Review of The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2

Not what I'd say waiting five years should've been but still glad it wasn't dropped. Since the first season of ancient magus bride I liked it alot, from the world building of the setting, which was mostly English country side to the city, The art style and animations were good and the characters like Elias, Ruth and Silky and even the music was great. But the second season underperformed for me, when comparing it to the first season with taking into account the first season was 24 episodes. What I found underperformed was mostly the lack of adventure, as for the most part Chise and Elias wereconfined to the school which in turn also made it into a school slice of life with more characters who were introduced who had no qualities to make me care about them other than their appearances ontop of some of their back stories being generic and not moving enough in terms of mages in that world.
The lack of time Chise and Elias spent together also made for the anime to become boring and was something I missed which was in alot of the 1st season.

In terms of art style and music it was ok, nothing of note but if anything lacked music which alot of nice instrumental music was used in the 1st season. while the setting of this season also brought it down alot in terms of potential for a decent plot.

While I have pointed out alot of negatives this season had the story did progress a bit, but not as much as I'd like. So if you're going into this with the bar set as high as the 1st season, do temper your expectations and hopefully the 3rd season learns from their mistakes made in this season and doesn't take another 5 years to get it done.