I went into this season with fairly low expectations because everyone says that this season of TPN is terrible. and after watching it I can say that it's the most mediocre show I have ever watched. I do not like that they strayed away from the manga. It just feels that this season was super rushed, there are some questions unanswered, and sometimes the animation doesn't look as good as it should. I do feel that the people that say this season is terrible are overexaggerating the heck out of it but I can understand. it is such a step down from the first season. they throw strategies out of the window and just rely on plot convenience. when there is a problem that they are facing, it just gets solved in the same episode. for one example, norman was gonna die because they performed too many experiments on him but 5 minutes later they find a cure for his disease. it just feels like they don't understand tension at all. and it's a real shame because it could've been better than the first season. the pacing is extremely fast. another thing I found annoying about this season is whenever a side character has an objection to Emma's plan, Emma says one line and suddenly everyone's on her side. I don't like how the kids are about to die multiple times but someone just at the right time comes to save them like Sonju and mujika and later on norman and his squad in fact let's talk about the new norman in this season. wow, they just ruined my boy norman like that. how did he suddenly turn evil and started a genocide then 5 minutes later realized that what he is doing is wrong. I don't like the new characters at all, like barbara, for example, she is angry, furious, she can kill anything, but 5 minutes later she sees a kid saying " pls don't kill me'' then she becomes good and decides not to kill. the bald-headed guy who I didn't like in the first place, gets even more annoying when they make us think that he is turning on the group and betraying them, use it as a plot twist, and at the end of an episode to get us to watch next episode and then the first 5 minutes of the next episode it's revealed that he was never the bad guy. like why did u use it as a plot twist to get us to watch the next episode if you're just gonna reveal that it's not true. the plot twist that Isabelle is with the kids is the most stupid thing I have seen in my life, they make us think that she is turning evil right until the end but without any foreshadowing, she just is with the kids now. they just throw strategies out of the freaking window. what happened to sonju now wanting to eat humans, they just ignored that. whenever it is convenient, they just throw previously built development out of the window and twist the person into an entirely new character. Emma got so damn annoying at some points. like they're demons, why do you sympathize with them. the whole reason why the demons were scary in the first place was that we really knew nothing about them, that's what made season 1 so spooky. but the demons are front and center in the second season and it just pisses me off that they made the demons such a vital role. them going to rescue the kids was the most rushed thing I have ever seen in my life, it's just like they ended the season near the episode 9 mark but had to reach till episode 11 so they just added that to the mix. and how did that weird Minerva's brother become the main villain for a second, you just introduced him 2 episodes ago and now he's the main antagonist and we are supposed to be sad when he killed himself? I could go on for days about my problems with it but now I have to talk about some good things about season 2. I actually liked the ending, not a lot of people liked it but I enjoyed it. I thought the first episode with the chase scene was pretty scary. Episodes 8 and 10 are actually really good episodes with 10 being my favorite of season 2. this review is long enough already so I have to stop now.
_I was just disappointed with this. it's not as bad as people say it is but it's nowhere near season one. it relies highly on plot convenience and not on strategies. norman and emmas characters were severely worsened. the animation is good but poor at times like the CGI big demons look soo bad.
I want to read the manga now cause people are saying it's so much better than this. so I will probably do that. sorry if the review is not as good quality as it usually is, I just had to get this out there as quickly as possible._
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