Remember everything you liked about Sono Bisque Doll? Well, this season completely squashed it and it became a completely sterile show where everything you see looks even more pointless every time you look at it. This series already adapted everything worthwhile it had to offer back in the first season, and if the reason you were here was because of the fanservice, you will be massively disappointed because after the first episode there's barely any.
You should have noticed in the first season, but Gojo is a plank of wood, he doesn't have any actual personality to him and this season doesn't challenge him in any way. I know, this show is le wholesome chungus so everything and everyone has to affirm and reaffirm the message, but this doesn't have any meaning when they don't seem challenged except in flashbacks. Yes, it doesn't matter what people think about your hobby, what matters is that you enjoy it, I can agree with that message, the problem is that everything in the series bends reality to make characters accept everything everyone does, nobody thinks that Gojo liking Hina dolls is weird, nor that he knows how to knit or knows how to do makeup; actually, the Hina dolls are an afterthought, Gojo's hobby is not relevant to the show at all because it is only focused on making cosplays for Marin. Every single classmate acting like these happy people who can't say anything that isn't encouragement and all they do is be nice to each other, I don't know if the author knows this, but teenagers don't behave this way. But, who am I kidding? Have I ever expected any behavior that makes sense from this series? No, I already thought that was impossible back in the second episode of season 1, but it became even worse this season, like the school festival arc feels like some kind of therapy made for someone who got traumatized because someone complained about their hobbies ONCE when they were kids.
Gojo is a nothing character, Marin is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, and all other character do not matter, and when I say that they do not matter, it's not that they don't do some minor things on-screen like helping on cosplays, but that this season introduces a lot of characters and you won't remember any single one of them, I read the entire manga, and I still don't know or recognize half of these characters. The only character you will probably remember from the new ones is Akira, and that's because there's an arc focused on her, which had some kind of drama because it looked like someone didn't like Marin and couldn't even interact with her, so you'd think that maybe this show will actually have some balls and not glorify Marin again and again? Maybe it'll challenge the views the cast has about something, even if they would end up being proven wrong or accepting that people are different? Well, you'll be wrong, as it was all a misunderstanding and she is just another of Marin's dick suckers. I remember perfectly when this arc was getting published in the manga, and let me tell you, people who only watched the anime had a much better experience, the manga was filled with releasing gaps because the manga turned from bi-weekly to monthly, so, it wasn't just a terrible arc to follow where characters were cosplaying characters who are almost indistinguishable from each other (and since the cosplay was bought, it means that the process of making it was skipped altogether), but the pacing in which it was being released was an absolute pain in the ass, so the revelation at the end was just the icing in the cake that nothing really matters and this series lives in a bubble of a permanently unchanging status quo.
Really, if you want to experience this series to the fullest just watch the first season and leave, everything after that is not really worth watching, CloverWorks pumping out 3 bad shows the same day this season is impressive and the fact this show isn't even the worst one of them says everything. And I just want to say that I love Juju-sama, she is my favorite character from this show and she made me smile every time she appeared.
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