Review of Full-Time Magister 2nd Season

This is a second season of a show that I thought was average in its first season. In the second season, I honestly think it did worse than the first season. First of all let me start with the art and sound of the show. The whole of the season feels very mismatched. The main characters are drawn well, but everything around them seems lacking and low quality. The monsters are designed well, but a herd of monsters is basically a copy of one monsters (which always cracks me up and takes the tension away from a scene). The sound is also very generic; italmost feels like using copyright free open source sounds. It also sounds kind of outdated for a show in 2017.

Now I will talk about the characters and the story so please keep in mind THERE WILL BE SPOILERS AHEAD.

In my review of the first season, I said that I look forward to seeing how the main character will grow and improve. Well, I was very disappointed to see virtually no character development during this season, not only for the main character but no character had any sort of growth. The season flips the tone of the story upside down from what seemed like a comedic superhero theme into a survival theme in the second season, yet even though the characters are mages they are scared of facing monsters, even after encountering them several times. You'd think that would be enough to realize its a life or death situation, but it literally takes the death of several of their friends for them to even have that simple realization (even though the street is littered with corpses). The characters are very slow in fighting back, they show no improvement or reflection, and are virtually useless without the main character, including the teacher. The main character keeps upgrading his powers, yet his main flaw (imo), his character, shows no growth whatsoever. The story also feels kind of imbalanced by the fact that side characters would die with no good reason, while the main characters (Xiaohou, Fan Mo, and Xinxia for example) are protected by a literal plot armor. After all of that, the season comes to a very abrupt end (much like the first season) which shows no reconciliation whatsoever.

To conclude, even though this show is shorter than a normal anime, I still got genuinely bored during quite a few episodes of the show. If you don't have the time, then I would not recommend. If you do, then at least know that even though the execution was very flimsy, the idea behind the story is actually very interesting.