Review of Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya

From the standpoint of someone who watched this just to kill time during the daily commute: Normally any such anime I watch just needs to have decent art/animation and explosions or similar to satisfy me. No character development or great story is expected. The first season fit this criteria, so I would have been fine with more of the same in the second. The art and animation was fine, the fighting was fine, not too much drawn-out downtime nonsense, it should have had all the makings of a nice mediocre subway watch. But read on... Now, anytime I watch shounen stuff I mentally steel myself for the ridiculousconvictions the main characters tend to hold and spew forth at any given opportunity. But when it comes to Yu and his 'family', and their motivations and actions when it comes to 'family', I couldn't handle it. It got so much worse this second season. It's immature of me to be emotionally affected by an anime like this one but I will admit I got a little upset. The sheer stupidity and hypocrisy hit me like a sledgehammer. This is of course far from the only anime that contains this sort of thing but I simply cannot fathom why this IP is so popular given the above. I sure hope nobody thinks that his way of thinking is honorable or admirable. I was able to finish the season only because I held on to the improbable belief that all the main characters would die horribly as divine retribution.

tl;dr It was mediocre, but my personal sensitivity to the extreme nonsense that counts as the main character's reason for existence made it next to unwatchable. I finished it half because I am a glutton for punishment and half because it was just a timekiller on the commute anyway.