Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai!

I decided to write a review of season 2 of this show instead of season 1 because I personally believed I had a little more content on my hands to assess compared to the first season.

Bokutachi Wa Benkyou Ga Dekinai, or more commonly referred to as BokuBen, is your typical high school slice-of-life romcom happily married to a traditional harem-style anime. Thus, it can be conclusively said that this anime is about laughing alongside our quirky cast instead of coming to appreciate the more subtle parts of story writing.

Story
Overall, we get a relatively smooth flow of things. We begin right where the previous season left ... off, and engage right into the shenanigans of our characters. As the year progressed, the plot takes a few ups and downs, but overall remains relatively bland and tasteless. That's what you'd get from a typical high school SOL anime so nothing new there.

Characters
For the sake of simplicity, I will list over each main character from the core four to better talk about character development from this studio.
Nariyuki Yuiga is your typical harem protagonist: Capable, Kind, and ever-so stupidly dense. Unfortunately, while other harem protagonists shine, this one's dull as a rock. Yuiga is so immensely dense that somehow he doesn't pick up any hints whatsoever. "That is a classic thing about harem protagonists", you might say. But this anime goes out of its way to drop these hints and for some hilarious reason Yuiga doesn't pick up at all. Even where his two little siblings, his brother-complex younger sister, and his own freaking mom can pick up these hints, this guy can't. On top of that, the guy's a coward. There will be multiple moments in this anime that could've glossed over so much smoother if he just sucked it up and said the right things instead of keeping them to himself. Instead, he doesn't, and just leaves us readers and watchers with this feeling of innate dissatisfaction.
Fumino Furuhashi is arguably the best written girl in the series. Kind, smart, and the world's best wingwoman, its not that hard to see why the fandom's so crazy about her. In this season we got a deep peek into her background. And although it is revealed she suffers from stereotypical issues we have definitely seen in other anime (trying not to spoil here so bear with me). However, the fact that she eventually didn't even need Yuiga's help to deal with her troubles shows to me that she is the most well developed character of this series and ultimately the one who will win the Waifu Wars for this series.
Uruka Takemoto suffers from the same faults that Yuiga does. She's unfortunately shy, yet she hides it behind her athleticism and tomboyish nature. While we do get a good look at why she admires Yuiga so much. It's not that she couldn't muster enough courage to do so, either. Because throughout the whole series her fellow swim team teammates and even Ace Wingwoman Furuhashi has been giving her love advice. It's just that unfortunately, once she realizes that she has once again failed to break through Yuiga's dense barrier, she straight up gives up. Despite being told so many times to not to. An unfortunate downfall for a more interesting heroine.
Lastly, Rizu Ogata, blessed with academic intuition within the maths, she may seem like your typical know-it-all cold girl, but it glees me to say that the writers wrung her away from that trope and literally gave her emotion. Unfortunately, she was then promptly tossed aside, to be forgotten with the Senpai and the Sensei as a shadow of a harem member. That was what it felt like, at least, as she only remained somewhat significant after her character arc, which was unfortunately at the start and lasted about an episode or two. While the other two girls repeatedly barged themselves in on others' character arcs, Ogata doesn't, and its this neglect that ultimately becomes her downfall in relevance.

Sound and Art
I often like to group these two together because they're the bread and butter of a series and are often partners in crime

Regarding sound in general, the OPs are nicely done as always, showing the bright side of school that many of us unfortunately was not able to witness. it's cheerful, bubbly, and demonstrates all we need to know about our characters. The ED was good, too, with the girls in Chibi-style doing random shenanigans bound to get a laugh out of the watcher. In terms of ambient music, it really works wonders in this anime. The music in the study sessions is calming yet upbeat, for night its peaceful and romantic, and during each character arc it demonstrates the best of our characters' interests. Takemoto's Athleticism, Furuhashi's Astronomy, and Ogata's Business adaptability.

Regtarding Art, it is easy to tell where most of the budget was spent, right at the final festival arc. But overall, the simplified expressions as well as the "ghost reactions" that appear whenever the character's faces aren't in scene are spartan yet splendid. And in moments where a character is peaking, the art focuses on them, exaggerating details and showing just why they are a worthy love interest to Yuiga. Well done, it was absolutely fantastic.

Overall, this is a great anime to watch when you've got a moment for hilarity, it never ceases to amaze just how many situations our main character can get in and its heartwarming to see our characters grow

This is in a literal sense.
There are these girls who excel at specific subjects but suck in others so they confide in a tutor to help them...and no, it's not Quintessential Quintuplets, they aren't related! (though it's the same idea).

