Kyokou Suiri intrigues me. I generally stay away from the mistery genre as a whole because i honestly dont like it how some mistery stories are good in its development but then reach a DeusEx Machina climax. So my starting motivation to begin watching this anime was that i thought it was a romance anime with some mistery bits. Kyokou Suiri In/Spectre got me hooked to it despite being a mistery anime because of the way it works. The first season served the purpose of setting the basis of how it is not a story about finding the truth and rather about finding a way to logically explain the events that ultimately were caused by impossible phenomena. It was a hit or miss for most people and i guess one of the misses was how late its story develped. It wasnt until the latest episodes of the first season that we get to the main story about these characters the confluct between Iwanaga and Kuro and Kuros cousin Rikka. In my opinion second season improved on this. We get more misteries than in the first season and although Rikka wasnt directly fighting them like in season one she is always one step ahead of the main characters presumably setting up the next conflict that will probably be featured in the next season If it happens. Another great part of this season is how it didnt stop going deeper into the characters. If at first we think Kotoko is the good angel Kuro is the bland uninteresting character and Rikka is the evil by the end of the second season we begin to see how Kotoko is kinda impervious to human issues tending to side with the order and that maybe Rikka is right when she says to Kuro that Kotoko is far scarier than she is. And we also see that Kuro isnt just following Kotoko everywhere and is building an opinion on her. And of course all of this happens as a subtext of whatever mistery is being worked on currently. It felt to me that the writing has improved as each mistery in this season is filled with creativity. They dont follow a formula at all and the very motivation of solving each mistery is very different from the others. We even get misteries that the only supernatural involvement was as a witness. And these are the most intriguing as we get to see how Kotoko operates as a human for humans. Finally I really liked the comedic parts it greatly freshes the mood sometimes. Although it is very troublesome to see how they insisting on making Kotoko as a very perverted character while she looks not only to us but to the characters in the show as a middle schooler. But Japan likes pedo jokes i guess... If I have to say what I didnt really like i guess it is that there isnt a main mistery in this season like there was in the first one. Some might think that it could have instead focused more on the main story. While i disagree i can certainly see the point in this kind of claim. Also while i advocate for the improvement of the quality of the individual stories some of them are less interesting than the others for me the Pinnochio one made me pause the show for a few weeks before i could finish it. Lastly the show doesnt make an effort to fix some of the issues of the first one. There is way too much dialogue and even with the illustrative animations that help visuallize what is being talked about it is sometimes exaustive. Also it feels like there are some parts that are most likely lost in translation to me. To end the bad sides the romance which was the reason i erroneously begun watching this is still not the focus of the show. Overall i really think that if you liked the first season you will like this second one. At least to me every good part has improved and it felt the direction was more focused than it was in the first season. If you didnt like the first one i guess there isnt much reason to watch this second. Still id say give it a try. It is definetly better than the first season so maybe it is better enough that you will like it.