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This review won’t contain any spoilers for Season 2 but assumes you’re caught up with Season 1.

In one word: masterclass.

The visuals are fairly standard but do their job well. The animation is polished, and the soundtrack is effective. Artistically, nothing shocking or breathtaking, but everything aligns perfectly with Season 1’s style, so you can expect consistency in that regard.

Now, about the story: while Season 1 followed a rhythm of about 20-30% overarching plot episodes and 70-80% episodic ones (where episodes have a self-contained story, like a murder mystery solved within one or two episodes), Season 2 flips the script. It leans more toward 60-70% overarching ... plot and 30-40% episodic mysteries. That’s an important factor for your enjoyment. If you love well-crafted narratives with interconnected events, multi-step plans, and long-term storytelling, Season 2 will likely be right up your alley. On the other hand, if you’re looking for a casual crime series with standalone episodes featuring clever whodunits where you can guess the culprit yourself, Season 2 might not be for you—it offers fewer “small mysteries” and focuses more on advancing the main plot.

And that main plot?
We dive deep into Ron’s past, which—as teased in Season 1—seems connected to the Moriarty family. But there’s more: we get insights into his youth, his education, and key events from the past that lead to an intense, closed-circle investigation. It’s like a massive game of Clue, unraveling a deadly enigma.

The story elements are spot-on, though towards the end, you might find yourself questioning some secondary characters’ choices—they make some irrational decisions that seem to jeopardize their survival. It’s almost like you want to yell, “Well, you shouldn’t have gone off alone!” From emeralds to a mysterious invitation sent 17 years ago, to all the players in a grim tale, this season will glue you to your seat. Every episode pulls you into the next, especially as things heat up toward the end.

If there’s one minor downside, it’s that a few of the episodic cases are a bit too predictable. But honestly, the anime is severely underrated in my opinion and absolutely deserves at least an 8/10.
For my part, my level of enjoyment makes me give it a 9!

Enjoy the watch!

That is just so wrong. This review will contain signaled Spoiler at a certain point.
Nina is not just an orphan now in the kingdom having to deal with royalty, the prince and a worl she doesn't know. Well she was. But the Anime changed everything and it became so wrong.

At the beginning, the synopsis is quite right, we watch the interesting story of a young orphan chosen to replace a Fortuna princess, and more precisely a priestess. She met all the royal people from Fortuna and the events are quite as expected: she doesn't know their rules, she doesn't know how to speak and she ... is quite clumsy. It was both interesting and realistic.

The relation developed between her and Prince Azur is also a big highlight is the show. SPOILER starts here.

Rapidly, they both fall in love. We could have a nice story on how to deal with this relation between a prince and a priestess not really a princess, we could discover how to continue replacing the princess, we could also have political incidents and her having to learn how to deal with them now that she is becoming a member of the royal family. We learn that the Prince is also a "fraud" which is even better for the story.

And then everything becomes twisted when she runs away to marry a morbid prince who wants to attacks the Fortuna kingdom. She tries to be strong but he is just sadistic. Some weaknesses are revealed to make him look nicer, but don't be a fool, that's just bad writing. He deliberately cuts her and leaves her bleeding to death. Then she tries... to make him fall in love. She is totally caught in a Stockholm Syndrome, he acts as a jerk and she is always here to "save Fortuna". He explains that he owns her since he has his signature on her (yes the scar). This Anime shows a complete redflag Prince showing no respect or whatsoever being eroticized when he does something awful. I loved it when the Prince Azur was here, I hated it since Seth came and transformed this show in a twisted toxic relationship.