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jeez, i'm not expecting much , nor was i , but i atleast hoped for an improved or atleast decent ED.. but no we have the characters "running" stupidly again-.-
If you've seen some of these kinds of anime it was pretty obvious/predictable what's gonna happen.
Still solid episode, (re-)introducing all characters.
Solid 7/10.
Finally Infinite Stratos 2 is out <3
The OP and ED is good.
I'm so excited about the 2 spotted new character.
Laura Meow~ scene is so epic <3
Looking forward to the next episode :)
classic season 2 episode one. most of it is reintroduction of the characters plus some jokes. they did a good job of this and I'm willing to bet this will be the second best anime of the year (under attack on titan).
No idea why they even bothered with the filler stuff from the OVA at all, and a complete lack of screen time between Ichika and Chelsea when Cecilia came back into the picture was a minor set-back. :(
Overall, I really do enjoy the new opening, ending and episode itself. Clearly not biased because of being able to see Charlotte in all her glory again and Laura coming in a close second with all her ridiculously cute expressions/ less knife-drawn aura.
Upcoming Tatenashi-senpai (2nd favourite overall) will be warmly welcomed.
Try harder Ichika.. what do you mean you didn't know Houki is showering when you obviously went to the shower room to find her and heard watery sound before she came out? He's still as dense as ever :3
and Laura just made a season 2 debut as the super adorable eye-patch girl! :D I do think she needs a new uniform though!
Nice OP and ED! funny they are using the everyone run ED again xD
and it's quite nice to see that they actually didn't make the pool party into an ep which means more content this season which will be very nice too! more IS battle pls!! ^^
Honestly kind of a weird first episode. Kind of all over the place. Nice to see everyone again which is what this episode was chalked up to be, a preview of the characters. Looks like back to story progression next episode.
I liked the first episode as our romantically inept male lead fails to read his fellow females yet again. I didn't see any alarms that would make me discontinue watching and am looking forward to the rest.
Here comes my favorite dense main character out of all harem shows I've watched so far....
Laura scared the shit out of me, I almost got a heart attack lol.....
From this point forward, every girl I see in this anime is going go be a harem candidate for Ichika :D
The first season is a little hazy to me but uhh, that was really bad... I am now dumber from watching this episode. Now to see if Freezing will have the same effect on me.
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Not bad. Ichika as dense as ever. Charlotte is back! That cuteness, it almost killed me.
Overall it wasn't a bad episode, but nothing really special. Looking forward to what's next.
OP/ED : Prefered those of the first season. It will take time to get used to it.
Not sure what all the whining about Ichika's denseness is about. He has eyes for only one woman.
Was mostly fun. The gunfight was typically stupid for this show and I have no clue what happened with the festival. If that's really it, then I'll have to score this episode a 1.
While I like all of the harem women in this show (Rin not so much, Houki and Charlotte a lot, Laura more and more, Cecilia would be great if they stopped using her as comic relief), I'd really like to see Tabane again. She makes saying 'hi' exciting.
Ichika will go down in history as the most dense harem lead ever made. Too bad we can't know his internal thoughts like we do in the novels.
His reasoning for his actions is damn amusing to read, that's probably why IS is such a hit.
Season1 felt pretty stupid because I didn't read the novels back then.
As of 27/7/14 I have decided trap anime Sword Art Online II has more appeal than Mahouka.
>Episode start
>Laura in swimsuit, <good>
>5 min in; Oh right that's why I hate this show
>MC dense as fuck
>MC hitting on so many girls he thinks he's Keima
>MC inviting girls like it is a date when he's like "we'll have all fun swimming, yay!"
>Robber shoot a gun, 2 cops cars arrive under 5 seconds nicesecurity.png
>Cops can't do shit <keikaku doori>
>Anime rule application : Armed men can't with against high school girls
>CharlotteXLaura notbad.avi
>Oh crap, is that plot in my IS?
>Ichika ain't Keima
>Ichika going to date site in his failcopter
>Crash inboud.... actually crashed
>Whole festival in two minutes dempriorities
>Ed song finally.jpg
Less Ichika please and I think I just might be able to bear with this for a second season.
I forgot how Marina Inoue voiced Laura in the 1st season, but here in s2, i think she's using her Armin voice >w<
The new girl looks like the girl from Ben-To.. o.O
Given that I initially didn't want to watch this because I sort of dislike harem and fan service and thought S1 was stupid - I'm really positively surprised.
I liked that the characters weren't so frigging annoying anymore. I liked all the Laura and Charlotte scenes, they had a nice feeling to them and were rather funny. Ok, lack of realism in the cafe scene, but ok, was still nice to watch.
I think as of now this was the best first episode of the new season I've seen and really hope it'll sta this good, as it's much better than S. The girls don't seem like super bitches anymore which is really good. And the action was promising.
The OP and ED were both unfortunately disappointing, however.
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While there was quite a bit packed into this episode, too much honestly, overall it was a decent start for S2. My biggest complaint would probably be how quickly the festival flew by, especially since it was built up throughout the entire episode, it felt more like a preview. The series has a decent amount of potential, so I'm hoping that more is done with it this time around.
I like the new OP. I just finished IS yesterday so it was nice to have S2 right off the bat after finishing S1. Hopefully this season is awesome as well.
Yuri makes EVERYTHING better. Seriously now, this one date between Charlotte and Laura was better than anything thrown at us in the first season. CharlottexLaura spin-off when? I would seriously watch a SoL about them over this generic harem any day!
Also, it's funny but between Char and Laura Char is the guy so to speak, and Laura is the girl, while as far as Laura and Ichika go, Ichika is treated as the girl. How much more pathetic can he get?
I hope we get plenty of Charlotte and Laura, I'm only here for them. 5/5.
I was surprised to see the first episode aired the 3rd I read somewhere that it was the 5th but ooh well less of a wait so its ok :)
This was great the art looks better than S1.
This episode had a lot of my two favorite characters Charlotte and Laura, the cat outfits, Laura in a maid outfit, and in that cute dress, Charlotte in a butler outfit XD oooh god so great hope they get as much screen time the rest of the season as well. The robbery scene, that was unexpected but still cool.
Too bad they fast forwarded through the pool scene and the festival I wanted to see that in detail :(
But still looking forward to the rest of the season
"I am a single bullet. It has no heart. Therefore, it does not think. It just flies straight towards its target"
four minutes in and i'm reminded why ichika is the densest material known to man. my only hope is that they slowly yurify all the females until eventually ichika is forced to do the houki pouki
For some reason at the start I forgot for a second that only girls could pilot IS. Well, Charlotte and Laura, I do not remember that the two had such great chemistry, their outing was awesome, and the robbers was pretty lol. Mixed berries was great! I don't know why I didn't get it until Laura explained but they definitely got me with that one.
Strange montage that felt somewhat rushed towards the end with the pool and festival, Ichika being plain dumb (my god I have forgotten how dense this guy is), Cecilia still grates my ears and Houki <3.
Action was kinda weird, those useless, terrible shots were just unbelievable but it seems like the IS animations and whatnot have been improved. I'm not yet sure where the plot is headed but if it's another "everyone band together to destroy the (unmanned) IS" which conveniently is called Infinite Stratos this time then I'll be pretty bummed out.
OP was a touch better than the first, ED was pretty reminiscent of the first ED actually both in song and animation. Good so far and new character next week.