Bastard‼ Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy Season 2

I’m going back and fourth on my rating for this. Normally when weighing a show you add up all the elements and get your number, but in this case it seems like all the elements are opposed to each other and can’t be seen together. Like liquids with different densities. My general range would be around 4-6, which is what I rated it on MAL. Now the details. Firstly, there is very little change at all from the first season. The personalities, the art, the theme, the structure, the tropes, the rampant over the top fanservice, the horrible music ALL OF IT. But this isn’t abad thing. It feels like what it is. A continuation. And in that regard it keeps you interested in an odd sort of way with its lack of change from the first season. I didn’t even write a review for the first season, because literally everything I’m about to say would be the exact same for that too. That’s just about where all the praise ends. The first complaint is the just insane level of lewdness. Ontop of the constant groping, sexual angles and nudity comes outright sex scenes too. This was present in the first season too, but guys, come on. Do better. The second is about the characters. There are far too many. Dark Schneider (possibly the worst name in all of anime) and his close circle are all easy to recognize and understand, but by the end of the show there are like 20 something people, all with some kind of role and it’s just completely unnecessary. They just add confusion to the already hard to follow story, and leave you wondering who is who from their generic designs. They’re also completely invincible. If you’re not just a normal human (who the writers love slaughtering) it is nearly impossible to die. The plot armour is at an overwhelming level. Which I understand you need your main characters to be, you know, alive. But instead of having them be completely invincible maybe you could write scenarios in which they don’t always end up in inescapable peril which they manage to survive every time. The story broadly is very difficult to follow and only gets harder as you get towards the end. The oddly named characters, the very large amount of landscapes and landmarks, all of it. But when you change your perspective, that doesn’t matter. I was viewing the show through a serious storytelling lens which is why I was so negative about it, but about halfway through the second season I realized I was looking at it wrong. When you see it much more as an over the top comedy, you get much more enjoyment from it. And that’s the one thing I’d like people to know above else. DONT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY and you’ll have a good time.

The second season of Bastard arrives with the goal of saving this saga. It was clear that the first season was made with a lot of ambition and expectation, so even though the result was clearly not what anyone expected, they were not going to let the project die so easily. The reality is that Bastard improves quite a bit in this continuation. The author clearly learns from his mistakes and brings us a much better-told story, with a more intriguing and exciting plot development. What is never very clear is the limit of Dark Schneider’s power, which complicates the argument. It is supposed that Dark Schneider andhis friends are facing an incredibly big challenge. Without the love the author feels for Dark, it would seem that the great threat was not really that great. In summary, if you liked the first season, you will undoubtedly want to see this one where many plot errors were corrected. If there is a third season, I will definitely watch it. It is an entertaining anime. THE GOOD. The storyline improves a lot compared to the first season. THE BAD. It is far from being the ambitious anime it appears to be at the beginning. REPEAT. I love Dark Schneider’s personality

If you liked season 1 of this anime, you are sure to enjoy season 2. Dark Schneider has become stronger and stronger and I find that there is also more and more intrigue in the game. ' story, especially at the start of the season. If you like fight scenes, like me, it's sure you'll be served. I still find it disappointing to see that there are new characters and that they don't seem very strong. I also find that the characters have been able to adapt to the problems and that they are more "natural", especially in combat On the visual side, I find that thoseresponsible have done a great job and they fully deserve our recognition. Regarding the story, I think it's unique and it takes us out of anime genres like isekai.