Art:
Great Artwork all around. The character models and backgrounds are well detailed. The more crucial emotional scenes were especially impressive and beautiful with the snow,lighting and coloring.
Sound:
With a title white album comes with expectations in this department an it did not disappoint. The score was somber and beautiful throughout the story and conveyed the mood of the scenes perfectly.
Characters/Story: (I put this category together as my opinion coincides and pertains greatly with both)
The first couple of episodes left me hopeful and excited how the characters and their relationships would develop and how the story would unfold but instead of leading into something great... it falls flat. I can't go into details without giving MAJOR spoilers and my review won't much sense without revealing them but i'll do my best.
As a story themed around Love and Friendship its done horribly. The romantic feelings and love the mc's has toward one of female's mc's is severely underdeveloped and doesn't even make sense, it basically comes out of nowhere. The story/flashbacks only portrays his kindness and friendship never love and so when he reveals his love to her its unbelieveable, totally spoiling the main conflict! Setsuna's troubled past with friends in middle school that shape her thinking and motivations is also laughably underdeveloped, its shown/talked about very lighty for 3 minutes! Its just plain written poorly and a super weak motivation overall why she is crazily obsessed with holding the 3 mc's friendship forever. Even the conclusion's reveal that shows the main twist and main motivating decision and logic of one the mc's is just baffling and implausible , making you question and think "really....that was the whole point behind that mc's actions and decisions... how nonsensical and moronic".
Conclusion:
As I cannot give any proper review why i scored white album 2 a "5" without giving spoilers I apologize. While i don't think its the worst romance anime ive seen, its average at best. Maybe watch it on rainy day if you got nothing to watch and bored, is the only way i can recommend it.
