By the Grace of the Gods 2

神達に拾われた男 (Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko 2nd Season)

5.6(1)

OtakuDen

6.8(61,069)

MAL Score

Ranked #5887

Popularity #1846

Fantasy
Slice of Life
Isekai
Iyashikei
Reincarnation

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Jan 9, 2023 to Mar 27, 2023
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Reincarnated into a new world, Ryouma Takebayashi continues to use the blessings granted to him to befriend and train slimes, putting their unique abilities to work in ways that help the people around him. After turning his laundry shop, Bamboo Forest, into a thriving business, he sets his sights on a new challenge: expanding with a branch in the neighboring city of Lenaf.

Keeping a promise to his cherished friend Eliaria Jamil, Ryouma makes the most of each day as he studies new methods, builds fresh relationships, and encounters even more varieties of slimes along the way.

Otaku Consensus

By the Grace of the Gods 2 earns its modest-but-stable reception by committing to comfort anime craft: Yuuji Yanase’s direction and Yuka Yamada’s series composition keep the season focused on routines, work, and small social rewards rather than manufactured peril. Its best material is the Lenaf business-expansion thread, where the fantasy premise becomes a gentle workplace-and-economics story; the recurring criticism is that the same softness can feel dramatically weightless, with Maho Film’s functional production rarely pushing the material beyond pleasant.

Why You Should Watch

Watch By the Grace of the Gods 2 if you want isekai as decompression rather than conquest: a fantasy season built around labor, community trust, and incremental self-improvement instead of revenge arcs or stat-screen escalation. It scratches a similar itch to Ascendance of a Bookworm’s practical problem-solving and the low-stress coziness of Campfire Cooking in Another World, but with a stronger emphasis on running a service business and turning magical creatures into everyday infrastructure. The appeal is in seeing a reincarnation fantasy treat cleanliness, customer service, training, research, and staff relationships as legitimate adventures. Viewers who like iyashikei pacing, soft worldbuilding, and competence-porn without cruelty will find the season’s calm confidence more valuable than spectacle.

Key Characters

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Ryouma Takebayashi(VA: Azusa Tadokoro)
Ryouma’s fan appeal comes from being an isekai lead defined less by domination than by methodical kindness, practical curiosity, and an almost managerial relationship with magic.
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Eliaria Jamil(VA: Yuki Kuwahara)
Eliaria functions as the emotional anchor outside Ryouma’s daily work, giving the season a sense of continuity and personal promise beyond its business routines.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
Maho Film’s production favors readable character acting and soft fantasy environments over action showpieces, matching the franchise’s iyashikei identity rather than fighting against it.
2
The season is structurally closer to a workplace anime than a quest anime: the Lenaf branch expansion gives the 12 episodes a concrete business-development spine.
3
AniList’s tag spread captures the show’s unusual blend for an isekai: Magic sits high at 77%, but Work registers at 57% and Economics at 20%, signaling how much screen time goes to practical systems instead of combat.
4
Yuka Yamada’s series composition keeps the adaptation in a low-conflict rhythm, making character development and routine problem-solving the main engines of momentum.
5
The music branding leans into anime-song familiarity: MindaRyn performs the opening theme, while Azusa Tadokoro performs the ending theme in addition to being tied to the series as Ryouma’s Japanese voice.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The anime adapts Roy’s original story with Ririnra credited for the original character designs, while Kaho Deguchi handles both character design and chief animation director duties for the anime version.
Fun fact 2: Season 2 aired as a Winter 2023 title, running 12 episodes from January 9 to March 27, 2023.
Fun fact 3: Its reception numbers place it in the comfortable middle tier of modern isekai: 6.81 on MyAnimeList from 61,069 votes and 68/100 on AniList, with 882 AniList favourites.
Fun fact 4: The English-language production credits include Jad Saxton as ADR Director and Jessica Sluys on ADR script, indicating a dedicated dub localization pipeline rather than a bare-bones release.
Fun fact 5: The show’s catalog identity is unusually split between Fantasy, Slice of Life, Isekai, Reincarnation, and Iyashikei, which explains why its audience response is driven more by tolerance for calm pacing than by appetite for fantasy action.