I had my fair share of problems with the first season of Nanatsu, but it was somewhat entertaining. I never expected the second season to be a masterpiece, but damn this anime managed to disappoint me nonetheless.
One of the highlights of the first season is the fact that even with very poor writing, the show manages to embrace you on the drama and conflicts of each character. But here this definitively doesn't happen, every time the show tries to go for a more emotional or dramatic approach, every possibility of comotion is obliterated by the fact that the author doesn't know how to write a dialogue or to create an actual conflict. For some reason, almost every character here becomes unbearable. Meliodas is ridiculously edgy and this makes almost impossible to relate to him; King is straight up nonsensical, bro is onto nothing; Elizabeth is still annoying; and some others characters like Ban and Gilthunder straight up don't make any sense.
This new gimmick of power level added to show might be the worst idea a writer ever had. Like, who the hell thought that was a good idea? It makes the power of characters look so artificial, like they are in a videogame or something. And since the power leveling of this anime is so cracked, this gimmick just serves to demonstrate how stronger than the other characters Meliodas, Escanor and the Ten Commandments are. And the fact that they never talked about this on the first season and now every episode I have to watch that fucking pig saying the power level of every single individual for no reason at all pisses me off.
But for me, the worst thing here is how they went deeper into the grooming hints. I do not care that Elizabeth is actually a ancient goddess, during her current reincarnation, she has the mind and the brain and the body of a average human (besides that she can do magic). And Meliodas not only harasses her a lot of times (yeah, the fact that she is okay with the harassement maybe makes it a little better but is still disgusting) but he alsos went full on the degenerate side and raised her with the intention of, in the future, wife her or something. Bro, this is fucked up! On the first season we had the King and Diane situation where King arguably groomed her too. But in that I don't see much problem since it's such a innoccent relationship and the concept of age for giants and fairies can be quite different than ours (I don't like this type of argument but in this case it can pass), however, Elizabeth is a HUMAN, and her relationship with Meliodas is not only disturbing but also unacceptable and is the worst thing about this anime.
Well, I can't say that this show is all bad though. Escanor is fucking cool, some of the Commandments are sick too, Ban is charismatic and edgy at the right dose of edginess. But all the entertainment value of this season comes down to Escanor being badass.
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