Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon II
Short Synopsis: Our lead character walks around naked.
Well, this was pretty much what you’d expect: this first episode continues immediately with Horizon’s formula in which the creators pull the most creative and nonsensical powers and plot twists out of their asses, all combined with some really bad fanservice jokes. As much as I’d like the creators to tone things down a bit so that it can focus on what it’s really good at, I can’t deny that this episode wasn’t fun and exciting to watch. The plot itself continues at a pretty steady pace as well, which is also good to see. Yeah, if you like the first season you’ll like this.
OP: This OP also took cues from “how to make a generic OP 101”.
Potential: 80%
Dog Days’
Short Synopsis: Our lead character fights a bunch of cats.
Ah, Seven Arcs: you have shown in the past that you know how to take a second season, and have it improve vastly over its predecessor with Nanoha, Sekirei and the big one: White Album. And for this show you also brought in a director I really like, Junji Nishimura, who directed Simoun. Whether that really lead to a better series… I can’t say yet, especially since I didn’t watch the first season. I do have some observations though: the screenplay and animation seem better and crisper. Also, what exactly has happened in the story-department in this series? I mean, I could see quite a few changes in the characters compared to the first episode of the first season, but we’re still at a point in which there’s a war between dog and cat people with overpowered leaders. Does this show actually move anywhere?Other than that, this episode was pretty dull and didn’t really capture my interest, and it felt too much like a copy of what I saw of the first season. A second season should evolve, not stay the same with only slight character variations.
OP: The song for this OP has been pretty much directly copied and pasted from every other generic OP out there.
ED: Generic J-pop with a slide-show.
Potential: 35%
Tanken Drilland
Short Synopsis: Our lead character wields a sword and kills evil monsters.
This.. was actually surprisingly cute. The drawings are very childish, but this is a take back to the classic 90’s fantasy series. what made this stand out was the surprisingly good characterization, rather than having the same band of adventurers, or the same old harem participate as the center of the story. The lead female is acted well, and Toei has put some good effort into making the action-sequences stand out. The big potential pitfall of this series will be placing too much focus on combat. This IS a game adaptation after all, which often favor random combat scenes over everything else, and this episode looked like this series was willing to spend extra time into the characterization, but not the story, because that one really is generic: things are happy, evil comes along and threatens things, the lead party goes on adventuring and fighting evil monsters: it’s all so bland there and this episode gave away no hints that it’s going to deviate from the norm in terms of that, and that will prevent this series to really stand among the greats of the RPG adaptations like Popolocrois.
OP: Cheesy fantasy.
ED: Helium voices with cheesy slide-show and running images.
Potential: 70%
Dog days season one summery.
Cat leader fights dog leader to prevent tragedy which would kill her. Ends up causing it. Hero and everyone needs to fight off some god stolen out of princess mononoke. God was cursed by evil sword that dropped out of the sky and Hero Deus ex machina’s his way to remove the sword and save the god. They find a way to send the hero home but find out that he will never come back if he does. Big emotional send-off. They then find out they can bring him back with no trouble. Hero comes back for shits and giggles. That was pretty much all the plot from the last three episode or so. The rest is not even worth mentioning.
The war was supposed to be over once the demon god thing was defeated…but hey. Maybe they got bored.
Are there any subs for Tanken Drilland?
The first season of Dog Days didn’t delivered until the unexpected plot-twist at the end. Let’s hope this season actually goes somewhere or the only noticeable thing about it will be the new main characters, and that’s nothing to boast about.
Fuck yeah! Season 2 is out! Gonna watch it soon, the other two don’t seem to pike my interest
By your comment, it’s pretty clear you have not watch season 1 of Dog Days (and you said it yourself). In other words, I don’t think your impression of it is very good enough yet since season 1 did accomplish quite a bit. I’m assuming the reason why episode 1 of season 2 is so similar is probably because they intend to “reintroduce” the world to the viewers since season 1 is a year ago.
@ AidanAK47
Well they hinted that there’s more to it right? So let us hope it will go more in depth about it in season 2.
Tanken Drilland episode is adorable, reminded me a lot of Popolo