It puts you back inside Comnet with a heroine who still barely understands her own computer, and somehow that's exactly why it works. Season two picks up after Grosser's bid to seize the global network, so the stakes aren't "will Yui learn to fight" anymore, they're what a kid does with power she never asked for once the first crisis is over. IR is still the pushy little program pulling her through the screen, the Corruptors still show up looking like glitches with attitude, and Yui Kasuga still solves things with stubbornness before strategy. It's a magical girl show built on 1999's idea of the internet, a shining infinite city of data that will absolutely eat you, and that period optimism aged into something weirdly moving. Kia Asamiya's designs keep it sleek instead of cute-for-cute's-sake. If you were a kid who thought the modem noise sounded like a door opening, this is your show.

The second season of Corrector Yui brings back Yui Kasuga, the girl who once knew nothing about computers until the program IR drafted her to defend Comnet, the vast network that ties together the world's machines. In the first season she transformed into Corrector Yui to battle the supercomputer Grosser and his Corruptors inside the virtual world. Her return mixes adventure, comedy and science fiction with the transformation heroics of magical girl stories.