Anime 42282 Otome Game No Hametsu Flag Shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou Ni Tensei Shiteshimatta X Reviews Filter Check 3

I know I wrote a review 2 months ago giving the anime a 3/10 before, but I never actually expected it to continue to be this bad. So here is full review of the entire season.

I really dislike generic harem anime. The ones where the MC has a conversation with a new girl and suddenly, she falls for him with almot zero reasoning. So color me surprised when there was a show that is even worse than that. One that pushes that idea too far that just by looking at someone, the person falls for him regardless of their gender.

Hamefura 2 is probably ... the worst harem/reverse harem I have ever seen.

*** THIS REVIEW CONTAINTS SPOILERS ***

It has been a while since the last sequel that made me really disappointed in an anime. I guess it was to be expected for this one as the ending of the first season was fitting enough and a perfect stopping point. I liked the first season of Hamefura and I even gave it a 7/10 in my list but the moment season 2 was announced, I felt like it would be a repition of the first season but I didn't expect it to be this bad.

To sum it up, the first season was following this pattern, MC is a goof and she meets someone, tries to avoid her death flag and then that person falls for her. There were some characters that had decent reasons that could justify that and some that just felt forced. This season however, the whole reasoning was thrown out of the window (bar 1 character).

It goes as follows,
Katarina: *Exists*
Everyone: *Falls in love*
It became even more shallow than the first season and the anime doesn't try to justify anything at this point. It's like they are telling us that because she is the MC, it is natural to fall for her. I have seen better in the worst harem anime that I have watched over the years.

The characters didn't get better as well, they are either the same as season 1 or even got even worse.
We have ones that stayed consistent like Maria and Nicol. You can even argue that a character like Alan became better.

Then there are ones that got worse like Katarina who became downright stupid and Gerald and Keith who became way too annoying.

The new characters have been nothing but fodder to add to the harem with Anne being the worst one out of them and Selena being the best.

Finally, we have Mary who is pretty much the worst character in the anime with how obnoxious and rude she is. Probably the only character out of the cast that makes me wanna turn off the episode when she appears.

The anime is also full of random cliches. It also had the same idea repeated through 2 consecutive arcs. The idea of a kidnapping happening. The anime also used very bad cliches to solve both of them and trying to make you feel sad for the characters which was just forced and annoying. I didn't expect it to become even worse than before.

I get the idea that the anime is trying to maintain its over-the-top feeling but it isn't trying to do so at the moment. It's reusing the same idea a million times to the point it became stale. You could even have a counter of how many times the character were "surprised" by some random shit Katarina said even if it didn't make any sense at all. It also became unbearable how stupid katarina is when even after being pushed to bed and kissed, she still doesn't understand what was happening specially when her whole character before becoming Katarina was about her playing RomCom games.

The anime no longer tries to do or justify anything which is a point I never saw in the worst harem shows that were being produced in 2018-2019.

Overall, I would give it a generous 2/10. Great art but nothing else is worth watching bar like 1 or 2 episodes which I think one of them was a filler.
Wouldn't recommend it.

I loved the first season of this show. It managed to develop every single character decently without wasting much time and brought with them a good story.

With that said, this season has been, for me, a huge letdown. Every single character around Catarina blatantly shows their love towards her, but, despite that, she seems to be unaware of how much they truly love her, like she has some sort of mental disadvantage. I know she's created as a dense character on purpose, but it's overly exaggerated. Adding on, she seems to like everyone around her and fills them with compliments but never actually develops ... feelings for them. She lacks personality.

The story seemed to be developing interestingly at the start of this season but went downhill from there. No actual relations are set around Catarina's circle of friends since they only love HER, and SHE has to be the one they get engaged with, while the only thing Catarina loves is food.

Little to no action has happened so far, which brings me to the score of 4 out of 10.

In conclusion, this has basically been a boring version of a Harem, lacking any possible story enjoyment whatsoever.

When you come to watch a harem series, you know basically what to expect: A dense MC, a cast full of characters that will love the MC, gags, troupes with reactions and phrases equal to their stereoype. Also, some of these shows can still make the viewer reflect, relate, root for a character to win because you developed symphathy by it, its not only pure entertaiment.

Hamefura S2 overuses the first part and completely ignore the last one.

