Nov 4, 2018
A small introduction:
First I want to note that for the first time I watched both seasons of the series about 8 years ago. Recently, I remembered this franchise and now began to play the original game, at the same time I decided to re-watch both seasons. With the first season, neither then nor now questions arose, but the second season I did not like back then. Like most other viewers, it seemed weak and incomprehensible to me. But after I cleared the game for several characters, I completely changed my opinion about him.
Story:
- The episodes are not related to each other and they’re complete mini-stories.
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Unlike similar series and especially the first season, the characters here are not represented in any way and just appear. Therefore, for viewers who have not cleared the game, it will be difficult to keep track of what is happening and understand some of the jokes based on the events in the game.
- Most of the episodes are interesting and only a small part turned out to be different. But frankly boring stories were not noticed.
- There is not so much ecchi. For me, numbers of scenes are same as in the game. The moment with the transformation of Mizuki, of course, gets out of this.
- In the last series it was stated “to be continued ...?”, But so far, as you can see, there’s no new season or something. It should be noted that each edition / re-edition of the game were coming out together with the release of the seasons of the series and OVA. If another re-edition happens, then maybe new season will come out.
Art:
- Characters’ design has changed in relation to the first season, but it has become closer to the original design of the game, which I certainly pleases.
- I would rate the overall quality as good (7 out of 10). Opening and ending are drawn independently of the main series and their drawing quality is noticeably better. The graphics in the main series is changing. The first 4 episodes that were OVA are well drawn and there are no complaints about them. In the rest - part of the scenes were drawn extremely awful, but there are not many of them to spoil the overall impression.
Sound:
- I watched with Japanese voice acting and therefore I will say about it. With the exception of Mizuki and girls-cosplayers, the rest of voice actors remained the same as in the first season and game. To the main character there are no questions for actors - I liked them! But I did not remember voices of the episodic characters.
- The musical compositions are not particularly memorable, except for those that were in the game. This season they took a few songs from there.
- I like opening theme more than ending. By themselves, they are not bad, but they cannot be called outstanding.
Characters:
- Since one of the genres of the game was a love simulator, each of the characters has its own unique character, style of speech, etc. But characters’ histories are not described here, as I wrote above.
- There were several "over-acting" moments of Taishi, as it seemed to me, even by his standards. In general, the other characters behave as prescribed in the game and with some changes from the first season. So they are good.
- The most memorable character from the first viewing and still remains is Kuhonbutsu Taishi.
Overall impression:
- I consider that the main problem of the second season is focusing only on game fans or just on players who have gone through it at least once or twice. Since this season is not a continuation of the first and is associated only with the game. It is not clear why they decided to do so. There are no intro episodes where at least they could represent all the local characters. Of course the number of episodes would change, but the season would have liked by a greater number of viewers. I think that there was no such problem in Japan, since there only certain people looked at it there. Only the series and manga were released outside of Japan, and the game, which links everything, remained available only in Japanese.
- Therefore, the season should definitely please those viewers who are familiar with the game. For the rest, it will seem less interesting than the first season so they can skip it.
- For me, the second season, after re-watching, even slightly surpassed the first one, thanks to the many references to moments from the game.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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