Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun 2nd Stage

Fumiya Tomozaki is now cruising through the game of life—all thanks to the guidance of Aoi Hinami, his popular classmate and rival in the online game Attack Families, widely known as "Tackfam." As the summer holiday draws to a close and a new term commences, Tomozaki reunites with Aoi, who reminds him of his ultimate goals: to become well-liked among his peers and find himself a girlfriend.

However, Tomozaki puts his ambitions on hold when his innocent friend, Hanabi Natsubayashi, starts being bullied. To make matters worse, Aoi is characteristically out of touch with the situation. But Tomozaki is not alone in resolving this issue—he now has a group of loyal friends who are all determined to help Hanabi and ensure they enjoy their youths together to the fullest.

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Hinami, Aoi Main

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Tomozaki, Fumiya Main

Satou, Gen Japanese

Nanami, Minami Supporting

Hasegawa, Ikumi Japanese

Kikuchi, Fuuka Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Izumi, Yuzu Supporting

Hieda, Nene Japanese

Natsubayashi, Hanabi Supporting

Maekawa, Ryouko Japanese

Mizusawa, Takahiro Supporting

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Narita, Tsugumi Supporting

Fujita, Akane Japanese

Nakamura, Shuuji Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Takei Supporting

Mizuno, Shuntarou Japanese

Yanagi, Shinsuke Director, Storyboard

Motoyama, Satoshi Sound Director

Sadohara, Takeyuki Episode Director

Matsumoto, Masayuki Episode Director

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Feb 16, 2025

Alkasion

Recommended

Finishing up this season was bittersweet in many ways. I hope it isn't the last season, and that the next maybe comes a bit faster if so. I have fallen for the characters, the concept and the story itself. It seems to lead towards a different conclusion, and while he did end up with one of my favorite characters, i probably would have prefered one of two ither options. To be fair, i hope for him to end up with the one that didnt get picked out of two, over the seemingly obvious end goal. Again, i really hope more is in the works. Avoiding ... names for spoiler reasons.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Dec 18, 2024

Snowy1234

Mixed Feelings

For a novel reader, 2nd season is truly disappointing. The story feels rushed and lacks depth, failing to make logical connections to the first season. Important hints about Hinami's character and her motivation to help Tomozaki are nowhere to be found.

This small details what made the story interesting, after the initial "life improvement" setup begin to fade away. What’s left is a somewhat strange and overly simplistic school romance. So, what did anime-only fans miss?

While the theme of these volumes was romance, there was more to it. First of all, it was a logical continuation of the story. Tomozaki decided “to do what he wants.” ... But what exactly does that mean? How should he balance improving himself through tasks with staying true to himself? Hinami is still not a fan of Tomozaki’s approach and keeps pushing him. This ongoing struggle, doubts, endless conversations finally transform his baseless resolution from season one into a true lifestyle. This is why, by the end of the season, there are no tasks left in play—Tomozaki doesn’t need them anymore. Beautiful.

Hinami pushing feels weird, and sidestory of Hanami first BF (how i wish it were animated), explains what feels wrong. She doesn’t wish for a happy romance for Tomozaki. Instead, she waits for him to become disappointed and disillusioned, just as she is.

Hinami’s past starts to resurface, but the anime completely brushes it off. Kikuchi sees through Hinami's facade. Every line in the script hurts her. The “perfect” Hinami can’t help but ask what Tomozaki and Kikuchi learned during their interview with her classmates. While everyone else is focused on the romance, Hinami is forced to confront herself. This culminates in her losing it and almost threatening Kikuchi after the play, revealing her hollow, real side. (WHY WASN’T THIS ANIMATED?). Completely breaking her character first time in the story.

The real Hinami also appears earlier in the Hanabi arc—cold and vengeful. There were more peaceful solutions, but Hinami chose to hurt Erica through her best friends, her love, her image, and her pride, all while ignoring everything she had taught Tomozaki before.

At the end of the day, the second season made me want to reread the novel. I guess that’s good enough.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 29, 2024

vietprodigy

Not Recommended

Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun season 2 had a huge falloff from season 1 because it was engaging enough since season 2 was just a loop for 13 episodes.
In season 1 we really he tomozaki develop from being a bum to a regular person but in season 2 now that he starts off as a regular person it feels a bit odd that hes still doing tasks for someone whos a little bit higher on the social hierachy then him. the interactions he has in season 2 are almost completely normal and that made the plot really hard to drag on because he really cant grow or ... evolve out of how he ended from season 1. I think a cause of this is the lack of new ideas and characters in season 2 as they really don't have any new additions and just rub on the relationship between the already existing circle.

Another problem I have is how they pace the episodes. The first half of the story was just 6 episodes of completing random tasks which actually wasnt too bad to watch but the last 7 episodes, tomozaki plans a school festival play in which this girl kikuchi writes the story and he assists her to create the story with the play. my personal opinion is that this is where it just goes downhill because the long ass dialogue between them about the story she was for me was all yap. I know some people love dialouge like this but me personally I actually couldn't care less. Yes it did build the relationship beteen the 2 characters but I really dont need a entire narrative spoken to me to understand that they have the same interest and are getting closer. listening to them talk was actually brainrot and i got bored almost instantly and it made me wanna drop this so bad but i persevered.

Some ups were that the art and audio were kept up to standard like season 1 but i cant say much else

overall, season 2 is pretty bland and half of season 2 is getting a fucking book read to me. I get the appeal but me personally this anime was just super boring to sit through but if you like these kinds of narratives and yap be my guest.

TLDR: No new content, half of the season is just yap

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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