Review of Symphogear G

The most notable points about this second installment to Symphogear is it was significantly more consistent than the first season in animation quality, we get three more Symphogear users, and there is shift towards having more fighting and less school/slice of life moments (which is either good or bad depending on your preference). In regards to the animation there is a noticeable difference that is almost like a generational gap where the style of anime changed from like pre 2010s to mid late 2010s (despite it being one year apart from the first season). Also whereas season 1 had some very iffy looking action season towardsthe middle of the season (I specifically remember some scenes where Chris's guns looked quite silly) the lows in animation this season are much better, and there are more highs in animation be frequency, although season 1's best scenes are about equal to me.

As far as new characters Kirika and Shirabe are pretty cool designs, Kirika behing a scythe character reminding me of Ruby from RWBY or Rory Mercury from Gate, although it's interesting that her color scheme is green and black given that most scythe characters seem to be black or red themed. Shirabe has like giant saw blades attached to her head and skates around with roller blade like things on her shoes. Maria is like a new diva idol character and does a collab with Tsubasa in the first episode, she has cool black cape that can block projectiles, I like her design the least of the new characters but it's still solid.

This season had maybe 1 episode that focused on activities at the school where there was a karaoke competition but other than that it was purely action focused, with a convoluted plot of a secret program keeping vessels for Fine to be reincarnated into, and a crazy annoying dr villain, and basically just finding excuses to have different symphogear users to fight each other. I actually missed some of the slice of life because I thought Miku and Hibiki had a really good dynamic in the first season with lots of scenes of them talking in their dorm (it's still in this season but in more dramatic scenarios than down time). That said the action scenes where on average much better and having more symphogear users fighting each other was great. Also because there were more symphogear users there were a lot more insert songs, and I liked all of the insert songs alot (particularly Chris's and Hibiki's).

Overall at it's core this season continues with the general formula of great high tempo music, cool action and special attacks, and cute girls that the first season had, with slightly more action and a little less slice of life.