The story takes a step back with a soft restart that finds Denji in a high school with a new cast of classmates and devils. It's still engaging in its goofy way, but spends most of its time setting up the new status quo that's surely going to get status squooshed. ( )

The start of arc two puts me right back to how I felt reading the start of arc one. What the hell is happening and why should I care? The new girl, Asa, is pretty cliche. She's the quiet and studious high school girl that gets bullied and ostracized in her class. She has an "event" that ends with her "teaming up" with a new devil. Again, I'm in the same spot as before, plot-wise. The characters aren't likable and are pretty cliche. The gore is gory, and the action is not as good this time. We finally get to see Denji again and he's right back to being a stupid horny teenager. After all that good character development, and we're right back at square one. Sigh. Hopefully, Asa has better character tropes than Denji but I'm not holding out much hope. Her devil is very similar to Power, except that she's more subdued. Asa's devil's character design is also kind of lazy in my opinion. I understand why they look like that, but geez you couldn't be a bit more creative. Hopefully, this arc picks up and get's better. ( )