Review of Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya
Despite giving this anime decent scores across the board, I would recommend against watching it. Why? Because simply put, it ends in a cliffhanger and it seems unlikely it will ever be resolved. And even if it were, I don't see how any follow-up season can make up for the ridiculous lack of information in the first 2 seasons. This anime has one major problem, it was present in season 1 and is even more notable in season 2. Namely - it doesn't explain shit. Like seriously, there is no explanations for half the stuff that happens. You're left wondering what's going on, as the show putsin zero effort to tell you why anything is happening. There aren't any hints either.
And it's not like it's some mystery the main characters discover as the story moves forward. No. It's clear that a lot of the characters in the show have a decent idea of what's going on at all times, they just have no intention of sharing it with the viewer.
The most absurd events happen without the characters as much as blinking an eye at them, like it's all common knowledge, even though no line of reasoning could possibly explain what's happening on screen.
Bloody demon gods and angels and world ending events start happening and the characters are like: "oh yeah, this makes sense, that makes sense".
This whole season feels like 50 episodes of story and exposition was crunched into 12 episodes that also needed to feature a ton of action.
Watch this show if you only care about mindless action scenes and some decent character interactions without understanding a damn thing about what's going on in the world.
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Spoiler examples:
The premise of the whole show is simple enough - vampires are real and after a big plague on humanity they took over a notable part of the world etc etc etc.
Already things are going off the rails because origin of vampires is never explained. Everyone just accepts their existence without question. Like "oh yeah, they always existed for sure, right?". Like seriously, at least give us 5 minutes of exposition saying they've been a myth that became real or something. Anything.
Then suddenly, without the show explaining anything, characters are suddenly aware that Demons also exist, and for some reason inhabit weapons that humans wield against the vampires.
No explanation is ever given as to why Demons are a thing and how humans figured them out.
Then there's some sort of magic also. Spells and curses. But again, zero explanation how it all came to be and why people are aware of them. Apparently shit just exists with half the characters treating it all like common knowledge you learn in kindergarten, while the other half has zero clue. Like which is it? Is magic and monsters and demons common knowledge or not?
Like seriously, this show is like Attack on Titan without any character in the show ever asking what Titans are or where they come from or anything like that. Imagine Attack on Titan where the entire show is as it is with literally every exposition scene cut out. Because that's what Seraph of the End is. If actually feels like characters have 10 hours deep talks about the nature and history of the world, but it's all cut out in the anime because the studio couldn't be bothered to make more episodes.
It's frustrating.