstyle consistency was horrible this episode. Overall, meh episode. |
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SwitchingTmprly said: I enjoyed Hataraku Maou-sama’s first season because for all its role reversals, slapstick circumstances, and the accommodations that the former inhabitants of Ente Isla were forced to make on migrating to Japan, it was at its heart a comedy about immigrants and the baggage they bring with them to their new home. But in this second season, 9 actual years later, familiarity breeds contempt as much of the underlying tension between human and demon camps has dissipated along with the newcomer gags. The animation quality has suffered and the series feels forced, as characters and the plot try to find reasons for existing, and we’re saddled with a tired parenting comedy as the excuse that binds the series together. Rewatch the first season, skip the second. I'm so glad to see someone feels the same as me, I'm only seeing people pointing out the bad art but I feel like the story overall is much worse? Like you said the part what made the show funny in S1 is completely gone and instead of it they just slapped a baby in there for cuteness points. I was very excited to see this show coming back but now I'm not sure if it's worth watching if it stays like this the whole season. |
holiday498 said: SwitchingTmprly said: I enjoyed Hataraku Maou-sama’s first season because for all its role reversals, slapstick circumstances, and the accommodations that the former inhabitants of Ente Isla were forced to make on migrating to Japan, it was at its heart a comedy about immigrants and the baggage they bring with them to their new home. But in this second season, 9 actual years later, familiarity breeds contempt as much of the underlying tension between human and demon camps has dissipated along with the newcomer gags. The animation quality has suffered and the series feels forced, as characters and the plot try to find reasons for existing, and we’re saddled with a tired parenting comedy as the excuse that binds the series together. Rewatch the first season, skip the second. I'm so glad to see someone feels the same as me, I'm only seeing people pointing out the bad art but I feel like the story overall is much worse? Like you said the part what made the show funny in S1 is completely gone and instead of it they just slapped a baby in there for cuteness points. I was very excited to see this show coming back but now I'm not sure if it's worth watching if it stays like this the whole season. +1 to that in that it all feels forced; it doesn't feel fun anymore. I wonder if the light novels took a downgrade in the writing at this point, or if White Fox simply just handled the source material better. Because S1 felt full of life; S2 so far feels dead to the point that I almost don't even recognize these characters anymore. S1 was a 7 or 8 out of 10. S2 has fallen to a 2 or 3 And I don't even have to mention the animation because holy shit this episode though. I was just getting used to the new art style and then they hit us with THIS absolute stunner. |
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| did the art style change again??? i swear this ep is by far the worst one visually. it wasnt Awful but definitely the worst out of the other 3. sleeping scene was cute. emilia asking maou abt what happened to the guy in his story was :(. and ashiya's explanation on why they wanted more was good. we're getting even closer to their story. also fuckin king satan cried that was unexpected, but i liked it. and oh i finally watched the full ed lmao Dont rly like it why tf it all abt chii-chan๐ฆ main selling point of this series is maou-emi-alas ramus found family + the gang getting more used n closer to eachother but the ed is allll abt chii-chan๐๐๐๐๐๐ can u tell im not a fan of her but Ok whatever ๐๐ |
holiday498 said: I'm so glad to see someone feels the same as me, I'm only seeing people pointing out the bad art but I feel like the story overall is much worse? Like you said the part what made the show funny in S1 is completely gone and instead of it they just slapped a baby in there for cuteness points. I was very excited to see this show coming back but now I'm not sure if it's worth watching if it stays like this the whole season. If by episode 4 you have no idea what the plot, character motivation or inter character relationships are for any of the cast... then it goes without saying how badly the story is managed. Seriously I zoned out during the exposition dump of the crystal shard thing and don't care to go back to it. In season 1 it was all clear from minute one, so much so you can summarize the plot and each character's motivation/relationship in one sentence. I dare anyone to attempt that with this mess. |
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| Ngl that begining scene is so hard to watch... I miss White Fox Artstyle. It's always great to have Takehito Koyasu as Gabriel. Man voice is iconic. Alas Ramus send Gabriel flying was hilarious. Post credit scene : Lailah is Emilia mother? |
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Belarabi said: DreadfulLaw said: THIS SUCKS. satan was very epic and stronk last season, but this season he's pretty pathetic and i feel like the story is getting unnecessarily complicated last season satan only cared about his ordinary slice of life not fighting and being strong, yeh, but when bad people appeared he beat the shit out of them |
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| It's always infuriating when you wait ages for season 2 and then they deliver such quality. Why even bother? |
| man, what was wrong with faces in this episode? |
