Lan comes back and suddenly the show remembers what it's actually about, friendship that survives across space, letters that matter more than giant robots, a girl in her final year of high school realizing some people are worth the wait. The mecha are window dressing. What hits is the quiet certainty that Madoka's friends are coming home. Season 2 trades spectacle for something riskier: it asks you to care about three girls who genuinely, messily love each other.

Several months after Lan and Muginami left Earth, Madoka is in her last year of high school and spends much of her time thinking about the friends she misses. Then Lan unexpectedly comes back to Kamogawa City. The reunion Madoka has been waiting for, after nearly a year apart from her alien friends, does not unfold the way she hoped. Production I.G's original TV series returns for a second season of twelve episodes that mixes action and comedy with mecha.