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NEWS: The Devil is a Part-Timer! Anime Gets 2nd Season With Returning Cast

Will it have the same director as season 1? I heard he was a Maou-Chiho shipper, and made some changes to make that relationship look better and Maou-Emilia look worse. So an spoiler[anime-original ending for Emilia] is unlikely.

Blanchimont wrote:

Best news! Didn't expect this, though it still won't be enough to cover the later parts where action shifts largely to spoiler[Ente Isla] unless they rush it. Also, Chiho best girl! spoiler[Congratulations on winning your man!] (ending spoiler)

spoiler[I'm still shook I was expecting Emilia to to get the man since she was the main love interest. Chiho is best girl I love her so much I wonder if they will animate the rest of the LN?

Haters gonna hate though I will drink those salty tears.
]

This is a pleasant surprise though since its been years I'm totally watching this its one of my favorite anime! I only read the first couple chapters of volume 4 so I know how the anime will start out. Now the only thing is if its one or two cour.

I know this isn't a Kadokawa anime, but if Part-Timer is getting a second season after all these years why can't Magi A-1 Pictures? Come on my favorite arcs and moments are all there waiting to be animated.

As thrilled as I am that this is finally getting a second season, I'm just not loving the new art style. The faces feel like they've lost something. They also feel... smaller? Cuter?

With all the hate about that LN ending, I'm morbidly curious about what happened. Shipping wars aside.

Fluwm wrote:

Ahahaha... pretty unpleasant for me. Think y'all just killed my interest in the series, given spoiler[Emilia gets so, so much more development, focus and ship tease than anyone else.]

spoiler[There is a chance they will go an anime original ending since a lot of people were disappointed with the ending of the LN and they will use it to boost sales I would be disappointed, but I would understand if they did go that route to appease the fanbase as us Maou x Chiho fans are just a small minority compared to the Maou x Emi fanbase. So if that happens both sides can be happy as both pairing will be technically canon!]

Then again they might not never animate that far though we will just have to see what they do from here on out since the first season only cover the first 3 volumes and we have I think 22?

Shipping wars is part of it, but it wouldn't really be an issue if the ending made sense in context. This, u,timately, is one of those series where a secondary/periphery character ends up "winning" because, it seems, the author would rather be subversive than deliver on the relationships that had been built up from day 1.

So: spoiler[ I don't have any inherent issue with Chiho "winning," but it just doesn't make sense in the context of the story, where she's a peripheral character with very little development (she's introduced as the normal girl infatuated with Maou, and there her characterization begins and ends) and the vast and overwhelming majority of character and relationship development occurs with Emi. A Chiho end could have worked well if it were built up more, and the Emi/Maou dynamic given more of a sibling dynamic... but that's simply not how the story was told.]

Finny-chan wrote:

Fluwm wrote: Ahahaha... pretty unpleasant for me. Think y'all just killed my interest in the series, given spoiler[Emilia gets so, so much more development, focus and ship tease than anyone else.] spoiler[There is a chance they will go an anime original ending since a lot of people were disappointed with the ending of the LN and they will use it to boost sales I would be disappointed, but I would understand if they did go that route to appease the fanbase as us Maou x Chiho fans are just a small minority compared to the Maou x Emi fanbase. So if that happens both sides can be happy as both pairing will be technically canon!] Then again they might not never animate that far though we will just have to see what they do from here on out since the first season only cover the first 3 volumes and we have I think 22?

It's possible the anime might go in a different direction, but I don't think that's very likely. Anime-original endings and story arcs are nowhere near so prevalent now as they used to be--and considering the huge amount of material left to cover, this won't really be relevant unless the show gets a 5th or 6th season.

I guess I really ought to have learned my lesson before now: never get suckered into a RomCom until you know whether or not it sticks the landing! Because so few do, and so many just fall apart at the end. Now I'm stuck looking at my bookshelf and realizing I wasted more than $100 on this series....

Shipping wars is part of it, but it wouldn't really be an issue if the ending made sense in context. This, u,timately, is one of those series where a secondary/periphery character ends up "winning" because, it seems, the author would rather be subversive than deliver on the relationships that had been built up from day 1.

So: spoiler[ I don't have any inherent issue with Chiho "winning," but it just doesn't make sense in the context of the story, where she's a peripheral character with very little development (she's introduced as the normal girl infatuated with Maou, and there her characterization begins and ends) and the vast and overwhelming majority of character and relationship development occurs with Emi. A Chiho end could have worked well if it were built up more, and the Emi/Maou dynamic given more of a sibling dynamic... but that's simply not how the story was told.]