Review of Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya
SPOILERS! Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers! Do not go ahead unless you don't care about the plot, which you shouldn't anyway because it's predictable as hell. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And here's the second season of the uninspiring, cliche spewing show of Owari no Seraph. To begin, I don't remember too much of the first season because it was unimpactful, however I do believe that it was at the very least, more enjoyable than this season. Let's start with the OP. Why the hell was that song chosen for this series? It sounds like something for the Toaru no series, not this. Season 1 had a phenomenal OP and ED. However, this season'sOP is absolutely terrible both song-wise and its sequence. The sequence is basically just a bunch of people making poses for the camera... that's it. Now the ED is better than the OP, but still nothing like season 1's ED which had a great song as well as a breathtaking and even mind provoking sequence (if you really want to think that hard). This season's ED just looks like something for a drama/romance series. It has very little relevance to the theme of the show.
Now the story for the second season is basically summarised in the title, "Battle in Nagoya". But before we get to that part there's a few episodes expanding on the situation and what not.
So firstly we're introduced to some kind of political infighting/stand off which results in Kimizuki and Yoichi getting tortured. But... they don't seem to mind (the entire party) because it seems to be something that should just occur naturally (wut). Kimizuki has a very good reason for accepting it (sister), but everyone else seems to accept it without too much issue. And I'll also mention that this event has no impact later whatsoever (or rather thus far).
The second event was 'demonic manifestation'. And how they overcome it, is basically the same as when they first got their weapons, just cos'. Demon makes illusion. User realises it's an illusion because the damn illusion itself is so unrealistic and out of whack within the story itself that even a five year old could probably distinguish it. And demon is overcomed... wow, such struggle...
For the main plot line it's basically just a bunch of fights with trash mobs (unimportant characters) dying off, probably to show 'maturity' (lol). And as for the fights themselves, they're very dull, boring and slow, making it feel worse than season 1. To describe it I will simply put it into three cases. The first is the faceless or generic faced vampires who basically get killed by a single offhanded practice swing, the second is the 'boss' fight which takes a little longer and results in either humans or vampires dying (depending which side's main character is present), and the last is background fighting where trash mobs swing at each other indefinitely or one of them gets on RNGesus's bad side and dies.
As for the conversations here's how it mainly goes between Yu and anyone else he talks to, basically:
Other person makes a realistic statement/evaluation about current situation which would be an logical remark at the time.
Yu complains and pulls out one of three responses:
1. Nakama (friends)
2. Kazoku (family)
3. Revenge against vampires
Afterwards the other person will look at Yu with shock and awe and realise how silly their original realistic remark was and immediately agree with Yu and forget that they even had an original thought in the first place.
So overall, if you liked season 1 would you like season 2? Maybe, but it does feel worse. If you didn't like season 1 would you like season 2? Definitely not, and you should probably go watch something else, like One Punch Man.