Earlier last year for North American audiences saw the first season of The Devil is a Part-Timer! expire on Netflix and at the time I figured that would be the last time we’d talk about this older but very popular show for some time. Yet a few weeks later we got to talk about how the spring 2013 series is now getting a second season in order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the start of the light novel series.
The show saw a July 14th, 2023 debut for it and confirmation of Disney+ streaming in Japan while the broadcast will be on Tokyo MX and other satellite services. Crunchyroll is handling the overseas streaming and they’ve now brought out this clip from the thirteenth episode of the run where there’s just too much enthusiasm…
Daisuke Tsukushi is directing the series based on the scripts from Masahiro Yokotani. Yudai Iino is serving as the character designer with Yoshihiro Takeda on board as the chief animation director with Studio 3Hz handling the animation production.
With the main cast returning, we get the new addition of Hina Kino as Alas Ramus, the little girl you can see in the middle of the new key visual.
The ending theme song for this season will come from Marine Horiuchi with the song “Mizukagami no Sekai.” We learned previously that Minami Kuribayashi is returning from the first season to perform “WITH” for this season as the opening song.
Check out our review of the series as released by Funimation on DVD/BD.
Originally airing in 2013, the series was directed by Naoto Hosoda based on the series composition by Masahiro Yokotani. It features character designs by Atsushi Ikariya and was animated at White Fox. The show is based on the light novel series by writer Satoshi Wagahara and illustrations by 029.
The Japanese cast includes Nao Tōyama as Chiho Sasaki, Ryota Ohsaka as Sadao Maō/Demon King Satan, Yōko Hikasa as Emi Yusa/Heroine Emilia, Yuuki Ono as Shirō Ashiya/Demon General Alciel, Asuka Nishi as Rika Suzuki, Azumi Asakura as Emerada, Hiro Shimono as Hanzō Urushihara/Demon General Lucifer, Hiroki Yasumoto as Albert Ende, Kanae Itō as Suzuno Kamazuki, Katsuhisa Houki as Orba Mayer, Yūichi Iguchi as Mitsuki Sarue/Sariel and Yumi Uchiyama as Mayumi Kisaki.
Funimation produced an English language dub whose cast includes Anthony Bowling as Shiro Ashiya/Demon General Alciel, Felecia Angelle as Emi Yusa/Heroine Emilia, Josh Grelle as Mao Sadao/Demon King Satan, Tia Ballard as Chiho Sasaki, Aaron Dismuke as Hanzo Urushihara/Demon General Lucifer, Alex Moore as Suzuno Kamazuki, Alexis Tipton as Rika Suzuki, Caitlin Glass as Mayumi Kisaki, Christopher R. Sabat as Albert, Mark Stoddard as Olba, Monica Rial as Emerada and Scott Freeman as Mitsuki Sarue/Sariel.
Plot concept: When Satan is run out of his infernal kingdom, he finds himself virtually powerless in modern-day Tokyo. Stuck in a feeble mortal body and desperate for cash, there’s only one way for the dark lord to survive: by getting a job manning the deep fryer at “MgRonald”!
As Satan flips burgers and tries to regain his evil magic, he’s pestered by a righteous hero who tracked him to Earth, a video-game-loving fallen angel looking for a way back into heaven, and the most unholy of enemies: a rival fast food franchise. Will he figure out a way to reclaim his homeland and throne? And if not, will this demonic burger king at least sell enough featured menu items to be promoted to shift supervisor? The devil can’t survive on minimum wage in the series Anime News Network calls “pure, unadulterated, gloriously fun entertainment.”
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