Fog Hill of Five Elements 2nd Season

This show is superb, SUPERB. I came into this watching season 2 straight after season 1. I was coming into this season on a MASSIVE high. Season one if one of the best anime have ever seen. Season 2 did a great job at maintaining my love for the show. The animation is very much aligned to my taste. I still think Demon Slayer is the greatest feet in TV Show animation. I say TV specifically because i haven't seen enough movies to make this claim for all anime forms. This show however is my favourite.It is absolutely gorgeous. The animation is this season is just as good. Ill be honest, some of the set pieces are even better. Its getting silly now how good the animation is in this show. I wont say much more as I said enough in the first review. These comments still stand so here is what i wrote. ''The animation here unquestionably gorgeous. The fight sequences are incredibly well done with attention to detail rarely seen anywhere else. The watercolour landscapes are to die for and oozes the artists care and attention. Every single hit you feel and they hit HARD. I watched most of this show aghast at the magnificence i was witnessing. Coming back down to earth now....ill be honest, I'm a little biased. I'm a sucker for anything hand drawn and I love watercolour. So maybe the gushing above is a little over the top but i don't care. The character art is also phenomenal and every character looks amazing in both story progression and fighting. There are just so so many things to talk about in relation to the animation. Its beauty is mind blowingly stunning. The animation is simply fantastic and with this alone, the show is top tier for me. Easily a 10/10, I would give it more if I could. However, the animation is not the only area which carries such quality.'' One thing I do want to mention in addiction to the above is the final fight of this season is the best fight i have ever scene in terms of animation. If extraordinary. Music wise, I don't feel like it hit the stratospheric heights of the first but nevertheless it of superb quality. The music and sound is in a similar vein to the first. It is string orientated and fits the show perfectly and is a nice change to the overused EDM music in the background of any action sequence. I gave season 1 10/10, i give this season 9/10 Story wise, we get more of it here. I feel like more effort was put into tell the story at the forefront rather than the action taking centre stage. We get some backstories and actual context to the show we didn't get in the first. Despite this providing more story than the first however, i don't think it did as good a job of telling it as the first. Again, the story is still great, but i feel the momentum this show carries loses its way a little in the more story driven parts. Its trying to expand the world and characters across 4 episodes and although it made a bloody good effort, i feel like it tried telling too much in the time allocated to tell it. The ending however is excellent and very exciting. The dip comes in ep 2 to 3 I feel. Therefore, i will be given the story of season 2 8/10 Make sure you stay watching post credits in episode 4. This show is still outstanding. I feel its a much watch for fans of action orientated shows. If you are into pure works of art in the anime medium, this is also for you. It the most beautiful looking shows i have ever seen and has some of the best actions sequences one could ask for

It's a shame that not more people are watching this. It's such an underrated and slept on show. Close to if not same level fight animation & coreography as One Punch Man Season 1 or Eminence in Shadow. The story and characters might not be as interesting to some people but just going by the fight scenes alone it's so worth watching. I feel like if this had a Japanese Voice Over it would be incredibly popular. The music fits so well, the art style is beautiful, it's a nice breath of fresh air if you're used to just watching Japanese Animation. To be honest ittook quite some time until I got used to the Chinese voices when I watched the first season/first part of this show but it's so worth it if you can appreciate pretty visuals and epic fight scenes. There's even some comedy mixed in aswell which will at least make you smirk. Overall the only downside for me was that it's so short and very hard to find online. Lot's of Japanese made big title Anime with subpar animation cluttering the release season while gems like this get buried. Highly recommend you give it a watch even if you're just skimming through.

Wu Shan Wu Xing: Xichuan Huan Zi Lin does a good job of wrapping up the loose ends of the episodes 4,5 and 6, which brings this story together in the 7th episode, leaving the audience fulfilled with this 2-hour ride, and giving us some nice cliffhangers to lead us into the final chapter(s). With a passionate push to polish this into a beautiful gem in the end, I believe we will be in for a hell of a ride the next time we get reintroduced to Fog Hill. This season does have some problems, like a juggling act with its story, butagain, the final episode did the rest of the season justice, so I can't be too hard on the criticism. Ultimately, the animation carries the anime, and does so beautifully in episode 7. That is why I watch Fog Hill, and so, I am happy with its presentation. Animation 10/10 - It's different, but the settings, and vibrant color palette drive the tone of the anime. Sound 8/10 - Great sound effects, setting sfx as well, and a cool ED (Chinese metal?), however, the voice acting is very similar, I personally find it hard to distinguish character from character. Story 6/10 - It is a basic premise, with many sub plots, which is fine, but it is a bit much to fit in a small 2-hour season. Characters 7/10 - For the number of characters in this season, they actually did a pretty good job fleshing out the main cast and making new characters relevant. Enjoyment 8/10 - Episodes 4,5 and 6 were okay, but episode 7 really elevated this season. I'd wait to watch Fog Hill of the Five Elements until it is completed. It's been 3 years since I watched season 1, so I didn't remember everything from then. I would generally recommend it to everyone though, because the animation and setting is worth it at the very least.