Seikon no Qwaser II

This sequel has blown me away...

And not in the good way, either.

Yes, it is true. The first season of Seikon No Qwaser started out great and ended with a decent cliffhanger. However, the continuation of the series (Seikon No Qwaser II) follows Sasha and Hana as they search for the Magdalena of Thunder, supposedly inactive and hiding within a girl at the Roman Curia Surei Academy. Sounds interesting, right? In the first six episodes, Sasha is dressed as a woman in an all girls school where the technology to expand and focus your mind has been used as a way to bait girls of ... various backgrounds to attend the Academy. Members of the Adepts start to show up to complicate matters and things begin to get heated as the presence of the Magdalena of Thunder is revealed to be inside the Academy, hidden deep beneath the flesh of a young woman. The idea is promising...

...Until the episodes following the sixth just begin to drag. Disappointing, really. This is where the show really began to nose dive into a downward spiral - and frankly, suicide!

Most of the episodes were fillers with no real intention to further the plot of the story. Every now and again, a character would slightly develop or would come to a sudden realization surrounded by a clusterfuck of fan-service. A COLOSSAL AMOUNT OF FAN-SERVICE.
BOOBIES... EVERYWHERE.

You want cleavage? YOU'VE GOT IT!
You want boobies that jiggle for no reason? YOU'VE GOT IT!
You want breasts of every shape and size? YOU'VE GOT IT.

Unfortunately, the clusterfuck of fan-service actually killed the plot of the show. It felt as though in every episode, the mangaka left a pair of boobs lying around purely for the sake of his viewers to sit around and gawk at them. A little fan-service is good, yes, but it became more of a hassle to finish the series as the show very slowly progressed.

The last episode was engaging and yet, it felt somewhat rushed. Most of the action and deepening of the plot took place within the last 24 minutes of the series, leaving yet another cliffhanger at the end.

ART :: The art of the show was the same as the previous season's. A few times, the author had failed to correlate speech with lip movement in minor scenes or forgot to draw a movement to a sound, but nothing too serious. The detail of the characters and their wardrobe has improved since the last season, but the background is still rather average.

SOUND :: I highly enjoyed the opening and ending themes. Upbeat, funky, and melancholy, the song "Rasen, Arui wa Seinaru Yokubou" by Faylan was well done, but definitely does NOT compare to the first season’s “Baptize” OP. On the contrary, "Metaphor" by Shoujo Byou, the ending theme, is my favorite from the Seikon series by far. If anything, the ending OP adds to what the anime is trying to define as the atmosphere of the show.

CHARACTER :: Not much development, if very minimal. Aside from the goofy and unnecessary fan-service of the show, there were hardly any slots open for serious character interaction. What has developed between the main characters in the first series stays relatively stagnant throughout the production. New characters emerge from the foreground, but are eventually shouldered to the side after the recovery of the Magdalena of Thunder; this, despite the maturation of the characters. Only one character from Surei Academy appears throughout the remainder of the episodes, but her appearances are primarily reserved for Ekaterina.

OVERALL ENJOYMENT:
Not much. I rated this a 6 [enjoyment & overall] because the story lacked any real meat, there was hardly any action or development of the plot, the characters were static, and almost everything was sugar-coated with filler episodes. Seikon No Qwaser II ended up becoming a giant boob-sucking travesty, rather than a form of entertainment.

To put it simply I was disappointed with this second series, it shouldn't have even been made.

STORY:
In the first season there was your usual beginning, middle and end. There were interesting relationships between the characters and some character development. I thoroughly enjoyed it and if you did as well then don't bother with the second season. The second season started out with some semblance of a plot, a goal if you will. However this was all over by the fifth or sixth episode and to be honest it wasn't even very satisfying. From then on it is pretty much half a series of random mini ... stories that don't really entertain. There is also a whole lot more ecchi this time around, which is fine for some, however it looks as though they exchanged any pretense of a storyline for more fanservice. There's an extremely weird ending too.

CHARACTER:
All character development ended with the first season. That's really the only way you can put it. If you were looking for a continuance of some of the romances and rivalries don't bother, they pretty much continue on as they were when the first season left off.

