Ranked #678

Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpucho: Tou Dai Ni Maku

If you're reading this, then you've most likely already seen the first season so I won't talk about that. This may sound like a rant of nonsensical rambling, but this is how I give my review, or rather critique.

Although for the second season, they fill a lot of holes that were left from the first season, however brought about new ones until the bitter end. S2 fails in comparison to the first. I hate anime that end abruptly in the middle such as a character never being seen again, or they were last seen doing this but don't say what happened to them. This is one of those anime titles.

The story was okay, being that they incorporated fantasy, supernatural mythology, epic action, and some romance, but that's the only reason why I rated it up to 7 as I start from 10 and deduct what I don't like. With the last two episodes, they sort of explained more in depth of the characters backgrounds to accompany the main story's, but not the main story itself.

What I didn't like was for some eps, after each episode, they skip right into the middle of the next one, and go back to where they left off later. I can understand this form of story telling in short stories where they commonly start in the middle and tell onward, but with anime it gets complicated when you jump back and forth continuously, leaving the viewer not knowing what just happened and confused half the time.

I've no complaints about the art and sound as they were top-notch, but the characters of the story aren't expressed very well. The reason being they either don't go too in-depth for certain characters, or go too in-depth for other certain characters, and also the order of which they do that; they need to get their priorities straight.

With anime such as this that has graphic bloodshed, there are bound to be deaths. However continuously I've been seeing more and more series do this: killing off the characters that would have been better if they lived, and letting certain characters live that NEEDED TO BE KILLED & STAY DEAD!!

Although only a fragment of the whole story, at times I've thought the original romantic character relations that were supposedly canon were great, but they decided to put it all in a blender with new ingredients and see what comes out of that. It's like putting tomato in a fruit salad. So obviously I was left with a disgusted taste from seeing little progress, or too much, or misdirected characters portrayals and where the creators were going with this all.

On a side note: the series ends at episode 11. Episode 12 is more of an extra or OVA you'd normally see packed with DVD specials. Another fault I see is they should have directed their efforts or attention towards a more complete rounded ending in the last episode, instead of an extra that the main series could have done without.

My overall enjoyment is high because of my satisfaction for the art, sound, action, and favourite voice actors/actresses(seiyuu), but only average for my disappointment in their story telling and characters. read more

This is a great sequel, personally, I think that this is way better than the 1st season.

Unlike the first season, (with 1 main antagonist and him sending MINIONZ after the heroes), this season shows off TWISTS and more action!
The story was pretty original to me, even though most shounens are the same (High school kids fight evil!). I liked the overall story, even though in some parts I had a difficult time understanding what was going on.

The characters in this anime are great, and this season showed the audience more character development and origins. Although some characters are "common/typical", this anime managed to add more personalities to characters, showing more variety.

The art and sound are A+, I've never seen such great artwork and music before, and through Tokyo Majin I've gotten to listen to such a great band(ACID), and the OST. The fight scenes,(Thanks to the wonderful animation) were all action packed and kept me on my toes.

Although I really wanted more of Alan Claude in the story, this will stay in my favorite anime forever.
This needs more watchers though, seriously.
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