How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend flat is a continuation of the 1st season going on with Tomoya and his band of girls making their doujin-game. Overall, the 1st episode or rather episode 0 was basically a fanservice beach chapter that didn't really set anything up for the show whatsoever, and was a complete waste of time, but after that the story in my own opinion got a lot better as the episodes progressed. However, most of my problems with this show start around the episode 9 mark.
In the beginning half of the show they're continuing their game and trying to prep it for the Winter Comiket, and after episode 9-11 it makes all of this effort go to absolute waste. The last few episodes legitimately make all the episodes prior meaningless.
I'll try not to spoil too much, but lets get into why I rated this the way I did, with story at a 6. My problem especially with this show is the 1st season did a very good job leading up to a second season and the second season started off very well, I don't usually enjoy harem/comedies that much but I did until the HUGE 180.
In the least spoiler way possible that I can make this, the episode 9-11 mark makes all of the prior character problems, drama, comiket, 1st season and up to this point completely useless because of the dense characters known as Eriri and Utaha quitting the Doujin team after making a fairly successful game.
I wont go into details with the main reason they quit the Doujin team because thats going way to much into it, but I'll explain my biggest concerns with it since I'll be rating the characters and it basically links it up well.
For starters, the main character, Tomoya, I think gets wayyyyyyyy too much bullshit then he deserves, especially with Eriri and Utaha. There was one situation with Kato that completely made sense and was probably the only thing productive from the 2nd season. Tomoya gets ripped on his ability to perform as a Producer throughout this season and gets so much unneeded bullshit that its insane, they act like the 1st time game producer who hasn't made one game before is some sort of almighty god and because he makes one mistake it hinders the whole team, when it was only really the other characters making bullshit excuses for themselves throughout the show, Kato was the only character with definitive reason to have given him bullshit.
Eriri, had a LOT of spotlight in this season compared to the likes of Utaha, and I actually am quite pissed that they gave Eriri so much screentime after the stunt she pulls in episode 9 along with Utaha, they could have given more screen time for the cousin or Tomoya and Kato than make a whole melodrama episode bunch for Eriri who basically makes the whole dramatic episodes useless. Eriri had a "slump" for most of this season, and the person who honestly got her out of the "slump" Tomoya, inevitably gets to be blamed for the slump because she hasn't changed as a character and continuously makes herself look stupid because she never breaks out of her shell of blaming Tomoya or using Tomoya for some stupid fucking reason.
Utaha, had a little less screen time, but it still was enough to make her character worse then it already was. I think Utaha was my 2nd favorite character at the start and shoved her way down. She inevitably gets her screen time helping Tomoya with doujin stuff or the last bit of drama scenes where just like Eriri, pin the blame on Tomoya and act like he's a shitty director/producer even though that was his first time making a visual novel/gal game. Cut the kid some slack, it was successful, and theres no reason to act like hes limiting you when its you limiting yourself, and that hasn't changed at all since the start of the series.
Some other minor characters, like Iori, actually were better then the main characters themselves. While as depressing as it sounds, yes, the supporting cast in this show outside of the characters from Blessing Garden did more in this season then the last. Tomoya and Kato all and all were fine characters the entire season and inevitably learned from their mistakes, Iori actually helped with a lot of the issues in this series to help build plot and other characters were used as well, while the main cast either did nothing but stall more bullshit or add fanservice.
My characters I rate a 5 because this was one of the shows I was looking forward to this season and I inevitably was let down tremendously by the way things were handled. When only 1 main character actually goes through change and the side characters did more visible change then the main cast, it makes absolutely no reason for it not to be anything BUT mediocre.
The Art and Sound as always I think was pretty good. I liked the art of most scenes and the sound quality from voice actors was I think a plus. The OP kinda sucks and I skipped through most of it, however the emotion could be felt in this series and I like that.
My enjoyment level overall was good, I enjoyed the season, I might be a bit harsher then other people watching, and be expecting more from a harem trope series as is, but I felt something different then most other harem series with the creative aspect and most of my problems lie with how the creative side in this show gets entirely fucking ruined by the last 3 episodes and with one of the worst endings I've seen.
Overall, if you watched the first season of How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, by all means watch this season. I think most people would probably enjoy this season as is, and I would have too if not what I've said a shitload already, how they make the whole series for the most part irrelevant by the end. I think if the show gets another season or I randomly find the LNs and read them and get more clarification on this, my opinion could change, but as a way to end a season its either good or bad or potentially both.
I hope this review isn't too long, but I hope its helpful and doesn't spoil most of the actual problems in the season. I might just be a nitpicker but this definitely was not my cup of tea.
**STILL BETTER THEN EROMANGA-SENSEI***
