Reviews

Ah, Kaginado. What fun. As someone who loves Key's work, this series is a wonderful parody of the tear-jerking moments and characters who make up Clannad, Little Busters, Air, Kanon, Rewrite and as of this season, Angel Beats. Much like season 1, it's wonderful to see all of our favourites return. This time we have an overarching story where Yurippe and the Angel Beats crew they to destroy the Kaginado universe and comically failing before realising they're enjoying things themselves. The music is taken right from the visual novels, the animation is great and colourful and each episode is fun as well as funny along with the occasional dark joke at the expense of each character's darkest moments, as well as several callbacks to season 1.

Kaginado season 1 had charm which continues onto season two. The only drawbacks in my opinion are that in some episodes it feels like they're trying to cram too many characters in in spite of the short run time of the episode, and it still feels like some girls got shafted, i.e Tomoyo and Kotomi from Clannad as well as Ayu from Kanon due to still barely appearing or speaking among others, while characters who already got used frequently in season 1 still appear quite frequently.

That said, they're minor gripes which overall don't detract from the story. You still get a lot of fan favourites making appearances and even Kappei from Clannad shows up in the first episode making light of essentially being the "forgotten" Clannad character. Kaginado season 2 is a more than worthy follow-up to the first season and I highly recommend it. And in typical Key fashion, we have a heartwarming moment at the end which will bring a tear to your eye. Do yourself a favour and give it a watch. 10/10.