The season’s brisk pacing and Ban’s scenes in episodes 5, 8, 10 and 13 supplied brief fun, but ugly character designs, mediocre fight animation, grating male voices, a forgettable score, and a parade of predictable, hole-ridden plot turns made the watch a chore. It earns a 5/10—below even the fir...

The story was merely okay and the characters stayed true to their season-one selves, but the heavy-handed symbolism—Commandments serving a demon king while the heroes are the Seven Deadly Sins—felt disturbingly inverted and wrong. Pushing through to the end brought no satisfaction, and in hindsig...

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The second season is good—just like the first—and a hundred times better than the completely pointless Signs of Holy War. It has interesting battles, a solid storyline, and new enemies to keep things engaging. That said, it definitely doesn’t reach a 10 out of 10. What’s missing? I’m not entirely...