English Dub Mid-Season Review: The Demon Girl Next Door Season 2 (Episodes 1-6)

Based on the Japanese four-panel manga parody serialized series by Izumo Itō, The story continues from Season One, where in a nutshell, a high-strung high schooler named Yuko Yoshida one day wakes up to find out she’s sprouted a demon tail and horns, learning that “oops, you’re demon/succubus person”. And according to her mother, there’s another student at her school who’s a magical girl and thus her mortal enemy that she must defeat to save her family from poverty.

However, the magical girl Momo Chiyoda seems calm, and indifferent and has zero interest in becoming rivals with Yuko and they instead become friends (sort of). In addition to the initial various hijinks associated with Yuko’s newfound appearance and powers, the duo tries to sort out their intertwined magical ancestries and question why their ongoing ancestral war started in the first place?

For the first 6 episodes of Season 2 this time around, Our two leads return but so do the rest of the cast of side characters, especially Yuko’s Ancestor Lilith in her statue form. Along with that is Yuko/Shamiko’s endless challenge duels to Momo that delve into the fun. But now with magical girl Mikan coming to live in Yuko’s run-down apartment to seek reprisal of the Chiyoda sisters of magical girls Momo and the missing Sakura to find the reason why Yuko’s father is sealed away to the Daddy mikan box, seems to be the new plan. The way Yuko also meets new friends gets new magical items (Including a weird object called the “Whatever rod” and for a short time was stuck in a nightmare realm and with Momo making a sort of tough decision just to save Yuko at one point.

The series is every bit as lighthearted and wacky as Dragon Maid, but minus the sex jokes & innuendo’s since our main characters are supposed to be under-aged teens, to begin with. Also, Monica Rial does an excellent job capturing Yuko’s manic energy which sometimes makes the proceedings mildly entertaining.