The main, Yuiga, is a know it all, what subject does he lack in? Love. But that's about to get fixed real quick.

Rizu is pretty much Shizune from Katawa Shoujo, very similar face, very similar personality, just different hair. In fact, I was waiting for her to start signing in the beginning.

Furuhashi is the cute one with blue hair. They label her as "Sleeping ... Beauty" because she sleeps in class. I like that, a blue haired princess. But she doesn't have a tired personality at all, she's quite vibrant and is one of the ones that I think helps Yuiga the most. It is kind of crazy that these two want to go to schools for subjects that they're bad at, I could see one breaking the mold as an idea for character but two?

Takemoto is charming, she's the childhood friend but surprisingly not tsundere. She's a swimmer so her main problem is her attention to her studies rather than specific areas.

And I'll conceal the rest of the gils because they aren't introduced until later so they "might" be spoilers.

So let's rank them, for fun. I'll just name the other two as colors (I mean, they're on the cover anyway). Furu > Takemoto > Pink > Rizu > Purple

Purple isn't even a bad character, just one I thought could've been better because Pink isn't even a student. Isn't even being tutored. I like "love interests" that actually have varying reasons to like this guy but I felt that purple should've been that way too, especially being introduced that late in the game. Don't get me wrong, I think it was best not to introduce them all at once but instead, I propose that the character be kept, everything in tact EXCEPT her tutoring because she actually helps tutor the others at times. What if Yuiga was losing his own studies and needed a little bit of help, another insider to pick up slack or something. That's who she could be.

Back to Yuiga, he actually has a family so we see them and his personality through them. In fact, his family is poor so he gets good grades so that he can get a scholarship. Then we actually SEE that he's poor, making makeshift candles and talking about how he has to do that all the time and uses them to keep studying. This man doesn't half-ass. Tutoring isn't for money though, it's for a recommendation that the principal holds over his head like a carrot on a stick. He doesn't really have friends because he spends all his time studying but there are two kids that he gets along with. In fact, they each have their own friends aside from each other which I think is something a bit different than what I've seen with other anime but it's a bit more real and balances it so they aren't taking up too much time like what I asked for the future of Quintessential.

It's a hassle to tutor 5 kids all struggling in different areas, a major weight, but he thinks of pretty creative ways to teach them. Then he is faced with the choice of what he should do as a career and what college to go to in order to pursue it. He spends all this time helping the others with their studies, not to mention keeping up with his own work that he didn't really consider that. So does he go after the profitable option because he's poor? Does he go somewhere where one of the girls is at? Season 2 begs those questions, he's an actual protagonist instead of your average harem stud.

They even dive into the topic itself. Yuiga is obviously the one these girls fall for which in a way motivates their grades, but what happens if one gets too close? Their grades go down, the teacher even calls him out to not date his students. It's looked at as a bad thing, as it probably should but I think it could've went further with that idea and actually broke the trope and meta that it was using. So I don't necessarily think that it's out to "rip off" Quintessential, in fact the manga's first issue actually predates QQ's by just a few months. And in some ways, I think it's better but in some ways I don't, they both have their problems here and there.

With Season 2, I couldn't help but notice that it has similar episodes now and then. It doesn't dip in quality, a good skit is a good skit and you can sometimes build off of that or use the same setting to good effect but if there were to be a season 3, I would hope they could expand horizons a little more rather than just revisiting the onsen. It also does a similar thing to Quintessential where I felt like S2 had a clear winner, so it was Rizu getting most of the attention but I think maybe Furuhashi had the most meaningful moments.

Sekijo would make a good replacement should there be another OVA or something but it seems unlikely we'll get a S3 since the manga's over (it goes well past where S2 ended but it no longer promotes its source material) but I can say that it was successful in making me want to go read it. A really fun series overall, one of the funniest I've seen.

I thought this season was good but it got boring during episodes 6-10, i thought everything else was pretty good, but i will say this, season 1 was better. I think the series is very unique, for a romcom anime and that its worth checking out, i started reading the manga after the anime, and i can say that, this anime for the most part sticks to the original source material, and doesn't cut out important details.

Something i really like about this anime, is that the author, Tsutsui Taishi, makes all the girls likable. Throughout the whole series i have found it hard to ... hate any of the female leads. Usually in Harem animes there is a best girl and a girl you hate or you dont really like, but in this series i found my self liking them all. Of course i had my best girl (Furuhashi Fumino) but i found my self not caring who won.

