Well first off let me start by saying that this anime skipped a bunch of scenes from the manga, which really ended up ruining most of the amazing potential this anime had, but for the sake of the review, I will ignore the manga (Which was amazing), and judge this as an anime only product.
With this in mind, I still consider this season to be pretty mediocre, if not a bit bad as a whole. Anyhow, this review will be entirely spoiler free, so let's begin.
This story continues just where season 1 left off, but for some unknown reason they decided that the best course of action was to use a bunch of time skips, I will pretend that I don't know what has occurred in the manga, and with that in mind, due to a lot of arcs being skipped, some stuff in this anime make no sense what so ever, and you are frequently left thinking: "Why did this happen?" and "This makes no sense!"
Some other things outright contradict that which was shown in season 1, and we have no explanation on why these things occurred. Overall, a lot of scenes feel too rushed.
Okay so, with this category I will be considering art to mean both "Aesthetics" (How the show looks) as well as "Animation", since that for me also effects the art of the anime.
So in regards to Aesthetics, a good number of scenes look visually appealing, so I have no complaints in that regard. However, there were no eye-dropping scenes, or moments where I felt like I wanted to paused the episode and just admire the artstyle.
On the other hand, a few scenes were made pretty badly in the show, where you only see the characters with a pitch black background.
Now in regards to animation... This might sound weird, but this season is barely animated... What I mean by this is that most scenes have characters just standing still, with only their mouth being animated when they talk. Furthermore, the camera angle frequently shifts away from the person talking, so most of the time all you see is a still image. There is also a couple of moments where we hear a sound effect or noise, and then the camera shows the effects of those noises, but doesn't actually show an animated character creating those noises.
There wasn't a single soundtrack that caught my attention, and with that in mind, I really can't give sound a score that's higher than 5.
We still have the same characters that we loves from season 1, together with a couple of new characters. The main issue is that a good number of characters became way less interesting, and many of them don't feel like the same characters from back in season 1.
Ray in particular for some reason rarely uses his brain this season, and just seems to do what everyone else is doing. While the rest of the children are completely emotionless, and just have the exact same emotion that Emma has, and do what she tells them to do.
Emma is pretty much the same Emma we know and love, but for some unknown reason they made her a bit dumber than in season 1, and for some reason she believes that "Love and Friendship" is the solution to absolutely everything...
My Enjoyment might be lower than most others because I read the manga, so having an anime that skipped so much might have made me feel frustrated and bored watching this, but for the sake of considering how you anime-onlys feel, I will increase the score from 3 to 4.
Overall, there is a lot of repetition in dialogue, and with the characters acting blander than usual, mediocre music and poor animation, the scenes in this anime often bore me.
TL:DR: The anime had a lot of potential but decided to skip a lot of things, and rush other things, most scenes feel poorly made and uninteresting.
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