Review of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 - Episode 0 "Guardian Fitz"

Mushoku Tensei is probably my favourite anime as of right now, and my all time favourite fictional story. I want to keep optimistic, but this episode did fall short on my expectations. I read the LN so I have the context, and even then this episode was a little hard to follow. It wasn't just the drop in animation quality that we were all expecting, because season 1 was just too ridiculous, but the direction this episode took was strange. They gave you just enough cookie crumbs to get an idea of the situation, and that was likely due to the constraints that they had toliterally fill in the time-line of the exact moment where the mana disaster left off to near the time-line Season 1 ended all in one episode. Sylphy's side story wasn't amazing or anything, but it was definitely important for the story moving forward and I felt like we didn't get a proper representation of the characters and the situation they were in is all. Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but I wished they did a 1 hour premiere like some of the other animes, just to properly execute Sylphy's side of the story and then to lead us into Rudeus's situation.