Mar 30, 2019
You can't really fully enjoy this anime without playing the game, regardless of whether you've watched season 1 or not. This is the kind of anime where seeing your favorite character get screen time already makes your day.
Nevertheless, my hopes for this season was for all 5 bands to interact with one another, with the bonus of RAS joining the fray. Safe to say that the show did this to a certain degree.
One interesting move is advancing everyone by a year, with some interesting turn of events. For example, Rinko became the SC president for Hanasakigawa and Hina either ended or saved Haneoka HS by being the boppin SC pres there. While the show had its concert-style premiere and finale episodes, along with single-band focus episodes early on, the best part without a doubt was the cultural festival. It was during this part of the series that my hopes came true. The all-star band assembled by Hina, and different interactions spawning from the collab between the two schools were great. Throw in the emergence of RAS plus the resulting Otae drama, and we had ourselves a very entertaining anime. Not everything in life is fine and dandy, so I'd like to thank Yukina, Chu2 and Otae for bringing in even the slightest bit of complexity and negativity to the show.
The animation, which was controversially done in almost full 3D, was a double-edged sword. The consistency of the designs were a step up from the horrifying animation in S1, and at best the CGI was very pleasing to see. At many points however, side characters were animated in 2D or the CGI looked a bit too robotic or flat. This made a lot of scenes feel off or awkward. As for the sound, nothing wrong much here. With all due respect, the BanG Dream franchises puts out really good songs. Maybe just better build up to the songs are needed, as spamming the songs like in episode 1 and 13 made me feel like I was better off watching the live concert.
My overall issue is that by the end of the season, RAS hasn't formed yet (poor Rokka) and the focus was ultimately on Popipa again. Hopefully season 3 addresses this (delayed to 2020 though).
Sure, in the end it's just promotion for the mobile game, but there's nothing wrong with enjoying it if you're already a big fan of the franchise.
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