A Wild Last Boss Appeared! season two kicks off with a brief (less than two minute) summary of season one, hitting the essential plot points (with one exception, discussed below). We are reminded of who Lufas is (the main character, a gamer who was isekai’d into a game as one of his avatars) and what her goals are: track down her character’s subordinates and obtain their support once more, track down any heroes still living and find out whether they are also isekai’d players, and ultimately thwart the Goddess’s plan for the world. And time is of the essence, as Lufas’s original personality is starting to poke through, threatening to absorb the poor player’s identity into her own. With her entourage and her all-terrain Winnebago, Lufas tracks down her next subordinate, Karkinos the Crab, who is running a restaurant inside the mobile war base Blutgang. Lufas makes a couple cracks about the incongruity of a sci-fi machine in a fantasy world, but then Blutgang goes to red alert, as an enemy is on the horizon: Scorpius the Scorpion (and yes, I realize how redundant all these names are). Scorpius is Lufas’s next subordinate to acquire, but the rest of the episode is the battle between Scorpius and Blutgang, the latter helmed by Sean Connery (okay, not really, but that’s clearly the look they’re going for, and Blutgang is clearly inspired by old-school submarine warfare even though they’re in the desert). Devilfolk allied with Scorpius invade the Blutgang, and that’s where the episode ends: with our main cast about to take action and Scorpius caught up in an explosion that we all know she is going to survive.

The initial recap of season one, as I said above, is missing one major plot point—the huge spoiler about Dina that drove the first season. This suggests to me that Dina’s significance in that regard is wrapped up now, and the story is moving on. A pity, because that was the main thing about season one that kept me hooked. I’m not particularly impressed by Crab or Scorpion, and nothing about the action or the characters’ goals in this episode particularly caught my attention. I did find it amusing that Parthenos’s replacement on Lufas’s team is named Virgo, since both names mean “virgin,” one in Greek and one in Latin; I’m a language nerd, all right? Anyway, the credits theme (which I assume will be the opening going forward?) is a banger—and possibly teases another reveal about Dina??? In conclusion: I may stick around for a bit, but this one won’t be a top priority. I’ll probably make a point of catching up with Apothecary Diaries or Clevatess first.

A Wild Last Boss Appeared! is streaming on Crunchyroll.