Seirei Gensouki 2

After Rio escapes the capital of the Beltrum Kingdom with his former teacher Celia Claire and his bond spirit, Aishia, he finds himself in a dire situation once again. As it turns out, multiple people from his past life in Japan are suddenly scattered around the new world. Rio rushes to their help, saving a small group and taking them under his wing. To his surprise, one of the rescuees is his old self's childhood friend Miharu Ayase.

The newcomers were not the only ones summoned. With old friends and new allies by his side, Rio sets out to locate the other abductees while searching for a way to send them back to Japan. However, Rio never loses sight of his main goal: avenging his mother's death.

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Rio Main

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Claire, Celia Main

Fujita, Akane Japanese

Latifa Main

Kusunoki, Tomori Japanese

Ayase, Miharu Main

Harada, Sayaka Japanese

Aishia Supporting

Kuwahara, Yuuki Japanese

Cretia, Liselotte Supporting

Touyama, Nao Japanese

Beltrum, Flora Supporting

Hondo, Kaede Japanese

Beltrum, Christina Supporting

Suzushiro, Sayumi Japanese

Sara Supporting

Nitta, Hiyori Japanese

Vulfe, Reiss Supporting

Yusa, Kouji Japanese

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Nishimura, Masayuki Producer

Aoki, Kiyomitsu Producer

Yamasaki, Osamu Director, Script, Series Composition

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Dec 23, 2024

Yanis505

Recommended

I really liked the show. I hope there will be a season.

The reason I liked the show is because the MC has a special background which is ponctuatee with his special spirit. He also has an identity which is near to be revealed but isn't yet. Eventhough these are all clichés, these are the ones I like.
So please don't drop it, it's the anime that regroups all the clichés I like.

The show has also good animation and a good storyline (even if there weren't my favorite clichés).

The only reason that caused a 9 and not a ten is simply because I hoped that things would ... happen which didn't happen yet.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Dec 23, 2024

Flacion

Mixed Feelings

We return to another world where Rio just has rescued Celia, as new people from Japan arrive in this unfamiliar world, now what do they bring with them?

In this season of Spirit chronicles do we once again follow Rio, but added to the cast is some new visitors from Japan. We follow them as Rio tries to uncover how and why they have been summoned to this world, with that he meets new people and gets deeper into the movements of this world.

For the plot of the season it is in itself pretty interesting, with Rio having to handle newcomers from his original homeworld, while ... trying to figure out what is happening in this situation. This gives some great insight into the larger world and the overarching plot that was hinted at in the previous season. The issue with the plot is that it feels slow or more like there isn’t happening enough, which sometimes makes it feel like there is barely anything happening in the scene. So the plot’s story in itself is pretty interesting with it building up to a larger story, but the pace and lack of details just makes it feel slow.

When it comes to the characters, are we once again seeing a similar situation as with the plot. There is laid some great groundwork for some interesting character plotlines and possible growth. But the actual character growth in the characters is limited, though it is there and fairly interesting, it is just hit by the same issue with not having enough being done in the season. With this is it just clear that the groundwork and possibilities were there, there was just not enough time put into it.

The animation of the show has sadly fallen a bit in quality since the last season, with there being used more still images and less details, especially out of combat. Monsters are also done with CGI which gives them a more monstress look, but also seems cheap.

When it comes to the show overall there are two things as repeating problems, the pacing and lack of details. Both plot and characters are affected by the slow pacing with the whole season moving slowly, and they don't make up for it by putting more plot and character details in to fill it out. This is also made worse by the animation having more still images with less details, so the viewer also visually doesn’t have enough going on.

To conclude it, the story and characters alone lives up to the first season and is bringing some great progression. The issue is just the pacing is too slow and the animation is slightly worse, which spoils the story and characters. So if you are interested in this story and want to know what comes after season one, then watch this, if you are not that interested, watch something else.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Dec 23, 2024

KANLen09

Not Recommended

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Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles, Season 2 - What a dumpster fire of a sequel...how could this be the result of a work that despite being potentially average as it is, sink its teeth into something even worse?

