It burns through a punchline every fifteen seconds and dares you to keep up. Season two takes the manga club that never actually draws manga and pushes Ai, Mai, Mii and Ponoka-sempai further off the map, trading whatever grounding the first season had for pure escalation. That's the fork in the road: fans who wanted more of the 2013 flavor get whiplash, and everyone else gets exactly the drug they came for. The craft is the sneaky part. For a three-minute short, the sound design and voice work are doing absurd amounts of heavy lifting, and the backgrounds are prettier than a gag anime this unhinged has any right to be. There is no story here, and that is the point. You come for four girls whose chemistry turns a single line of dialogue into a small catastrophe, and you leave having lost thirty-six minutes of your life on purpose.

The manga club is back for a second season of short comedy episodes. Ai, Mai, Mii, and their senior Ponoka keep up their everyday absurd antics as they move through high school. When they are not drawing manga, the girls might be defending Earth from evil invaders, battling rivals in tournaments, joking around, or stumbling onto strange creatures. Through all the nonsense, they keep finding new ways to have fun and grow closer as friends.