S1 was hard carried by Reigen. S2 was a group effort. They really did a great job with the story-telling in this season. The show was already great but that was probably the weak point of S1. On the other hand S2 goes hard on the story-telling. That episode at the beginning with the confession was incredible, that small arc where Reigen goes through the different levels of fame was beautiful, and in general the growth of both the main characters like Mob and Reigen, as well as letting some other characters shine like my second favourite scene in the series so far where the body improvement club fight that one buff bad guy. (My favourite scene was Reigen beating the shit out of the scars in S1)
Overall, though the story-telling was largely improved this season it still was the weak point. This due to the fact that there wasn't really a guiding thread throughout the show. In fact the first season had a more natural build up to the final confrontation with the scars with Reigen coming in clutch. However in this season there wasn't any build up to the claw's return and especially no build up whatsoever about the big bad. In fact we only get to see him fight like 2 people as far as I remember; his son and Mob. Thus we don't hold some sort of resentment towards this guy, nor fear about his powers like the way S1 had made the original scars so intimidating.
But to be fair, other than the climax being slightly underwhelming (it was still very good mind you), the strong character-based story-telling was fantastic and ONE really got into the groove of things at this point in terms of that stuff.
So though there might be some feelings that are because I'm fresh off of watching it I feel like it deserves this score regardless:
9/10
