This seems like a place to write overall impressions of the series, yes?
I've not written about MG2 on the forum at all. Mostly cause I didn't want to whine once a week. Although it sounds like others here weren't too thrilled with it, either.
So, overall, I'd say I was entertained by the individual episodes, but whenever I think about the series as a whole, where the main story went and all that, I'm more than disappointed at the lack of direction, almost annoyed by the so-called character development, and banging my head against the wall at the Maeda story's finish.
The characters went in all sorts of senseless directions. The teachers of the school finally decided to just fuck off except for when the cops show up. I don't really blame them though. Maeda, who spent an entire season getting over being an emo is now an emo all over again eating flowers and beating up random bad guys cause that's real smart. After promising to protect Majijo, she... runs off. WHAT? And then, in her grand return, she and the others just come to a magic revelation, nothing is settled, she makes a cryptic declaration to Center saying the "top is yours" then she's off to jail. Nice and lazy there. Team Hormone goes from a somewhat weak but respected nonetheless team in Majijo during season 1 to slapstick fodder in season 2. Although I'm always happy to stare at Yokoyama Yui, she just magically appeared out of nowhere to fill in Nachu's spot. The Nezumi vs. Center stuff would have been a good twist if it weren't for the horribly dry, repetitive nature of it. Seriously, no one caught on to Nezumi's antics until the next to last episode? Nezumi's right, they are a bunch of morons.
And then her sudden change of heart... All that building up, all that making the audience abhor her just for her to randomly decide Jurina's a bud and everything's a-okay. Jurina's portrayal of center was also a bit mediocre at times. A little flat. Also, "random scar lol", never seen that plot point before.
And then you had Gekikara who suddenly turned into this deep character only to get stabbed by a batshit Kimoto Kanon for no good reason. I also don't approve of the Oshima sisters out of nowhere and officer Takamina. To me it just shits on the 1st season that much more to see them on screen. And then all of the other random characters from season 1 become even more random and make appearances to short they don't even mean much.
The main arc is also way too simple. Nezumi makes a huge mess to satisfy her narcissism. That's... pretty much it. I really think they could have made it so much cooler. Used SKE/NMB as girls from enemy schools, fleshed out Nezumi's background and scheme a bit more, focused in on just a few elements instead of making it such a cluster fuck.
Maybe I'm just, pardon the pun, taking the story and characters of this nutty show too
maji, but to me a lot of it just shat on season 1 a bit too much. I wasn't expecting the Schindler's List of yankii high school girl doramas, but it could have been better. Much better. However, I also gotta admit that I was mostly entertained by the series. I guess that's the most important thing.
Maybe it's kinda like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. If you just watch it at face value, it's fun, but if you start trying to analyze it, it's a bit mushy on the story.
Should there be a season 3 announcement, I don't know if I'll look forward to it or not. I think I'd be cautiously optimistic. At this point they've deluded the show enough that it could either get a pretty fresh start, or be another mess. Try something else, AKB. I understand that playing the 2010 card is working great for you right now, but I don't know if we'll buy this playlist a third go.
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