Hikari no Ou 2nd Season (The Fire Hunter Season 2)

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Japanese: 火狩りの王第2シーズン

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Type: TV

Episodes: 10

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 14, 2024 to Mar 17, 2024

Premiered: Winter 2024

Broadcast: Sundays at 23:00 (JST)

Producers: Production I.G, WOWOW, flying DOG

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Signal.MD

Source: Light novel

Genre: Fantasy

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Popularity: #6088

Members: 11,216

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After escaping a violent encounter, Touko finds herself lost in the chaos of a city under invasion by Spiders, a tribe of people with dangerous supernatural abilities. Touko has traveled to the city intending to return the possessions of Haijuu, a fire hunter who died protecting her. She is aided by Haijuu's dog, Kanata, and Akira, a fire hunter who has protected her on her journey so far. When Akira is drawn away by an important task, Touko is swept into the battle's confusion to begin a new journey of her own.

Meanwhile, Haijuu's son Koushi fights to defend the city. Though physically unremarkable, Koushi's ingenuity has aided in the development of a few useful weapons. These include a powerful cannon capable of casting down ungodly lightning to smite the invading forces. With such destructive force seen as an offense to the gods, the deity Hibari seeks to stop him.

As they are both drawn into the unraveling plans of scheming gods and humans alike, Touko and Koushi struggle to survive.

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Adaptation:	Hikari no Ou
Prequel:	Hikari no Ou

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Characters & Voice Actors

Touko

Main

Kuno, Misaki
Japanese

Koushi

Main

Ishige, Shouya
Japanese

Kira

Supporting

Hayami, Saori
Japanese

Hibari

Supporting

Ishida, Akira
Japanese

Yururuho

Supporting

Iwami, Manaka
Japanese

Yanagi

Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka
Japanese

Kiri

Supporting

Shimamura, Yuu
Japanese

Ruri, Matsuri

Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao
Japanese

Hitou

Supporting

Watanuki, Ryuunosuke
Japanese

Narrator

Supporting

Sakakibara, Yoshiko
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Nishimura, Junji

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Wakabayashi, Kazuhiro

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Oshii, Mamoru

Script, Series Composition

Sakamoto, Maaya

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Opening Theme

"Hika Rakka (飛花落花)" by Cocco

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"Dakishimete (抱きしめて)" by Maaya Sakamoto (坂本真綾)

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Mar 19, 2024

womanrspector

Recommended

Since nobody is writing a good review for this anime and it is probably one of my favorite series ever I guess I’ll be the one to do it. If you want an anime that doesn’t talk down to the viewers, leaves you on the edge of your seat every episode and has excellent VA work and art style then watch this regardless of what people are saying.

I’ll start with the obvious elephant in the room and that’s this anime’s production was atrocious. They obviously didn’t have the money to animate more than like 30-40 seconds an episode well so they instead spent the money ...

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Mar 20, 2024

CaptainKenshiro

Mixed Feelings

“As for what’s in the upcoming season, this one makes it seem like only the war is left to shown, but if the visual quality of the second season remains the same, the fights will look ridiculous.”

I wrote this at some point on my review of the first season and it looks like I was mostly right, except for the fact that the visuals somehow became way worse. There are almost no moments when the artwork looks good and there are a lot of inconsistencies in the character models, the backgrounds were improved from the previous installment, as they no longer have the bad CGI ... from earlier, but that is still present for some special effects. The actual motions, as I implied, are a lot of worse now and makes every fight look ridiculous, and even the ones during scenes without action are done very poorly. The moments with special looking stills are used less randomly at first, but are just as prominent as the series moves forward, and it’s even quite obviously used to save some animation, plus they kinda moved to have an AI assisted look instead of the almost painting like from the previous season. They look good however, not like the AI horrors you can find out there, but the difference from before is worth pointing out. The directing keeps doing its thing but can’t save the visuals much, especially because it seemed like it got rid of the black screen moments with the character names spelled out on them, only to bring them back at some point.

What didn’t change was the atmosphere of the show, which remains the same from the previous season, with soundtrack, sound effects and voice acting being as good as they were before. The only thing that’s worse is the opening and ending songs, which are inferior compared with the previous ones, but still good on their own.

As for the plot, there is still some world building going on but it’s nowhere near as much nor it has the dull infodumped presentation from the first season, most of the story now is all the parties involved in the war doing their own thing. The good part is that previously passive or mysterious characters are finally doing something, and on paper everything is epic when described since after all the humans are setting on fire the spiders, who in turn lead a full on attack onto them, the gods move around kidnapping hostages for making them their host for their ultimate goddess or something like that, and the tree people go around and below the capital city trying to save as many of their own as they can. It doesn’t stop there as the series also bothers to show common people as refugees and even some humans siding with the spiders for their cause against the deities, and this way the conflict doesn’t feel limited to just the important cast.

On execution, however, since a lot of things are happening at the same time, the transition from one thing to another doesn’t feel very organic, especially compared with the previous installment, and it becomes questionable if some things were properly introduced or anticipated in the previous season, or even during this one, with the answers to that being mostly negative.

As for the characterization, well, Touko becomes more involved with the conflict, Akira reluctantly and slowly accepts what she has to do and Koushi has his own Oppenheimer moment after he realizes the effects of what he has done ever since the first season and what it led to. But just as it happens with the aforementioned elements, the character focus might feel, ironically, unfocused, because of how jumpy the plot became, with scenes dedicated to them coming off as short or too apart from each other through the series, before moving to something else completely different. As for the rest of the cast, some old faces reappear in very awkward ways, literally to say hello before disappearing from the show once again after a short scene, or to tell the others about their backdrops and motivations all along in equally awkward ways.

As for the resolution, it was ok I guess but it also felt quite easygoing and done after a lot of infodump and lacking in impact, the world goes back to how it was and all the enemy parties reach an easy agreement after so many years at war, leaving you with a “ah, that’s it” kind of feel at the end.

As a whole, the whole series is kind of interesting to follow for feeling like an anime from another era and the people making it, but in terms of execution it’s not really something I consider worth watching nor would openly recommend outside of people wanting something kind of different.

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Mar 27, 2024

JoexySun

Not Recommended

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Short review: Sustaining a narrative made up of 20 episodes split into 2 seasons across 1 full year cannot be easy, can it? Don't get fooled by this awful show which is an absolute insult to the big names attached to it.

Expectations before watching: script and series composition by Mamoru Oshii who made Ghost in the Shell 1995, directed by his Production I.G. colleague Junji Nishimura; theme song by Maaya Sakamoto. With such a dream team, what can go wrong?

Reality after watching: WTF did I watch?

Recommended to: No one but those with a morbid curiosity to see how bad it actually is.

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