Apr 17, 2023
To heart 2 is animated from it's visual novel which was a dating sim so due to that I can understand why the story was all over the place and episodes were poorly linked together.
Furthermore, this creates many 2 episode arcs for the girls in which the viewer obviously gets to learn about them and the creators try VERY hard to squeeze in as much as they can about this character and get them to grow feelings for the MC which makes the story all over the place since the newly introduced girl will just be used as a side character for the rest
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of the show.
Plot: 3/10
Nothing to expect! Just the mc running into all these girls accidentky due to his kindness and hanging out with them. Surely nothing you've seen before!!
Pacing: 1/10
Absolutely horrendous. I'm aware that this is a harem and that the main character will obviously have many girls over him, but it was atrocious for me to watch 8 possible love interests get their backstory and chemistry with the MC get squeezed in 13 episodes!
Characters: 2/10
Nothing interesting. The main character is your very typical harem MC who is kind to everyone and is very naive to girls' feelings with that same generic character design. The girls were all very cliche and easy to read bc of their very one dimensional personality.
The girls almost felt forced, for example Yuma just always picked fights with the mc because she thought he was "challenging her" as she clashed into HIM with her bike twice. She was obviously a tsundere so the creators tried to always keep her fuming and that's her main drive towards Takaaki. It was super unrealistic and immensly annoying as Takaaki would never even dare to correct her in this misunderstanding.
Music: 4/10
Background music was very simple and usually unnoticable. Opening and ending was very forgettable and I didn't find it very remarkable but that's individual.
Animation: 3/10
To Heart 2 is quite outa dated however The animation was actually apalling. It started off decent but towards the end I could really tell it was a bit rushed and usually the character dialogue wouldn't match the animation; at one point it felt like watching a powerpoint slide tbh. Yeah it felt fanmade- super choppy!
So personally, To Heart 2 is a very bad spin off of To Heart and is deserving of a 4 for effort. I surely didn't enjoy it due to how generic and cliche it was, however if you truly want to experience this anime to its best- I suggest you give the visual novel a try as you could acc pick your own route instead if having them all dumped on you.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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