Rewrite 2nd Season

I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS SHOW.

This season was complete garbage. If you don't want to rage after seeing a trash anime then don't watch this. Even trash anime has some appeal to it but this was straight up unbearable. Here's why I didn't like this anime at all...
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The protagonist was pathetic. I liked the first season because of the way the protagonist acted. But this season he was completely different. I hated his screaming and crying. I hated his edgy behavior.

The story sucked big times. The writer definitely could have done a better job of explaining things. I got the gist of it but the ... way it was presented was horrible. It just dumped a but load of information onto the viewer in a very short amount of time.

The ending sucked. I want to spoil the ending so bad. It was so bad and unsatisfying. The writer was going for something poetic but boy oh boy I can't even describe how bad it turned out to be.

There are two types of adaptations (well, not really, but follow me please :) ) : the ones that you can watch instead of the source material, and the ones that must be avoided at all costs.

The anime Rewrite is the latter. I'll be blunt: it is probably the WORST ADAPTATION I've ever seen, all media accounted.
When I discovered Rewrite, I didn't want to read the VN (way too long), so I tried the anime. From the very first episode, I could see something was wrong. Even without knowing the source material.

That's how bad it is.



STORY
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Before I talk about the anime, I have to explain the VN.
- Rewrite has no less than SEVEN parallel stories.
- These stories are all completely different from one another.
- The VN is one of the longest even today (it's as long as Fate/Stay Night). You can count more than 100 hours worth reading.

What about the anime? Well, it has 2 seasons of 13 episodes. Do I really need to explain what went wrong? They tried to blend ALL THOSE STORIES into a SINGLE SHORT SERIES.
Cherry on the cake: the writers, as if they didn't have enough material to adapt, decided they should make the first season as an EIGHTH storyline, including new content.

The result is a total, utter failure. The entire series is rushed, so none of the scenes have the impact it had in the VN, none of the characters have the depth they had in the VN, and the storyline barely makes any sense because it lacks a lot of explanations from the VN!



ART
Meh. Some things they did right, some things they did wrong.
I like the chara-design. It's way too simple compared to the VN, but I can forgive that.
I like the openings and endings, the editing is cool.
Some visual effects are nice.

For the rest...
Everything is way too bright. Rewrite is one of those anime where the lighting is totally screwed up. It's always all white, like they're in heaven or something.
Because of that, the colors always look too pale, not vibrant enough.

The animation is average. Not terrible, not terrific. Some fights are cool.

There's a lot of bad CGI, especially the monsters.


SOUND
Same OST as the VN, and it's terrific! The anime even has some new tracks, which are great.
Sadly, because all the scenes are rushed, the OST loses the impact it had in the VN.

A music can be memorable because of the scene it's used in, but the opposite is also true: if the scenes are poorly handled, the music can lose its charm.
That's exactly what happened here. The OST loses its impact and its charm. Just like everything else in this anime...


For the rest, the seiyuus are great (the same as the VN).



CHARACTER
The characters are always the center of a Key Studio story. Rewrite is no exception. While the original characters are deep and complex, their anime versions lose all that.
Most of the characters stories are thrown away, and even the parts they used in the anime lose their depth.

As a result, the crew can seem stereotypical, one-dimensional, empty, useless, uninteresting.


ENJOYMENT
AVOID THIS ANIME AT ALL COST!!!
If you're interested in Rewrite, you should read the Visual Novel, even if you don't like this medium. It is a bit long, but it has so many memorable scenes and characters, it is clever, and it is emotional.

The anime is everything but all that. It's shit, pure and simply.