The main theme of Amanchu is a mix of slice of life and scuba diving. It started off with Teko trying to discover the fun in scuba diving and adapt into new surrounding with new people. And the announce of Season 2 definitely a good addition of the sol series. However, when the time arrives, a lot of fans who first encounter this author's work is questioning the inconsistency of the show's theme, and I am one of them.
By the end of S2, Teko has gotten her Advance License (I presumed) and which is why the anime is titled Amanchu! Advance. However, to fill in the time gap, either Teko receives more training or explore marine life with the rest of the club.
This is not the only problem I am facing, the switch between themes is one of the major flaw in Amanchu! Advance, first few episodes are within the topic of scuba diving but the next thing, we witness magic in a dream or dream from magic and it prolongs for more than necessary. While it is different from the usual slice of life series where cute (or not) girls doing cute things in different places, the sudden change in plot doesn't sound too great for me who is looking forward to see more chibi faces from Teko, Pikari and other club members, even our mascot characters are getting lesser screentime.
However, they make it up with good sound, animation and emotion, regardless diving or not. Thus, if I watch it in a episodic way, Amanchu! Advance isn't that bad as I first thought.
So, there are people who likes Amanchu! Advance and there are also people who thinks that season 2 is good enough to wrap up the series. I am more of the previous but I agrees that if they are going to hail from diving content to more fantasy episode, prompt us beforehand so that we can decide to watch or to stop.
Lastly, I prefer S1 opening than S2.
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I can't save this review because there aren't enough words, thus I shall continue with a semi-ranting by questioning a conclusion which does not give us a complete answer of a certain dream.
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