Review of Symphogear G

So remember in LA's first season review of this anime series, that LA said this "Senki Zesshou Symphogear you may be a season filled with and built on a foundation of inconsistency, but if anything the appeal to this season and in the future by in large this series' appeal is for it's wacky batshit crazy mech-suited idol battles and of course...it's music." Well, this season clearly learned from what it did wrong and was a HUGE step up. The plot for this season is a streamlined yet chaotic self-contained story with the newer characters told on the synopsis and you know what?, the plot beingself-contained immensely helped remove almost all the inconsistencies from it's first season. The plot LA mentioned already is chaotic yet it's one huge story to do with the newer Symphogear characters and villains with some references and plot structure from it's previous season to really for what LA will say in this one statement about G is this, "it's an UP TO AN ELEVEN from it's previous season" with all the good reasons to.

If LA will say about the plot, it like it's first season, it has some plot & character beats similar to Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's but it's similarities fade quite early on.

In terms of the characters, by all means even the characters, even the newer cast members do get their spot on the limelight, due to how complex yet streamlined the plot gets, the main cast and minor characters do evolve with this new story, sure LA said that most of the main cast are stereotypical, but G helped give most of the main Symphogear users more development outside their personalities, as such Tsubasa personality inconsistency is no longer there but given something of a protector warrior personality with tsundereness here and there, Hibiki got the most evolved character development from this season with something of a "trying to protect people by utterly going beyond your limits" and Chris given her past deeds to come back and bite her in the ass, as for the villains, they cept one are actually sympathetic villains with some contrasting and similar beliefs to the main cast Symphogear users and are more or less welcome additions to the Symphogear franchise, LA's favourite villain's being Shirabe Tsukuyomi voiced by Yoshino Nanjo and Kirika Akatsuki voiced by Ai Kayano behavioral dualities were the most interesting villains, ohh and LA's favourite character in the series is still the gunslinger idol Chris.

The character evolution and development does range for A LOT of betrayals that works to some degree from both sides of the main cast and villains, it's gets a bit crazy and actually works well in terms of character dynamics or "melodrama" but G's melodrama can be given some grace due to how the melodrama is executed as not obvious or over-exaggerated and actually brings more in-depth lore to the world of Symphogear and it's bigger main cast.

The animation done once again by Satelight has actually stepped up from it's previous season with higher details in general, from the character designs to the bombastic battles, this is a HUGE plus to G.

Now for music, LA might as well praise this element of G as well, with many of the voice actors singing some of the battles OST's as well as insert song OST's (those goes to Aoi Yuuki, Ayahi Takagaki, Nana Mizuki, Yoko Hisaka, Yoshino Nanjo, Ai Kayano, Yui Horie, Yuka Iguchi and even freakin' Hideo Ishikawa) as well as Nana Mizuki singing the OP and some of the ED's, the music across the board are a-m-a-z-i-n-g, special props to the OP "Vitalization" especially.

LA has been praising this season too much, with all your detractors out there of this series, if you want there are some faults in this season, those are; the fanservice gets slightly rampant from the typical panty shots to the questionable transformation sequences, the plot twists of this season are either a hit or a miss (LA more or less saw it as a hit for the most cept one in Episode 10), the only other fault LA saw was *SPOILERS* this one new character Dr. Ver voiced by Tomokazu Sugita is your stereotypical mad scientist "destroy the world" villain, he is outright stock and cliche, he may be a smart-tactiful villain but his maddening-ever evil because evil presences weigh down the more sympathic, interesting villains *SPOILERS END*.

The ending, well the ending blew LA's expectations out of the water and even UPPED the previous ending from the first season too, from the battles, character resolutions (including the newly added sympathetic villains, through battles) and just how awesome and batshit crazy the ending lead up to, the ending just blew LA away and executed almost perfectly, wrapping G in a bombastic musically-amped up ribbon.

Symphogear G, is a definite step up to first season, from it's self-contained story that was built somewhat away from some of the inconsistencies of the first season (though still implemented, still semantics), to character evolution and developments changing the stereotypical main cast to some interesting badass characters & villains, animation and music elements being better highlights of G and even though G has faults LA mentioned above, the pro's outweigh the cons in G immensely for LA.

Symphogear G WANTED LA to carry on watching for more with it's higher stakes and heavy involvement of it's main cast and villains to take the stage with it's bombastic battles as pure sweet eye candy, and if your in it for the music, ear-candy, yes LA enjoyed this season, LA isn't gonna lie, if you haven't already noticed. G, by all means helped LA show that Symphogear series CAN do something amazing, now let's just see whether GX will do the same or even better...