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First off, I want to put it out there that I really really like this anime and this is also my first review. However, this season fell short to me in terms of mainly plot so much that I had to make this my first review and I’ll explain more below.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

Plot: 4/10
The storytelling this season felt really messy. It felt a lot like a number of arcs were just following the exact same script but with different characters (go on a mission, white clads appear, fight, climax about destroying the whole area, plot armour saves the day) and not a huge amount of ... development in the story in general. Also, the arcs didn’t feel like they related to one another that well probably mainly because the transitions were done pretty badly.

Just generally, in my opinion the pacing for this season was worse compared to the first season because some of the arcs felt wayyyy too drawn out (like the sixth pillar, haijima and Chinese peninsula arc). But they were enjoyable for some of the fight scenes and comedy.
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Characters: 6/10
This time we got a couple fun new characters (excluding Maki’s brother, he was pretty annoying) and we got some development on some of the old characters which was nice (especially on Joker, his story was really well done). However, I have to point out the elephant in the room which is Tamaki. Her character feels more like wasted potential to me because all she does is exist for fan service. Yes, we did finally get her backstory but them somehow trying to make the whole lucky lecher thing into a tragic past thing was very awkward and because of that I couldn't take it seriously at all. I mean at least she did get *some* development that’d hopefully help out in the next season.

Art and animation: 10/10
Absolutely stunning as usual. The visuals are to die for, easily one of the best in current running shonen and the fights are amazing. David’s production did really great work on this.

Sound: 9.5/10
The sound effects are really great also, maybe on the same level as the visuals. Only downside is I’d say I didn’t really like any of the openings or endings this season that much compared to the first.

Overall: 6.6/10
It was really enjoyable for the most part but the plot, Tamaki and pacing issues make it very hard to give it a stronger score.