Another anime with a meh second season. It’s not a disaster like the second season of Yakusoku No Neverland and it’s probably going to be difficult to explain what was wrong with this show but this chapter of Senku’s adventures just wasn’t fun. Maybe the length of this arc is to blame. With just 11 episodes dedicated for this part of this story everything was happening at alarming speed and there was no time to show the process of development, to throw in a failure here and there. Whatever Kingdom of Science would take a fancy doing, whether it’s building a tank or imitating a voice over the phone, they were doing it perfectly. Even during the first season, objectively, Senku was way too lucky. He became even luckier this time around. Interestingly, another anime this season had a similar issue — all events there were lining up ideally, all according to keikaku =) But anyway — yah, I could say that there were a couple of bumps in the road which apparently were supposed to build up some intrigue (“ah, she recognized it’s not real Lillian, what are we going to do?!”) but these matters usually were resolved in mere minutes. Don’t forget — we have just 11 episodes, it’s going to be a shame to waste this time on *gasp* devising alternative plans!
To add insult to injury Tsukasa (of course!) was shown as a decent guy. Who would’ve thought. Actually, pretty much everyone he sided with were good guys. The clash of ideologies was not a strong premise but at least it was something. We didn’t even have a chance to see what Tsukasa’s kingdom looked like. No time to explain — we’re about to embark on a brand new awesomazing adventure, gluing together the destroyed statues in spare time. Kingdom of Science banzai!
The anime is not hopeless and all the problems the second chapter has are fixable. I just hope that the third season’s pacing will be a bit slower, that we’ll be able to see that science, though sometimes indistinguishable from magic, is a lot of trial and error, it doesn’t just happen when someone snaps fingers. It also would be nice to finally get some character development too =)
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