Reviews

This season can simply be summed up in one sentence with "they are just like us you bigot". The concept of adventurers getting stronger by killing monsters and monsters getting stronger by killing adventurers was too simple of a concept so they had to give us this 12 episode drawn out lecture all because a tiny minority of monsters are sentient. Its reasonable to not like monsters because it should be common sense to not like them, they have killed a lot of people and because a few are "good and are sentient" does not change that fact. This season goes well out of its way to demonize adventurers and make them look evil which is a startling contrast to season 1 where they were all mindlessly slaying monsters before.

While in season 1 Bell had to work to earn his wins, in this season he wins because plot makes it so and because he "believes" he can win and thats good enough. I know a lot of animes have the main guy do his speeches but with Bell its ridiculous, its like hes using talking no jutsu to beat his enemies instead of fighting them. It feels like hes trying to speech check his way through fights like its some kind of D&D match except his charisma is too low and he fails it every time.


Infuriatingly this is now the second season in a row where our mouthy hero Bell Cranel has had no development and has not gotten stronger, the only thing that has grown is his harem and its now expanded to a catalog of over 10 girls. Can you believe it? 10 girls, ridiculous. As if this show didn't make me groan in agony enough watching it, it decides to flip the audience the bird by going "oh hey, you want to see Bell develop and get stronger? well you are going to have to wait til next season stupid"