The first season is an anime of my teen years, one of the first I've ever watched and I love it so much after all those years. After rewatching it recently, I discovered there was a second season! Throughout the first half of that season I was very excited to learn about the story, the arc with the disease is so interesting and captivating, but after that it kind of... stops feeling like Saiunkoku at times? Characters and plot points start to appeare out of nowhere and the context often doesn't elaborate much about them, it feels a bit off. From what I know the light novelshave much more content and the anime hasn't covered all of it, plus we didn't get another season - I guess there must be some reason behind that and behind second season feeling a bit weird aometimes.

Either way this is an amazing series and I really recommend watching it in its entirety!