Sword Gai The Animation Part II

This is my first ever review on MAL but i just need to vent out my frustration and warn everyone else about low quality of this anime. I watched first season and it was not bad, felt rushed, some things had no sense but i was hoping S2 will explain some things.

Oh boy i was mistaken. Art and GCI are probably the best things about this anime, sound is poor and almost no song except opening is memorable. Then we have poor story which is full of plotholes, usually makes no sense at all, action jumps from one place to another for no reason, characters ... suddenly appear during important events from nowhere to scream and say same thing all the time like during infinite loop.

The biggest downside are characters. They are so bland, so stupid, so annoying. I can't really describe it but i believe set of plates waiting to get washed are more intersting than the cast in this anime.

Overall i really disliked it. I am pretty forgiving in terms of anime but this is the first that i will give score 1. Major waste of time, not recommended.

It's terrible; don't watch it.
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Still here? Okay, sit down while I tell you just why this anime is awful. This is going to be a tough one because I will have to fight the urge to break into a rant.

Warning: This review is assuming you've seen the 1st season, so it may contain some spoilers regarding it. There are also some VERY minor spoilers for this season. You've been warned.

Story

I'll give it this: I understand what was happening now. That, and it somewhat follows Gai (our supposed MC) a bit more. That being said, don't expect much out of this anime in terms of story. ... It's full of plot holes, inconsistencies, and general moments that'll leave you going ".... what?"

I'd go into more detail, but so little happens that if I told you anything, I'd pretty much spoil a quarter of the show.

Characters

Easily the worst part of this show.

Gai is still the generic angsty anti-social douche that he was before. Well, okay, he's SOMEWHAT better (in that he's less of a dick), but it's hardly worth mentioning. Even after two seasons of this show, I cannot tell you anything about who he is. All I know is he's angsty and he has a thing for his (adoptive) sister.

Sayaka is Gai's adoptive sister who wants to jump his bones. That's about all there is to her character. Well, that, and she leads Shin one at one point. Seriously, there's nothing to her character other than her obsession with Gai, and they interact so little that it leaves you questioning why.

Shin is our 3rd main character and wielder of the second Shiryu who hates violence and has a hard on for Sayaka... that's it. He's meant to be Gai's foil, but that's about it.

If you're noticing a trend, it's that they're all generic one dimensional characters without any depth. At points, they do TRY to give some depth (particularly at Gai and Sayaka's relationship), but it's either flat or my interest in the series waned so much to the point that I didn't even care anymore and instantly forgot most of it.

There are also a bunch of other characters. They're not much better—actually, they might be worse. Very Minor spoiler here: One of them confronts the woman who he KNOWS killed his sister... and then he bangs her because she's hot. No really, that's the reason given.

Sound

Meh, not much to say. The opening is decent enough, though it's nothing to cry home about. I'd tell you more, but I don't remember anything in regards to its soundtrack outside of the opening. There's no real track that's memorable in the slightest.

The VA's were serviceable (note: I watched the English dub). They're not great, but they do it well enough enough that its not too bothersome.

Art

So, this is probably the only thing in the show that isn't completely awful. It's not great, but it's serviceable. That being said, it does have quite a few flaws.

Busoma are still 3D monsters that look completely out of place with the mostly 2D animation, the sword fighting itself lacks any weight or impact, and the characters hardly move and when do, they're rather stiff. I can only assume there were budget problems, but they could've at least added some style to the fighting to make up for it.

Of course, that's assuming they even show the fighting. I cannot tell you how many times where the fighting just starts to amp up, only to cut away to something completely unrelated. Picture this: It's the final big battle! The fight the show has been building up to since season 1! The opponents finally begin to fight.... only to cut away to two other characters eating noodles. That's not a joke; it happens.

As a result, you just can't get excited for the fighting, which leads to the next part...

Enjoyment

There's none to be found. Who is this anime made for?

Alright the characters are boring. Maybe it can be like SAO and at least gimme some eye-candy? Nope, it cuts away from the fighting too much and the visuals are pretty average at best. There's nothing in this anime that's worth watching, except to see an example of how such a cool sounding premise can be wasted.

Overall, just avoid this show. I thought that maybe this season might redeem it by not needing all the build up season 1 was supposedly giving, but I was wrong. It's just a poorly written mess.

This is a review of the anime only. I have not read the manga.

Ugh, there's 24 episodes of my life I'd like back. This was such a train wreck of an anime, and I rarely say that. I can usually find something redeemable.

This started off really interesting and the main character had so much potential but he had all the personality and complexity (and range of facial expressions) of Bella Swan. He just wasn't remotely likable. I didn't hate him. I just didn't care either way. The only character with any depth was Ichijo so of course they had to kill him because he'd ... steal the story.

Everyone has harped on the same things about this anime--the plot went nowhere, it was confusing, and there were a host of side characters who had absolutely nothing to do with anything.

Aside from all that mess, the thing that really bothered me about this anime is that it basically gave the message that loving anyone or anything was going to make you crazy. Whether it was a romantic love, a familial love, or a love of a hobby, topic, or item, if you love it, you will do crazy things and become a monster. Great message that.

