Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! 2nd Season

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Synonyms: Shadow Garden 2nd Season

Japanese: 陰の実力者になりたくて！ 2nd Season

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 4, 2023 to Dec 20, 2023

Premiered: Fall 2023

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 22:30 (JST)

Producers: AT-X, Magic Capsule, BS NTV, Kadokawa, NewGin, Aiming

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Nexus

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Themes: Isekai, Reincarnation

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.38¹ (scored by 181,266 users)

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Ranked: #195²

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Popularity: #676

Members: 348,774

Favorites: 4,337

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Ranked #195Popularity #676Members 348,774

Episodes: /12

Synopsis

Enticed by its rumored wealth, Cid Kagenou happily tags along with his sister, Claire, on a trip to the infamous Lawless City. The region is ruled by three monarchs: Yukime, the Spirit Fox; Juggernaut, the Tyrant; and Elisabeth, a dormant progenitor vampire known as the Blood Queen. Hunting Elisabeth down serves as the perfect opportunity for Claire to prove her true mettle. On the other hand, Cid has different objectives—sneaking away from Claire's sight, collecting as much loot as possible, and making Shadow's glorious entrance at the perfect moment.

As Elisabeth's awakening draws near, her subordinate Crimson enacts a treacherous plot, sending the town into a frenzy. Searching for her now-missing brother, Claire finds an unexpected ally in Mary, a vampire hunter, and the pair hurry to the Crimson Tower—the home of the Blood Queen. Meanwhile, Beta and a small team of Shadow Garden recruits also arrive at the Lawless City. As the key players converge on the Crimson Tower, the stage is set for a grand confrontation under the crimson moon.

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Background

Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! 2nd Season was released on Blu-ray and DVD in three volumes by Kadokawa from January 24, 2024, to March 27, 2024. It adapts content from volumes 3 and 4 of the light novel.

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Adaptation:	Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!
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Sequel:	Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! Movie: Zankyou-hen

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kagenou, Cid

Main

Yamashita, Seiichirou
Japanese

Delta

Supporting

Fairouz Ai
Japanese

Alpha

Supporting

Seto, Asami
Japanese

Beta

Supporting

Minase, Inori
Japanese

Kagenou, Claire

Supporting

Hidaka, Rina
Japanese

Midgar, Alexia

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Epsilon

Supporting

Kanemoto, Hisako
Japanese

Gamma

Supporting

Mimori, Suzuko
Japanese

Zeta

Supporting

Asai, Ayaka
Japanese

Eta

Supporting

Kondou, Reina
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Kikushima, Kazufumi

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Iizuka, Aya

Producer

Maruyama, Hajime

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Mizuguchi, Takeo

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Opening Theme

"grayscale dominator" by OxT (eps 2-7,9-11)

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Ending Theme

	1: "grayscale dominator" by OxT (eps 1)
	2: "Polaris in the Night" by Lambda (CV: Ikumi Hasegawa) (eps 2,10)
	3: "Polaris in the Night" by Nu (CV: Maaya Uchida) (eps 3,6)
	4: "Polaris in the Night" by Chi (CV: Mayu Minami) (eps 4,9)
	5: "Polaris in the Night" by Omega (CV: Ryouko Maekawa) (eps 5,11)
	6: "Everything is Changing" by Mayu Maeshima (前島麻由) (eps 7)
	7: "Darling in the Night" by Shichikage (CV: Asami Seto, Inori Minase, Suzuko Mimori, Fairouz Ai, Hisako Kanemoto, Ayaka Asai, Reina Kondou) (eps 8)
	8: "HIGHEST" by OxT (eps 12)

Reviews

Dec 20, 2023

Mattotsuo

Recommended

"We only have so much time, and so much effort. So I dedicated all of my time and effort to what mattered, and got rid of everything else."

These days for me, I tend to lose interest in a lot of shows after their first season (maybe because it was rushed or maybe it was simply that the concept was good but the progression got stale or boring). We all only have a limited amount of time, some people more than others, so should you spend your own precious time watching this? In short, yes, assuming you have watched season 1 this season builds upon the ... previous season perfectly in its own way. Usually I will give every season a chance and just stop watching it if I lose interest, however for me the Eminence in Shadow season 2 was just as fun to watch as season 1.

Does it deliver on animation?
Yes

Does it deliver on world building and story progression?
Yes

Would I watch any of it on the plane ride while the 10 is sitting diagonally behind me?
No...

Everyone's sense of humor is different, so some people will enjoy the cringy things Cid does and others might find it repulsive. However in my opinion the execution of the stereotypical events and tropes are done in a way that feels fresh and enjoyable especially when compared to many other shows in the genre. Not only that, but whenever I watch an episode, it doesn't feel like there are excessive wastes of time even during the filler episode.

