Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun 2nd Stage

Fumiya Tomozaki is now cruising through the game of life—all thanks to the guidance of Aoi Hinami, his popular classmate and rival in the online game Attack Families, widely known as "Tackfam." As the summer holiday draws to a close and a new term commences, Tomozaki reunites with Aoi, who reminds him of his ultimate goals: to become well-liked among his peers and find himself a girlfriend.

However, Tomozaki puts his ambitions on hold when his innocent friend, Hanabi Natsubayashi, starts being bullied. To make matters worse, Aoi is characteristically out of touch with the situation. But Tomozaki is not alone in resolving this issue—he now has a group of loyal friends who are all determined to help Hanabi and ensure they enjoy their youths together to the fullest.

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Hinami, Aoi Main

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Tomozaki, Fumiya Main

Satou, Gen Japanese

Nanami, Minami Supporting

Hasegawa, Ikumi Japanese

Kikuchi, Fuuka Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Izumi, Yuzu Supporting

Hieda, Nene Japanese

Natsubayashi, Hanabi Supporting

Maekawa, Ryouko Japanese

Mizusawa, Takahiro Supporting

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Narita, Tsugumi Supporting

Fujita, Akane Japanese

Nakamura, Shuuji Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Takei Supporting

Mizuno, Shuntarou Japanese

Yanagi, Shinsuke Director, Storyboard

Motoyama, Satoshi Sound Director

Matsumoto, Masayuki Episode Director

Yamada, Yuka Script

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Mar 27, 2024

Abbader

Recommended

Well-written

I watched this series because it exposed me to a completely different approach to characters and relationships than what I was used to, much more analytical, much more manipulative, focused on the psyche and how to penetrate it in order to fit in groups.
This series has a toxic message mixed with a quite accurate one, one of which is a valid reason for those who do not want to see it.
"You can't always be yourself if you want to be accepted by others" but at the same time "It's not right that everything you are is a lie."

One of the positions is always driven by ... Aoi with such toxic manipulation skills and perspectives, but the other is exposed by Tomozaki himself even from the first season.

These 2 premises constantly fight, generating a balance in our protagonist that drives him to change and at the same time prevents him from going over the line.
Tomozaki's evolution is quite satisfactory, from being a gloomy and losing boy, to being someone reliable and with enough balls to move things without the need to fall into lies or hurt others. It is observed how throughout the series how "changing" from each character implies something different and the motivations as well as the perspectives constantly put us in doubt if it is the right thing to do, reaching the point where both premises are summarized in.

"How much is right to change."

The truth is that I really liked this series because of the reflective content and the handling of characters that is so different that I have experienced compared to other works,
I understand that many will not like its story but for me it was a quite refreshing series that I had been waiting for since its first season, the characters become more and more defined, slowly adding depth to those that are required and leaving the others as constants as long as they are useful in this way.

I give it an 8/10.

It lacks emotional charge in many parts and I admit that I had to stop the chapters on many occasions because I couldn't stand the Cringe on multiple occasions. If you are not very interested in the dynamics of status and the interactions between characters, you will find this series more boring than the first since not all the focus is on the development of the protagonist, but I must highlight that its entire narrative until the final chapter seemed to me. extremely sensible and organic.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 19, 2024

Claimed_Dude

Mixed Feelings

Is it better than the first season?

Yes.


Is it the best of this season?

No.


... That said, I feel that many of the things in which the first season failed are repeated in this one but to a lesser extent.

Things like slow episodes or unnecessarily stretching out plots mean that in just one season you don't get to see and know as much about some characters.

I mean...
MORE THAN 5 EPISODES FOR A SLOW PLOT OF A BULLY?

Remembering that it's a 13 episode season, to throw away half of the series in a slow plot that could easily be solved in one or two chapters makes you less interested in it.

Even so, I think that this season is superior to the previous one because of the development that the protagonist brings in the first season, so in this one we see a different and new facet about him, that makes some chapters not only the protagonist learns to improve his problems and social anxieties. But also to be able to help people who are in the same or even worse situations than him.
And showing us making a contrast with his way of being in the first season and how to develop some romantic situations.

In the end this work, unlike the first season leaves aside the "personal development of the protagonist" and makes all the learning he got in the first season is reflected in this one.
It's a good thing, but only if you really got to connect with the series. Overall it's decent.

But I'm still waiting for something more...

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 29, 2024

vietprodigy

Not Recommended

Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun season 2 had a huge falloff from season 1 because it was engaging enough since season 2 was just a loop for 13 episodes.
In season 1 we really he tomozaki develop from being a bum to a regular person but in season 2 now that he starts off as a regular person it feels a bit odd that hes still doing tasks for someone whos a little bit higher on the social hierachy then him. the interactions he has in season 2 are almost completely normal and that made the plot really hard to drag on because he really cant grow or ... evolve out of how he ended from season 1. I think a cause of this is the lack of new ideas and characters in season 2 as they really don't have any new additions and just rub on the relationship between the already existing circle.

Another problem I have is how they pace the episodes. The first half of the story was just 6 episodes of completing random tasks which actually wasnt too bad to watch but the last 7 episodes, tomozaki plans a school festival play in which this girl kikuchi writes the story and he assists her to create the story with the play. my personal opinion is that this is where it just goes downhill because the long ass dialogue between them about the story she was for me was all yap. I know some people love dialouge like this but me personally I actually couldn't care less. Yes it did build the relationship beteen the 2 characters but I really dont need a entire narrative spoken to me to understand that they have the same interest and are getting closer. listening to them talk was actually brainrot and i got bored almost instantly and it made me wanna drop this so bad but i persevered.

Some ups were that the art and audio were kept up to standard like season 1 but i cant say much else

overall, season 2 is pretty bland and half of season 2 is getting a fucking book read to me. I get the appeal but me personally this anime was just super boring to sit through but if you like these kinds of narratives and yap be my guest.

TLDR: No new content, half of the season is just yap

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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