Review of Shakugan no Shana: Season II

Love Triangles / Rectangles + Flashy but Predictable Fight scenes = Shakugan no Shana II Maybe it has been too long since I watched the first season but when did this series become so long-winded, predictable and love drenched. Another Honest Review Animation This is definitely where this series has always shone. When it comes to action scenes this series can deliver some beautiful colours and some memorable attacks. Unfortunately they use cute-ish type character designs which often makes it hard to take some battles seriously, yes blood is included but its always left to the most brutal attacks which is often few and far between. Still animation ona whole is impressive for a cute-ish style.

Sound

Sound is pretty good no bad points here. Opening & Ending credits have decent songs not much to say really.

Story

One thing you will find consistent with all the reviews so far regarding this anime is the story has the lowest rating of all, why..because instead of bringing the story together and adding more pieces for understanding we get the exact opposite, MORE questions MORE lovey-duvey love rectangles and the icing on the cake NO resolution to any of these what-so-ever!

The First quarter of this anime was like a totally different love shojo anime.
The second quarter threw in some new twists/questions/random battles
The third quarter was a mixture of the first and second
The Last was a pointless built up bad guy which seemed like filler for Shana 3?

Finally you have what seems like a rushed and unresolved ending…seesh!

Character

Characters are somewhat interesting and do have potential. I liked the fact that you found out more about some of the other characters in this series which gave them more depth.
I felt that most of the characters got more development and gained a little smudge of depth but a lot of it was tied up with love problems and figuring out their feelings for each other which made this series go off-balance genre wise.

Enjoyment

Enjoyment…..honestly……..very little

Value

If you enjoyed the flashy fighting scenes that made shana lovable the first time around you will get more of the same but i personally feel that this second series was a big drag-on with an extra added layer of love shojo theme which brought the potential shana had down quite a few notches, I mean there was many times I hit the fast-forward button just to see if my predictions of how things would turn out where true and on a episode by episode basis i was unpleasantly NOT surprised.

Planet Tyro Rating: Low Watchable

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