Magic Knight Rayearth II

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English: Magic Knight Rayearth II

Synonyms: Mahou Kishi Rayearth II

Japanese: 魔法騎士（マジックナイト）レイアース II

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Type: TV

Episodes: 29

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 10, 1995 to Nov 27, 1995

Premiered: Spring 1995

Broadcast: Mondays at 19:30 (JST)

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: Media Blasters, Discotek Media

Studios: TMS Entertainment

Source: Manga

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Magic, Mecha, Romance, Shoujo

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.52¹ (scored by 14,177 users)

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Ranked: #1553²

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Popularity: #3254

Members: 27,855

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Spring 1995TVTMS Entertainment

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Soon after Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu return to Tokyo, the three of them meet at Tokyo Tower to talk. Hikaru says that she wishes they could return to Cephiro and do something good for the land that Princess Emeraude protected so dearly. Umi and Fuu agree. Suddenly, a light appears in the sky and they are transported to Cephiro. Clef explains to them that with no Pillar to keep Cephiro peaceful, it has fallen into chaos. Monsters are multiplying and the land is becoming desolate. All the remaining inhabitants of Cephiro have moved into a magical castle. Clef also tells the girls some alarming news; three other countries, Chizeta, Fahren, and Autozam are trying to invade Cephiro and take over the Pillar system for their own purposes. The girls must stop the invaders as well as the mysterious and evil Lady Debonair, who believes she is the rightful Pillar, all the while desperately hoping and searching for a new Pillar to make Cephiro into the beautiful land it once was.

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Adaptation:	Magic Knight Rayearth 2
Prequel:	Magic Knight Rayearth

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Characters & Voice Actors

Shidou, Hikaru

Main

Shiina, Hekiru
Japanese

Ryuuzaki, Umi

Main

Yoshida, Konami
Japanese

Hououji, Fuu

Main

Kasahara, Hiroko
Japanese

Mokona

Supporting

Shiratori, Yuri
Japanese

Lantis

Supporting

Kosugi, Juurouta
Japanese

Vision, Eagle

Supporting

Ogata, Megumi
Japanese

Ferio

Supporting

Yamazaki, Takumi
Japanese

Clef

Supporting

Sasaki, Nozomu
Japanese

Zagato

Supporting

Kosugi, Juurouta
Japanese

Nova

Supporting

Itou, Miki
Japanese

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Urakami, Yasuo

Sound Director

Motonaga, Keitarou

Episode Director

Kamegaki, Hajime

Episode Director, Storyboard

Matsui, Hitoyuki

Episode Director, Storyboard

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Opening Theme

#1: "キライになれない (Kirai ni Narenai)" by Ayumi Nakamura (eps 1-22)
#2: "光と影を抱きしめたまま (Hikari to Kage wo Dakishimeta Mama)" by Naomi Tamura (eps 23-29)

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Ending Theme

#1: "ら・ら・ば・い～優しく抱かせて～ (Lullaby ~Yasashiku Dakasete~)" by Minako Honda (eps 1-22)
#2: "いつか輝く (Itsuka Kagayaku)" by Keiko Yoshinari (eps 23-29)

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Oct 12, 2008

29 of 29 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

ParaParaJMo (All reviews)

32 people found this review helpful

I personally felt this didn't live up to the first season. I really felt the impact of the ending of the first series. Sure it left things open, but it still felt conclusive at the same time. I thought the ending was really touching and you really feel how the three magic knights bonded with one another and you really see that. To me, making a sequel just takes away the impact the ending had on me. Personally, I thought if they were going to do a sequel, they could have just made them stay in Cefiro instead to try solve the remaining problems it had and would eventually come and then end it the same way the first season did. The series doesn’t really have the same unpredictable plot twists the first series had impact wise. And I just really didn’t like the newer characters. The Chizeta twins and Lady Aska just came across as annoying and I didn’t like the rest of the cast. When you have your antagonists as your comic relief and not acting serious, it just goes down the toilet.

I thought the magic knights were developed enough already and they were able to use their maturity and experience, but they just simply couldn’t develop any further to some extent. To me, at that point, they just hit their peak. If they didn’t go back and have that ending where they are embracing each other and crying, then this story would have worked out better. It’s just my main beef will always be that the ending had an incredible impression on me filled with emotion and resolution But by going back, and then coming back, you truly do see their development of how much they cared about protecting Cefiro.

