Review of The Eminence in Shadow Season 2

Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute returned with its long-awaited second season, based on a cliffhanger from the first season that showed that the war between Shadow Garden and the Cult of Diablos would begin, in addition to all the apprehension involving vampires. finally in its most intense section, despite this being the most tense part of these 12 episodes, we have relevant events before this occurs with a lot of depth, explanation and exciting fights. Kage is initiated in the hook of the city of Lawless City, Red Light Districts, a poor community or better said, the place is a very poor outskirts, without any externalassistance, a true chaos, due to the existence of large-scale poverty and the Organized crime has taken over the region, of which 3 stand out, including the vampire sect, whose objective is to bring the vampire queen back to life, but in addition to this group, there are 2 others who are also magical and mystical. Continuing, Cid Kagenou or Shadow is taken in collusion with his sister to this location.

Cid reasons and understands that if he really wants to support himself financially he will have a mission: to earn money in suspicious and at least dubious ways.

The next arc is to mischaracterize and modulate currencies or capital to prevent the growth of the Cult of Devils in the economy, as they ended up becoming big enough to compete with Shadow Garden's associated companies, I won't add it to avoid spoilers.

In the middle of all this, we have an episode focused on the rest of those commanded by Shadow, which I see as diverting the focus, unnecessary and useless to the plot, but even so, it was important to give more screen time to Beta, Epsilon, Delta and Alpha , a right point, because many of them did not receive the depth and prominence they deserved this season, ending up diminishing the importance of these characters, causing Shadow's associates to be neglected, one could say that, given the notoriety of all of them, a fact that contradicts little screen time.

After this part we enter a more extensive part, with the final climax and a hook for the film, this being the vampire arc, where we have a constancy and fluidity of dynamic fights, animations and choreographies improved in color, brightness, luminosity and shape. of powers reaching their peak, encompassing improvements in spells, explosions, the design of the characters remains at a stage of stability, without major intranscurrences or possible challenges regarding problems in maintaining equal dexterity.

My specific impressions of the continuation of Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute are based on the fact that the art and animation retained a quality equal to its predecessor, the humor continues to be one of the show's most considerable achievements, a work that makes fun of the isekais, even though he is one, makes satire and uses the factor of the protagonist being cold, calculating, but also obsessed with achieving his goals as a way to guide the story with mastery. The fights lost a little impact, due to having accelerated the original material, and handling reused animations, some characters had more emphasis, while others less, featuring uneven character development, something natural to occur, due to being difficult to understand. to better present the most relevant characters of the Shadow cult, in a matter of 12 episodes, this is something normal and takes time, and cannot be done in a sloppy way, solely because it would compromise the cohesion of the narrative.

Despite the disagreements, it was a good season, which leaves you eager for more and for the film, as it is always good to remember that the time of AWAKENING is approaching.
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