Aggressive Retsuko or simply Aggretsuko, comes again to shine in this season of animes with his new second season. Continuing to address the life of our beloved lil'Red Panda in addition to addressing serious issues like Harassment at Work, Employed mother's life, arranged marriage services and the importance of marriage these days, especially in Japanese society.
The second season began with the first challenge that our protagonist should overcome, his mother. A mother who is 100% preoccupied with her daughter, from factors of living alone, such as "Are you eating well?" "Are you cleaning the house?" To her relationships, where she wants her daughter to have a marriage arranged for get married soon
Relationships is the key word of this season, be it the relationships in the workplace as well as the loving relationships, we see very well in this in the three counterparts: Anai, Retsuko's temperamental beginner, the relationship in danger of Mrs. Gori's with Washimi and Tadano , the new boyfriend of Retsuko.
The first part of the anime revolves around the arrival of Anai in the company of the protagonist, who after some "Suggestions" of Retsuko, Anai get in a state of Fury, discounting with those who caught his attention, in a socially weird way. but it was in this first part that we had a deeper view of the Hippopotamus Mrs. Kaba, where she was the only one who managed to "tame" the vengeful spirit of Anai, where the same being the opposite of Retsuko, using electronic rap music as a valve of escape.
In this part we understand more about the difficulty of creating a family in modern times, whether in Japan or in the world, both through Mrs. Kaba and Supervisor Ton. beyond the question of understanding how the minds of our fellow workers work, to approach them and try to help them, of course in a polite way.
The second part has a point of ignition the fact that Retsuko, after being pressured by his mother (of course, wanting too), take the driver's license, knowing in the process the lazy Tadano. In the advance of the episodes we see that she ends up feeling attracted to him, but soon her world collapses when she that not that who does not seem to be, from a lazy unemployed to a Company President of super-famous Start-up.
Tadano in History was "The Rider on White Horse" to Retsuko, she saw that she wanted to stay with him forever, not because of her money but rather to really like him. The point of rupture was when everyone discovered their relationship, where Tadano himself makes a comment about not wanting to get married, because it did not make sense to him, the complete opposite to her.
Here we are introduced to the importance of marriage, something shown in five ways: By Retsuko's mother, a lady who is already entering the third age where for her daughter has to get married fast to start his wife life (I almost heard a "I WANT GRANDCHILDREN "); By Mrs. Kaba, a mother who works by day but when she comes home, takes care of her children and husband, acting as an example of a family-driven wife, by the Washimi, a divorced woman who believes that after marrying the person who love, love is slowly going away; For Gori, a woman of forty who is still looking for her soul mate; And even Supervisor Ton, who uses marriage and family as a way to continue following "Tedious" life according to his words.
Summing up: Retsuko ends up forming her own vision of what marriage would be, the vision she so dearly wanted to marry the person she loves so much, not to run away from a bad job or the approval of others, but to have something to follow your life, giving you your motivation to keep moving forward.
Regarding this season, let's say it was really fun to watch, not just for comedy or fun moments, but for Retsuko's daily life, wondering how she'll react the next day, or how she's going to get around the situation. It was very cool for them to implement other types of music besides Heavy Metal, especially for key moments such as Retsuko and Tadano Duet or Anai's Escape Valve.
Something that was missing in my opinion was more of Retsuko's mother's scenes during the final episodes, perhaps an apology coming from her (mother) or even an advice about the situation that was forming with the relationship with Tadano. Not to mention a more present participation of the friend of childhood of the protagonist, that only had three moments in the history, where two form characteristics of the personage and the third one is a comic relief.
But something that shines always is the sermon of Supervisor Ton, and with this he managed to overcome the sermon of the first season, not for being more radical as first, but pulled to a more sentimental side, causing Retsuko to wake up from his fantasy that would never be done that way.
In conclusion, the second season did not fall into the curse of being a continuation, she managed to make me more excited to watch the following episodes, even missing out on a bigger performance of Fenneko and Haida, the story delivered a fun, exciting ending and leaving open for a possible third season.
Note 8.7 / 10!
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