Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest 2nd Season

ThatAnimeSnob Apr 6, 2022

3

The first season of Arifureta was outright bad, but it also had transcended to the realm of “so bad it’s good” territory. Just like movies like The Room, it was very enjoyable to see it as schlock that unironically tries to take itself seriously and fails at every step. The second season no longer has that appeal simply because it’s not so bad anymore. It’s actually better and that makes it worse. You might be a bit confused here, so let me explain. The horrible script and animation have improved in the second season and now they are just bad. The edgy revengeporn is gone and so is the harem building aspect. Basically, the show lost everything that made it bad and turned into a generic isekai about an overpowered bland mc and his harem fighting the demon lord and his generals. If you noticed, we humans tend to remember the very good and the very bad, while at the same time forgetting anything that is mediocre and forgettable. The second season falls in the latter kind.Even if you see past that issue, the second season also falls victim of the development phase of any story. The first season is usually the introduction to all the main characters, while the second has the task to develop them in some sort of fashion. There is hardly much of that going on. It mostly introduced the main antagonists, the demon lord generals and the evil apostles and there were fights where even the overpowered mc had to struggle more than usual. That aside, nothing much changed and I doubt most would give a damn about seeing any of the stock characters that comprise this run of the mill set up getting some sort of character development. Whatever fun you could find in the first season was just seeing the bland mc steamrolling his enemies and gathering a bunch of paper-thin harem archetypes with edgy revenge in mind and horrible CGI fights to accompany them. Now that all that are gone, so is the hook of the whole thing. The plot was never serious, and trying to develop it would leave everyone uninterested.In a nutshell, the second season gets a higher average score than the first, but also an even smaller recommendation from me.

LittleHanna Mar 18, 2022

7.6

Story picks up where season 1 left off on the journey to get the magic items needed for the plot to go forward . Fair amount of development but slower than season 1. Animation quality has improved by at least 10-25%, approx so if you remember cgi dragon tio from season 1 , imagine that but redered at 125% this time. This season does show a bit more of the class that got isekai'd with us if you guys remember.far too many to remember so don't even. Storys taking it's time so i guess that's good build up for what's about to happen.[tryin my best not to spoil] This is one of the Isekai class anime that i would suggest to someone since it falls close to Gate than say the generic shield guy one.As a fellow earthian i approve our Japanese tarus enjoyer who instead of beatin the same " mc spew magic mumbo jumbo and becomes a super sayan magicial in 69420 years" bush is actually competent and uses standard earthian tech like humdrumvees with Avengers and some iteration of the mk 47. I'd suggest waiting till all episodes have aired as it's more of a binge type show and nothing you wanna wait weeks for

hakimhashira Mar 31, 2022

7

this season really doesnt make sense like the bunny girl kinda annoying but still I love the end of the s2. cant wait for s3