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Lesbians sure do move fast.

A very stylistically cute anime, definitely worth ten minutes of your time. There's not much of a story line but for ten minutes, there's plenty. There's cute music and cute visuals - in a dreamy sort of way.

There's really not that much more to say - except that maybe that it was a little confusing - but then again how could it not be a mite confusing while also not being boring? It would have taken them introducing characters one after another, so the momentum would be lost.

Am I at 500 characters yet? No? How about now? Still no? Geez… It’s ... ten minutes long! What more can I say?

Is this what true disappointment feels like? (mild spoilers I suppose)

The first season of the anime was amazing: the characters were interesting and completed each other well. There was some gore - but it only highlighted the childish innocence of the characters, it was never pointless. The plot moved exactly as quickly as it needed to, it didn't sit around on any layer for longer than it needed.

Season two is its direct opposite.

In place of that well-weighted plot and of gore intertwined with peace, happiness, and love - all there is now is gore, gore, gore. It's horrifically on the nose, and it ... feels entirely pointless, done only for the shock value. We start the anime off with the rape of a child - it only gets worse from then on.

The sudden obsession with feces (and to a point, urine) is quite baffling as well and very much not my thing - not to mention the suddenly rampart sexualization of the majority of the underage characters. It was incredibly uncomfortable to watch and very shocking - I don't remember anything like this from season one.

Next, the characters. Riko's ambition in the first season had been rather simple: she had wanted to explore as much of the Abyss as she could, she had wanted to meet her mother, and she had wanted to become a White Whistle. It seems like she had forgot about all that entirely. Not once does Riko ask about her mother - a character that simply put, must have tumbled through the village - having a crafted White Whistle and all that. (How the hell had she gone back to the surface? Am I missing something? Was there a crafting station at the cruel dad's evil lair? Did Riko just forget to use it?)

Riko also does not seem to care about adventure all of a sudden - or maybe it's just the sluggish pace of the season. Eight episodes have gone by and the party has gone - maybe - two hundred meters? The plot has grinded to a halt as we are being force-fed the background information of the village. I don't know if any of this is supposed to be surprising - it's not. It's just disgusting and it's depressing. What is highlighting the rotten nature of human kind going to add to this anime?

Yes, some humans will do anything to survive - obviously. I had come here to watch a fun adventure, not the exhibit of all that is wrong with the world.

The main new character of the season is Maa-san. The only syllable they ever say is "Maa" - one might imagine how developed that character is. It is the villager we are supposed to care the most about. My cat has much more personality, yet I am supposed to see them as... humanoid? I think?

The other characters are either boring or pathetic. I feel no sympathy for any of them.

The plot is very simply subpar. I do not care for any of these characters - even after eight episodes. Whether they die or not is of no matter to me. Frankly speaking, I wish they were all offed sooner - maybe the arc would have ended and moved onto something more fun.

I miss Riko and Regs' simple adventures. It's such a pity that this season didn't introduce us to multiple, colorful groups of characters. I understand entering the village - but it should have been brief - three episodes - without the tentacles, without the nudity, without the rim job-giving toilets.