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Jul 23, 2023
Not to be a contrarian but this is bordering on unwatchable. This season is the start of a new story, which is already a problem as the story thus far was left unfinished, but to add insult to injury, the new plot is lame and unoriginal. It's like a bad AI rewrite of the core parts of the story up to this point: Rudeus joins a new party and starts adventuring, his reputation is growing, a girl is interested in him, yadda yadda yadda. Only this time everything looks like greyed out photocopies of the originals. The characters are uninteresting cardboard cutouts, the plot is
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childish, and Rudeus himself is mopey beyond all reason, which drags down the energy of the anime altogether. Still, it could be salvagable, but - spoilers - the entirety of episode 3 is about how Rudeus can't get it up, and for the love of figs, that's neither interesting as a story in itself, nor a fitting continuation of what we've seen so far in Mushoku Tensei.
Three episodes went by and nothing of substance has happened. Rudeus can't get over how Eris left, and that's about it. If this was a character study it would be important to thoroughly examine his feelings about the situation, but fork me, this is supposed to be a fantasy action isekai with a story that actually goes somewhere. It's an utter waste of time and it's not even entertaining in the slightest.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Nov 21, 2022
Everything that was bad about Bleach with none of the good parts
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Old problems reocurring:
1. The author just pulls another set of baddies out of his arse and of course they're stronger than all the previous baddies. They have idiotic powers that ruin the world because the plot demands it. How and why they appeared now, where were they up to this point, how they got their mind melting powers, etc.? Well, your guess is as good as anyone elses. This isn't how you write a compelling enemy.
2. The author tries to mess with Ichigo's past AGAIN. I don't know of anyone who liked that
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"twist" the previous 2-3 times and it feels even worse now. Leave the story that's behind us alone, for the love of gerbils.
3. The story is basic AF and doesn't even pretend to care any more. It's just bad guys appear to kill good guys, and this isn't even a short summary, this is all of it.
New problems emerging:
1. Erasing the world just to raise the stakes risks erasing our bonds to the world as well. Adding never before mentioned parts to the erased world risks ruining it even further.
2. The music was always fantastic, now it's absolute garbage.
3. The fights were almost always creative and visually striking, now they're full of random shapes and colors cavorting all over the place. Maybe some people like this new style, for me it's a huge letdown.
4. Shinigami are just clowns now, they stand around wetting themselves while enemy footsoldiers massacre them. This is lame. It doesn't show us that the enemy is strong, it just makes the entire excercise surreal and jarring. Those shinigami have fought hollows and arrancars and whatnot, but now they're acting like overcooked noodles in a bull stampede? Come on...
Now, anybody who have read the last chapter of the manga when it came out knew it was, well, let's be frank here, shite. It wasn't canceled unreasonably, that's for sure, and I'm saying this as a Bleach fan. But that was many years ago, and all of its problems could've been fixed in the anime. Sadly they weren't, and even more sadly some new problems were added. This is a missed opportunity of epic proportions.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jun 8, 2022
Season 2 is not a coherent story where things develop organically from character motivations or plans/counterplans, it's a disjointed mess of random things happening all over the place. Multiple new totally random things are introduced in every episode just to push the story forward even if they're insanely improbable and make no logical sense. Nothing is explained, the viewer will never know how or why things have happened, why the protagonists or antagonists decided to do that, or how they did it. It's just one random thing after another. This is the way kids imagine stories, a professional writer should never stoop so low.
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this would be a bad anime, a 3 or 4 out of 10, and even as a continuation of Season 1 it's still just a 5/10 at most.
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What makes it even worse is that none of it has anything to do with the original story of Season 1, and the new story seems to be a rehashing of the old one, ie. it "resets" the hero and his entire party in a new environment and they literally start again from level 1, as if the writers didn't know what to do with the hero otherwise.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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