Mar 18, 2021
Imagine wanting to get the adaptation of one of the top manga series out of the away so fast you create this abomination of a sequel.
The whole "original route" ended up being exactly what ep4 already looks like - a mediocre patchwork of randomly selected content from 14(!) manga volumes and new OOC gibberish that lazily tries to make everything coherent. Only it fails spectacularly, so the story makes little to no sense, has zero intrigue and tension, and doesn't incite any genuine emotions at all.
Whether the final episode is an original ending or not doesn't even matter - the 'new' route didn't lay any
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groundwork for anything remotely satisfying anyway. They could've made this possible ending change *after* adapting the entire gripping story just as well.. but no, some higher-ups really thought a successful shounen will sell much worse than some average light novel adaptation - and needed to wrap this up asap.
I still wonder who even won anything from all this extremely rushed mess. It's painfully obvious that TPN S2 was a scrapped project from the very start. But if this is a budget problem (which it sure appears to be), CloverWorks could've delayed it again, resold the rights to another studio, made 11 eps to cover up to the end of the 3rd arc and then chosen to wait and see... They could've done literally anything else apart from butchering a story that definitely deserved to be told.
It's damn sad to admit, but I do feel like the S2 we've got would've been better off not being made at all.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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