Re:␣Hamatora

My review will contain thoughts of both season

SEASON 1 :

before start talking I wanna note that i will talk just about story for the first season and sound and animation will be in the second arason'review.

The first few episodes were super boring the show itself felt slow nothing much happening and the events were bad I almost drop it I was literally forcing myself to continue wellyou can tell the anime had really a bad start however after couples episodes we witnessed unexpected ending regardless I liked the atmosphere in this I've no idea how to explain it exactly but for some reason it was ... unique and not like other stuff you have watched for the lack that anime had I'll just season1 6/10.

SEASON 2 :

beautiful I believe that's the correct word to identify the second season it was almost perfect, it require a huge effort to give such a strong sequel after an average and weak prequel , story has some really unexpected moments a and like WTF just happened the story kept progressing im the right direction i was really satisfied about the plot after the big frustration that season one gave me otherwise some people didn't like the ending for one reason which is "ART" ! that's the only thing I can't say because Rarely spoil in my reviews however for my perspective I believe the ending was fantastic even that it was so emotional xD , it can be super confusing for some of few so I highly recommend checking Reddit there is a decent explanation there so what happened at the end was satisfying after pushing myself through season 1 It worth it .

the animation wasn't the perfect one but it's not bad or something it just feels like has lack of colors lol besides that I liked the characters so I don't have any issues with em moreover the soundtrack were amazing especially during events also it's has a good opening songs

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Okay, I'm just astonished with what I just saw, please do not take my 6 for granted, my thing is to undervalue the ratings I give, for example, I haven't watched that much of anime, but none felt like a truly 10.
THIS REVIEW CONTAIN MINOR SPOILERS.

Now the review, this season fixed so many things from the previous one that I'm skeptical if I should give a 7-8 for this anime. I personally don't like to follow the guidelines, most because of this anime is super underrated, hardly anyone will read it ... and if you wanna check the story, art and sound, all of the others ones will present it, i'll just make a special regards to the soundtrack which is amaziiiiing, the opening, the ost, even the proper soundtrack during the episode.
One of the major problems of the first season is slow-pacing, now I understand it had to be that way so we could understand what the hamatora world is, even though I think it could be different, the first season impressed me so much for a low-budget anime adapted from an unknown manga. The second season changed this completely, all the episodes are focused on explaining things they didn't before, such as how the minimum works, the origin of the strange names(that's actually pretty dope), since the kids who were identified with minimum potential were brought to the facultas academy, they didn't have proper names, so they would give numbers, Hajime for ex, was the name nice gave to 01, so we can assume that nice, birthday, three, honey were similar. Not only that, we could understand who the master was, a.k.a the boss of the café, in the whole animé only in one scene he's called by his real name, Masuta. not only that, he started to make more influential participation on the saga, we later discover that he's a former facultas doctor and it was he who took hajime and koneko out of the academy when they were kids. The series also had always this mood for jokes and comedy, sometimes these scenes were too cringey, but on the second season they had some eleborated ones that made me laugh so hard. One thing though, the transition between scenes were awful, really, sometimes it broke the imersion on the episode, some scenes would last less than 1 minute, and to realocate to the other scene, they put some kind of wallpaper with the hamatora logo on it with one of the sound effects.
How they built the villain was beyond good, they did it so fuck1ng well, the second season was so good that made the so so first season better, congrats for the studio, they made an excelent sequel.
Anyhoo, this anime is super underrated, I highly recommend it to watch before sleep or on a chill day, it doesn't have the best of the stories, it doesn't have an innovative script, but is good, its fun, I really enjoyed.

The cliffhanger from the first season is picked up again here.

Compared to the first season, it mainly only had story-relevant episodes. The problem here was clearly that the sequence of this season was almost transparent from front to back. There were some individual detail and some unexpected occurrences that at least embellished it.

The biggest problem this season is she didn't seem to know where she was going.
Everything went in circles and developed into nothing until the last 2 episodes, where you got a half-hearted finale. The result of all things was neither emotional, epic, nor actually interesting.
A typical scenario of "Yes, the main thing is ... that we have an end, so the anime is over" and that's exactly how it felt, the whole season was empty and had practically nothing, except for a few mediocre backgrounds.

Story

The plot of the second season is attached directly to the scene of the last season. And from there began the story of "Art" and the implementation of its plans. His view and purpose have been quite obvious. The implementation of the story is subtle, however. The backgrounds of some of the characters that you learned later were also okay.



Animation / pictures

The choreography was pretty good here, with a little more fluid fight animations this would have been more effective.

Otherwise, I am glad that this colored representation has been retained; it matches the style of the series well.

Characters

Basically, there was hardly any significant change. The characters stayed the same as in season 1. The focus here was on 3 character backgrounds and the conflict between Art and Nice.

We saw a lot of Art, who was solely dedicated to his mission. His ambitions were understandable enough.

Nothing special noteworthy here.

Music

The intro is definitely one of those that could be described as a catchy tune. Also has an enormous recognition value.

The Osts have also been very solid in season two.

Conclusion

It's an anime that you can watch, but it's only really memorable in its genre area because of the individual presentation. In terms of content, it fluctuates between the insufficient and the average.