This is the season that makes you feel the clock ticking. The Magami Five walk out of the Tendou Kodzunu war straight into college applications and job talk, and the show refuses to let that be a throwaway detail: these are high school seniors deciding what an adult version of themselves even looks like while demons keep showing up on schedule. Then the Twelve Heavenly Generals of the Martial Fist arrive, assassins who kill the criminals the courts couldn't touch, and the fight stops being good versus evil and starts being two flavors of vigilante arguing about who gets to decide. Season two trades the first run's monster-of-the-week rhythm for something meaner and more human, where the enemy has a point and Tatsuma and Kyouichi can't just punch their way past it. Twelve episodes, no fat, and the graduation subplot lands harder than any of the sword work.

The Magami Five thought their troubles were behind them. With their battle against Tendou Kodzunu finished, they're finally able to look ahead to graduating and to the adult lives waiting beyond it. Tokyo should feel safer now. Instead, a new darkness creeps through the city. The Twelve Heavenly Generals of the Martial Fist, an underground assassination collective said to target criminals beyond the reach of law, has turned its sights squarely onto our heroes. The group's sudden interest in eliminating Tatsuma, Kyouichi, Aoi, Komaki, Yuuya, and Hisui raises the question of who ordered the hit and why. Meanwhile, others awakened to powers unleashed by the Ryumyaku come looking for the Magami kids, and old friends return as enemies. Behind it all, a hidden figure is pulling the strings.