Anime 49413 Shiguang Dailiren Ii Reviews Filter Check 3

The tone was really different than the first season.

After an insane clifhanger at the end of the 1st season, it seems that the goal of the writters shifted entirely.
Even the oppening of season 2 was an absolute banger
From a show that was heavily focused on the plot and the mystery, it turned into a more classic thriller. They added lots of fights (smooth ones btw), flashbacks from something we saw 10 min earlier... It's not bad in itself, just really different

Moreover, all the major decisions / ideas that the main characters have don't seem brilliant. They didn't left me speechless. When you ... use something as powerfull as time travel, it is possible to achieve greatness. They don't give to the watcher all the clues that the characters have. Hence their decisions didn't feel entirely natural or justified.

First season was a banger, surprising and new. Second season was classic. BUT if you like fist fights, a little bit of plot with grim undertones, you may like it quite a lot ! Reminded me more Fate Zero than Steins Gate

"Your dissing the show so much and yet you gave it 5/10"
The show isn't bad at all. It was just disapointing because I had high expectations. I skipped a few minutes because I was bored but nothing terrible.

As a fan of the First season, this season was bad for simple reason

The pacing and repeating the same scene for more than one time. They wanted to make mystery by not showing enough information
but it would be good to do it once or twice, not repeating throughout whole season. The actual plot of the season was ok,not bad except one event
Because of this, the mystery was so obvious that someone can predict easily

Another thing. The hook or cliffhanger was so amazing in the end of first season and I couldn't wait for this season but the hook of this season's finale was meh (I ... didn't cared)

Look, I don’t think this season is terrible, if you like it, you do you. What I do think however, is that this season is a tremendous letdown when compared to the first. That is also why this review is marked as [Not Recommended], not because this show is garbage, but just because I wouldn’t recommend it to people who liked season 1, like myself.

Let’s get the good stuff out of the way. The animation is just as good as it was in season 1, the same goes for the direction and music, though there are fewer memorable tracks this time. Voice acting is as ... Chinese as ever, and the OP and ED are also both great.

Sadly, that leaves us with the writing, and, oh boy, is there a lot to talk about. I am certain that I missed like at least half of the stuff I would usually critique a show for simply because of:

1. Focus. The show flows well from episode to episode, but it doesn’t build anything. This is a problem to such a degree that I thought this was still the opening chapter/arc, both after episode 2 and episode 8. In other words, it is fun to watch, but it doesn’t use its time. The story told in these 12 episodes is a laughably small and incoherent excuse of a show. If you disagree, then might I ask you one thing:

2. Are cliffhangers really that important? Season one had a lot of the episodes end on a cliffhanger, and while I think that these cliffhangers made, for example, the first episode a lot more engaging, they don’t lead anywhere. We are giving up narrative complexity for popcorn entertainment, and I would be completely okay with that if it didn’t also:

3. The show lies to us. The more I watched season 2, the clearer it became that the writing staff of this show did not preplan a solution for the murder mystery of the first season. If you don't get what I mean by this, might I ask why the pink haired guy from the second season, who is the killer from the first, killed Emma? He, his name is Tianchen by the way, also didn't even show up once throughout the entire first season, which makes it pretty obvious that they didn't preplan any of this. I wouldn't mind all that, if it actually made sense, but Tianchen's craziness runs counter to that of the killer presented in the first season, especially when we take into account that he is meant to act tactical under the control of Jin Qian (evil glasses guy). It is much like the cliffhanger, it is about the expectations, not the payoff. Again, if you just want some popcorn entertainment, that’s fine, but I care about this story, I want to take it seriously, and because of that, I am going to judge it like that. Maybe you don’t get why these cliffhangers are so bad, maybe you don’t understand what I am mad about, so let me explain it by saying:

4. Season 2 feels entirely pointless. The season starts by rewriting the psychopathic serial killer from the first season in such a way that he can actually be compelling. With this, the cliffhanger of the first season’s ending is pointless. If you have already completed the show, you might already know where I am going with this, but if you haven’t, I am just going to say that season two ends with a cliffhanger, and oh boy, is it a good one. Expectations are high, or they would be if this show hadn’t already disappointed me so much.

Look, I really wanted to like this show. I absolutely loved its first season, and the second season didn’t change that. I find it a bit sad to know that the whole murder mystery was pointless, but even then, season 1 is still amazing and well worth your time. Likewise, I cannot ignore the obvious writing flaws, the incoherence, and the fact that the writing staff completely failed to map out the story of their show. If you can ignore all that, if you can still have a good time with this, by all accounts, don’t let me, some guy on the internet, ruin that for you. But even then, I am not going to turn away and ignore how they completely messed up one of the most entertaining pieces of television of the last few years. If I want more Link Click, I’ll rewatch season 1, because this sure as hell isn’t the show it promised to be.