Back in Summer 2021, a little show by the name of Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles came out, and despite all of its inherent flaws, I actually found that if you try to open the can of worms that is all of its cut content from the now 26-volume-long LN, there is an intriguing setup that novelist Yuri Kitayama had set up for the adaptations, let alone Season 1 itself ... which was quite the journey that I had 3 years ago reading both the LN and manga forms (though please dismiss the manga as Season 2's content is not brought there) that had the deepest riches of depth in its storywriting that was elaborately interesting, filled to the brim with potential to come when the anime got to that point.

And so it is, fast forward 3 years later to this Fall's sequel, and while the pacing tactic of the anime adaptation is still the same as the prequel, the content itself...is a whole other story that for better or for worse, was a slog to sit through thinking that the next 12-episode set would provide even more mystery to what Season 1 had perfectly set up towards, only to have it be thrown out into the garbage bin for choices that push more of its audience away from the series.

With Season 2 focusing on Volumes 4 and 6 to 8 of the LN, this part of the LN is unfortunately quite the slow burn as the plot now focuses on the 6 Wise Gods' prophecy of the Heroes being summmoned into the fantasy world. This only meant that Kirito-wannabe Rio a.k.a Haruto Amakawa's friends from Japan have joined him in the fray and not knowing what was going on, to connecting the dots between different groups of people that has or had an influence on his life, Haruto's past life, rather. Ayase Miharu, the Sendo siblings of Aki and Masato, as well as the Heroes of Hiroaki Sakata (assigned to Beltrum) and Satsuki Sumeragi (assigned to Galarc), all of which are primary people for Haruto to trace his past and link them to the present with the group of people that had similar experiences from Season 1 (i.e. Suzune Endo as Latifa), it's pretty much a Grimms' Notes version of the backstories that link everyone related towards Haruto in one way or another.

For sure this piece of the content SHOULD be interesting, but as you know that anime adaptations tend to cut a lot of content, and Season 2 is no different from its prequel, though I'd say that this portion of the story is quite straightforward to understand despite the loosening of the narrative for more down-to-earth moments that still has threats continuing thereafter to bring the wrench into Haruto's plans for the foreseeable future. This part here that Season 2 covers, is unfortunately, not the best it has to offer.

What made things worse is with the entire production itself. Back then, TMS Entertainment wasn't the finest studio around with a big budget to work with, but yet still can create works that don't falter, and are still decent at the end of the day. Even if Season 1 had production cooperation from another studio (which was the somewhat competent WAO World), it wasn't this bad, not even with its own in-house Studio 6 department that can actually churn out shows with good production cycles. Oh boy, not with Season 2 here despite having series director Osamu Yamasaki on the seat, while letting a no-name director handle the reigns for everything else, with the novelist herself having to help out in the storyboarding and series-scripting, all while the production is seriously hampered to the dozen that it bears all the marks of a cheap, low-quality animation.

If anything else, the deteriment follows with the music, as now both Aguri Oonishi's OP and Nanaka Suwa's ED are songs that you can just skip and pretend like they never exist. This is sad because Season 1's OST was virtually perfect, let alone Aguri Oonishi's Season 1 ED which was a great song, miles better than the OP that's found here. Oh, and that dual-audio voiceover language act? It's seriously jarring, and for me to say that Mushoku Tensei did leaps better than this, something's clearly wrong.

Oh, dear God, what did we ever do to deserve this blatant downgrade of a sequel? If Season 1 was already this bad, then Season 2 here is really the nail in the coffin for the series when it comes to its anime adaptation. I held out hope that for much of what the prequel was inherently bad at, there was a silver lining that could get me back to actually liking Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles again. But with how Season 2 turned out, oh boy...you're better off reading the LN instead for good measure.

Simply unbelievable...watch Season 1, avoid Season 2 and read the LN at your own pleasure.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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