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Wow, I dived into this anime not really knowing what to expect. It is so dark, deep, moving, and offers insightful critiques on society and morality. It challenges you to question what is right, what is wrong, and what the future of technology can hold.

Story: It was a little difficult to get into at first because the story revolved around little kids living in a dystopian society. But the anime actually tells the story of their lives from childhood to adulthood. It does it so beautifully. It takes some time to get into and sometimes some episodes are hard to wrap your mind around. ... But with patience, you will feel that this was a masterpiece as a whole. At the end everything fits together. I usually go for animes with tons of OP fight scenes and powers so I was taken aback by how intriguing this plot was. There are moments of excitement where you just binge watch until 2 am, moments where you are like what in the world is going on, and moments where you will probably shamelessly cry.

Character: For a 25 episode anime I think the character development is so good. Most times when there are too many characters everyone's story is kind of mushed together and you just forget it. Not in this anime. Each character is unique and plays a pivotal role in the plot of the anime. Every character gets the right amount of screen time to really understand them. That's what makes this so moving.

Art/Sound: Art is pretty standard for an anime. What i think is absolutely great is the sound. Wow the music is just so suiting. After finishing the series and looking back, the tone of musical choice is very suitable to the underlying message of the anime.

Overall: Just a really great work. I would not say its my favorite anime but I just love how it pulled on my heart strings without trying too hard, how it remained confusing but not for too long, how it had just the right amount of tender and exciting moments...Well done. Well done.

This season was such a huge disappoint. I would not recommend this anime to anyone. I kept waiting for it to get good, but that just did not happen. This season was like a prime rib...without any of the seasoning: fell way below my expectations. I am throughly sad I wasted my time on this piece of trash.

Story: This plot was so flawed I'm not even sure where to start. I have not read the manga so this is me speaking from watching the series only perspective. After every episode I wanted an analysis for what happened. None of it made much sense. The ... main plot was not even developed. It just kept skipping around to characters and as a whole was just not cohesive. I found myself constantly waiting for explanations or for it to all make sense, but the series severely failed at delivering. I realized halfway through that this plot was just full of holes and the anime tried way too hard on making emotional character connections.

Character: This brings me to my second point of flaw in season 2. None of the characters were well developed. At scenes where it is supposed to be emotional and gut wrenching for the viewers, I found myself feeling "meh". Part of this is because the series is so short...but part of is due to bad planning. I was unable to understand any of the characters, much less connect.

Sound/Art: Sound and Art stayed consistent with season 1, so nothing to complain there. Although the opening theme was no where as great as season 1s.

Enjoyment: BORING. There were spurs of exciting moments but a lot of the "gore" was cut out. However the spurs of exciting moments made no sense again. The way that events occurred made it seem like the anime just needed to throw in exciting moments so captivate the viewers. Yet, the exciting moments also fell short. Kaneki is supposed to be super awesome butt kicking machine but we probably got like 5 mins of action throughout the whole series. The season finale is supposed to be a good closer but 2 mins were wasted on a part that could have been shortened to 5 secs. I get the idea of building up drama, but it was so unnecessary consider 2mins/20 mins is 1/10 of the anime.

Overall: Poor planning is all I have to say. Events, characters.....everything was like a train wreck...as if 10 different writers came together and wrote a season and then it was collaged together. That is the best way to summarize season 2. An absolute mess. Please just stick to season 1 or read the anime. Season 2 will leave you craving for an anime that is incapable of delivering. Fingers crossed that in the future another director will take over and give the anime a needed reboot of way longer episodes.