I adore Chise and Elias, I love the dub and everything about the show. The school direction is an interesting one and didn't fall into the 'trope trap' like I thought it would. However, the pacing of this particular section of this season is questionable. If you can deal with that this is more from the world and people you love. Positives Everything I loved about this show remains, and as I say I think the dub is phenomenal. While it would be interesting to see how outsiders react to Chise and Elias more I greatly enjoyed what we got to see. The supporting cast also reallyhold their weight and stop the show relying on Chise's ability to get herself into trouble in order to close every arc.

Negatives
The pacing in part 2 is horrible. This is really my own complaint, in the last 5-6 episodes, about 4 are basically entire flashbacks. There's no reason these couldn't have been spread out over the season and it ended up being frustrating. I think they were hoping the end plot was a big reveal, but it's pretty obvious and pretty routine for the show. It's unnecessary honestly, the characters are this shows strengths and for the last 6 episodes there's a ton of filler, at least in my opinion.