The Faraway Paladin: The Lord of the Rust Mountains

A story that follows the hero and his party on a quest to vanquish evil, and purify the cursed lands. This season of The Faraway Paladin revolves around the tale of the rust mountain and its denizens. We follow William going on a quest to help them, where he travels with a band of friends, to cleanse the mountain from the evil that has overtaken it. The plot is very linear and follows the classic structure of an adventure group going out to save the lands. It is generally done in an interesting way, that explores the road they have to travel and the dangers along theway. The first couple of episodes are lead up, and is sadly kinda forgettable, but the rest of the story carries a nice feeling of a true adventure. When it comes to the characters are they rather basic in some degrees, where some show significant character progression and others are rather stagnant. The main issue is that the characters lack some stronger personality traits, something that isn’t just courageous or just. The characters would have been more interesting, and worth investing more into if the characters were a bit more spiced up. For the animation is it still keeping the same style as the previous season and seems to be a fine effort, with some good effects during fights. Overall is this season an improvement from last season and is a nice watch, with a very nice adventure party plot. So i would recommend watching this season if you watched the first one, even though it lacks a bit in the character department.

A marked improvement over season one. That's a rarity in anime. Typically they don't improve, but rather nose dive. Animation has more to offer in terms of flashy action scenes, with a couple that stand out. The art work in general is slightly worse, bad cg, but still good character detail and amazing backgrounds. I still feel the characters are lacking depth, but at least we get to wee a little bit more of Will's internal struggles without it feeling completely forced. The world building continues to be one of the best parts of this anime. The story line feels more solid and less ofthe generic isekai we got after arc 1 in season 1. Still a little generic, but better. Pacing is much better, and picks up quite a bit over the last season which was kind of painful after arc 1. The dubbed voice acting I'd say get's slightly worse. I think the casting for Will is not great, but otherwise I'd say it's still fine, but not great by any means. The op and ed remain ill fitting and generic. However, the ost has more variety in it, which is pleasant to see. Overall, it still has some of the same issues as season 1, but reclaims it's stride for the most part. The pacing of this anime is really what will make or break it going forward. 6.75/10 Dubbed

When I think of a solid fantasy anime, this anime often comes to mind. While the plot has some issues, specially in the anime, where much that happens is not covered properly or outright not explained (I'm looking at you, Valacirca fight...) it is a very good take on fantasy and isekai genre, with some well put Tolkien references. Yes, it is Isekai, but no, it doesn't revolve around MC's constantly remember his life prior to his reincarnation. The story itself understands that the MC was something in his past life that he is not very proud, then he uses that feeling as fuel to becomea better person and that is pretty much it. Like many other Isekai titles where MC is outright OP due to retaining memories and mentality of someone older from previous life, it felt that in Saihate no Paladin, he used that maturity to overcome issues and to learn about the world he now lives in, nevertheless he is pretty damn strong, more than average for sure. Overall, story progression felt good, all characters seemed to have purpose and were well written, the artstyle was very nice (though in manga is way better) and definetely recommend it, specially for Tolkien and Fantasy fans.

The second season of The Faraway Paladin took me by surprise – it’s much better than the first season. I was torn on whether to watch this season or not, considering the first season left me with mixed feelings. The first season started out great but quickly became horribly subpar and so I did not have high expectations going in. However, what we got in this second season was a change of pace and focus that turned The Faraway Paladin into an enjoyable adventure story. The kind of adventure story that makes you think of a tabletop roleplaying game set in a European medieval setting. While Willis still very much an overpowered little snowflake it bothered me much less this time around. It doesn’t matter that he’s so powerful because they managed to give the events that transpired a very distinct feeling. It’s more about the problems that he and his companions solve than showing off how amazing he is. Somehow, despite having such an unremarkable set-up, this season felt much more satisfying to watch. It avoids some of the pitfalls of the first season by being more consistent in tone throughout. I would have liked to see more gripping dialogue and personality from the various characters, but I guess that wasn’t meant to be. They were all flat and could have used some depth. As far as voice acting, music and sound effects and so on go, they were all fine. The visuals were about as expected as well. Either way, I enjoyed myself while watching this anime. However, I am not sure whether we can expect another season, since apparently no new volume of the light novel has been released for a few years now.