The demon mascot still can't get hired. Season two mines the same razor-sharp premise: watching Noramimi navigate an endless stream of rejections while the agency's machinery grinds on around him, finding new angles on professional worthlessness without ever turning it into pathos. Comedy lives in the specificity of his curse, not in his suffering from it.

Noramimi 2 is the 12-episode 2008 TV sequel to Noramimi, a comedy adapted from Kazuo Hara's manga. The first series is set in a world where mascot characters live and work alongside humans, and agencies train them to babysit children before placing them with families. There, Noramimi is a mascot at the Hello Kids branch office #59 who cannot find a family willing to take in a mascot from a demon (oni) family, so he stays at the agency.