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When I heard about the spin-off of Barakamon about Handa-sensei's high school career, I thought it sounded really lame and put off watching it for quite a while.

When I finally got around to watching it, it seemed... really lame! I thought the first episode (or at least, the first half of it) was weird and not funny at all. I had low expectations for the show and it seemed like those expectations were going to be accurate.

After watching a few episodes, though, I started to enjoy the humor of it. Handa's character was really funny and cute to me. The characters around him (the Handa ... Force) were definitely a stretch and a little cringe-y, but I got used to them and they were okay. I liked Yukio a lot.

I ended up laughing a lot from the show, in the end. I think if you end up basing your judgement of it by Barakamon, you won't enjoy it, but if you have an open mind, you might. In the end, it was kind of lame, in the way that a bad pun is lame. But I enjoyed it for that.

**THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS**

I thought that in the second season Kuronuma and Kazehaya would be dating early on and that the episodes would be about their relationship together. When I realized that it was going to be twelve episodes of them doing nothing, it was pretty frustrating.

In the first season, I liked all of the characters (especially the protagonist Kuronuma Sawako) because I found them all funny and enjoyable. By the fourth episode of the second season, Kuronuma became obnoxious. There was no plot development at all in this season, and it seemed like every episode was exactly the same, with the characters restating ... their feelings of, "I like him/her but what if it ruins our friendship!"

I really enjoyed the first season of this show, but I was surprised when they didn't get together in the end since we had already reached the conclusion of "they both like each other" quite a few episodes prior.

There was no need to drag this out so long. If this was all that was happening, they should have just gotten together at the end of the first season and had no second season.

Overall, even though I liked the ending and I was happy to see them get together, the frustration of seeing nothing happen for twelve episodes straight was a waste of time and I think this season was a waste.