Animation - 3
Lets start here since One Punch-Man season 2 follows the manga. For a studio to fumble this much with great reference from Yusuke Murata, it is unacceptable. Take any 1 page from the manga and you will see what I mean. But the top disappointment is the abuse of CGI to compensate for their laziness. Take a look at Genos body, akin to Terminator 2 CGI albeit the later is much better. Characters moved in fight scenes with no weight to them making the impact a punch landing felt like papers colliding. Body language animation is totally disregarded even though the first season at least did it to flesh out the characters. There are more issues I have with it but to sum it up, this is the [u]Fallout 76 of anime[/u].
Sound - 4
I'm ok with the OP and ED so far. But its nothing as memorable as season 1. My gripe is the hideous sound effects. Distorting bass noise to insinuate a strong impact is so overdone. It started with Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works and so many studios abused it to the point of obnoxious. Truly a missed opportunity to sell a fight scene with the horrible animation.
Story and Character - 8
So far it is the same as the manga so I don't have any complain here. The story and characters still have their charm and goofiness. Unless they add filler episodes, which will truly make this a tragedy of an anime.
Overall - 5
I still think this anime is not totally negative. You might think I am being an elitist for giving it such a low score for something so many people enjoys. And you are right. However my justification is because of how much potential this could have with the source reference from Yusuke Murata. I would even assume this is fan made if it wasn't marketed at all. But then again I don't totally hate season 2. It provide fans of season 1 to continue watching the story progress and to me it just means more people are going to be drawn to the manga.