The show ultimately lost it interesting premise of S1, the touching moments like in the irl side of the MC in S1, back there she had a purpose for ... her actions, she affected the other characters in a more meaningful way. Actions actually matters back then and the MC was committed, it had a purpose.

Now Hamefura S2 is unimaginative. It got worse. Every single comedy gag is a copy pasta of what we got in S1. Hell, we even got an episode that was the same in S1, but in a different setting. Katarina says the most frivolous things that she barely gave much thought about it and other characters buys it right away fixing the "problem". They even advance physically in order to provoke her, but the show insists to take that effort and put it in the trash.

The tropes are multiplied by 100, specially Katarina's dense mechanism. It is so over the top that render any moves a character do to improve anything with their relationship status with her pointless. It's so aggravating that a guy on top of her in bed kissing her neck is considered by her "that was just a mosquito bite". When kissed she even tried to distort reality and thought it was a dream, even when the kisser do it again right after, she negates, blush or whatever and that stituation never actually makes her reflect, care or debate in her head what she gotta do, how to react, what's going to happen with their relationship the other day. Interactions have no continuity.

This is beyond a comedy formula, you ruin the most potential move a character can do with her (a kiss) in other to spice the harem, and you just ignore character development or any character progression whatsoever. It's insane. It's not funny anymore when you just realize any interaction with the MC will be disposable 10s later and never brought back again. This is my biggest criticism as any action a character do is not meaningful. You don't do this with your story ever, even if you prioritize the comedy aspect (that's subpar) you just ruined the romance part.

The problems are just solved so easily, sometimes painful to get involved when things are so simple, effortless. I think the episode I have the most fun wasn't a comedic one, but when they developed Nicol's struggles with the introduction of a new character that was a breath of fresh air. It's hard to say, but when things are supposed to have Katarina as the center of attention, the anime becomes so predictable and bland that the outcome isn't rewarding. It were indeed a few instances where I could laugh because it wasn't a gag used in S1.

The designs are fine, but the animation is pretty poor, with a static model of the character in place and just the mouth moving, if you're attentive this may hurt your experience.

Overall disappointed with S2. I thought they could be at least funnier and creative with the many situations presented. That the characters that got development and realized their feelings and decided to take action torwards the MC could be at least rewarded. This show is stagnated, it is in an endless spiral of overused trope lines, repetitive gags and mired relationship - with every character in the same spot as S1, because kisses are irrelevant, confessions doesn't affect the MC for more than one episode. Life is just this convenient and bland in the world of Hamefura S2.

Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta... X (2021)

Honestly, I did wonder where they would go with this season since it sort of ended last time. I thought maybe a spanner in the works but no it's just a reverse harem which is fine don't get me wrong but it has 100% detracted from the purpose of the anime in the first place. There is no doom route in this season until you see the end which has led to a movie but that is the very end.
This is just a reverse harem with a slice of life actions ... and an occasional 'oh no' moment. It is just a group of people doting on the main character constantly to a point of not being characters anymore rather more dogs barking love me.

Art wise it is a nice looking show, it does have flaws and drops quality drastically randomly for tiny moments and that is not good. If a game dropped graphics every time you went through a door it wouldn't be a great thing anymore.

The sound is standard for the show, I did enjoy the first season op coming back at the last episode to close it off with.

Characters now are soulless, they have no purpose but to dote on Caterina which would be fine but that show is about the main character avoiding doom flags not being like this. Quite a lot of NTR people seem to want to be doing in this one too since boundaries of engagement don't matter.

I would say this comes across more like an epilogue since nothing really happens in regard to the story itself and somehow they managed to stretch that out into 12 episodes. If they had just done what they show at the end of episode 12 as the season then it would have been marvellous. Slap on OVA in between the seasons to catch us up and get straight on with the doom flags. They did not do this and it has ruined the show in this season.

3/10.

I quite enjoyed season one even with the flaws. Im not particularly a fan of the stupid harem lead who never catches on that ppl are in love with them, but season 1 had charm, interesting plot, and backstory for the characters.

Season 2 is a complete waste of time. There is hardly any character development to be found. No plot. Its like watching a bunch of filler episodes. It's not very funny and as some said before alot of the characters come off as annoying. By halfway through the season i found myself skipping thru alot of the episodes.

If one really has to ... give it a try then watch a few episodes. If you find yourself enjoying then youll be fine with the rest, if you think they are boring then just stop cus it doesnt get any better.

