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In a nutshell: Overall a very weak continuation of the first season. Same content but more boring, it's mostly just people explaining things. Hero doesn't have any character development which is also a letdown.

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Absolutely loved the first season for the action, twists and struggles the story and characters took. Was a 10/10 for me.

This is the first part of the second season and I'd give it a 6/10. It's always hard to keep up the pace with the first season of any anime because starting with a new world and idea is most of the time fresh and interesting. There's two major problems with Rezero ... s2:
-There is not much progress. "A lot of talking without much being said in the end". The hero keeps doing trial-and-error, he struggles and then learns a little bit more than last time, over and over. It feels like a very numb, not to say lazy version of season 1: you get everything you love from s1, but in a very small, almost boring amount.
- The hero still has no character development. After all he has been through, you might think that he might have gained some wisdom or edge from it, right? Nah, Subaru is still brittle and whiny as he was in the first season. A struggling hero is basically always good to see, but a hero who doesn't grow from both his successes or failures is just frustrating to watch.

I'm still going to watch the second part of S2 since I still want to know what happens next. I sincerely hope that it's not going to be a colossal letdown as "The Rising of the Shield Hero", which has a similar fate: great first season, but everything past that is a trainwreck. Being able to keep up a good story after the first season seems to be a big problem with Isekais, I suppose.

Season1 is all you need to watch.

A lot of stories, especially animes, are created out of an interesting idea for a plot; but, once that plot has been resolved, fail to continue to tell a good story. Rise of the Shield Hero is a great example for just such a case.

Dropped into another world, the hero is shunned by the entire world to an outcast status and has to find ways to become stronger by only using defensive and shield skills. This, combined with conspiracy plots, plausible cause & effect storytelling and a great soundtrack makes season1 great and really recommendable, go watch it!

However...once you've ... finished season 1, that's exactly where you want to stop. The entire redemption arc, and probably pretty much the main idea of the mangaka behind everything, happens in season 1. After that, the creator clearly had no idea how to continue and it very much shows.

Season 2 and 3 are filled with small story arcs that are so out of place that they feel like filler episodes. New characters with powers that are barely explained appear, act and fight for reasons that often don't fit their character, but the overall plot and drama. You could cut the entire cast down to 1/4th and the story would still work, THATS how bloated and unnecessary most characters are.
It's especially annoying considering the three other heroes: they have pretty much no personality and act solely to drive the story, or later the "filler arc", forward (kinda like a 3 person shaped plot device). I really wished that they'd get some character development, but they're pretty much the same person, just with a different weapon and look.

Watch season 1, that's the great one and an overall closed story, but do yourself a favour and stop after that. Season 2 and 3 are unfortunately really bad. A real shame, but Rise of the Shield Hero is at least a good example of an anime that runs out of ideas after the first season.

Studio Trigger does its thing and the show has lots of neat ideas, they sell the cyberpunk vibe well. Animations are gorgeous and characters are mostly fun. Fans of blood and gore will get their fair share, they also don't avoid casual nudity without characters having their typical "anime nosebleed" moment, which is refreshing.

Still, 7/10 because the second half is veeery weak plotwise. The main character is sadly pretty flat, uninteresting and occasionally makes dumb decisions. The series opens up a huge city with tons of opportunities but realizes in the second half that it has to wrap the story up quickly so the last ... few episodes just boil down to your standard anime showdown.

Don't expect a masterpiece, but if you want some violent, stylish anime trigger action in a cyberpunk universe, give it a try. I never played the game myself, but I think that you'll enjoy the anime more if you have played it already.

Not terriffic, but it's alright entertainment

Main character is a Mary Sue who can do anything and gets all the girls (including his mom motorboating him)

It gets ridiculous when they start writing their own spells because he happens to know the exact values of gravity, melting point and atomic weight of any metal, which is vital to write your metal creating spell which he of course found out since it's logical, right?

I was hoping to watch an old assassin in a kids body doing some cool stuff and struggle here and there in the fantasy setting, instead you get an all-knowing demigod kid gathering his harem and doing everything perfectly. Greeeaaat.

Asspull - The Anime

Some kids get thrown into some alternate universe, what do they worry about?
"Oh no my grades! We're probably going to die but I gotta learn for the exams."
"What do you think the principal will think about this? I hope we don't get punished."
"Hey, let's keep up the school rules, although we're floating through the absolute void of nothingness."

Suddenly some have superpowers. But sometimes its "rules" that the world itself just sets up. And sometimes it's just the "weirdness" of the world itself.

Well great. So we got a group of irrationally thinking teens (where NONE of them is somewhat interesting) in a world ... where a bunch of random stuff happens because the author wanted it that way. "This happens because this environment is weird! No wait, because there's a new world rule that does this! No wait it's because it's someones superpower!"

Sh!t I've read better fanfics than this

Solid 7/10

Pros:
- Absolutely stylish
- Outstanding art and animation
- Great music
- Nice pacing

Cons:
- Story often makes no sense
... - The USP of the series, the robot arms, barely make sense in the series and are lateron almost forgotten
- The ending is very weak
- characters are a bit forgetable

The anime is all about style, cool music, great animations and great art. If you don't mind a simple story and some nonsense moves/actions from the characters, then give it a try.

If you're the kind of person who likes to watch animes with a couple of friends while drinking a bit/occasionally starting to blabber with your friends then this anime is perfect. The good thing is that the overall action keeps you entertained while the story is so simple and moves so smoothly that it doesn't matter if you have a short conversation with a buddy about the anime/other stuff, it's easy to catch up with what happened when you missed a few things.