Princess Connect! Re:Dive Season 2

What a turnaround this second season is from the first. The quality of the show improved significantly in almost every way. Nearly every episode felt relevant to the plot and advanced the narrative. The framing of each scene is especially good, got them feels going regularly. This is most apparent during battle scenes. The whole thing feels much more solid instead of the cobbled together mess season 1 seemed to be.

The gourmet tag is false once more, this season has even less to do with food than the first one. The entirety of its relation to food ... can be summed up in the idea, occasionally expressed during the show, that people can understand one another by sharing a meal together. It was much better presented as a concept this season but I still feel it's quite misleading if you are comparing it to something like Dungeon Cooking or Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, shows that deserve to be in the gourmet category.

That being said, I'm happy I stuck it out and decided to give season two a chance!

A bit more entertaining than the first season, with the story now having an overall meaning with twists and turns that felt appropriate and well executed. Questions answered and relationships are furthered slightly but not by much. Action is much more entertaining and for the uninitiated people who didn't know what to expect of the story were in for a treat. The music and animation continue to be a highlight into this second season and even reference some of the pivotal moments from the game with similar sounding music. That being said, Princess Connect is still suffering from the fact that it didn't have much ... to build on in the first place. What it does achieve, is good, but it's weighed down by the fact that the story and characters are still at best, surface level. Princess Connect could never really be anything higher than a 7 due to its original medium not being much better in terms of its story and characters. The game was made to sell, not tell a compelling story with compelling characters. While this can be entertaining and is in some ways better than the first season, it cannot grasp anything higher than being alright and good.

There is one word to describe this season and that's "forgettable". Things happen during most of the course of this season but I cant seem to remember most of it. Very little is revealed in this season that hasn't been revealed in the first. I find it to be a show that is neither pleasant nor offensive to watch. Not only that I heard nearly no one talking about this show the 3 months it was airing which is a shame.

Majority of the characters introduced its like they picked their features out of a hat and put no thought process into it whatsoever. Then ... again I suppose that's to be expected when your source material is a literal gacha game.

While season 2 of Priconne graces your eyes in the initial episodes with amazing animation its a novelty that quickly wears off. Sure you get "plot development" but that's not until episode 9 and even then it feels like the writers have given up where the animations during the fight scenes look like nothing more than a bunch of flashy scribbles across your screen.