杖と剣のウィストリア Season2

Bell himself isn't really special prior to getting Liaris Freese. He has some connections to people who were important, but he's still kind of just some guy at the start. Like even Zeus being his adopted grandpa (Gods in Danmachi can't have kids, so it's not a demigod type thing) isn't actually about a prophecy or anything and his parents weren't particularly special either. Hermes wants to groom him to be the Hero who beats the black dragon, but that's mostly Hermes own personal agenda and he's not even the only adventurer Hermes has taken a similar interest in with regards to "making a hero" even if he's the current favorite for Hermes since some stuff has shown him do similar things with Ais in the past

You can defintely feel the lack of presecne from Tatsuya Yoshihara who wroked on Black Clover and Chainsaw man movie. He was not only the director of season 1 but was in charge of the composition, script and episode storyboard for ep 1 & 10. S1 had better direction so far and a few standout scenes like Will's fight against Julius. I'm enjoying season 2 and I think the animation is qute good but you can tell where and when which scenes they're investing into more and which scenes they're taking shortcuts in animating. Still I will give props to that Ice palace spell, was dope as hell!

>Idk if Mercedes is on mourning clothes or is just goth It's probably just a style thing but I feel like she was sad that she had to basically give away her own child to save the world. >Elfie with a "teehee, i dropped something" Elfie is just a playful tease who loves Will more than anything. Rosty was probably just her getting to exhibit her real personality when she's not playing the stoic depressed Magia Vander. >Why did that end like it was end of the whole series lol Because the prologue has ended so now it actually IS season 2 lol.

Most cours are 12 or 13 episodes. I think some series have had 16 (or around this number) episodes and still a single cour but its fairly rare. If airing schedules are centered around 12 or 13 episodes, it could be difficult to get a timeslot if you need additional slots. Something else has to fill that slot at the end. From a business standpoint I would guess its preferred to stay on strict schedules.

Especially after what Serah said this episode about that this wasn't the time to protect but to believe in him should be hint enough that there is more to Edward and his reason why he wants Will expelled and wants to actually protect him. Now, I am not saying the way he did it was good, its clearly not. But most people are straight up neither just good or bad and have many different sites to them. Edward is probably just exactly that. He surely has good intentions, but the way he wants to achive them just suck. Still, makes it more interesting to me than "Edward is mean".

>Well that opening is interesting! I'm guessing the baby is supposed to be Will? Is the woman his mother? And if I understand this correctly, Finn was tasked to produce someone who can use the fifth element? Hmmm... You can't just introduce Marina Inoue as a witch baddie related to Will and not show more of her. Though honestly that scene was really sad with the way she had to force herself to take her finger away and walk away from her child while it was crying for her. >Look at our boy! He looks so goddamn handsome with his transformation! What is it with Omori-sensei and white-haired protagonists? And look at Elfie's reaction. Girl looks like she needs a change of underwear. 😆 Did you see her face when Will was wielding her magic? She was acting like they were having sex. She was definitely wet then lol. >Elfie being cheeky with her assist was such a great scene! The sight of Will using a double-bladed greatsword made out of ice is so fucking ridiculous, but it's so fucking hype! I fucking love this show so much! You remember how much Rosty loved to tease/mess with people and monopolize Will? That was clearly Elfie as we see her exhibit her real personality here. >The entire fight was basically Will and Elfie working together. It's so goddamn cool to see Will defeat the reinforcements Headless sent almost instantly. The only thing more powerful than Elife's thighs are these two childhood friend lovebirds channeling their power together to save the day. >I'm sorry Finn, but what do you mean by 500 years?! So that scene at the start was set 500 years ago? And what do you mean, this is just the prologue??? If this is just the prologue them I'm hyped to see what the actual start of the story would be like! Now they're going to have to introduce threats that can top the Devander.

It has but, I think the poor pacing and questionable writing is making it stand out more. Like some of the story is cool but it’s been choppy for a few episodes. In the grand scheme this would be episodes 13-16; which if you remember standard 24 episode series, that’s kind of the awkward part of the series. Kind of like the episodes 6-9 nowadays. I could also totally be wrong 🤣 but I want to hope they clean it up really quickly

I agree with you. I never expected this series to have superb writing or anything but it was still fun to watch with your brain turned off but this season it's just been tropes after tropes, unearned power-ups and asspulls just for the sake of being cool. Animation is ok-ish but the fight choreography leaves a lot to be desired. A lot of still frames, weird jump cuts without actually showing the fight completely.

It's like the author or director has a checklist of the most stereotypical "moments" that he wants to happen, and they're just cutting from moment to moment without developing a single thing between it for any of the moments to feel earned. And half of the new developments completely undermine any thematic undertones that could be seen in season 1. And were condensed all into a 'courage in spite of contrived social adversity' was the magic that unlocks the predetermined ability you were born with in secret by the powers at be. Which in itself completely undermines the power scaling progression developed in season 1. It's all just a joke now. It's for those anime watchers that feed off of these empty moments because they just want to experience the feeling the moment is trying to convey and can handwave the fact that it's empty by filling it with imaginary filler to make it make sense in their head. That's great that they're able to do that. But for me it feels way too fake.