I still really like all the characters, though again they all feel a little sillier now than they did at the beginning. At the beginning things were serious because there were big stakes like the fate of humanity both the new and the old, but as that has faded to be more of just the overarching background goal, I feel that the characters have gone from serious with silly moments to silly with serious moments. The serious moments are still done pretty well, anything with Byakuya comes to mind immediately as well as everyone being petrified on the ship and the "Why Man" , but I just wish the goofiness was toned down just a little bit. Some of it can be ok like with Ginro being the one to not be petrified and having to save the lab, so it's not all bad though.
I give a lot of criticism, but I do genuinely really enjoy this show. The main premise is just so intriguing and I just find myself loving seeing what pillar of modern civilization that I take for granted is invented next. The 2 that really stuck out to me this season were agriculture, farming, and livestock and just the concept of reading and writing. Near the end of the show one group of characters needs to communicate information to another group of characters, but are unable to meet up face to face and speak to each other. They are able to send things back and forth and to a modern person a solution so obvious you almost don't even think about it presents itself. Writing. But then you remember how the new people have only ever communicated with speech and have no way of communicating particularly complex ideas in writing. It's an interesting dilemma and I think it's just one example of how this show uses its concept brilliantly.
The music including the OP and ED are still bangers. The art and animation is perfectly serviceable. The character designs are peak, I really like how with the more important characters their physical traits can often be traced back in some way to the original 6 astronauts that restarted humanity. Somewhat related to that, the thing I hate the most about this show is that they for some reason felt like they needed to make Byakuya and Senku not blood related. I've seen people argue that it's because of potential incest implications if Senku were to get with someone from Ishigami village, but this connection would be thousands of years separated and it doesn't even make sense because there are other incest implications with the fact that it would be impossible to build a new civilization from the 6 original astronauts without it happening to some degree, but nobody seems to care about that. All in all I still love Byakuya and Senku's father-son relationship, but just wish it was actually real.
Great show, can't wait for the 2nd part of this season coming in October.
