Kemono Friends 2

Story: 6
Art: 9
Sound: 8
Character: 8
Enjoyment: 7
Overall: 7

Summary:
[ + ] More than just good in almost everything, except...
[ - ] lacks of satisfying story.
... I am trying to be objective here. Even though the overall score is rated 7, I only rated the story 6 because I am not satisfied with the ending. However, I still valued how they done with the artworks, sounds & musics, and characters which means my only lack of satisfaction is only with the story.

At first, I thought the story has little to no relation to the 1st Kemono Friends. Especially with the replacement of human chara from Kaban-chan to Kyururu-chan.
However, it turns out that is not the case. The story is still connected to the first Kemono Friends once you reach episode 5. Of course, this gets me pumped into finishing watching the story to clear my curiosity and (hoping) to get satisfaction.
Unfortunately, that is not the case. Unlike the 1st Kemono Friends which I found satisfying. This 2nd season is not that satisfying unfortunately.

Okay, now I'll explain why I am not satisfy with the story. It has holes much more than the 1st Kemono Friends. While in episode 5 it "officially" told us that it is connected to the 1st Komono Friends, it left a huge hole of what happened between 1st and 2nd season. There is no telling what happened between them and what happened to the characters. It is almost like Serval had undergone memory wipe or something terrible happened to her that made her lost her memory or at least made her memory fragmented. Until episode 12, there is no explanation to this. How come? This way, some, if not many parts of the story were kept in the dark. It's just too bad.

Now, I'll make a quick explanations about the other parts of the anime. Artwork is nice and cute. It's excellent for this kind of anime. Somewhat childish design but it's bright and colorful. The sounds is decent and the musics has the same touch as the 1st Kemono Friends. Characters is the interesting part as they kept some important charas but also introduced a lot of new charas (or Friends). Enjoyment is very good, until you get into the end of episode 9, which started to falter but I still rated the overall enjoyment as good anyway.

In the end, it is hard to recommend this anime to anyone. Unlike the 1st Kemono Friends which have many plot hole sealed, Kemono Friends 2 simply have to many plot holes and unexplained parts of the story. It is a very good work of anime that lacks a good and clear story.

Season 1 may have looked a bit rougher around the edges, the story and overall enjoyment was way higher than with Season 2.

What they could have done is pick up right after Season 1, show a new story and let us continue to follow Kabal and her team.
I don't mind the updated artstyle but honestly, I rather have the older style with a better story then what happend there.

It isn't straight up BAD but it is not a very good follow up to what was a very interesting, entertaining and even informational Anime.

Once more, just to make sure everyone got it, I do NOT ... hate it but it could have been better, much better.

After what the company did to this anime it disgusts me that even the top reviewers here gave it a score above one. In the age of cancel culture, with people destroying each others lives over saying a word on social media, people are actually giving pity points to one of the most corrupt Japanese media companies I've ever seen. The company is reprehensible, the content is awful, and the only things worthwhile about it were plagiarized and plundered from a better anime called Kemono friends. This garbage may as well be a chinese bootleg, it shouldn't even be listed on this website if anyone ... had any credibility. Enjoy your NTR, both meta and in universe. Imagine adding that BS to a great anime because a director wouldn't let your yakuza pork a VA. This anime has made it a moral duty for everyone to pirate everything this company touches. It's hard to top a dearth of quality that abysmal, and KF2 genuinely deserves the 1.