Three years after the first season, this one still hits you in the eyeballs first: the sumi-e brushwork, the ink bleeding across the frame, the splatter that doubles as censorship. It is the rare ecchi show where the art direction is the actual flex, not an excuse, and the cast sells every ridiculous beat with voice work that is genuinely too good for the material. Muneakira is still the human power outlet, still kissing his way into Master Samurai contracts while Jubei flips between drooling puppy and unstoppable killer, and Sen and Yukimura still cannot share a room without escalating. The Dark Samurai showing up is what keeps it from being pure repeat, giving the girls someone worth drawing swords on between the domestic nonsense. Nobody is here for the plot, which is cheese with a capital everything, and the returning cast does not grow so much as reset. You are here because it looks like a moving ink painting having a nosebleed, and it commits to that completely.

In this second season of Hyakka Ryoran: Samurai Girls, an evil entity brings four warriors back to life as the Dark Samurai to serve him. Yagyuu Muneakira comes home to the Yagyuu Dojo and finds it has become a maid cafe to cover expenses. The Dark Samurai storm the dojo, beat everyone there and seal away Muneakira's powers. They promise to come back in a month to face Yagyuu Juubee at full strength. Meanwhile, the girls of the dojo look into the legend of the Samurai Bride, which they think could defeat their new enemies. The show mixes action, comedy, romance and ecchi.