Plot issues with this season (Spoilers for up to Episode 5)

@SgtBateMan It didn't mean he would've done that within the circumstances, especially if there was a concern about keeping the threat in one area, moving around even to reinforcements is not always practical if you're having to defend in the process, which can take away precious stamina that Isao was limited on anyway based on repeated use of the Numbers Weapon

@holdingnothing you are making lone offensives towards an enemy with apparently more resilience and unknown power with the extreme risk of losing his invaluable Kaiju power to the opponent, which surely will cause even more casualties in the long run, seem more realistic, bruh.

That limit was only for the use of that offensive ability. A person of his caliber should have been capable of defending himself on the run towards his reinforcement with just the enhancement he received from his power, duh.

@SgtBateMan He wasn't necessarily thinking about the long term when he was confident that the new generation would be able to take his place, that feels like the crux of why he made that decision, cliched and short sighted as it arguably would be

We don't know his mobility capacity, especially since it's likely he's used the power less and less, he'd probably be out of practice even taking into account the fight against Kaiju No. 8 in training, certainly having more limits than when he was in his prime.

@holdingnothing For the record, he withstood dozens of minutes in that fight with the eighth's rampage; he should have been more than capable of making it to the arriving reinforcement.

@SgtBateMan The level of power No. 9 might've been exerting was comparable, if not slightly more, and it's been established repeated usage over time weakens the user, so even if he was exerting a lot of power, it's probably nowhere near what it would've been when he first got it. And again, I'm no soldier, but I can imagine someone like Isao would stubbornly refuse retreat, especially if he's already resigned himself to retirement even if this situation never happened, we see it repeatedly in the flashbacks

That's the fundamental balancing point for the weapons, Narumi doesn't use it nearly as often because he's already excellent just in how much power he can utilize, not unlike Hoshina, albeit much of his skill is in specialized techniques, so he doesn't have to exert nearly the same levels as Narumi does to wield that blade-rifle thing that's taller than he is

I get where you're coming from OP. At the end of the day, this show just has a B-tier plot at best, that borrows a lot of elements from better-executed series.

As always happens, you're going to get manga readers dropping in being all "trust me bro, it gets better, you'll see why everything actually makes absolute sense and is being set up perfectly, which will all be revealed when they adapt chapter 1173". These are the same people responsible for popularizing all these horrible "I'm a misunderstood loser, so I left my A-rank party to become a S-tier douche canoe". Their opinions can be ignored.

The whole season is garbage with everything about it being sub-par to Season 1.

THE most disappointing second season of an anime I have seen in years. Won't be finishing this as, at this point, everything about Season 2 is just destroying my brain cells.