On with the not being sufficiently traumatized.
Actually first, we have some previews here... I remember when ADV used to be crazy good at doing previews. They'd take some funky upbeat song and splice together the most neat looking clips they could find to it, and make even total garbage look at least halfway interesting. They've uh... stopped doing that. And evidently a whole lot of other things. Apparently at some point in the last few years they actually kinda flat out said in a press release that they can't stand anime fans and no longer intend to cater to their desires... which is kinda odd for a company that kinda exists just to do that. In any case though, really bland and uninteresting previews here, which is impressive, because one of them is for Excel Saga. You have to work hard to make Excel Saga look boring, unless you cheat and use stills, but they didn't.
We start off with, of course, yet another photo shoot. You know, if this were the sort of totally perved out show you'd expect it to be, these would be a good place to squeeze in more gratuitous fanservice. Unless you have a thing for girls dressed conservatively sitting in chairs, they take the bafflingly high road. And now we seem to have a Rival Model. This was written before the whole Rival fad really got annoying though, so I just mean some random other model who tries out for the same jobs, doesn't get them, and is very polite about it. So, she's going to turn out to be a monster, and the main character will have more to angst about. Why does this show have to be boring instead of offensive in the way you'd expect? At least when I'm disgusted, I have something to scream about. And here comes Boss Lady Asuka to confirm the obvious and treat the main character like dirt some more. That's by far the most amusing thing about this show. ALL THIS PERSON DOES is tell the main character that she sucks and she hates her and she's a pathetic worthless sack of dren, and she does it at LEAST once an episode. The next most amusing of course is how the main character gives NO emotional support to her ward whose parents were JUST killed by a hideous monster. So now Polite Rival Girl is inviting the main character over, drugging her, confessing that she's a creepy stalker, strapping her to a bed, and apparently about to rape her in her sleep... as a giant funky looking cat monster. OK, NOW it's the Go Nagai frelled-uppery we've all come to know and fear! This of course proceeds to turn into a fight scene, because this IS a fight of the week series after all.
This episode shakes p the formula a little. We start with a recap of what's happened so far, that really doesn't take long, then cut to the main character being chewed out for letting this episode's monster get away after an initial fight. THEN we have a whole bunch of dead air, followed by another Giant monster fight, which are always more interesting just on general principle. This monster has big scythes for arms, and while fighting it, the main character realizes that the time she thought she saw the grim reaper on a foggy night, it was probably just this guy, so that's comforting I guess, "oh, and here, have this picture of his wife and kids we found on his corpse" which is less comforting. Also, various random people look up at the giant monsters fighting, including various minor background characters, which might be foreshadowing at some sort of actual plot advancement.
Someone records himself monstering out and sends it to various TV stations to try and get the word out, but the HA keep anyone from broadcasting it, throwing out a perfectly good chance to make the show more interesting. Then it's time for a mysterious American scientist, who looks related to Asuka, wants to study how the main character goes all giant roboty, and says "You're beautiful, even as a Devilman." I suppose this is supposed to sound all freaky, but really, she looks pretty much the same, just with the incredibly stupid hair. So anyway, Dr. Blondy here asks the main character out and goes all creepy and monster sympathetic and lecherous on her. Then the sports announcer for some news channel monsters out live on camera, so uh... wha the heck was the point in the first 5 minutes or so of this episode? Oh man, I love some of these monster designs. This guy looks like 2 T-Rexes glued together with a guy's face in the seam. In the ensuing fight scene, Mr. Double-Dino almost kills Jun, but she's rescued by Dr. Monster Lover, who it turns out is also a Devilman. OK, uh, can I have a less cliched and boring plot twist? Also, he has actual big ol' horns and red skin, and doesn't even have the stupid hair. Lucky him. Asuka says "There's going to be more monsters now, so you'd better toughen up." "I'm going to toughen up, but not because of you!" So once again, the main character decides to rebel against her evil boss by doing exactly what she's asked to.
Jun's getting all paranoid because she figures hey, when you turn into a monster and fight other monsters, it's probably not a good idea to constantly be having your picture taken... except in context, this is a way way angstier situation that eats up half the episode time being explained. Also, some newspaper reporter, who's one of the people who was going "huh" at that earlier giant monster fight, is questioning Trauma Girl (Harumi was it?) about stuff. Anyway, back in stuff we might care about land, someone's been going around gouging people's eyes out. Meanwhile, Jun's taking a shower and Harumi is watching her... and man, Harumi has unbelievably bad fashion sense. Every time she's around, she's wearing a lamer looking outfit. Oh, and while she's getting chewed out for being a peeping tom, it turns out there's a whole bunch of eyes with wings also watching all this from outside the window. So... today's monster rips people's eyes out, attaches wings, and uses them to be a peeping tom... and thinks the main character is ugly in her stupid hair wings monster form. She goes all self-conscious, then a bunch of HA agents come along and unceremoniously flamethrower the floating eyes, followed by the humanoid wad of eyes also watching all this, and he runs off screaming about how he hates being looked at. Unfortunately, he runs into a house of mirrors, freaks out, and starts gouging his eyes out before they run in and finish him off. If all that sounded really rushed and arbitrary, that's because it was. There wasn't even any sort of fight scene in there. Then Asuka says "hey, I thought you were said you were going to get stronger?" It is pretty pathetic when you're a superhero and you don't have the will to fight because the monster is looking at you funny, even if it is doing so from like 100 different angles.
And... that's the end of disc 2. Really boring and formulaic still, with silly monster designs as the only real saving grace. Also, in the first 9 episodes, we've only had 1 truly out and out example of echiness, which, as such things go, was fairly tame.