Along with the characters, we now have a lot of new elements to the series with design. Like the Autozam people represented industrial and robotic technology. Of course with the Magic Knights have those Mashins looking like mechs, the Autozam people have their own mechs like the FTO and the GTO. Their costume designs are pretty nifty as well. It has a descent balance of being fantasy and sci fi features to it. The FTO that Eagle pilots bares a very strong resemblance to the Dunbine from Aura Battler Dunbine which I thought was pretty cool, but had more of a First Appearance Iron Man twist to it. I also like how the other antagonists from Fahren and Chizeta were more cultural looking. Fahren was based on ancient China and Chizeta was more Arabic but they spoke in Osaka dialect. To combat the Mashin’s, Lady Aska brings a drawing that resembles her servant to a gigantic form and the Chizeta twins can use humongous genies.

Which leads me to the action. It is more reliant on the lets say “mech action” and we don’t see much sword play or magic. I guess that takes away from using excessive recycled footage. I really like the action, but I just really miss the approach and how it tried to distinguish itself from other magical girl anime. Now it tries to be more like a mech anime. Granted I do like the designs of the Mashins and the FTO, but giant genies and weird drawings once again comes into why I didn’t like the humor.

And the miniaturization of the characters isn’t really as prevalent as it was in the previous season.

Ferio now being revealed to have royal blood is now dressed up more formally, and lets say Caladina shedded some clothing.

Other than that, it’s the same old CLAMP school of how they draw eyes and faces. It’s a pity thanks to the circumstances of the story, we don’t get to see much of the scenery that the first season had which brought a great imagination element to it.

Well, I couldn’t get past an episode of watching the English dub in the first season, so I never really bothered watching the dub for the 2nd season. But anyway, the cast still remains the same that were initially introduced in the previous series. The original cast still do their roles very well and convincingly. I still love how passionate and emotional Hikaru always comes across. Juurouta Kosugi who played Zagato is also back and this time he is playing his brother Lantis. I don’t think the role really requires his charisma or his dark voice, but character wise, it was important.

Some additions to the cast are Inoue Yo and Hisakawa Aya as the Chizeta princess twins, Tatra and Tetra. Inoue Yo still has that calm voice you always hear in other roles as Belldandy from Ranma and Kasumi from Ranma. But she brings a more humorous tone with how she likes to joke around. Hisakawa Aya who has played Sailor Mercury as Chizeta is not really as recognizable as Inoue Yo. She is more darker toned and tends to sound more angry and serious.

Some of the background music is still the same from the first season. Like instrumental versions of Yuzurenai Negai are still sometimes used and still plays very orchestrated music. A lot of the new background music is well cultural appropriate to some of the characters. Especially that of Tetra and Tarta who represent more of an Arabian kind of background and that kind of music is played to represent them. So I think it’s really well appropriate to the mood as usual.

I can’t really get into the new opening theme, Hikari to Kage wo Dakishimete Mama. Sure it’s still sung by the same singer of the previous song, Naomi Tamura, but because I don’t like the themes of the story, the song also does a good job of telling it but doesn’t have the kind of pacing or the kind of emotion that was appealing that Yuzurenai Negai had. But on the other hand, the video clips does go pretty synch to the song.

Well, in terms of story, on a conceivable sense, it was a great idea. I thought it took a very original and distinctive approach. I really miss the Japanese style RPG like characteristics it had. And as a result, there are no video games based on this particular story arc in considering the fact I do happen to still enjoy the Sega Saturn and Super Nintendo games. And with the art and animation, since the 2nd season aired a week after the first season ended and didn’t have a year break like how other anime seasons do, they really couldn’t do much to have any significant improvement in the design. But the newer characters were fresh, but not really that exciting or distinctive. The music is still alright and didn’t really change too much.

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Oct 18, 2009

29 of 29 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Galactic_Kitten (All reviews)

21 people found this review helpful

Magic Knight Rayearth 2 is the telling of the second arc of the manga. While it differs from the manga, it is still a good story. The tone of the series becomes much darker in this season, and it deals much with the past of the pillar. We see the sorrowful role the pillar really is.
This is emphasized by the three nations invading the crumbing Cephiro, each who have their own reasons for invading, but eventually, two of the three decide the better, and actually help to save Cephiro during the final battle.
Besides the invading nations, there is the mysterious Nova and her read more

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Jun 17, 2019

29 of 29 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

SupremeLord (All reviews)

2 people found this review helpful

To say this is Rayearth’s second season would be a bit misleading. Technically it started the week right after the “First Season” ended, and really the numbering doesn’t reset, so it’s less so a second Season as it is the last 29 episodes of a 49 Episode Anime that for some reason was given a different name than the first one (Though to be fair, the Manga also had the split numbering, so I guess that has something to do with it). Anyhow, did the show improve since the last Season? Let’s find out:

