Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 Part 2

Incredibly slow and sluggish from start to finish... we have finally come to an end with this school arc. And thank goodness for that!

This whole arc, from first to second cour, has been a difficult watch. In that I very much enjoyed the typicals that come with this series: The gorgeous art and animation, the music, Chise and Elias, the familiar magical elements... the OP is fun to see with every episode beginning! Beyond that however, our main characters are sitting around twiddling their thumbs playing second fiddle to Philomela. The true MC of what felt like the longest filler arc I've come to watch.

By ... the time this season ended, I couldn't recall a single moment that particularly caught my interest. It was all situated around helping Philomela as she painstakingly hid everything from the cast up until the final moment. Impossible to talk to, impossible to get close to... we spend almost the entire time watching her suffer alone and refuse all aid. To the point you know what to expect in that it self-destructs on her sooner or later. To the point you can sum up both parts of season 2 into a few words: "Chise goes to sorcerer school and makes friends+helps them with their problems". That's it. What few moments you get to even see of Chise and Elias doing SOMETHING together, I was cheering for that little bit of familiarity before taking a back seat to everyone's problems once more.

I guess the only thing that really came out of all this is Chise getting a little bolder and coming out of her own shell. She made friends. Elias made a friend. But nothing was exactly... learned or necessary in the grand scheme of things. Lots of foreshadowing on Chise's part from the tiny hints we've got here and there-- which looks promising in the final preview of a new arc we got at the end of the last episode. Something that looks actually story-driven!

This is my hope that we can return to form in the next season. Because otherwise? You could entirely skip season 2 and just know that there are now Friends in the mix I guess. Though if we're lucky they'll all just go back to school and Chise will be done with her studying so we don't have to suffer anymore.

This wasn't really an improvement but probably more of the same except for the climax

So I got 4 episodes into this season and got so irritated by the side school characters that I just plainly skipped until there were just parts of Elias and Chise, because that's just how annoying those characters were to me.

How the entire chapter came off to me was just too filler like and uninteresting to the point where I really wish they'd drop the school slice of life stuff as it got to me that much, that the first season was that much of a masterpiece and then we got ... such boring and annoying characters to have to sit through and their issues which made me care less.

If this anime drops the school stuff and the characters from it and return to the original cast which actually have synergy and cohesion together which makes for the entertaining first season we got then it will do well, chances are low of that from the blonde girl we saw acting behind the scenes. So hopefully the sooner we get back to content with just Elias, Chise, Ruth and Silky the better.

Tldr
The show fell from grace from its second season and this season apart from the last 4 episodes also tanked.
Needs to lose the school and characters to return to being something remotely entertaining.