Shadows House 2nd Season - Reviews

Shadows House is one of those animes that really warranty better attention them it receive, first season started slow but it built up momentum and ended on a great spot. 

while season two follow up on the events, due to lack of need to introduce the world second season is far more enjoyable.  taking its time to work upon the main cast and others. If you felt like season 1 lacked char development you'll find it on season 2.

but lets break down stuff a bit.

Animation/sound.

Not outstanding but pretty solid, you might not remember this show for the art but it wont ever disppoint you either. Still character designs are pretty good, with such a big amount of people its easy to forget who everyone is but their unique design make it easy to spot and remeber most of them, and all with details that flash points in their personality as well. Great Op and ED wich follows the mood of th show pretty well and all the V.A cast make a great job. Wich is important on a show mostly focused on charachters and mistery.

Story:

Hard to talk about an ongoing mistery, but season 2 focus mostly on building up on the consequences of season 1 them on the bigger overeaching plot. characters persona and relationships are solidified. Wich sincerely is the greatest part of the show. The mistery is still there, we get a lot more pieces to add to the scene and it still exciting so dont worry if you loved season one for it its just not the main focus of the plot.

characters:

i'll repeat myself but this is the greatest part of the show, season two takes a lot more time to flash out kate's trouope and the star bearers wich makes the house look a lot more alive and the plot more complex, objectives, what drives them. High chances you will change your opnion about a lot of people.

conclusion:

Season one was great, season 2 is perfect. Simply because it chose to do one thing and it did really well. 

Shadow's house is like one of those underrated nobody knows much about kinda shows but are just as good as the next season of AOT one of the best anime's to ever be produced, if not better. The anime itself is almost a reflection of The Promised Neverland of what it could have been as the protagonists are mainly children but what makes Shadows house better is the pacing the overall understanding plot of the story - biased opinion. 

STORY

I stumbled upon Shadows House season one after watching a tik tok just 10 seconds long of the mirroring the shadow and the face and immediatly I was drawn to the anime. It just shows that such a little bit of content from the anime is enough to make people want to watch it. I finnished season one yonks after it was first made as I had discovered it just then and when I found out season two was coming out fairly soon I knew it woldnt be disappointing.

Shadows house continues the plot perfectly from season 1, with mystery , thrill and a tad of comedy and childish romance. Some answers were answered and it was fullfilling to undertsnad their world and how it came to be. But what made it all come together was the character developemt, sometimes I would be bouncing up and down waiting for my favourite characters to come on scene or when the shadows mirrored the faces it was thrilling to watch and it kept me wanting more. 

The fact Shadows House makes you want more is what makes this anime an easy top 10.

SOUND

I dont know about you but I became OBSESSED with the opening Shall We Dance and listened to the song on repeat. It was one of those anime's I wouldnt skip the intro for, the chosen singer and the song for the season was NAILED and immediatly created the atmosphere of uneasines as the song hinted the mystery before the episodes even begun.

OVERALL

dont walk. RUN.

This season was an absolute banger, the mistery keeps being really engaging, the power system is really original and the overall tone of the series is great.

I got hooked every single chapter, all the visuals from art to animation to backgrounds looks really beautiful all the time.

I don't think i've seen a year with so many amazing series as this 2022, at least since i started watching seasonal anime.

Easy 9/10 at least.

worth it, feels like we're finally getting somewhere.

s2 gives us much more intel about the how the shadows house works and how Kate was the only "rebellious" one. the animation was kinda darker this time (i found myself increasing the brightness a few times). There was reduction in Emilico's mellowness, which i was somewhat annoyed with in s1. even louise duo and patricks duo had decent development and screentime.

hope they do put out the whole stuff about how the whole thing started, why and who..

i resonated with the previous music better but this wasnt that bad either.

would very much want a s3, idk how long till it ends but i sure hope it has a plot which actually makes sense.

aaaand, JOHN BEST BOY!<3

edit: why is this so underrated like cmon yall gotta watch it bc it has decent plot- which is rare nowadays.

Since this is the 2nd season ill be brief becuse the only important part is story and characters. so first off this is worth the watch and if you are willing to wait for a 3rd season(at the time hasnt been announced). The animation and sound all do a great job although the music was better last seasons.

But the primary focus is the story and characters. on the short side they both do agreat job fleshing out and progressing the story and the characters had enought time to develop and grow. and at the end of the season there was enough questions, intrigue, and conflict to want another season.  Out of all the shows i started then dropped and still kept up with this was one of the few to actually keep me intersted.

The big caveat is that the show is not over yet and the dreaded forever unfinished curse always seems to hit these kind of shows. that being said give it a shot if you were unsure of the first season and if you dont like the characters still then drop it  otherwise im sure youll enjoy the show, that it for this one thannks for the read and have a good one.