Saihate no Paladin: Tetsusabi no Yama no Ou

A marked improvement over season one. That's a rarity in anime. Typically they don't improve, but rather nose dive. Animation has more to offer in terms of flashy action scenes, with a couple that stand out. The art work in general is slightly worse, bad cg, but still good character detail and amazing backgrounds. I still feel the characters are lacking depth, but at least we get to wee a little bit more of Will's internal struggles without it feeling completely forced. The world building continues to be one of the best parts of this anime. The story line feels more solid and less of ... the generic isekai we got after arc 1 in season 1. Still a little generic, but better. Pacing is much better, and picks up quite a bit over the last season which was kind of painful after arc 1. The dubbed voice acting I'd say get's slightly worse. I think the casting for Will is not great, but otherwise I'd say it's still fine, but not great by any means. The op and ed remain ill fitting and generic. However, the ost has more variety in it, which is pleasant to see. Overall, it still has some of the same issues as season 1, but reclaims it's stride for the most part. The pacing of this anime is really what will make or break it going forward. 6.75/10 Dubbed

Season 1 was a captivating story of a lad coming of age and beginning his journey.
Season 2 continues the story of William G Maryblood as a Lord and Paladin.

Main issues I find as the story continues is that as the story progresses, William's motives and drive becomes much more whimsical and fictional. A fantasy character with no flaws. He becomes less human as the story progresses. A device to drive the story rather than an actual character with strife and challenges. A mythical hero that's been embellished so much so that they don't seem to actually exist like the songs written about him.

Despite the mountain ... of responsibilities he is shoulders with, he just accepts it and just continues to do as he is told. Like a doll. Endlessly repeating the difference between being dead and not being alive as if that's enough to disregard his lack of actual desires. He lives on railroad tracks. A man of god supposedly, but the way he acts is almost robotic.

It is the downfall of the series as a whole. Will isn't real. A fictional hero with fictional desires and fictional wants. That is why he is loved by the gods. He shouldn't exist because he lacks the human element.

Mary and Blood carried season 1. Season 2 is just generic. Bring back Mary and Blood please.

Saihate no Paladin had a good premise in the first season that somehow made it interesting to watch. It just shouldn't have gotten a second season. Everything is just bad maybe worse than the first season. There is like literally no interesting filler. you get one episode with 1 to 5 minutes of interesting content and then just a boring part.
Tutorial on how to make slow-paced anime interesting: backstories worth being interested in, beautiful scenery and SFX, main character day activities, and bonding characters.
Saihate no Paladin is a disaster. I read the manga and watched the first season and still, I think whoever worked ... on this is inexperienced. From the feel of enjoyment from the first season because I liked the manga I overlooked a lot of bad things. But you can't overlook them anymore they are everywhere.
Saihate no Paladin should have been made by more experienced people like those who worked on Sousou no Frieren.
Animation - bad
Music - unimpactful/Generic
Source material handling: in a bad way
Entertainment level: nah not worth it, should have dropped it after the first episode
5/10 just because of my high copium level