I wouldn't recommend it unless you seriously have nothing else to watch.

Story 4/10
The story is decent, as it was telling you about human corrupted and possessed by a cursed weapon and the user that have not been completely controlled by the weapon fight themself and the possessed weapon user, like in the first season, the strory continued around Gai, Sayaka, Grimm, and Shoshidai, the story develop itself in an good pace, equally divided the time for all the events, but the story end one by one by an tragic end, maybe because the point of this story is to see people try his hard not to be possesed and what happend around if they failed to ... contain it, after much death the ending(MC) is decent one, compared to other character, of course. Although i was sad seeing some character dies, feeling weird when our MC and M Heroine did not die so easilly as the other, such miracle!(LOL) so i think the story is good, but because some aspect of it weirdly unfair i will rate it as Decent.

Art 6/10
I cant say much because compared to other senpai that always give review away i was a newbie, The art is good, the combination of the CG battle and traditional Anime art was well balanced, the battle is good to watch, i feel like if this anime is a total-war anime about nation fighting other nation with that possesed form is enjoyable to watch, but whatever, it is good enough to me to keep watch it.

Sound 7/10
To my opinion the sound is good, when Shiryu possesed a person the voice is really dark, like a real demon the soundtrack also good, the seiyuu is good, perfectly match every character personalities. i personally like Ztolgweinn

Character 6/10
Fairly good, matching the sound, the design are good the balance is good the is ugly person, normal person, pretty person, handsome person and many more, because of all the differences all character is well-remembered by me, even the side-character, i would hard to remember if the face is same-designed with only it hair has different color(LOL) the cg is good! the movement is is nicely made, like a real battle but with superpower and cool armor, the belance between the 4D CG and traditional Anime art is good, it blended perfectly, i didnt feel weird seeing 3D CG Character interacting to Anime 2D Character in this anime.

Enjoyment 4/10
Really i know the point of the story is about giving in to despair, fight hard and you will win somehow, but come on the story about other character beside MC and MH is really warped up i could say most of the character had a Bad End, if they were the MC, really making my imagination hoping for something but then that chara goes to Bad End -,-, god da*m i dint enjoy that

Overall 4/10
well iam sorry i that i just had 4 on this anime, the unsettling end in every episode last minute causes me to keep watching, although some part that i disliked and i think was not too important was skipped(Sorry! Just a bit!)

Unlike the first season which was ok, the second is just bad.

Nonsense everywhere. Plot holes. Excessive pointless characters. The plot jumps randomly from ridiculous scenes to pointless drama about pointless characters. Action scenes are just flashy and basic. Lost count of how many people were killed in the same exact way, they run to save their loved one to just be stabbed by them.

But it gets worse, there's no consistency to it, characters protected by Plot Armor don't die despite being killed over and over again, such a cheap way of creating drama. Some characters die because its just cool to have them killed. And ... the typical anime cliches of the good guys after all wanting to destroy the world... come on... the nice guy becoming the villain... can it get more cliche than this? The answer is yes, it did, I present to you, the love triangle.

The story is dreadful and the characters became almost pure archetypes cliches. At least the artwork was quite good.

[Spoiler Warning]

Sword Gai The Animation Part II

Well not by much but the second part of this was at least the better part of the storyline. Gai is still the worst person on the planet with his personality but then that is how the show goes.

The art is exactly the same as before where it is good its good but the Busoma are just absolutely awful from start to finish.

The Sound is the same it is fair for the show but nothing special.

... Characters do develop more but we also get some confusing situations. (See toward the end).

I am glad that we get a full story with Midoriko since she was interesting.

Sayaka goes through quite a bit with some questionable situations.

Himiko is a really good character story especially with her fate being pretty good to see.

The show is better this half than the first as the story does progress. It still isn't great but it makes up for itself a bit.

The issues with it this time are as follows:

During the first segment of the second part, we have three random girls with no story introduced to which are not explained until very late in the show.

We have child marriage thrown in which is unneeded.

We also have Sayaka who is grieving effectively taken emotionally advantage of into a relationship.

We also get a Darling in the Franxx vibe from the 3 floating head bosses with an expected outcome to their fates.

It isn't until the second half of the second part that Gai actually starts to redeem himself as a person but ultimately still falls far short of being a decent person.

In the end, the show was very average but not the worst towards the end. Maybe worth a watch but not near the top of your list.

I don't usually write ratings, but I saw the top-rated ones are overly negative.

It is not SO BAD, it is basically very average. If you binge both seasons it will give some basic enjoyment. This is no masterpieace, but if you have nothing else to watch you might as well watch this, get over it, and forget.

Art is fine, CG is definitely visible but is fine, fights are ok. A lot of plot holes, confusing choices, etc, but I can't say I regretted watching this. Considering the score I expected worse.

If you like generic action anime with blood and stuff, this will digest ... fine. Fake few beers and go over it, even has some funny moments, considering stuff coming out nowadays this does deserve a second chance.