Rewrite 2nd Season

It kind of makes the whole first season feel a little irrelevant when you reveal that there's a multiverse of infinite worlds the protagonist has lived through and that was just one of them picked seemingly at random just to introduce you to the characters and setting. It's almost like Kagari is just up there on the moon playing the visual novel and we're just seeing the default route before brute forcing all the choices so we move on to the true ending. If you've ever tried to brute force a true ending on a visual novel with lots of choices that don't have clear ... outcomes you'll realize quickly how frustrating it can feel. I think that's pretty much what the characters are going through for the first part of this season.

Then we get the "good" or "true" ending route where whenever a choice comes up our protagonist uses all his past iterations memories to pick the right choice, represented in those little flame intersection graphic thingies I don't know what to call them. It's always fascinating to me how they sometimes manage to work in the VN mechanics of choices and routes into the narrative itself. Anyway the story that plays out when he makes all the correct choices isn't necessarily a happy one for most of it. I think what validates the first season and makes that story important is that without it this world he has to live through to get to the good ending would be incredibly bleak. That happy ending wouldn't have mattered nearly as much if we didn't know all of these characters already and have a good idea of what kind of life he could have if they were all together and the world wasn't ending anymore.

It's a unique story and again the cast of characters are all great and that ending is just so satisfying when it finally comes. 9/10

Re-write season 2 takes on a darker twist, where all that character building, development, etc that came in season 1, is not needed for season 2.

Initially, we see the key trying to find one path which will work to save the earth, but none seems to be found, as our MC simulates part of the original material by going through various situations where he is married, has kids with different members of the season 1 cast with the same end for the world


Bext, we see our MC is back with a new personality, molded a different way in his attempt to save the ... world, and he seems to want to start early on fixing the problems, without actually doing anything directly beneficial for the environment.

So what we end up with is a boy leaving home, honed to train his special powers, and coming back into a different timeline process to try and save the world, After further building a base group when sent out as a mercenary, the roots of his plan take hold, not choosing one side to save, but summoners and superhumans alike, who are being used for war.

he comes back and tries to set the two rival groups against each other, but at stages, his soft heart can be seen to be a drawback as he set organization against itself, by working both sides against each other.. At the same time, he has a little personality or cares for other people, as if he knows this is a one-way mission and people are just in the way.

It's a darker season than the first but equally valid if it gets the job done in his eyes. He knows he is drawn to the key, but he doesn't know why, or hold the memories she possesses, of all the things she put him through, and how would break any normal person's mind.

The approach brings more tragedy in his attempts to save the world, with his love for the key being what he discovers, Again not exactly the happy story or ending many will want, but the truth is due to the nature of the key, they could keep making these seasons til people get bored if they want that ultimate harem ending, or the two favorite characters together as the first few episodes worked on.

To me it was something different and it wasn't all about keeping the characters people like alive

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.