W'z

The animation reminded me so much of K- Project with the perspectives and coloring. I didn't know this was produced by the same company its awesome but story was a bit lacking and the DJ music only had one track. It didn't have a variety in the DJ aspect which is a bit disappointing but the fighting scenes and the concept was really nice.

The characters were pretty well designed and had their own unique traits but somehow some of them
Animation definitely a 100~ But story wise K - Project wins =u=

I wasn't really satisfied with the ending and it didn't make that much ... sense since i thought that Yukiya-kun had more of a deeper role or something since he was born inside the Ziggurat which is amazing by the way that they incorporated the historical buildings in their. as an architecture student this had meaning to me. In all honesty, I thought the ending would have been everyone who participated as Handshaker players would hold hands together and meet god one more time to end everything but unfortunately that wasn't it but overall the animation compensated with the lack of story portrayal.

I'd rather watch the entire season of Hand Shakers all over again than continue with this season (with all due respect).

One of the main reasons I was interested in Hand Shakers in the first place was because of it's unique art style, fluid animation, and epic fight scenes.

When watching the first few episodes of W'z, I was a bit disappointed when I noticed that character outlines were all in black lines, instead of silver, or white, or some other interesting color. The animation for Hand Shakers clearly mixed 2D and 3D techniques to deliver a beautiful production, despite the sometimes confusing plot points ... throughout.

I'm not sure whether W'z lacked funding, or if they just lowered their budget, but for whatever reason, the entire series appeared to have been mostly 2D animated, with animations lacking in fluidity. For what it's worth, I was able to keep track of different characters and their movements during fight scenes in Hand Shakers much better than in W'z.

To summarize, the differences between Hand Shakers and W'z were just too great for me to enjoy the second season. Plus, the soundtrack in Hand Shakers sounded much nicer than the one in W'z. When delivering a second season, it should at least have better animation than the first, not the other way around.

P.S. the first episode started off a bit cheesy, and it made me feel uncomfortable. SOREDAKE!

4 out of 10 does not sound like a high rating, and in most circumstances, it wouldn't be... With a Hand Shakers sequel though, it represents an immeasurable improvement over the original. That series was a production and storytelling trainwreck, infinitely dumb, often nauseating to look at and apparently unaware of its unparalleled shittyness. A shocking combination of most obnoxious anime tropes, horrible writing decisions and CGI that no human being should consider passable. I very seriously consider it the worst full-length anime show ever made and the fact it got a sequel sounds like a grotesque joke. Or maybe, simply a treat for connoisseurs ... of extremely bad anime such as myself...?

Putting that question aside for a moment, this background makes W'z a deeply intriguing phenomenon. Can you improve something so deeply unsalvageable? Can you make it even worse? I already spoiled that part: W'z is a major improvement. It looks a lot better, with 2D art and CGI blending together in an acceptable manner and perspective being less broken most of the time. The show's distinct style is also preserved and I consider it the only redeeming feature of the original (although it's a matter of taste for sure). The cast is treated slightly more seriously: I'm kind of amazed that they were able to salvage some purely-episodic garbage like the BDSM couple from Hand Shakers ep. 1 and turn them into serviceable characters. The poorly-done fanservice is also mostly gone.

So, things are better. That's good, right? Or is it...? The thing is, the improvements do not translate into a genuinely good story: the rules of the world are all over the place, character motivations are bonkers, the main villain hardly passes as a human being with his pointless schemes and incomprehensible goals. Some of the new cast members are obnoxious and animation still can be hard to look at. "Hand Shakers, but more competent" hardly make for a decent show and without the shock factor from the original's all-around awfulness, there're are few reasons to watch W'z outside of twisted nostalgia of disturbed individuals such as myself. It's a poor anime that isn't even very memorable in how poor it is. The "so bad it's good" factor is still definitely there, but not in an abundance that made me consider Hand Shakers something of a must-watch. And this means W'z is ultimately very, very skippable.

For Hand Shakers fans, ironic or not, only.