Personal feelings aside Ill keep this short. Essentially this season carries on seamlessly from the previous season same animation music voice acting and general tone. One thing they seemed to do away with was the ecchi quality of the first season not that it had much prominence there either so no nudity and halftime eyecatchers this time around. Anyway as a light high school based comedy this series does fairly well. Its nothing you wont have seen before in such arrangements but Boku Wa Tomodachi Ga sukunai is nonetheless a fun watch through both seasons. If thats the type of thing youre after Id recommend trying it. This is a series more than that though and its at this point I become less eager to recommend it. Yeah dont watch this for the romance. Well its your call but having seen it through to the end I personally wouldnt rewatch this series purely as a result of how the romance plays out. Im aware a large portion of romance fans favour satisfying romances even if there isnt a happy ending Im certainly in that camp at least and Christ is the romance in this series anything but. As throughout the first season romance is more or less left to simmer. That is to say for most of the runtime nothing really develops beyond what we already knew regarding how certain characters feel about Kodaka. But okay the first season was based more on romantic subtext hardly aiming to develop any such relationships at least beyond a certain point and that worked fine. However that direction works because it sets the expectation that eventually romance will see a place in the limelight. Bear with it it implies. So you wait and wait and... wait this is the tenth episode? How will all this romantic potential between characters tie together in just three episodes? When romance finally begins to get the anticipated spotlight in episode ten it feels like its too late. Surprise surprise it is. At least the story doesnt bother trying to cram it all into three episodes. Instead it draws upon the plot point you thought had been succeeded long ago friendship. As soon as the club members were all present in the story this theme seemed all but redundant. Sure they hadnt yet acknowledged it but as far as anyone could be concerned by this point theyre all friends. Although resurfacing occasionally this theme began to lose its grip more and more as romantic expectations increased through the storys progression so when it suddenly tightens in the final straight I was left thinking what was the point in the romantic setup?. So thats the romance. There are other things usually covered in reviews but I didnt really set out intending for this to be so thorough as to cover all bases so onto the summary. First this season specifically. As mentioned it carries on well from the first with perfect continuity but leaves far too many loose ends. Now the series overall. If youre seeking romance look elsewhere. If youre interested in this series for anything besides that youll likely find this a fun engaging watch but since romance is an inescapable aspect of the plot youll end up having to face it one way or another.
55 /100
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