As the title of my review shows, this is in fact the second season of the Kingdom Anime, from here I will tell everyone to watch the first season before watching or reading this review, mini-review within a review, Kingdom season one is good, but the production costs to make it were quite low, but they increased in the second season quite a lot, so it's definitely worth a watch if your into action and history with more action thrown in.
By this point I don't want to be seeing any Mountain Trolls who haven't seen the first season reading this. *cough* Well then back to the actual review we go! As mentioned above about funding, many people were disgruntled by the animations of characters of the series, the movements felt odd and the characteristics of those movements felt out of place, as for the second season, the studio's fund has been improved.
I don't watch anime because some people think it's the best of the best or the worst of the worst, I usually tend to watch it because I enjoy it, if the story is the best or the worst, it doesn't matter so long as I enjoy it, from this point I can relay Kingdom Second Seasons story points to you. The anime is not one big shot where to hero saves the day or gun-blast's everywhere with mecha warriors or super heroes crashing down from the skies and blowing up stuff. It's simply an animated storytelling of the Warring States Period during the Chinese History, some parts are true whereas some bits are just fantasy. There is lots of action within this season and everything piled up is very enjoyable, but that's not all what makes the series good.
This season portrays the History of the state of Qin, protagonists Xin, Zheng and many other primary and secondary characters mentioned in the first season, it takes a step back from non-stop bloodshed like it's predecessor and introduces more realistic relationships between characters which are both happy and sad.
Warring wise, this season focuses on the state of Wei, and it's Army Commander Lian Po, whom is just like Wang Qi but of another nation. Many new and old characters are brought into this season throughout it and many surprised will lay wait to those that watch it. But the story is ultimately revolved around the King's wish to unite China and Xin's wish to become the Greatest General under the Heavens. Within the Story there is now competition between Xin and becoming the Greatest General as two new generals both from high ranking families join in to take Xin's wish, both are smart 300 man generals, where as Xin's still the truthful idiot we all love.
Moving on from the simple basics of the story we move onto the instrumentals of the series, the songs throughout the series played during the series fit each scene with amazement, sad scene music with sad parts where as happy music with happy scenes, for those that do pay attention to everything in an anime, this may make you cry, as the instrumentals along with the feelings of the situation may make you sad or even cry. Next we have the opening and endings of the series, it follows the same as the first season, one opening and three endings. Just like the first seasons opening it's annoying, but over time it drives it into your skull to make it decent where as the endings, all done by the same band are decent.
Having watched the entire second season, I will say it's not the best anime out there, but it is enjoyable it takes another step from the first season and brings it up a notch. hoping for great things for the anime in the future, the only problem is waiting for that future to happen. If you've watched the first season, then by now you've wasted your time enough not to watch the second season, so go watch it, if you haven't watched the first season, go watch it now. *Damn those pesky Mountain Trolls*
Overall I'm etching to give this one an 8/10 because it's enjoyable and it's been improved compared the the first season. The story is quite better in this one while the music has improved. As I said the funding has improved thus the quality of the anime will always improve. There has been two seasons as of yet, and anyone who has watched it is anxiously awaiting the third season to begin.
Well thank you for reading my review, hope this helps you get the feels to watch Kingdom Second Season.
