Mertseger

Our ditzy killing machine is now thoroughly settled into her new job as an assassin, and she must face the consequences of her growing reputation in the business. Kanako is a social creature in an antisocial profession, and so she begins to look for a way to make some new friends which she soon does with a group who become entangled in her life in ways that are complicated and hard to resolve in ways that can leave everyone safe and happy.

Non remains extremely well suited to play Kanako though the character probably demands less range in this iteration. There is a tiny bit of character growth for her over the course of the series as it tangentially addresses the question, "How should we live?" But the focus of the series is more on her new friends and their relationship to her and the other people in her life.

The pacing of the series is a bit faster than the first, and maybe a bit faster than is ideal. I get the impression that the storylines are likely quite a bit more compressed than they are in the manga (which, tbf, is often the case in manga adaptations), but this series probably pushes that compression a bit too hard, and would have been a bit more effective had it covered the same storylines over a few more episodes. But it's still comprehensible, and it's light and breezy as it rushes through the story beats.

In the middle of this season, I was beginning to want to critique the series as having less heart than it's obvious rival, the Baby Assassin franchise (which gets mentioned in the end credits commentary - always remember to keep watching for those snippets at the end), but the final episode won me over entirely.

If you enjoyed the first season, then it's highly likely that you'll enjoy this second season. The fight choreography is a bit more over-the-top reaching more typical superhero fare, and the acting is pushed a bit broader as well. But the series remains a tight comedy, and gave me my biggest laugh of the year.