Story:

If there’s one thing I like is how the show starts off read more

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Jan 23, 2021

29 of 29 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

megamanx3-sucks (All reviews)

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frustrating is really the only word i can think of finishing this up. i was so ready to love this, the first series, despite the nearly overwhelming love to JRPG tropes and general isekai-ness, was a entertaining series with really great characters, setting and a shockingly good twist at the end. so seeing that the 2nd series all but dropped the JRPG and isekai stuff in favor for a story i found much more interesting was all but good signs, and as a result the first couple episodes are great! the magic knights have all clearly learned and you can feel their bond, the returning characters, well not as active or important, still keep their personality and charm, and then the new characters from the 3 invading countries are all great in their own right, with amazing designs to boot.

but then nova fully enters the story, and she may be one of the worst villains i've ever seen in any media. her theme of self hate is a very interesting one on paper, but the character is horrible. she just repeats the same lines over and over and over again, if you replaced her with a soundboard that just goes "I Love You Hikaru", "I Love Everything You/Hikaru Hates", i genuinely don't think you would see a difference in dialog until the last episode. just a horrible character, and to make things worst, she only has a connection with hikaru. now that would be fine if she wasn't more or less the main villain of the series, certainly the one with the most screen time. so that leaves umi and fuu with nothing to do for what is ultimately the main plot of the show.

rayearth 2 as a whole mainly focused on hikaru and officially made her the main character, which i was pretty weary of. sure in the original show she was always kind of the leader, but her, umi and fuu all got the same amount of development and it never felt like that development came at the expense of others. but again, i did really enjoy hikaru in the original series, and it's more serious plot, i'm fine with their being 1 main character for a more focused story. but that focus is just so boring and overbearing that it honestly kinda ruins the show. i already mentioned nova and how any scene with her is pretty horrible, but the love triangle between hikaru, lantis and eagle is just so boring. like wow.

hikaru is a interesting and entertaining character with lots of chemistry with fuu and umi, along with most of the first series' characters. lantis is a cool character with a interesting background and relationship with clef. eagle vision is a classic ogata character of being intelligent, charming and calm, along with a lot of fun interactions between himself and his crew, plus a cool (and very homoerotic) former friendship with lantis. you add these 3 characters together and it's just such a impressive slog. hikaru has no chemistry with these two, she works with lantis once and barely has any screentime with him afterwards but never stops talking about him. with eagle sure she spends more time with him, but it's not really anything interesting or substantial and robs eagle of his much more interesting relationships with geo and lantis, and hikaru of her relationship with fuu and umi. hikaru just becomes the most boring character in the show when with these 2, which is where the bulk of her screentime comes from, along with the nova stuff. it's even more frustrating because this show can do romance and they do it well in the 1st series. fuu and ferio's relationship added a ton to her character and didn't come at the expense of hikaru and umi, or fuu's relationship with them.

it's even more frustrating because everything not focusing on those 2 things is fantastic. aska is a hilarious character with a pretty understated romance with sung yang, along with a adorable friendship with fuu. umi is a absolute bad ass against tatra and tarta, who themselves are a amazing comedic duo and bring the coolest fight scenes to the show. well the returning characters besides clef are all much more minor but their protection of the castle and interaction among themselves and with the magic knights are all great little bits of world building. hell even the 3 magic knights, the times where they interact and are together (which is honestly very rare), are still fantastic characters and have a very real bond.

but again, that's just where even more of the frustration comes from. all the stuff i liked and found interesting, is not the main focus, it's not even really hugely important to the main story. sure umi taking on both of tarta and tatra is a awesome scene and great for her character, but it really has no connection to the story the show wants to tell, which is of hikaru and her relationship with nova. sure fuu talking it out with aska until they can agree to drink tea is a funny and a heartwarming scene that shows the strength of fuu's character, but it ultimately has nothing to do with the love triangle that the show is much much more interested in telling. it's just so frustrating, i feel like i can't get glimpses of the show i wanna see and am loving, and then get snapped back to what the show is actually interested in telling.

so in the end, i just kinda view the whole thing as a disappointment. there is so much promise and potential, that gets so close to be fulfilled, but is never able to. i am very interested in reading the manga version, seeing as nova isn't a character there and i have more faith in CLAMP for a engaging romance. but as for the anime, yeah i would say it's ultimately weaker then the 1st series, which is such a shame.

i still cried at it ending though ;_;

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