The art is poor, in many places it feels lazy and like they put in the minimal amount of effort, and the CG while not terrible is unmistakably sub-par.
The sound is average, there is nothing special here, nothing standout, in part 1 we had insert songs, here we don't even get that, we're not getting the 'song performances' that were a feature of part 1
What was good about Part 1 isn't as predominant here, instead, it mostly deals with the aftermath of Part 1
The problem is a lot of the story elements have evaporated, in the later half especially, where it mostly descends into unrelated sub stories, and shifts into wanting to focus into being more of a Harem anime than anything else.
It had harem elements before, but Part 2 brings those to the forefront.
One thing is, it's not as clever as it thinks it is, for example, it keep referencing Machiavelli's The Prince, yet there is good reason to believe that it was not intended to be taken literally.
Machiavelli wrote the treatise for the tyrannical new Medici ruler of Florence, who had previously tortured and banished Machiavelli. Florence had been a Republic before the Medici's took over, and Machiavelli was pro Republican.
So he commits many duplicitous or tyrannical acts often without mercy, and yet people are just 'fine' with it.
In Part 1 his social reforms were met with pushback, which was the entire plot of Part 1,
Yet in Part 2 his tyrannical actions are met with crickets.
I quite enjoyed Part 1, I was looking forward to Part 2, but Part 2 turned out to be a massive let down.
