KamiErabi GOD.app Season 2 · review
Spiritually another one of Yoko Taro's EoS'd mobages. Starting from the finale, the last two episodes are all it had to be. If you finished the first season and will jump into the second, you could just not waste your time, lost as you may feel by doing that. By rewriting it properly, about three episodes would be needed to conclude the first season, if this was the goal it was heading to, but for some reason they did 12 more without any content do so. It's easy to imagine how the script was written as if it were either a VN or the VN segment ofa mobage, as there's no visual direction. The characters have no movement, the angles and visuals are always still (sometimes literally a slideshow), and they just keep talking and talking exposition. The first season may not have been the best show ever, but it clearly had much more of a vision, as in, the world was alive and so were its characters. Considering the metastory that takes place here, I can't even tell if it wasn't a cry for help from a writer that needs to write a second season after accidentally finding closure on the first one.
If I had to say something good about it, it made me realize how Goro and Sawa carried the first season. Not having them in the cast across so many episodes was a slog, a bore and a torture. Nothing interesting happens, nothing interesting is said. It's also kind of funny to see when the writing took an unexpected turn mid-production, because plot-relevant characters will use generic faceless colorless 3D models used for mobs, or show up as 2D sprites that change like you're on Powerpoint. They didn't plan for the character to be there, so they didn't have a model ready and had to improvise.
I wouldn't recommend this show to anyone, especially to people who liked the first season, because it'll really ruin what was a good experience, flawed as it might have been.