Review of Nanbaka Season 2
Warning possible Spoilers You know it's been a while since I have encountered a second season that was worse than the first and sadly it had to be this anime. The story continues with our lovable Nanba inmates who are still causing trouble for the guards, but in the shadows a new threat has awoken. Now I liked the first season, but what the hell happened to the story in this season it started off well with the usual comedic first few episodes, then it gets back into the dark thriller quick quickly then everything suddenly starts to drag a lot I mean there were a few coolmoments inbetween, but why did the story have to focus so much on the prisoners trying to help free the guards after a coup happened in building 5 like seriously in episode 4 the inmates with Hajime go to building 5 and get caught in a trap and from that point on it just drags on very heavily and decides to focus on every big fight that happened for like 3 episodes each it got very tiresome and then there was the godawful cliffhanger that the series didn't deserve and it just made this second season almost pointless because everything that happened in season 1 with Juugo and the revelation with elf and the man with the scar doesn't even get any attention which really annoyed and made me feel like this season was filler so that everything can be resolved in season 3 which it probably won't.
The characters remained as lovable as ever, but for some reason this season decided hey lets split everyone up and take characters out of the person or hide them from the viewers eye for loads of episodes, the first season had a very well done mixture of character screentime and gave each of the cell 13 inmates a decent amount of concentration whereas in this season they take Rock out by episode 4 and split the others up except Juugo and Uno who travelled with the Pretty boy duo Trois and Honey who got way too much screentime, although they did do some badass stuff not gonna lie there, true they do try to give more backstory on other's like Liang, Upa and Qi, but it just didn't work for me and felt like it was really stealing screentime for other characters who could've had attention.
At least the villains were actually pretty interesting or annoying take your pick, but they definitely pack a punch no doubt about that, but funny how the main villain Enki only gets like what less than 5 minutes of screentime throughout the whole series now you know you've messed up there.
The artstyle remained sparkly and colourful then at some point in the show they decide to take out the sparkles and colour and just give us dark gloomy hallways for 8 straight episodes which got boring as hell, plus why the hell did some many drag queens show up seriously there were so many colourful characters in one scene that my brain was turning into a rainbow.
The action though was pretty damn cool some of the inmates like Trois and Honey were able to show off their own moves and the same could be said for Liang and Upa who also put up a decent fight against hachiman, I also have to give Nico some credit for when he went insane because there's one certain is that always make sure Nico gets his medicine, but yeah there were actually some cool fight scenes however it was annoying how it took until episode 11 just for Juugo to use his Sword Arms again.
The comedy started off strong in the first few episodes, but the further the show went on the more the jokes just fell flat for me and it really sucked because the comedy was pretty damn good in the first season and made me think again as to what the hell happened here.
Overall this second season was pretty dull and disappointing mostly, it does start off strong which is why I gave it a 6, but that strength just disappears more and more the further I went, the only reason you should watch this is if you watched the first season other than that I wouldn't bother.