Wind Breaker Season 2

Not sure why there haven't been any other positive reviews so far, but personally I have been enjoying Wind Breaker season 2 a lot. Is it perfect? Of course not. But it knows exactly what it wants to do and executes it well.

First off, if you are watching season 2 that means you have already seen season 1 (and presumably enjoyed it). If you didn't enjoy season 1, then I see no reason to continue watching something that you don't like (hatewatching is lame).

Alright, now that that's out of the way, onto the rest of the review.

Story and Characters: Definitely the weakest part of the ... show. Sakura is a typical tsundere MC with a good heart. He wants to protect Bofurin from all the rival gangs and does so semi-successfully. However, I think the side cast is more interesting. Characters like Hayato, Kyotaro and Ren are easy to follow and provide and are more dynamic and have more layers than the MC. Other than that, it's a typical delinquent story. Gangs fight other gangs. Nobody is watching this show for the story anyways so for me the criticisms are somewhat unfounded. On one hand, the story is generic but on the other hand that is not the main appeal of this show at all and was never from the beginning.

Score: 6/10

Animation: By far the best aspect of this show. The fight scenes are clean and fluid, and the choreography is exceptional. Additionally, the camera work in the big group fights is impressive and the hand to hand combat is done very well. Cloverworks are a great studio, and although they don't usually do fighting anime, they really knocked it out of the park for this one.

Score: 9/10

Soundtrack: The OST in this show is good, it gets you hyped up and does its job well.

Score: 7.5/10

OP and ED: Both the op and ed are good, tho I prefer the s1 op personally.
OP score: 7.5/10
ED score: 7/10
Mean score: 7/10

Voice Acting: The voice acting quality in this show is very high. There are a lot of high profile VAs in the cast such as Uchida Yuuma, Shimazaki Nobunaga, Chiba Shouya and more. They do a good job of portraying the emotions and personalities of their respective characters.

Score: 8/10

Overall, Wind Breaker season 2 is a solid show. It's not a groundbreaking story, and it's not reinventing its own genre, but the delivery, execution and presentation makes it a damn enjoyable ride.

Pros:
- Same consistent production.
- Slick choreography.
- Decent storytelling.

Cons:
- C O R N Y dialogues.
- Shallow characters.
- A bit unsatisfying.

... Wind Breaker, just like its previous season, is only recognized for having Cloverworks' names plastered on it. The anime is given good attention with its production value and no signs of pacing being butchered. It's a nice follow up for viewers who can pick up where they left off earlier. It gives a nice little recap and goes directly to the next episode without any downtime, so you immediately get into nuts-bussing action.

It's still your usual Wind Breaker, so you're still subject to another round of corny lines and by that, I mean so corny, you can't even ignore it and get second hand embarrassment from listening to it. Yes, there's not much legitimacy from me saying it's corny, but when you pair that with the most shallow characters to grace the screen, it's a bit too hard to tolerate. At least you're not given too much exposition dialogue like the last hyped anime of the season. The anime tries to fist in each character with their arcs with its really cheesy dialogues, so it kind of made it a lot worse to watch.

There's a lot of things I don't like about Wind Breaker, but I give it a chance because there's something in here that it still manages to accomplish despite all that embarrassment I get from the show. If you're willing to tolerate another round like me, then go for it. That's it.

Thank you for reading.

Not impressed 3 episodes in. The first three episodes suffer from the same issues I had with the entire first season. However, the pros balanced the cons in the first season and made it somewhat enjoyable.

That is not the case in season 2. We’re thrown into a conflict with a new rival gang in town that we don’t have much backstory for, all because a character we’ve barely met really cares about another character we barely know. The corniness of the dialogue so far has been pretty hard to watch.

I enjoy the fight scenes in this anime. Nothing more and nothing less. I’m getting tired ... of the sappy sob stories they keep trying to throw in my face. I understand there needs to be some resemblance of a story to propel the action scenes, but in an anime where a city is threatened by gangs of middle/high schoolers with no parents in sight my disbelief is already high. There are WAY too many tears in episode three to accompany such a shallow story.

I can’t recommend this anime to anyone other than extreme anime fans who watch a ton. I would not recommend this to the casual anime fan who likes to watch the hottest shows of the season. I think this season is just okay so far. Very middle of the road.

I hope it gets better as I do enjoy the choreography and animation!