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| Kind of weird episode, so many things happening out of nowhere and end so suddenly, also she turns into her sword? |
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| At least Alas Ramus didn't disappear but for her to turn into Emilia's sword... xD that's kinda unexpected |
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| hmmm i felt like that's not fair for Emi to treat Maou like that! she should have told Maou about what happened Alas Ramus immediately and not just let Maou get depressed like that! 4/5. |
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| literally maou sama in this episode so pathetic and useless !! |
We waited 9 years for this type of inconsistency animation wise? They are not even action scenes, literally still images. How do they fuck face proportions up? |
| I'd not be surprised if Alas Ramus starts firing hadoukens at this point |
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| Oof while the previous episodes weren't much of an issue in the animation department, this episode was way too exposed... I really hope next episodes try something else whenever that happens. It's just really hard to watch like this. |
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| I really don't know how to feel about this season. I don't remember much of the first season, but I can point out a multitude of things for this season with the horrid animation (obviously), how fast and jumbled together the story feels, and how the character interactions feel, among other things. |
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| Yeah this episode looked mega jank. Didn't really have any complaints about the art style for this first 3 episodes but this was something else. Well I guess the kid is sticking around as her sword for a while. That makes a bit more sense they won't always have to deal with a child following them around restricting the sort of things they can write. |
| I really wonder about the fridge metaphor... |
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| While I do prefer the artstyle for the original series, For the 3 episodes that we had, I was in the camp that thought that the newer artstyle was still decent and wasn't as bad as other were making it out to be. Sadly, after this episode, it's becoming almost impossible to defend it for much longer. Most of the wonky visuals and animation were in the action scenes between Emilia and Gabriel, but even the non-action scenes had some shots where the character's looked off-model. When the likes of Boruto's average filler episodes look better, both in terms of non-action as well as action scenes, then it doesn't paint a pretty picture for the production values that we have for this series. Aside from all of those issues, the episode's contents itself was still decent. I enjoyed the little story that Maou made up for Alas Ramus and the visuals that went with it and Gabriel's appearances did give me a good laugh with the way he acts. I can only hope and pray that the production values improve from here on out... |
| That's a sick prank from Emilia. Satan already told her the story of how his parents died, yet she thinks he doesn't know the pain of losing someone that she lied about Alas Ramus. Post-credits featuring Sarue: So Emilia's mother is not only alive (if she is that white-haired woman from the amusement park) but is also the angel that saved Satan's life and gave him a fragment of Yesod to grow? |
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| Is it just me or has the quality really tanked? I'm not going to keep my hopes up if it looks this bad already. |
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| Got some early DBZ Gohan vibes from this episode. |
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| What happened with everyone's faces this episode? They all looked so deformed and goofy. So Emi's mother is the angel who helped Maou and indirectly turned him into a tyrant, huh? Well, that's dramatic. |
| Not that the quality was super impressive in the first place, but, especially during the fighting, it dipped. Between Emi's confession to Alas Ramus and the reveal with her heritage at the end, did this episode just confirm MaouxEmi? As much as I enjoyed this episode, a lot more than the previous ones for that matter, I do feel as though that Alas Ramus' "farewell" was a bit of a copout. I was actually more excited when I thought she was done being in this for a bit. I figured it would be reason enough to force everyone to change gears. If nothing else, this episode showed that Maou needs to start finding a way to get at least, some, power back. |
 "...Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?" |
| This was the roughest looking episode I've seen for the series. It honestly looks like a hentai studio animated this. I think this whole child thing has run its course. Hopefully we can focus less on it now that Alas Ramus can turn into a sword. |
| I can't believe we get to see a Jiggly Jiggly Heaven situation happen in real time |
| This suddenly became the worst animated seasonal I'm watching. Horrendous. |
| I have committed war crimes in Yugoslavia |
| I will say the animation was quite poor, as someone who doesn't usually notice bad animation, or simply doesn't care I was surprised that even I noticed it. Alas Ramus disappearing had me genuinely upset, then I ended up like Maou crying when she appeared again. Gotta say though, that was a really impressive bluff. Emilia might have to kill Maou with Alas Ramus, I really wonder how shes going to react to that. |
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| None of this development will matter if they follow the canon story... |
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