Ranked #1691

Mahoromatic 2

Mahoromatic S2 is not really like S1. It has much focus on romance, slice of life and school life. But its ending is truly both breathtaking and confusing. And worse than S1. Be careful for an anti-climatic dramatic ending.
I watched all in eng subs except for ep 10 and 14, which I watched in eng dub.

Story:7
We start off with a crisis, where a secret organization threatens SAINT and Vesper. Along the intro of the crisis, Minawa arrives, and then slice of life and romance galore. After quite some episodes and some small problems here and there, we have a major crisis with the secret organization.

Well I think that the slice of life segments were handled well, and everything after that sucks. Too many things unexplained, crises resolved too easily, too many tragical incidents after quite a number of "sunny episodes".

The ending episodes was absolutely horrible. Closure was filled with twists, and the very last part of the closure was hard to interpret. But there is a forum post in ep 14 discussion that explains the last part quite well.

Art:6
Seems worse than last season, the colors seem to be watercolor, and at times the animation wasn't that fluid.

Sound:7
OP was quite good. ED song's tune and animation was ok, but lyrics was about boobs. Which was... lol.

Character:5
Bad. Very bad. Minawa's character development was mianly in her past only, and her presence was barely grown until only near the end of the series. The other characters do not have much character development.

I realised too that by the end of S1 and S2 only Mahoro seems to be the defining character in this anime series.

Character interaction was good though... relationships were handled and grown very well until the ending parts (where the secret organization struck till end of ep14)

Character stability and closure was VERY VERY WEAK in the last 1 or 2 eps. Just watch and you should see why.

Enjoyment:6
I enjoyed the front part of S2, but started to have a headache and shake my head from the ep where Mahoro woke up in a strange way. From that ep on everything was kinda weird, too much unexplained stuff... and problems were resolved TOOOOO easily that they seem to be jokes.

Somehow I am starting to wonder if GAINAX is bad at producing endings. For S1 and S2.

Overall:7
Good slice of life and romance in earlier eps, unique eps in ending parts. Could have been presented much better.

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I think Japanese television is superior to American television. I do. I think that Japanese anime is truly great and because they limit most of their shows to one or two seasons, they allow for great stories with conclusions and romance and moral lessons that you could never get in America, where all that matters is extending the life of every show until people stop watching it.
However, there is also something negative that, unfortunately, inherently comes with anime as well: incredibly bad endings. It’s almost unfathomable how every now and then, you can watch a perfectly normal show and then be greeted with an ending so egregiously bad, that you are actually laughing out loud. To date, I’ve never watched an American show and laughed at a really bad ending, but I’ve watched at least three of four anime series where this has happened. (Certain examples are Blue Drop and Magikano) It’s truly disappointing, however, when you come across a good show where this happened, because you’re enjoying yourself and you get hit with an anvil.
Well, sadly enough, Mahoromatic Season 2, without a doubt, comes packed with the worst ending I have ever, ever seen. I had tears in my eyes as I laughed at its ridiculous last episode, and then when that died down, my mouth was merely agape. Now, I could go on and on about how miserably bad it was, but I’m not going to bother, because it’s that disconnected. If I had seen only the first 11 of the 13 episodes, I could write a completely different review with a lot of positives, so I’ve decided that’s what I’ll do now.
The story is essentially about a parentless boy Suguru, who is rich enough to hire a maid. His maid, Mahoro, is a hot, retired, android warrior who used to work for an organization designed to keep the peace between alien forces that are waging war in Earth’s skies without humans knowing about it. There are two catches: 1. She’s going to run out of life force in less than two years and 2.) she was forced to kill his father, who was a commander of Vesper, her old organization. For the first 11 episodes, Mahoromatic’s second season gives a lot more of what it gave us the first season: some good laughs, sweet moments, well-done battle scenes, and a lot more fan service. Plus, there was romance, which was great, since it wasn’t really assured if the show was going to turn that corner with the two main characters. And for the first ten episodes or so, its mainly fluffy slice of life – there isn’t any real drama as one would think upon reading the synopsis of the story. In that way, the story is actually charming and the unique characters only make the show more appealing.
There’s a lot to take from this show and I would recommend it to anyone as long as they are fully aware that the ending to this anime is essentially the worst on…. like… earth. That’s all. I can’t say much more than that.
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