Season one left you with questions that felt too big to answer. Season two stops pretending it has time for exposition and just answers them, faster and stranger than before. The giant god-machines under the cities aren't sleeping anymore, and neither is the show; it knows exactly what it's building toward and it moves like something that can't be stopped. The first six episodes drag like they're catching their breath. After that, everything accelerates into something that feels like it was always meant to be this specific, this weird, this committed to its own mythology. You don't watch this for comfort; you watch it because the characters are running out of borrowed time and the show knows it.

The second season of Bubuki Buranki picks up the story of Azuma, who comes back to Japan after a decade away. Soon after arriving he is seized by armed men, and his childhood friend Kogane Asabuki rescues him using a Bubuki, a living weapon she wears on her right hand. After learning about these weapons, Azuma becomes a Bubuki wielder himself and sets off on a journey. The show is a mecha science fiction action drama built around these living weapons.