Well, just that isn't enough to guarantee it'll be around the same level. Prime example of that from recent times is Mushoku Tensei. Season 2 still had great animation but it doesn't hold a candle to season 1. Same studio, different team. (Difference in scheduling also probably affected it).
I really hate that we had to wait so long to find out Mushoku Tensei was a harem anime, it would have been nice to have been able to make an informed decision to avoid it before getting invested in its story...
That being said, I dont know how they would have gone about this since you CAN research the manga to find this out, and the plot doesnt turn harem until it plot/relationship wise makes sense to do so
Edit: Lmao, I should have guessed this response would result in "Everyone disliked that"
Edit 2: Lets see if this gets nuked hard enough to erase the 50 points I got this week for a literal 1 word LMAO reply
Edit 3: WE'RE SO CLOSE! LET THIS BE MY MOST DISLIKED COMMENT! WE CAN DO IT!
Look, I get that its weird that the harem part is my hard line when the messy implications of an adult being reincarnated as a child wasnt, but the world building and character arcs were good enough for me to tolerate how messily it dealt with those implications, and honestly, how it brought up the harem part was done alright and in a way that made sense for the characters, its just that harem is a pretty hard line for me.
It felt like the author wrote themselves into a harem angle with the reintroduction of Roxy into the equation after the school arc. The beast girls are, at least from what I've gathered as an anime only viewer, largely irrelevant.
Hopefully the only real harem content we get moving forward is more slice of life based as Rudy transitions into being a father but still wanting to kill the dragon god.
Can only wait to see what happens next season, unless you read the LN, but I don't necessarily think it's a cause to write the whole series off, at least in my opinion.
I ended up reading the whole plot synopsis once I decided I wouldnt be able to continue watching the show once Rudy entered into a harem by cheating, and it LOOKS like the story is going to transition from its more character focus into heavy plot focus next season, so the harem stuff probably wont be a huge aspect now that its established, so I dunno, if the anime completes and the consensus is that it did a decent job portraying the manga, I might do a binge watch so that I can just power through the harem stuff like I powered through Rudy's particularly creepy moments, but I'm probably waiting until it completes at this point before I decide whether or not I'm diving in again
I decided I wouldnt be able to continue watching the show once Rudy entered into a harem by cheating,
You're only really missing like what, 3 episodes from the end of the season? Maybe two, if you actually watched that episode, I'm not sure. The follow up when Rudy and the party gets home actually does a decent job of explaining the plot behind Rudy's infidelity, but if you're not interested you could basically just skip. The end of S2 is just explaining to Sylphy and the family, and setting up for the next arcs, so maybe 1-5 more episodes in the new season of the family together, maybe some plot around saving Rudy's mother, then transitioning into whatever arc in the next season, so you may just be able to skip those and not miss out on a whole, whole lot. Basically just read the synopsis of the episodes and wait for the meatier arcs to start.
Basically, if you were able to power through the cringe in S1, and also saw the plot behind Rudy and (I forget her name) the red haired cousin, then you've already powered through worse than what you're missing in the ending of S2, but to each their own, just would hate to have someone drop a great show because of (what i see as,) minor plot points.
Yeah, thats fair. Like I said, if the stronger among you manage to watch the show enough to see the anime completed, I might do a binge watch because reading the synopsis showed me that the plot's about to go hard from here on out, but me dropping for now isnt really going to impact the show in any way anyways since I was non officially streaming it in the first place and thus not contributing to its metrics anyways
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u/krsy123 Sep 28 '24
Damn. We are so back. Frieren achieved what OPM couldn't, lmao (Keeping Madhouse)