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This second season of No Guns Life follows up the main storyline directly from where it left off at the start of the first season. The plot gets quite thicker, as various layers of development are added to every character, making it easier to relate to them and understand their motivations and personalities better.

The sound design and composition was quite good, even better than the previous season even. An absolute banger of an opening, great battle and dramatic tracks, and pretty good ending song as well. The SFX were on point as well.

Beautiful art style, just like last season. My only complaint on this front ... would be a little too much of cgi in some parts, mainly on the last fight. How come Seven is traditionally animated but Juuzou, whose design is not much more complex than Seven's, is animated completely with CG? It looked janky and broke the suspention of disbelief in that moment. CG animation really isn't one of Madhouse's strong points.

Overall, this season holds up quite well, mainly compared to the previous one. Definetely worth a watch if you already got hooked in by the story and characters in the first season.

Although I'm rating it a seven, I'd say its a high one, more along the lines of a 7.6

Although post-apocalyptic settings, bugs vs humanity, and questioning morals are all things that have been done and explored plenty of times by anime already, Blue Gender does a pretty decent job at it.

The story is very entertaining and captivating, starting simple at first and ramping up in complexity as it progress, keeping you wondering what will happen next and introducing new elements here and there to avoid losing your interest.

The shoot outs and skirmishes are very fun to watch, but I'd like to see more stand outs and battles like those in the OP.

The characters are ok. Both main character, Marlene and Yuji, ... have an enormous ammount of development which, at the end of the series, makes them completely different characters from how they were at the beggining of the series. Meanwhile, side characters are constantly introduced and killed off for what appears to be cheap character development or mere shock value for the viewer. Lets not even talk about background character who, in groups of 4 or 5, struggle to take out a single enemy, while the main characters take 10 at a time.

Sound and animation/art are what you should expect of a 2000's anime, not bad but not the finest aged wine.

Overall Blue Gender is very enjoyable, maybe not the best to binge watch, bur definetely deserving of an opportunity.