Season two is a massive step-down in quality from the first, mainly due to Lucasfilm mandating the studios animate their characters to be dubbed in English and the scripts are approved this time individually by Disney, rather than the Japanese tournament free reign like the last outing. If you're going to bother with the second batch of episodes, only watch Episode 1 (The Sith), Episode 2 (Screecher's Reach), and Episode 5 (Journey to the Dark Head). Everything else would be a waste of your time.
Masterpiece. Anime of the season. Dark-skinned gothic maid is an automatic must watch.
If only I knew they censored the show before going into it, I wouldn't have bothered with this adaptation. Now it makes a lot of sense why every episode had the same structure, really moseyed around with nonsense plot, lots of narration, and just a nonstop farming simulator story that went nowhere until the last two episodes where the writers couldn't skirt around the bush anymore. Turns out the MC the whole time was having sex with every female in the farm all this time, and that's why Rurushi ends up pregnant. Actually, they're all supposed to, and that was neglected because the studio wanted to take an R16 manga and make it PG-13 or even less. This was really something that could've been watched by little kids, and while it's a harmless show, to learn what it was originally is disappointing. I'd recommend go read the manga or even light novel to get what is going on. The pace is out of whack in hindsight.
I'm glad this show is going to expose more people as to what happened at Chernobyl and why it was one of the greatest fuck ups in human history, making 18+ miles in a circle radius completely uninhabitable. The show does a great job creating shocks and presenting it in a dramatic fashion. Despite one or two things that are fabricated for the sake of showmanship or turning elongated events into concise ones, the show doesn't tarnish anything that happened and paints a very disturbing picture that hopefully illustrates to new audiences why the event was so tragic. This is extremely good work and I hope even more mini series' come out in it's wake.
Also, I liked Superhero Movie, so I was here first.
