Does Season 2 of Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent Live Up to Expectations?

Summary

• The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent is a calm and pleasant otome isekai.
• If you haven’t watched Season 1 — watch it first.
• Season 2 is more of the same — and that’s a good thing!

If you want a good otome story, watch the first season

A good otome isekai title is hard to come by, at least in the anime medium — while there are dozens upon dozens of mangas, manhwas and manhua in the genre, very few receive an animated adaptation. This makes The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent (Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou desu) all the more special, as it has just started its second season.

With the first season released in 2021, it told the story of Sei Takanashi — a Japanese office worker who was summoned to another world on her way home, alongside a schoolgirl named Aira Misono. The royal crown prince overseeing the summoning ceremony instantly (and quite mistakenly) declares Aira to be a Saint destined to save the kingdom from the evil miasma and, without paying a shred of attention to Sei, whisks this schoolgirl away for the archetypical training montage. In the meantime, Sei is simply accommodated in the castle by the royal retainers as an apology, and out of boredom (she’s a Japanese office worker, remember?) finds her way to the Medicinal Flora Research Institute, where she decides to work on making potions.

The story is told in a much calmer and grounded manner than many isekai stories, and features no obvious villains (even the crown prince is a lot more reasonable than one might expect!), pleasant tea parties between friends, and a cavalcade of beautiful guys forming a reverse harem-but-not-really around Sei (seriously, all but one just act as an eye candy without making any moves), as she slowly but surely comes into the role of the actual Saintess, with the first season ending with her proving this claim in a very unambiguous capacity.

If you want more of that story, watch the second season

So, of course, after such a strong showing in its first season, one might ask if the second season is just as good. Both are produced by Diomedéa, Inc., so there are no drastic changes in art styles and animation (like between first and second seasons of One Punch Man), and the second season picks up from where the first season ended — with Sei being officially and fully recognized as Saint by the kingdom that summoned her. And while the conflict of the first season revolved around dealing with miasmas and with the mixup between Sei and Aira, the second season delves more into politics, as well as romance between our lovely protagonist and that one handsome guy who’s our male lead.

In other words, while it’s ever slightly different from the first season, the continuation of The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent is exactly that — a continuation of the story. Because sometimes, “more of the same” is a wonderful thing.