This Anime is more on the romance side of romcoms, so if your looking for comedy you might find a little something but not much. In conclusion, this Anime is good, it has an interesting premise and good characters, If you like the Quintessential Quintuplets then you will like this anime. But if your trying to get the the best experience from this series, Then i suggest you read the manga. I don't want to be one of those fans, who say just read the manga. But the manga will make you love the series even more. especially with the alternate endings, watch the anime then read the manga, you wont regret it.

SPOILERS (both manga and anime)

I liked this series (and still like it today), but GOD this was adapted poorly. Skipping important moments like the intruduction of Miharu (which they could have put her in a season 3, but NOPE), the sheer fact of the director being a hige Fumino fanboy, who jumped into straight into S3 material (the Fumino mini arc, episode 9-10) and jumped backed to S2 material (the festival arc, episode 11-13) just so have more Fumino screentime.

Also, that ending was not only awful, but it was a manga spoiler too. It got better, when the author confirmed that each girl getting ... their own routes, but it was still a letdown. And I may sound like a conspiracy theorist, but the ending may have connection with the director being a fanboy.

SPECULATION TIME

The 1st route was a few chapters away, and the finale was around the corner too. The director probably heard about future story stuff, and heard that [REDACTED] will win, but not heard about the individual routes. The director got salty as fuck, and made an anime original ending, that spoiled said character, because Fumino didn't win.

SPECULATION TIME -END-

At least the visuals and good and sound was al right.

Such a great manga, an almost perfect first season, but in the second season they decided to omit too many important stories, memorable events, and with all that it feels like they made such a mediocre ending. They adapted a single route, a good one in my opinion although not the best, and yet they did not even adapt it well, much less completely. This anime needs a third season and OVAs to adapt each route. I did enjoy it, but those last two chapters frustrated me. I could see what they were doing, but it was still disappointing. The manga, (the original work) definitely ... won, and by a lot!

Sadly the truth is it's much of the same as the first season, a fine typically sweet anime, that adds a few extra social and relationship issues, that try to show bumps along the way.

The comedy is nice enough as the anime goes, and the development of how comfortable characters become with each other shows the development and deepening of their friendships as pretty much 5 people compete for one guy.

What subsided a bit is any tension expected between friends where me may get jealous of another, almost as if they trust the MC more, or each other not to make moves due to ... how socially awkward each is.

What i liked about this compared to other harems, is it pretty much inferred who he would end up with from the ending, unlike many harems, where the guy remains clueless or has no one in his life.

What I didn't like really was the additional push of fan service which seemed more prevalent in this season than in the first, which also had its own fan service. It seemed a desperate way to keep people watching who got bored of the typical harem story

The story overall is a nice one, and most of us who have dated in high school or middle school equivalents has been here, choosing who we like best, or why, is why it is relatable, and the difficulty of knowing we could be hundreds of miles apart at college/university level. Also, the teacher continues to show she is not the cold-hearted character many expect, resonates with some not wanting to waste a talent they have, especially when it is easy to look back after at a teacher who pushed you as someone who got more out of you.

Again art was great, the sound was good, the characters developed a bit more with more on the background, but was an enjoyable anime, even if was generic as a story.

English.
In this second season it is the same as the previous one, they do not innovate at all and we see the same plots but you change a little with nothing new, seriously if you have already seen the previous one you will not find anything innovative other than the same plots seen in a different way, yes Compared to the previous one, we can see a little more development in our protagonists for the better, because we see their reasons for wanting to study this career in more depth and those of some are quite good and interesting in my opinion, that is if ... they did not stop Being a series where the protagonists desired the protagonist for no apparent reason other than having trusted them at the exact moment.

Español.
En está segunda temporada es lo mismo que la anterior no innovan en nada y vemos las mismas tramas pero un poco cambias con nada nuevo, en serio si ya viste la anterior no encontrarás nada innovador mas que las mismas tramas vistas de diferente forma, eso si a comparación de la anterior podemos ver un poco más de desarrollo a nuestras protagonistas a mejor, porque vemos sus motivos por los cuales quieren estudiar esa carrera más a profundidad y los de algunas son bastante buenos e interesantes a mi parecer, eso si no dejara de ser una serie en donde las protagonistas desearan al protagonista sin algún motivo aparente además de haber confiado en ellas en el momento exacto.