One of the things I was most surprised about was that the animation remained consistently clean and story pacing remained at a good speed like in season 1. A lot of series tend to fall off because they stray from the art style or pacing from the first season (not gonna name any names... but a certain isekai to do with a shield), but this series remained very true to the source material. Barely any content was cut and some scenes were only modified slightly. In fact, one of the biggest deviations from the source material was simply that a fight was supposed to seem closer but anime-Cid beat them faster and easier. All in all, this was one of the main things that I think makes it worth watching.

Something to note however is that characters that get introduced are almost always supposed to parallel a cliche, which I think are quite funny and enjoyable to watch but maybe some people might not agree as much with me. For example, I might find the Soopah Eleeto Ay jent John Smith to be funny but another person might just find him cringy. From me and my friends' experience, it is easy to enjoy the series if you try not to take any of it too seriously.

The biggest thing I could see people not enjoying the series for would be that it often expects you to just accept that some big misunderstandings will never be resolved. If you aren't able to find a way to still enjoy it with that in mind, by all means don't continue with the series as it would just not be for you. There are many other shows out there that might appeal to you better, but, if you are able to get over it then that issue won't matter. In fact, I think being able to accept that misunderstandings are at the core of the series will allow you to enjoy the series even more.

If I were to rate each aspect of the show out of 10, I would probably give the story a 9, characters 9, art/animation 9, sound 10, and enjoyment 10 (tbh 11). To explain the rating for sound, I just think rarely do I ever think of a show and think of the background from a good scene rather than the op/ed (FYI the piece I am thinking of is called In Time of War).

Now, the time to watch Eminence in Shadow is ripe. We are out of time... The frenzy has begun.

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Feb 28, 2024

verbinflection

Mixed Feelings

'The Eminence in Shadow' is a comedy subversion of a fantasy adventure, where the joke is that the hero of the story doesn't understand what's happening and doesn't take it seriously. It's complicated without being clever, and it proves that irony and self-awareness are not substitutes for meaningful conflicts, character growth, or properly timed punch lines. By season two, any given episode was barely holding my attention long enough to deliver its payload of mildly enjoyable action-comedy fan service.

I'm told you need a very high IQ to understand 'Rick and Morty'. Whether that's true or not, you do need a remarkably high degree of media ...

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Dec 20, 2023

Ionliosite2

Not Recommended

The last time I complained about this series I said that if this was a parody, it was a terrible one, but after analyzing it and talking to other people I have to come to a simple conclusion, Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! is not a parody, the novel is an actual work that uses isekai tropes in a completely unhinged way, the only reason why you hear the series is a parody is because people read the manga version, which is almost like a parody of the series and get to the conclusion that this series is a parody when it isn’t. Now, does ... the series not being a parody suddenly makes it better? The answer is still a no, a bad isekai where the world bends over in favor of the MC for him to be the best ever to have ever existed is not a good series by any means.

There’s not much to say for this season that I didn’t say for previous one, I mean, did the series actually change at all? No, the jokes are still repetitive to the point that, even if you were to find one joke funny, it would be so overused that it would make you roll your eyes after the 10th time it’s used. Let’s take for an example the first couple of episodes, where half of Cid’s lines were repeating the same phrase over and over and over again, and apparently that’s what makes a joke in this series.

This season there was even an entire arc built on fake drama, I can’t even think why someone thought this was a good idea, it was as smart as someone asking “if there’s poverty, why don’t they print more bills?”, which is almost the basis of the entire arc. Oh, and that arc is followed by an original episode obviously for the sole purpose of promoting the gacha game, so instead of actually doing something with Shadow Garden, they just thrown them in swimsuits, because actually creating a character out of these pieces of cardboard with boobs would be too much work.

The battles of course are still as uninteresting as ever, because as the first arc showed, the MC is so strong that even one of the monarchs of the Lawless City, who was strong enough to actually fight against Shadow Garden, was still easily defeated by him. How is he so strong? Because he is the protagonist of an isekai series where the world bends over in favor of the MC to get maximum power fantasy points for those self-inserting as him. Actually, that is the entire joke of the series, that whatever delusion the MC has is actually true, and this problem goes all the way back to season 1. And don’t worry about animation, it looks about the same as it did in season one, which is mediocre but nothing too bad.

How this shit is popular or considered good at all is something I will never comprehend, I always compared it to Overlord as it has pretty much all the same issues that one has, and while I guess that is good for some people, for me it means that the series belongs in a trash bin.

Thank you for reading.

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