3rd time was not the charm.
Title : Nanatsu no Taizai: Kamigami no Gekirin
The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods
One of the problematic animating long anime series (shounen usually) is the keep the consistency of the quality of the animation. If you watched any long running shounen, you know that the studio is always on crunch and having multiple studio animating one series. Opposite of that you get this series, which was produced by A-1 production in first 2 seasons, and now it transferred to dreaded freaking Studio Deen. If you watched anime alot, you will know that this studio is among the weakest in term of anime production.
That said, anime quality arent always the main things needed when you watching the anime. While some people even gave the series a score of 1, i personally the story is there and there is some to be enjoyable, either plot wise or character development wise. Surely the series downgrade is a big leap, because probably lacked skillful staff or maybe just there isnt enough time to animate them properly. While i personally thing most of the artystyle are pretty similar, the fluidity of animation have a lot to be desire.
We do learnt a lot of background history of the series in this season. While most of them are flashback in first part, it went big bombastic from middle of the season. I appreciated that emphasize on power level in season 2 are pretty much removed here, however there are a lot of moment that arent clear on which character have more power strength wise. This lead to back and forth fighting which sometimes look jarring because this studio cant animate action scene properly, at least for this series.
While it is bad quality wise, there is some merit to watch the series if you are a fan of the series. Just take note that the story arent fully resolved made me feel unsatisfied overall.
Alternative : Hmm kinda hard to recommended any series 3rd season in, but if i wanted to show other series with proper 3rd season for battle shounen, i guess series like Boku no Hero Academia, Magi series, Attack on Titan series all managed to keep animation quality throughout the multiple seasons. As for last random suggestion : The Law of Ueki for decent old shounen anime.
Let your imaginary mind runs wild!
Title : Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
This is a random anime i picked up that based on seed count and score on MAL. Turned out it is quite random anime. What do i mean by that? Probably is among of well animated and very experimental anime that might turn some people off. Thats said, one of the strongest part of series is definitely how they animate several imaginary scene using watercolour.
Story is about 3 random girls who said they wanted to do anime. One is the concept artist / story writer who always trying to imagine crazy world which include things like mecha, vehicle, devices etc. Another one is famous actress who want to defy her parents into joining anime club. She is really into animation, even do crazy to study people posture when doing daily life actions. Lastly we get our "straight man", which basically a producer like that keep everything in check. She kinda serious and like to run schemes. Together they tried to create their own anime (while bribing / blackmailling some other clubs to help them).
Premise wise, it is simple story but again this very unique anime that a lot of imaginary scenes. Basically while our characters trying to find a setting for their story, they will try to imagine how on things works, on how things will look like etc. Best part is probably that they also trying to be realistic with their animation production since they just only 3 girls team. As usual they, being unorthodox they are being chased by student council / school a lot of problems (hence the title, Eizouken is pretty much anime club). Lastly, it feel rewarding once you finally able to see their final product.
Again, this anime is pretty good production wise. However your enjoyment will be varied. I like when there is plot moving but dislike much of the random stuff as I feel like this anime would be much better with more serious tones.
Alternative : Shirobako, Sora Yori mou Tooi Bashou, Genshiken & Bakuman all have similar feeling with more serious setting.
What the heck happened with many disappointing sequel?
Title : Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka II
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? II
Most of the sequel i downloaded was solely to relive the nostalgia old watching 2010s anime. Generally they are pretty simple especially those which was adaptation of Light Novel. Generally tend to be Isekai, Fantasy or Video Game setting. So when this anime released for 1st season, it check several marks that at least made the story very enjoying to watch. What happened if you remove all the formula and change it all together? You get disappointing, especially if you dont handle the series with care.
As someone who forgot most of the story aside from maybe 2 protagonist in the series, this series did have 1 episode recap (episode 0) that managed to refresh my mind a bit. Because the characters setup in first season, it seem like it didnt spend much time to reestablish them again in 2nd season, making you have to remove each of characters quirk and relationship. Personally, I think for personal development, character need to improve in every season, at least we learn something new about them. Sadly I feel like this season lack a lot of that making it just moving from plot to plot.
Oh remember I said about the formula? The title itself is about getting a girl in a dungeon. There is ZERO dungeon related plot this time around. At least there is no story about our MC struggled going to dungeon to level up. Instead it focused more on side character story, which I think it just a blown opportunity. Some of the plot are interesting (family wars in the beginning) but only to be disappointed ended in just 1 episode. There isnt any struggle with our MC either, making viewer care less about him now.
Danmachi season 2 is so disappointing that downgrade it to mediocre level. While first season not exactly great, but it was entertaining to watch at least. This time around it made me care less and more annoyed to watch their antics.
Alternative : Here are some anime i think managed to do Season 2 properly despite being weaker than 1st season : Log Horizon 2, Konosuba 2 (although i personally didnt enjoy them), SAO 2 (first arc at least), Overlord 2 (except for lizard intimate scene part).