I like this show, but I can't in good faith give it a very high score. The first season is a little better, the concept still being fresh and the episodes not yet so plot, but gag driven. Yon-koma manga are HARD to adapt, they rely largely on jokes and gags to carry themselves, and this is no exception. In this season, the quirkiness that made the first so much fun is still there, but the story is getting more and more developed, and, well, the story just isn't that good.
Machikado Mazoku's strengths came from its bizarre humor and unique directional style. But in this second season, as story threads begin to take a center stage, there's less and less room for that same vein of jokey fun. The result is a show that, while enjoyable, isn't as fun in a humorous way as the first, and like I said, the humor was the first season's best asset. I don't really care about the intricacies of the war between the light and dark clans, and many of the mysteries surrounding the show aren't very compelling, so when the humor starts to take a bit of a backseat, it loses me a bit.
I still like and would easily recommend this season, but I enjoyed the gag-centric first season a lot more. The story and characters aren't really compelling enough to thrive without those elements, but her they take a backseat as I said. I would personally like a third season, but I don't think it really deserves it, and I doubt it'll get it. And I ultimately feel the show is sort of a victim of the need for serialization and its own success. It keeps getting grander in its scope, and as it does, it loses the charm of our original dynamic of Shamiko, the very weak, unfortunate, and ordinary girl, thrust into bizarre and surreal circumstances and learning to cope with them as best she can. The surreal has become mundane. This is just her life now, the fun, fish out of water stuff is gone. And that's okay when the story wraps up quickly, but it needs to drag on, it's a serialized manga after all, and I appreciate that mangaka are just artists struggling to make a living, but it's not as much fun as it once was, at least, not for me.
Anyway, I still like it, the show was never anywhere close to high art, and I'm still having fun, but it isn't what it used to be.
