Kamisama Kiss Season 2

神様はじめました◎ (Kamisama Hajimemashita◎)

8.7(3)

OtakuDen

8.2(251,863)

MAL Score

Ranked #397

Popularity #559

Comedy
Romance
Supernatural
Mythology

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Jan 6, 2015 to Mar 31, 2015
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Nanami Momozono has weathered plenty since becoming the patron deity of Mikage Shrine, with Tomoe and Mizuki at her side. When the wind god Otohiko invites her to the Divine Assembly in Izumo, she decides to attend with Mizuki, leaving Tomoe to impersonate her at school. Nanami’s real reason for going, however, is to seek clues about the missing Lord Mikage, the shrine’s former god.

After Izumo, she crosses paths with Botanmaru, a young tengu searching for Shinjirou Kurama—the tengu prince now living as a goth idol. Botanmaru begs for Kurama’s return to Mount Kurama to confront Jirou’s oppressive rule, but Nanami soon realizes the mountain’s turmoil may be driven by something even more ominous. As she grows into her divinity, Nanami must navigate a brewing tengu uprising, her deepening feelings for Tomoe, and a mysterious man connected to both Tomoe’s past and her own future.

Otaku Consensus

Kamisama Kiss Season 2 lands as a confident shoujo sequel: Akitarou Daichi’s brisk direction, the tighter 12-episode arc structure, and the Mount Kurama material give the romance-comedy more mythological weight without smothering its charm. Critics and fans consistently praise the character work, voice performance energy, new settings, and Toshio Masuda’s added musical texture, while the main complaint is that TMS Entertainment’s visual production remains modest compared with more lavish fantasy romances. Its 8.24 MAL score and 82/100 AniList score reflect a sequel that did not merely retain its audience; it deepened the reason people cared.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Kamisama Kiss Season 2 if you want shoujo romance that treats affection as emotional caretaking rather than a checklist of confessions. It scratches the same itch as Fruits Basket’s lonely-people-learning-how-to-be-chosen warmth and Natsume’s Book of Friends’ youkai melancholy, but with more school-comedy timing, harem teasing, and fox-ear bickering. The season is especially rewarding for viewers who liked Season 1’s shrine sitcom but wanted the world to feel bigger: divine bureaucracy, tengu politics, and old grudges all press on Nanami without turning the show grim. Akitarou Daichi keeps the pacing brisk across 12 episodes, so the romance, mythology, and slapstick rarely sit in separate boxes. If you want supernatural stakes without battle-shounen bombast, this is the sweet spot.

Key Characters

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Nanami Momozono
Nanami remains compelling because her divinity is framed less as a power fantasy than as emotional labor: listening, showing up, and refusing to let lonely immortals stay isolated.
T
Tomoe
Tomoe is the series’ romantic pressure point, balancing sharp-tongued familiar duties with a guarded past that gives the comedy a steady undercurrent of ache.
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Mizuki
Mizuki functions as the shrine household’s gentler counterweight, making the male-harem dynamic feel more like a study of dependence and belonging than simple rivalry.
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Shinjirou Kurama
Kurama’s goth-idol persona stays funny because the season keeps colliding celebrity vanity with tengu obligations he would rather leave behind.

What Makes It Stand Out

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The season is built around three compact emotional arcs tied to loneliness, with the Izumo material, the Mount Kurama conflict, and the Akura-ou thread each testing a different kind of isolation. That structure gives the sequel more thematic focus than a purely episodic supernatural rom-com.
2
Director Akitarou Daichi keeps the 12 episodes moving with a strong comedy-to-drama rhythm, letting slapstick, romantic tension, and mythology trade places quickly rather than separating them into stiff blocks.
3
TMS Entertainment’s approach favors expressive shoujo faces, comic deformation, and timing over spectacle-heavy fantasy animation. Reviewers praised the charm and character animation while still noting that the visuals are not among the genre’s most lavish.
4
Toshio Masuda’s music receives more room this season because the story leaves the familiar shrine-school loop for divine and tengu settings. The added musical variety is one reason reviewers singled out the sequel as feeling broader than Season 1.
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Its AniList tag profile is unusually clear about the show’s appeal: Youkai at 97%, Shoujo at 90%, Gods at 85%, Female Protagonist at 81%, and Male Harem at 71%. The series is not just a romance with supernatural decoration; the mythological social order is part of the romantic engine.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The Japanese title, Kamisama Hajimemashita◎, uses the ◎ symbol to mark the second TV season, giving the sequel a distinctive official styling rather than a plain numbered title.
Fun fact 2: The season aired as a winter 2015 TV anime from January 6 to March 31, 2015, finishing at 12 episodes. Its compact run is part of why the Izumo and Mount Kurama material moves more directly than many longer shoujo adaptations.
Fun fact 3: Julietta Suzuki is credited as the original creator, while the anime production was handled by TMS Entertainment. The core visual staff included character designer Junko Yamanaka, art director Takashi Aoi, color designer Kayoko Nishi, photography director Akemi Sasaki, and editor Ikuyo Fujita.
Fun fact 4: The sound side had a notably complete credited team: Kazuya Tanaka as sound director, Noriko Izumo on sound effects, and Toshio Masuda composing the music. Reviews that highlight the sequel’s new settings and music are responding to a production area with named, specialized leadership.
Fun fact 5: On fan databases, the sequel performs strongly for a continuation: MAL lists it at 8.24/10 from 251,863 votes, with a rank of #397 and popularity of #559, while AniList records an 82/100 score and 2,900 favourites.