Saikyou no Ousama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru? Season 2

There is no getting past this, Season 1 is better I felt like I was in the minority for liking season 1, the hate on the animation was overblown, and while I did have issues with it, I felt it was an average isekai/reincarnation series as it had potential and there were quite a few things I liked about it. Maybe I have an advantage in that I've not really bothered with the source material, I gave the webcomic a read and I didn't really care for it, it just seemed average and shared many of the same issues that I had with the anime. But I get fans of the source material expecting the world for something they like and being disappointed when they don't get it. But it did feel that it got a lot of hate from entitled fans who expected it to get animation at the same standard as Solo Levelling or something. I went into Season 2 blind, and it was a disappointment, all the things I loved about Season 1 were pretty much absent from Season 2, the magic system, the world building and our time spent with Tess, these are things you really start to miss. Season 1 ended with Arthur needing to wait two years before joining the Academy, and becoming an adventurer, Season 2 is just Arthur and Jasmine going out adventuring, and that is it, if you consider how much Season 1 packed in, Season 2 feels empty and lacking, it isn't well paced, and yes the animation in the final episode right when it counted was bad, but that feels standard fare for so many isekai these days. Because that's the thing, you can really just chalk this up as an average isekai as it behaves no different to any other generic isekai out there. I know many fans love to blame the adaptation for many of its problems, but the story structure, the questionable choices where characters should know better, clichéd plotlines, clichéd character archetypes, those are all from the source material. The fact that so many things feel generic comes down to the writing. The lack of Tessia hurts Season 2, she gave the first half of Season 1 much of its charm, but more than that, she was likable and had enough personality to be able to carry the series, you wanted to see more of her, it kept the episodes interesting. Season 2 doesn't have a character like that. The pacing is 100% down to the adaptation, and our two years with Arthur as an adventurer was just not a fun way to spend the entire season, the last couple of minutes couldn't make up for this choice, all it did was make me look forward to Season 3 and feel that Season 2 was a big waste of my time. It just feels like a generic trash isekai, where there is not much happening, the characters go off on quests, fight monsters, the story doesn't really do much and we have a hint of a conspiracy in the background. I am someone who does like trash isekai, and while I found this okay as trash isekai, I still couldn't help but see the faults I've talked about. TLDR Season 2 is just kind of bad and I don't think it has much, if anything going for it, it has become a generic isekai without any charm, badly written side characters/villain characters and it probably could have been condensed into half the episodes.

I enjoyed season 1, but it lacked a lot when it came to animation... really bad. Very powerpoint-esk. Thankfully, the animation is far better this season. Hopefully the animation will improve again next season, but if it stayed at its currently level it wouldn't ruin it for me. There is nothing new in the story, but that doesn't stop it being entertaining. Enjoyably, the monster designs were unique enough, its nice having monsters which aren't just copy and paste from generic fantasy stories. One thing this has had since season one and continues to, is the voices. The voice acting of the subbed version is really good.