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Disclosure: I have not read the manga.

After hundreds of episodes and years of watching Bleach, to see the final arc get animated was an exciting moment of nostalgia from my teen years. Sadly the end result has been incredibly disappointing.

The first "new" season was really exciting, no holds barred throw downs, in every episode, bringing back characters and settings that rang all the nostalgia bells, but then the story and character development really started falling off the rails.

In this recent season, ENTIRE EPISODES are just monologuing and grand standing about "You're the bad guy!" and "No you're the bad guy!" , between a ... handful of punches and abilities being shot. The power leveling is insanely frustrating, our main character trained his heart out in some sort of strange torture chamber, but yet EVERYONE else around him is insanely powerful just "because" through no effort of their own.

The cool reveal moments of new powers or learned abilities are completely non existent so far over dozens of episodes...

The second half of Mushoku Tensei Season 2 continues its march towards mediocrity. Absolute filler episode vibes, with the main character not learning anything new about himself, and no dynamics changing in the story line. The world building set up in the first season, with a journey spanning CONTINENTS and diverse cultures has been focused down to a single magic university where fundamentally nothing is learned, and where the main character just visits a library every day to read books of no value.

They appear to be fabricating intense emotional conflicts out of pure air and then designing an episode to diffuse the ... situation, or concocting a story line based off of juvenile tropes that our 50+ year old mental protagonist stumbles through in his arrested development ways.

I can't get the time back from watching these episodes, but I hope you can before it's too late.

Genuinely disappointing second season to what was at least a fun, animation explosion of a first season. The first season didn't win any awards for its pervy protagonist's behavior, but I figured the second season would give our troublesome isekai hero some character development.

WRONG

More of the same idiotic, dick centric, behavior that was had in the first season, but this time around there aren't any cool fight scenes or interesting plot developments. The motivations of our incredibly overpowered main character are purely selfish. He goes about fully ignoring slave markets, inequality, magic disasters, wars, rescuing his own family, political intrigue... all for ... his own selfish carnal pursuits.

Bottom line: You can skip this entire half season and quite literally have not missed anything of value to the overall story of the show. It's a wild waste of resources for an animation studio. It's pure insanity that this half season is rated as highly as it is on MAL.

I enjoyed the light hearted nature of the first season quite a bit. Characters had some slow (and basic) development, but the antics kept thing going at a good pace. The entire story ended in a classic show down, which was completed with an open ended implication that the bad guy "died" but something appeared to have escaped the field of battle just afterwards. Good set up for another season right?

Wrong. This season is just four episodes of blurry, low quality filler.

The character's behaviors have been changed to fit into the stupid side story, and everything just seems ... to be put together for no rhyme or reason. A jealous love triangle of side characters seems to make up the majority of the season, with silly events occurring that forces as much unnecessary character interaction as possible .

It felt like I was watching a strange imitation of the original story.

How is this not in the top ten list? And I'm not a fanboy (well maybe just a little because it's THAT GOOD), this was just an amazing series that deserves some recognition. Seriously Eureka Seven is #101 while Gurren Lagann is #1?!?! That's just nauseating...

AMAZING animation, great characters, epic story line, unique development... also doesn't ever do anything really stupid like a lot of animes toward the end of the series...

Conclusion: You owe yourself some time, to just sit back and watch some Eureka. You don't know me, but trust me, you won't regret it.

Given a calm, stable mind (one not overwrought with the hyper adrenaline provided by Gurren Lagann battles) I honestly don't understand how you can rate this anime any higher than a 7. I watched the whole series, and yes it had me watching episode after episode (finished in three days), but really? People are saying it is the BEST anime out there?

The honest truth is that Gurren Lagann is purely of high entertainment value, but that is about it. Under closer scrutiny the series just plays to our most basic emotions which makes you THINK it is the most amazing anime ... ever, while in reality it just has lots of fights, lots of heartbreak, and lots of love... three things that humans really just respond well to, and find very entertaning, but this doesn't make it a work of art people...


*spoiler*
I will give Gurren Laggan credit for having a really cool time period jump at the end of the series, which had me going "Whoa, that's a really great move by the director/production team." Oh and Boota was amazing, my personal favorite character...