Review of Shakugan no Shana: Season II

[Contains spoilers] When I finished this I lazy and decided not to review this and continued to season 3 right away since the cliffhanger ending was quite interesting and I wanted to see the happy episode where I can finally relax and watch Shana and Yuuji dating and hanging around. But I saw season 3's first episode. Ahhhh, I wish I hadn't seen that episode, Yuuji has evolved again and I thought he couldn't be any worse than what he had been but now omg I can't describe this, this level is beyond words. I should have known that this was coming anyways, the way Yuujiis introduced, it was kinda fishy and abnormal as if it was purposefully made to be hated and now that he is the antagonist it explains all.

Anyways, Shakugan no Shana II started off with Yuuji revealing that he did not hear Shana's confession at the end of first season, it was a powerful start to the series but I did not lose hope knowing that the series is long so she has the chance to do that later and then somewhere around episode 12 her confession gets disturbed again. As I continued I noticed how Yuuji's behavior did not change at all and constantly gets saved by Shana and did nothing in return although he got stronger and able to spar with Shana during training but that is only during TRAINING. When confronted with enemies trying to steal his reiji maigo he only stood still and shouted waiting for someone to come and help him and that was when I finally realize why I could watch this series continuously without running out of stamina, at first I thought I was addicted to this series and that I wanted to see Shana in action but now I understand that it is more than that, the main reason was because I wanted to see Yuuji redeem himself and realize what kind of person he is already. I wanted to see him protecting Shana in return or do something for her in return but then Yoshida joining the party made the situation even worse, he could barely handle Shana alone and now Yoshida takes up her screen time even more and I was starting to lose hope in this boy.

Suddenly, Yuuji finally rose in like the last few episodes and saying great edgy things making Shana proud and finally ends with a happy cliffhanger. My overall score from 7/10 rose to 9/10 immediately just from those few episodes which made me feel relaxed knowing that the continuous fighting/uprising of problems is finally ending and I can calmly enjoy the peaceful episodes that will be presented to me in the third season.

I really wanted to put this series into my favorite list but it did not reach that level yet, season 2 was close but there were too many disappointing episodes than the good episodes. I really hope that season 3 can make it and that first episode is just something irrelevant to the main story.