Re:Despair, AGAIN AND AGAIN!
Title : Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 2nd Season
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Psychological, Thriller
Some fans of anime wait a pretty long time for 2nd season adaptation to varied different degree of quality. Luckily this series doesnt have to wait long until the continuation of the series being adapted. Based on the score, seem like most of the fans are happy with it. However, Im abit half entertained with it.
This season started with immediate conclusion from first season. In order to resolved some problem happened with one of the dearest character to the protagonist. Using the power of reverting to previous couple of days whenever he died, he found that he reached a checkpoint where it is no longer possible to save the girl, thus the beginning of this season. Scope wise, this anime felt smaller where our protagonist need to go to a single location & facing several trials, and yet it was so complexed that it took whole season (13 episodes) for it.
As for why i couldnt find this season entertaining, the first one focused more on world building, character introduction and a much faster plot progression for the whole 26 episodes. This season felt very slow & it repeat the same several days over and over again. Worse part is that because our protagonist took a different action, it lead to vastly different result, to a point I feel like doesnt make sense. Anime production however still pretty good quality & the mysterious thriller part is the best part of this season.
If you a fan of first season & mystery / thriller, perhaps this 2nd season is good. I still think it is great season, but only some personal moment that i think pretty good while most of other are depressing despairs.
Alternative : Not many anime have similar setup as this, so i just list several anime that i think similar (some are olds). Higurashi series, Steins Gate series, Boku Dake ga Inai Machi & Puella Magi Madoka
Promising start that went nowhere.
Title : Kanojo, Okarishimasu
Rent-a-Girlfriend
Genres: Comedy, Romance, School, Shounen
Blah2 I dont hate romcom or harem anime in general as long as it have anything interesting to keep me watching the whole season. This anime is nothing new, and I mostly just heard how the main girls is kinda one of perfect girl you can have in the anime.
This anime have simple premise where our protagonist was dumped by his 1 month girlfriend. Feeling frustrated, he went for a service where he can rent a girlfriend hourly. After troublesome encounter in the beginning revolving their "fake" relationship, it went bloated to a point that he have to kept lying about his girlfriend status. Thus the beginning of this series, full of misunderstanding & requirement to keep their fake relationship a secret. Being a college students, it is much harder to hide among their friends.
If i wanted to say the focus of the anime, probably the waifus & comedy are the strong points about this anime. Each girls feel like a perfect characters that you wanted to see as a girlfriend. But because this is a romcom, you know for sure know there will be moment when more female characters enter our protagonist life. Anime production is pretty good and i kinda like the artstyle here. I think the worse part is inability of our protagonist to be consistent with his feeling (typical wussy harem romcom anime male).
I will be honest to say that I liked most of the episodes, but because the story going nowhere, it is just a bit letdown with merely some heartful moments while others are just normal typical comedic scenes with some slice of life thrown in. Just dont expect any romance story out of this.
Alternative : Nisekoi is the another one very similar. Next is seto no hanayome. Lastly, if you want more dirty / drama anime then Kuzu no Honkai & Domestic Girlfriend.