OVERALL:
This did not leave me hanging out for more. If there is a third season I doubt I'll bother watching it. Usually I try to find some good points in an any but there just weren't any for me this time around. There may have been a few moments that I laughed throughout the series however this was more because of the ridiculous non-existant plot rather than anything intentional. When is comes down to it, how can you rate an anime in which nothing at all happened?

So for the second season of Seikon No Qwaser ...
After seeing the first episodes i thought that this is going to be interesting but what i didn‘t know was that after the 6th ep the rest of the story kinda ended and the rest were just some kind of randomly made episodes because of fan service ... I was truly dissapointed !!!
So if u enjoyed the first season like i did then just watch the first 6 episodes of season 2 and don‘t bother to watch the rest because you will be dissapointed as well .
And for those who liked Mafuyu as Sashas ... maria ... well even more dissapointment

For all who have seen season 1 and wanted to see more, well sorry but season 2 was handsdown a let down. Why? Well lets start with the fact that in season 2, the creators suddenly (after a whole season of not really carring about this) sencored every little thing which really pissed me off. Thats why i gave art only a 5, i mean yea sure it looked better then before but the censoring took a lot of the beauty of it away in my believe because you pay more attention to the sencoring and less on the art itself. The story itself started ... boring, with our hero being a girl?! after that there are some developments but nothing like season 1, still the ending left me wanting more. The sound was normal most of the time, with the execption of a few out of syn voicing. In the end I would give Seikon no Qwaser 2 a 6, compared to the 9 i gave to season 1.

Your enjoyment of this will come down to whether you like hardcore ecchi or not. Breasts are everywhere, bouncing and wobbling, as the main character grabs and sucks them like they were ripe Alphonso mango. The characters' art is good and won't get in the way of the lewd scenes.

HOWEVER, when it tries to take the story seriously, tackling deep philosophical concepts of good vs bad, right vs wrong, then it really comes off as it was written by an 11 years old. The creators should've explored more the comedic aspect of the anime because that seemed another thing they did well.

Overall, not very ... good. I would only recommend this to those who love heavy ecchi, big boobs, and are looking for a quick wank.

tl;dr: A complete mess of a season that's only highlight is the unimportant comedic portions.

This season is a direct continuation of the previous one picking up exactly where the last scene of the previous season left off. Unfortunately it's a complete mess. While the first season was heavily flawed, it still overall felt like it at least had some good substance and was properly trying to tell a story. This season is incredibly lacking with only the portions that don't have any substance managing to be decent.

In terms of plot, there's an arc that takes place over the first half, but it's told pretty terribly ... with bad pacing and not explaining anything properly, making it really hard to get invested in what's going on. It drops all the old characters but Sasha and Hana to focus on new ones, but the writing isn't good enough to get you to care about any of them. The parts where old characters eventually come back in are decent, but the plot is such a mess it's impossible to really get into any character or relationship development that's going on.

Still, that's better than the second half, which doesn't have a plot at all really. It's just a bunch of random nonsense with some random events that are supposed to have impact in terms of characters and such, but that simply don't land at all. This leads up to the final episode which suddenly gets super serious, but it still doesn't really tell a story. Rather, it just blitzes through a bunch of twists that are supposed to be major in order to set up the next arc. It's basically just a really extended cliffhanger.

In terms of the action, it is similarly a complete mess bringing in random concepts without explaining them at all and pretty much dropping the chemistry aspect entirely, which while superficial in the first season was still somewhat interesting and much better than the arbitrary nonsense that this season has. Really, it's impossible to take any of it seriously, so the parts that are supposed to be taken seriously feel like a complete waste of time.

Luckily, the only thing this season has going for it is that there seems to be a larger focus on comedy and that comedy is better than the first season. The first three episodes and episodes 7-11 are pretty much centered entirely around comedy and are overall incredibly lighthearted. Episode 10 is straight up a series of comedic short stories that heavily uses chibi characters. In general, the show feels like it's taking itself less seriously than in the first season and thus by putting a larger focus on the humor does manage to be significantly more amusing. And if that's all the anime was it could have been decent. But the presence of the serious portions are enough to put a damper on that and stop this from being a good comedy either. Thus, while the comedic portions are enjoyable, it's still not that good overall.

The art and animation are still as good as the first season. The OP was okay in terms of audio and visuals. The ED was quite good in terms of both audio and visuals. The soundtrack wasn't particularly memorable.