Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles Season 2 Discussion

I'm so lost. I only vaguely remember the first season.

@runec To quickly summarize things, Haruto dies in a brutal bus accident, then gets reincarnated as the peasant Rio and ends up being admitted to a military academy after saving the princess, who made a visit to the slums. Then he runs away after seeing that nobody but his advisor Celia believed in him and decides to learn about his parents and their origins, and in particular learns he is a prince of some faraway kingdom. He trains for a year, summons a spirit helper, and then returns to the kingdom to rescue Celia from an arranged marriage to some scumbag noble.

Then it ends with the other kids getting summoned to this world with Rio's childhood friend Miharu among them, and they get captured by bandits before Rio comes in to free them. The start of this episode retells that portion with expanded background info and stuff. Pretty much the first season only involved Rio as far as those from Japan, but this season introduces several more other worlders into this place having been summoned.

I think I'm getting this and another mid-tier isekai mixed up. I remembered that he was at some academy and then left because he was making too many enemies. But I thought that I remembered him finding a village of demi-humans and learning to use his abilities there and of course a bunch of girls fell for him while he was there. So when this started I expected him to have a harem following him around. I guess the part about the demi-human village was from another show though. I don't remember what this MC did while on walkabout so it must not have been too thrilling.

I do very distinctly remember making a comment where I went over, in depth, just how terrible one fight scene against a monster had been directed. The fight in this ep was ok up until they suddenly broke the 180 rule, something that happened multiple times in the scene from last season that made the whole thing very confusing. I really hate when directors do that in a scene and you can tell they think they're being clever or something, but they're really just showing how bad they are at their job.

I think I'm getting this and another mid-tier isekai mixed up. I remembered that he was at some academy and then left because he was making too many enemies. But I thought that I remembered him finding a village of demi-humans and learning to use his abilities there and of course a bunch of girls fell for him while he was there. So when this started I expected him to have a harem following him around. I guess the part about the demi-human village was from another show though. I don't remember what this MC did while on walkabout so it must not have been too thrilling.

I do very distinctly remember making a comment where I went over, in depth, just how terrible one fight scene against a monster had been directed. The fight in this ep was ok up until they suddenly broke the 180 rule, something that happened multiple times in the scene from last season that made the whole thing very confusing. I really hate when directors do that in a scene and you can tell they think they're being clever or something, but they're really just showing how bad they are at their job.

Man, this show really isn't doing anything of note is it?

@runec I noted how it's continued to use the 'two voices talking over each other' for the translation bit quite a long time...

I forgot he had another harem in the village. Has he gone over the critical limit of 7 yet? Once you pass the harem critical limit of 7 you have less than a day with each waifu during the week.

I'm surprised you can keep track of that many. This show has way too many characters for something so mediocre. I'm lost on who most of these people are and how they're related and this isn't a good enough show for me to bother re-watching the first season.

Am I supposed to remember who this other blue-haired girl on the airship is from the first season?

Am I supposed to remember who this other blue-haired girl on the airship is from the first season?

Terrible decision by the director. I was watching some other anime recently, and they did some foreign language for like 30 seconds, with subtitles in Japanese, after that they just put up text that said "from now on, you will hear Japanese, but they are speaking a foreign language."

THat's all they need, is a little title bar saying "she's speaking a foreign language". The fact that they've stretched this out over 4 episodes is ridiculous

The flashback implies we're supposed to recognize purple princess. I vaguely recall a storyline where he was her temporary guard, was betrayed by other guards, then he killed some monsters and ran away.

Remind me again why he is keeping his real identity secret from half of the cast at this point?

This show has become more of a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things show that just occasionally has a sword fight in it.

@runec He is a wanted criminal in Beltrum, so he keeps it a secret since that would cause him problems. As for his past life's self, he doesn't tell Aki or the others since he doesn't consider himself Haruto Amakawa and does not want them to seek that past life from him. His view is that he is Rio and those memories are just that. Not to mention telling them about his past life would cause them to realize the issue with the timeline.

@Panthers426 You actually remember the first season? It's mostly a blur for me.

They could have accomplished just as much in that interlude with the little sister in half the time.

Yeah I don't really buy into his reasoning. To me it just comes off like a device by the author to create tension. If it was framed more as him trying to keep an emotional distance from them since they might eventually go back to his original world that would seem more plausible.

Obnoxious "hero" aside i don't know how the grown up sister (Aki?) is still blaming Haruto for "betraying" her. They were both children, she should be old enough to know it wasn't his choice at this point. Fake drama is so tedious, just like this episode.