86 Part 2

The disappearance of the Spearhead Squadron beyond the horizon does little to hide the intensity of the Republic of San Magnolia's endless propaganda. Vladilena Milizé continues to operate as "Handler One," the commander of yet another dehumanized 86th faction's squadron in the continuous war against the Legion.

On the Western Front, Shinei Nouzen and his squad are quarantined in a military base controlled by the Federal Republic of Giad, formerly known as the Giadian Empire. The newly-established government grants the saved Eighty-Six full citizenship and freedom. Housed by the president Ernst Zimmerman himself, the group meets his adoptive daughter and the last Empress, Augusta Frederica Adel-Adler.

However, within the calm of this tender society, Shinei and his team feel that their purpose is on the battlefield. Before long, they are once again in the midst of the Legion's onslaught as a part of the Federacy's Nordlicht Squadron, accompanied by Augusta Frederica. But, as history repeats itself, they realize that no matter the side, death and pain on the front lines are the only comfort they know.

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Milizé, Vladilena Main

Hasegawa, Ikumi Japanese

Nouzen, Shinei Main

Chiba, Shouya Japanese

Emma, Anju Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Kukumila, Kurena Supporting

Suzushiro, Sayumi Japanese

Adel-Adler, Augusta Frederica Supporting

Kuno, Misaki Japanese

Rikka, Theoto Supporting

Fujiwara, Natsumi Japanese

Shuga, Raiden Supporting

Yamashita, Seiichirou Japanese

Taniya, Kaie Supporting

Shiraishi, Haruka Japanese

Zimmerman, Ernst Supporting

Uchida, Yuuya Japanese

Keats, Haruto Supporting

Yamashita, Daiki Japanese

Nakayama, Nobuhiro Producer

Fujii, Shouta Producer

Ishii, Toshimasa Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Aketagawa, Jin Sound Director

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Apr 8, 2025

Caeruleus_CCXVI

Recommended

7.0/10 ~ Band of Brothers meets Iron Blood orphans

This is my review for the entire Series (Both Season 1 + 2): This show was good, not great, not amazing, not terrible, Just good. Which isnt necessarily a bad thing. This show had far more to offer then alot of the other trash ive been watching lately so it was a bit refreshing to get a show with a little bit of meat to it. But it was not without its faults. My largest gripe of the show was how goddamn choppy the series was, it would slow down and speed up plot and story wise ... way to fast, and I felt like there was just so many scenes cut. Being a 23 episode series, it easily could have been a standard 25-28 show to really fill in those holes.

Pros:
- The show tackles some big topics like Racism, Imperialism, Child soldiers much akin to gundam, Eugenics, what and who are considered people, and general depression. It takes on alot with its main focus being in a Nazi-Germany like setting, but over all it did fall a little flat when resolving some of these issues within the plot
- Im a huge sucker for explorations into unown lands, late Season 1 and early season 2 did a good job of this
- Yes the Lady commander was just wifu bait but she was written aliright with some development which was enjoyable however they did her dirty by cutting her almost entirely out of season 2... she really could have used more "show dont tell" moments, but me wanting this is a good sign that I wanted more.
- The CGI was kinda off putting, but when you realize its almost entirely for the mechs it becomes pretty acceptable
--The combat was decent for what it was
- Audio was great
- English dub was good
- the ending was rewarding, and it could end there and I would be happy, or it could continue. (for season2) Where season 1 is clearly "PART 1" and needs be be paired with part 2 to really be enjoyed, but the product as a whole was "complete" in the eyes of the story they told via the anime.

Cons:
- MC boy was far to edgy, but the fact that he breaks out of it at the end was enjoyably weird to see in anime these days
--500 or w.e dead comrades is so extremely, lower that lol
- Mascot girls back story was so choppy... so is this girl like 30... or like is she actually a robot?
-- all the "clans" with powers were just plot devices that just felt shoehorned in and filled with holes.
- They just jammed way too many "feels" scenes in the show, and they would be like 15 seconds long, and you as the viewer were supposed to care... yeah alot of them fell flat.
- I really did not like the approach where the silver haired people were made to be the villains within the first ep, I think they should have gone deeper into the "behind closed door" effect and made it that they were truly evil on the inside instead of willful ignorance breeds cruelty approach, because of this you felt no pity or remorse at the end when the silvers gold bent over, it just kinda fell flat but because it was a large part of the base of the story.... I just felt like it was a giant missed opportunity to get a crying anger out of the audience watching.
--because of the last point, charecters like General Uncle just fell flat, and the best friend hating MC just felt glossed over... too many scenes theoretically missing for character interactions and growth with one another.
- The Human nations willing to work with one another blindly at the end just felt unrealistic, show us more scenes of other nations getting wiped out and the survivors realizing its work together or death
- How did Silver lady make it to emo kid at the end... the fuck?
- I did not give a shit about a single other character that wasnt Silver haired MC, Emo kid, the cat and the not dog, every other character just felt like background noise tbh
-like I sad above, the show needed at minimum 2-5 more episodes to flesh about alot of scenes, but honestly what was covered could have been 1-2 more 12ish episode seasons.

This show was like I said just good, and I grade pretty harshly where 5/10 is very average, so this was far above that, but it was no master piece and needs alot of work. I dont think if they added a banger third season it would raise my score that much unless it was like a 9/10 or higher... I just wouldnt think it would be worth it for alot of people to make it that far. 7/10 is where I will start recommending shows, but I will not preach for them. I would recommend this one to anyone that enjoys a good WW2 story, mecha or a story about fighting the odds. I think one part that really will resonate with people is that the silver haired MC, goes from essentially a naive gamer girl to realizing pretty quickly that her game actions have real life consequences, the closest comparison would be like if the Gov in real life hired your to be a drone piolet and told you that it didnt really matter if you won or lost your drones or even completed your missions because they could just make more lol, then you realize that you are actually playing god and everything you do has real world stakes lol

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 16, 2025

Theprophet334

Mixed Feelings

The first season of this anime made me realize how 86 became so popular as it did the second season made me realize how most things end up becoming overrated as time goes on. The second season starts of with spice of life stuff there's a decent amount of character development and majority of it skips out on Lena completely. There are quite a lot of questionable things here to be honest it is quite obvious that 86 squad is made of madlads and Shin's only real reason to keep on fighting is Lena but everything felt so rushed here. A lot of things happen ... off screen and it's like the production somehow realized that there isn't going to be a 3rd season so they had to rush to a good stopping point with a cliched happy ending. Tbe abilities of some of these people like Fredericka and Shin are never really explained or looked into (other than it's in my blood duh) and the 5 squad members somehow survive everything when in the first season in the same scenario they killed off tons of people in less dire circumstances.I enjoyed watching it a lot the battle scenes were fantastic but in retrospective I fail to see the message from the show everyone keeps on fighting for something but some still die to it like there was a side character who died basically in the same episode he was introduced only to be brought back at the end for some emotional damage. In the novels I'm certain there was more to it but here I highly doubt anyone really cared about him in the first place because of his screentime being on the bare minimum.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 13, 2024

Malteser

Not Recommended

Funny

Is it worth watching an entire season just for the last 2 episodes to be good?
No.
Consider Part 1 the ending. Go do something else.

As well as the last scene is, and as anticipated as the reveal was, I do not consider it worth watching the whole show just for it. Maybe somebody could make an abridged version that leaves out the boss fight arc, and that'll make it better to watch and less dragged out. We don't learn much more about the characters, and they stop becoming interesting as soon as the focus is turned away from the survival aspect.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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