Edit: I changed my scoring system around a lot and the scores in this review were not really up to date, so I tried adapt them (indicated with *new*) and changed my 'overall' part.
Note: This is my first review on here and I basically just wrote it because I was bored and thought I might just give it a go (I'm kind of venting here so be ready for that).
Well then, Nanatsu no Taizai 2nd Season (I'll just call it that). Tbh I don't really remember 100% how I felt during the first season of this show but this second season seems to be way
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more of a letdown to me. But let's go through the points:
Story: 5 (*new*: 3) - The whole medieval-magical setting with a group of special, strong warriors (The seven deadly sins) fighting evil threats (demons) sounds rather interesting to me, and having those warriors fight a group of special, strong demons (the ten commandments) in an ultimate fight of good vs evil is a pretty cool base concept for a battle shounen.
The problem, however, lies not in the premise but the execution: The clash of those two groups is the main focus of the show and of course you can not just have them start fighting from the very beginning, but the way their fight is delayed seems extremely tedious: annoying sub-plots (one character loses her memory for the 50th time, the characters have to train in a cave for like a day or so, another character runs off to visit his dead girlfriend etc.) are thrown in to keep the main characters from actually figthing the big bad evil guys while said evil guys sit around and do nothing (because they conveniently have to replenish their energy). Together with some uninteresting characters that get introduced (the kings brother or whoever that guy was and his whole squad, Dianes 'senpai' etc) this seems to ruin the whole flow and pacing of the show. The build-up of for the final clash does not feel like a build-up, just one little sup plot happens after another, and then, boom, now we fight the bad guys because we just ran into them.
Speaking of that fight, pretty much the whole cast except maybe two people are utterly useless in that figth: Very early on it gets clear (thanks to some super lame power scale mechanic) that the commandments are way stronger than every character on the good side with the exception of Meliodas who just gets stronger and stronger leaving all his buddys behind as some useless exposition dummys.
The show also has some pretty lame twists in it that were only shocking because of how dumb they seemed (Not trying to spoil anything but keyword Hendrickson for example).
The writing in general seems actually quite horrible in some parts... I mean I don't expect a battle shounen to have a super complex, deeply thought out plot structure and what not but this show has some moments where I was actually getting furious as to how badly they were written (the mentioned stupid twists, characters coming back when they should be dead, the power levels escalating way too quick, stupid new abilities getting introduced out of nowhere etc...).
Art: 4 - Just not a big fan of the artstyle (especially the faces and clothing) but it's not necessarily ugly I guess. Animation is nothing special and seems lacking in some parts but more or less watchable.
Sound: 6 - Does not really stand out to me which does not mean it's bad, it's just nothing special either.
Chracters: 4 (*new*: 2) - Together with the writing probably the worst part of this show (also the part where my opinions influences my enjoyment of the show the most): I just don't like the characters. Like allready mentioned pretty much everyone aside from Meliodas is super weak compared to the commandments which does not help make these one dimensional, bland characters interesting in any way. A couple of examples: Elizabeth is just there to be sexually assaulted and whine all the time, King's dialogue seems to have "Diane" in every line, Diane herself does nothing except for... no actually nothing. Arthur, Gilthunder and the other Knights pretty much do the same as Diane and seem to only serve the purpose of showing us how strong the demons (and Meliodas) are. And the worst is probably Meliodas himself, getting stronger everytime the plot needs him to and being a goofy molester all the time (well mostly) when he is not in battle. On the other hand, the commandments do not seem to have any real depth or motivation to them other than "we are evil because we are the evil ones" but since that might get covered in the future I'll let that slide for now. (EDIT: being on episode 23 now, I'm not really optimistic about that)
Escanor and Ban are two characters I actually like but they are also not really well written in my opinion.
And also what's with all the backstorys (Diane, King, Ban, Meliodas, Escanor, Elizabeth...)? I mean backstorys are fine and all but that many? For pretty much every important character? Is ist not possible to characterize them without the need of a backstory?
Enjoyment: 4 (*new*: 3) - In conclusion I don't find this show very entertaining, there were episodes where I was seriously questioning the authors writing abilities and I thought about dropping it multiple times. While the premise is interesting the characters and the writing are terrible and the animation is mostly mediocre. I don't want to be your typical Hero Academia d*ck rider but seeing the two shows airing together, thus comparing them, makes Nanatsu no Taizai look even worse.
Overall: 3 - Because of the reasons listed above I scored this show a 3 out of 10 which indicates a 'very bad' or 'poor' show.
Like I said this review was created on a whim and out of boredom, I pretty much just wrote this down for me but if anyone finds this angry wall of text helpfull that'd be cool too I guess.
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Jun 20, 2018
Edit: I changed my scoring system around a lot and the scores in this review were not really up to date, so I tried adapt them (indicated with *new*) and changed my 'overall' part.
Note: This is my first review on here and I basically just wrote it because I was bored and thought I might just give it a go (I'm kind of venting here so be ready for that). Well then, Nanatsu no Taizai 2nd Season (I'll just call it that). Tbh I don't really remember 100% how I felt during the first season of this show but this second season seems to be way ... |