Wow, this is by far and away the worst sequel I've ever seen. I went into this with an open mind because I enjoyed the first season quite a bit, and was horribly disappointed with this. In retrospect, it was predictable that it would fail, because the second season really has no purpose apart from worshiping the main character.

None of the characters are memorable apart from the fact that they all like Katarina for one reason or another. I struggle to even remember their names; they literally barely even have a personality. That was more forgivable in the first season which did have a purpose, ... but the second season is all about the characters--and the weakness of the anime really starts to show.

This was a complete waste of time for me. Now the third season seems like it's going to be even more bloated with too many characters--which was already a problem to begin with.

Season 1 started off with promise. An Isekai from a Villainess's perspective, a current trend. While Season 1 was enjoyable, since it dealt with Catarina trying to avoid her doom flags, Season 2 falls flat. There is no main plot of Season 2. Each episode is somewhat its own mini-sub-plot with no major correlation to the previous episodes (except some mini plot). Catarina's character was enjoyable in Seasons 1, however, in Season 2 I found her to be super annoying. There has been no character development in over 24 episodes (12+12). She has remained the same simple minded, dense, optimist. She has never realized how ... she impacted the storyline, nor any other character's feelings for her when it was blatantly obvious. She is always so focused on her doom flags that she never stops to think about anything else.

Regarding other characters, Mary Hunt's obsession is borderline toxic and creepy. It surpasses the boundaries of friendship and develops into toxic yandere behavior. The whole plot of Keith being a love interest is super uncomfortable since he is her adopted brother and distant cousin. Overall, there is no depth for why they like Catarina except the fact that she was nice to them.

In addition, it is highly unrealistic that out of the 7 LIs, not one moved on (knowing full well she is engaged to Geordo). The lack of insight and retrospection in each character is astonishing. All the LI's basically have a pack mentality and feel the need to be present every moment with Catarina. After a while, it becomes hard to differential between them.

Perhaps my added displeasure comes from watching S2 right after S1. It did not give me time to miss the characters as such and feel happy upon their return.

In my opinion, it is worth season 1 but not Season 2.

I need to start off by saying season one wasn't so bad. And since I watched season two right after season one, the bad qualities of this season were really highlighted in comparison to the last, not that it was perfect but definitely better than whatever they thought they were trying to accomplish in this season.

Firstly, any good story needs some sort of character development in order to feel like it's progressing somewhere. Absolutely nothing changed between seasons one and two. Everything ridiculous was kept intact, and there was little to no development in the characters and the storyline. It felt like all they were ... doing was stalling time for 12 episodes. In many areas it was totally unrealistic how the female lead would get out of situations (by asking for snacks, and being nice, seriously?!).

The premise of the story was captivating - a villainness trying to escape her doom - but the end result was so exaggerated. Eight different people who are all somewhat in love with her, and the anime did not even bother to conclude even ONE of those storylines. They just dragged the story on and on with ridiculous sub-plots that did not move anything forward.

This season was really disappointing, and I felt like a large chunk of my life was wasted by investing in it.

Hametsu Flag Season 2 takes everything that was somewhat fun in the first season and completely throws it out the window in favor of the most bland, do-nothing plots you've ever seen. 9 out of the 12 episodes are forgettable (very generous), and when something happens to develop a supposed "relationship", Katarina is quick to forget and return to her smooth-brained sweet-snacking status quo.

It's typical for harem shows to stunt the development of relationships, as doing so would "pick favorites" and destroy the harem, but you can't just have NOTHING happen like this, especially when there's so many involved. There's barely even infighting, or ... jealousy. It was a mistake to have only 2 of the 7 (mainline harem) display their love so overtly.

There's a shocking lack of character development.
The harem members are caricatures at this point, with some getting almost zero screen time.

They should have each been given one on one time with Katarina, at least so she'd notice something, but this chick is only into food— hell— that's her entire personality.

Katarina has regressed. She doesn't do anything this season which would justify people's infatuation.
She just eats and nods, that's it. People are more amused by her antics than anything, so the love feels forced.

She NEVER acknowledges what anyone says. She is IMPOSSIBLY dense— I guess she hit her head harder than we initially thought.

There's a particularly egregious scene with Katarina and Maria. Maria says something serious and heartfelt. Katarina just stares blindly with her :^) face, goes "hai!", and the scene is over. What Maria said could not possibly be interpreted lightly, yet Katarina does what she does best— act like a brick wall.

