12-sai.: Chicchana Mune no Tokimeki 2nd Season

12-Sai.: Chicchana Mune no Tokimeki 2nd Season continues off from its prequel. It is about 6th graders growing up and learning 'bout love and are trying to understand what "adulthood" is about. Firstly, the plot sucks. The drama has been always shit and the good moments are too short (mine is like last few episodes).

Main plot consists of:
1. Introduction and pairing partners,
2. Dates.

That's it. The others are just fillers with side characters, and almost every side-character is annoying. You can just see episodes that pair the students at the start and then skip to the last episode, and you'll see the main plot. The other ... episodes are a bit useless because they are used to clarify that this anime is about kids growing up and knowing about love, and it doesn't really connect with other episodes.

Animation is fine, it's colorful and looks alright on most cases. Occasionally, animation quality drops and few scenes reused backgrounds from previous ones.

There are also scenes that you'll really be familiar with if you watch all the episodes, and here are some examples:
1. Running around like idiots
2. Date in mall
3. Heroines trying their best
4. Boys being assholes
5. Heroines wondering about adulthood
6. Cringy dramatic moments
etc.

Opening song and ending song are nice to hear, but nothing stands out or memorable. The voice acting is mediocre, but lines for the side characters made it more displeasing.

My enjoyment is mixed. Few episodes are actually enjoyable, but most of it are pure cringe.

Overall, the cringe makes it meaningful for a bad series like this one. Is it better than the first season? Yes, of course. Do I recommend you to watch it? If you like to cringe and waste time with random animes, I'd do so.

The second season of 12-sai keeps things the similar to the first season. So if you expect some huge development for the couples or deep relationship drama, you most likely will be disappointed. Although at some points it actually took a more serious approach to their relationships. (fights, thoughts about the future and how long their love will last, approval by family)

Those things are still handled really lightheartedly and resolved in a very short time, so mostly you'll still see the same rosey childish approach. Yes - it's childish, it's cringy, but that's exactly what this show is about. Love from the view of little ... children.

Quality-wise I didn't notice any change, so art, animation and sound pretty much are the same as in the first season.
There's also only one single new (relevant) character to it, which basically is the male version of Cocoa (aka makes you wanna punch him in the face), and tries to steal Aoi from Hiyama.

I rated it slightly lower than the first season because I felt that it was kind of a waste to mainly focus on those stupid one-sided love rivals (like Cocoa literally never had the slightest chance) at the cost of less development for the actual couples.

So if you liked the first season, this one will probably be to your liking as well.