Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu; after an unexpectedly great first season, has boiled down to your standard self-insert anime romcom. Or maybe it always was? No... The first season had some genuinely interesting characters, good story, really good pacing and moving moments, but they played their hand too early. This season could have been summed up in an OVA, as, all the major hurdles have been crossed. Ichikawa is no longer going to go Columbine, and Yamada, for whatever reason likes him. To be honest, other than plot armour, there is very little reason for Yamada to like him. And Yamada is....just a cute glutton with good genetics, so why do we like her? Season one milked the odd couple's idiosyncrasies for all it was worth, and this season gives us:
The Sports day.
The field trip.
The whole class shipping them.
The (not so) hard choice.
...and the confession....
Yeah, I bet you all didn't see that coming. Oh, wait you did? Colour me surprised. What were left with is, not much in the way of a story. At least the pacing was okay if not a little slow, and the animation was well done. The forced drama was cringe. The voice casting for Ichikawa and Yamada was always horrible. Mr. Yamada and Yurine Hanzawa (the blond green eyed girl) were more interesting than the rest of the cast and that speaks volumes as there was a little masked pink hair girl who just wanted to start a flash mob. Who doesn't like a good Flash mob?
All in all, just as there are people who will watch any trash isekai (now an official English word), the hardcore romcomers will probably love this show....and there is nothing wrong with that. It's just that there have been so many good romcoms lately, including season 1 of this show, that I want to believe, everyone standard should have been elevated.