Even worse is that one scene in the last episode. OOF.

I think there is enjoyment to be had with a dense harem MC, but it comes at the risk of getting old extremely fast, and this show's already way past that point.

Also, can we be real, this show does NOT need magic. It's barely utilized, and is only there for plot contrivance and a couple fanservice scenes— scenes which honestly don't even need magic.
Ok, last thing, this season was in desperate need of a girl kiss, just saying 🤷‍♂️

4.5/10

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Seasons 2 starts out with none of the actual stakes that season 1 had, ( adapting to new life, understanding the perils, erasing the death flags, etc ) and doesn't really care to invent any new ones. I'd interpret most of these episodes as fan service if it weren't that I personally found them really dull. This whole show had a fun-loving denseness to it in Season 1 but at this point, it feels like watching an ever-present status quo with no payoff. None of the cast lets anyone else of the cast be alone with the protagonist unless it's convenient for the ... plot to forward.

There's an edgelord plot towards the end that I won't spoil but the resolution was about as satisfying as a cold plate of porridge.

Only at a few points does any relationship actually go in any direction, and when they do Katarina has about zero reaction or agency over her own character. I have not read the Manga completely, so maybe this is exactly like the manga and I have nothing to look forward to.

in the first season, they tried to make the main character look like a clean-hearted person. (I think it was a failure)...
this season, the main character has become a mindless person. excesses should be avoided when creating a character. but I think the writers want to show the character as a god of goodness. this makes the character repulsive rather than believable.

other than that, the colors are beautiful but the animations are average. the story is not as interesting as in the first season (although the last episodes of the first season were very boring)

the characters are extremely boring and uniform, this problem ... has been like this since the middle of the first season.
when the main character turns 15, there is nothing left involved in character development. but still, it's not as if it can't be tolerated to watch. i'm sure a lot of people will watch it with more fun than me.

Objectively speaking, there’s nothing to this sequel. There’s no point in watching it. Nothing happens.

The core conflict of the story is resolved at the end of season 1. Catarina clears all of her death flags. She’s safe now. She’ll be fine. We’re done. Yet the show goes on for some reason. The conflict that is the literal title of the story gets resolved by episode 12, yet we’re treated to another 13 episodes of just slice of life nothingness.

Will you have a good time with this if you enjoyed S1 and emotionally invested in the characters? Yes, you will. Think of it like The Hobbit ... franchise. It’s much worse than LotR, but at least it’s a chance for you to revisit that world and spend some more time in it. That’s kind of what this is like. You’ll get to just spend some more time with the characters and have a good time with them, at last for a while you will. I started to lose interest around episode 8.

Additionally, the thing about selling conflicts as significant, but subtly resolving them easily? S2 doesn’t do that – at all. There are 2 major conflicts that happen in S2, and both of them get resolved so stupidly easy, it actually pissed me off. As if to make my point from before, I felt like I was watching the Smartphone isekai.

Furthermore, what really put me off about season 2 is the fact that where it only tentatively entertained the genre before, HameFura has now turned into a full-blown harem show with a generically dense protagonist, a cast of characters who fall in love with her for no meaningful reason, a cast of characters inordinately obsessed with her as if they have literally nothing else going on in their lives, and a cast of characters constantly competing with each other, interrupting each other, interfering with each other, and fithing with each other over who gets to ride the dick, or in this case, depth-test the twat.

I don’t have a vendetta against harem stories in concept. I believe it’s fine to have an arc like that in your story where multiple individuals compete for the protagonist’s affection before you establish your OTP, but on the condition that you actually do establish your OTP and then move on with the story, and you also don’t take 400 episodes to do it. If, however, your story is just a harem story and nothing else, and I’m just expected to sit here and watch a couple of dozens of episodes of the entire cast just running in a circle around the protagonist, then miss me.

As I said, if you enjoyed S1, you will have a decent enough time with this one, too, so I won’t outright tell you to skip it, but I will suggest that there is far better content out there that would be much more deserving of the 4 hour investment this anime demands. Towards the last couple of episodes, I was certainly begging for it to just end already. The OVA episode in particular was a slog to get through.

P.S.: Catarina’s whimsical rivalry with a bear plushie (you’ll see) was one of the dumbest and most unfunny things I’ve ever seen.