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oh uh sorry I think I might have put on gim over magical girls by mistake here let me just fix [Music] that we return to the series with no joke one of the most realistic conversations I’ve ever seen in a magical girl show like maybe it’s because I’ve had these sorts of conversations with my own niece but I kind of really like this little back and forth between Nagisa and her mom with the ladder trying to convince her kid to put on a coat it’s certainly not the most thought-provoking or funniest scene in this whole show but I do appreciate how down toe it is especially considering the story that’s about to follow anyway Naga met with her friends and told her all about how her mom was a bit of a worry word over wearing a coat as she was clearly freezing her butt off as the sun was setting I did not think that true meanwhile the villains were discussing their latest developments including the arrival of their newest member who urugo took a few minutes to remember I mean to be fair it has been a little while since the last review so may as well get a little recap back with Naga she had caught a bit of a cold and yet could admit to her mom that maybe the cold thing wasn’t such a bad idea hell in general she was being a toll brat to her mother which again I can relate with this lady way too much at the same time more Hearts were making their presence known I think we found kogami’s personal fairy also got say they’re starting to slack on these designs I mean come on that’s just a pallet swap of seun the next day Nagisa was still being a difficult brat in spite of the fact that her mom was genuinely worried and trying to take care of her normally I am kind of annoyed by these sorts of story lines but one the actual argument itself is pretty short and two it is actually going to lead to a good lesson later because as it turned out colds are quite contagious or at least I hope this is just a cold regardless why to help his wife and daughter patch things up Mr misme decided to have a little heart-to- heart with Naga while they were out grocery shopping as it turned out this hadn’t been the first time Mrs Mis had nursed her back to health when she caught a cold at that time Nagisa was a lot younger and therefore not only needed to be watched over all night but also need to be taken to the ER and I’m guessing an ambulance couldn’t make it through the night thus her whole thing about Nagisa wearing a damn coat might have been based on those old fears and concerns and seeing even somewhat of a repeat of that time scared her even though of course it wasn’t nearly as bad this time regardless this made Naga realize that she had been a pretty rotten daughter yeah NE to say I do really like stories like this probably because I’m starting to become an old keer myself but I do think it’s important to teach kids how to respect their Elders oh yeah and there was also some magical girl stuff in the show though at least it was related to the current conflict as Nagisa was in a rush to get back to her mom plus as a reminder this is the OG where Monsters of the week almost always look awesome it also did further the main plot involving hiari and the heal as circulus was doing the smart thing and trying to learn more about both plot points granted the L wasn’t doing the heroins any favors by revealing themselves to him anyway the episode ended with Mrs be be thankfully not having the Rona and her husband fulfilling certain stereotypes 14 focused more on Naga desperately trying to make her and fujiia thing after miserably failing in the movie sure enough though she’d get the perfect opportunity when the soccer team was in a preliminary tournament match that [Music] weekend you could start by not looking like you want to sniff his entire gym bag anyway Naga figured that she could design a flag to cheer with one that she wanted to design by herself to really get across her feelings this led to another bit of e Cari trying to figure out how the creature known as The humon Works which no amount of magic could ever give a definitive answer really hey compared to some of the signs at pro wrestling shows it can’t be that cringe oh and also that youart was living with her and frankly was pretty damn annoying if anything I at least prefer it when her VA plays another character in this show anyway Naga decided to just go freehand when designing her flag this would result in something we’d see at the end of the episode because they got stretch these things out [Music] the Incarnation of the queen of light and passive aggressive dises regardless it did lead to a good character moment where the preure did prioritized protecting Hikari when circulus arrived he created a zaka out of some Modern Art that was practically begging to be turned into tentacle hentai and it proved to be effective as it forced the heroins to split up leaving Kari vulnerable to being captured fortunately she managed to protect herself with the heal action also why do I suddenly feel so constipated but yeah while he managed to break free it did debuff him to the point they he was forced to retreat with that the episode ended not a cute note with Nagisa finally revealing her flag with some help from Hikari and Huka with both girls cheering on the team and their friend at the same time we then got of course another Hikari focused episode with her learning what it means to have friends of supposedly the same age as her classmates now in me invited her to check out the flea market that weekend interestingly enough both characters were voiced by vas who would later work on hard catch the former would be played by Puli while the lad I mean you can kind of hear Erica in there but yeah it’s just not the same without the meme face anyway amongst the junk they were all selling now took particular interest in borderline copyright infringement goods from Winter Sonata which was a very popular Korean drama from 2002 I mean they tried to cover it up by calling it winter anata but come on let’s just straight up the main character and I’m sorry if I end up mispronouncing this Kong jangs but I guess they could get away with it by just calling him Yan instead yeah but he’s ultimately just could to be replaced by Bon Clover for the Mr Mrs Smith remake later they part took in other girly activities like talking about boys Delight though Hikari ends up confirming that she played for the other team I mean okay they didn’t play it up like love interest but come on we all know the truth and speak of the devil the Senpai that they were just gushing over soon joined them which gave them the idea to play some games with them too easy they ended up playing some three on three with some high school boys which yeah just because y’all keep Lam Shing this isn’t going to justify how this is a pretty bad idea anyway you and later hona just watch this one-sided game which Hey look it’s a meaning of the dagus cures before dx3 [Music] that one little fourth wall break would be the start to a Monster who still haunts his franchise this very day anyway even though they were never going to win an actual game against these guys Huka did come up with a good strategy that at least let them score one basket by taking advantage of each of their strengths in a really well animated sequence by tat Yamada I believe who can do more than just fights granted I’m not totally sure if some of these Maneuvers are legal or hell even physically possible but whatever a cool moment that even have to involve an actual fight though of course on that note circulus decid to be a little extra this time Bad Touch Bad Touch stranger danger and honestly compared to the basketball game this fight was a bit of a let down as they clearly put all of their good animation to work there and the verbal exchanges on top of not really progressing to the main plot were fairly predictable little friendship talks hell even how he retreated was a little disappointing I mean come on that wasn’t the sound of a villain being defeated that was a guy tripping over his own shoelaces still again the episode ended on a cute enough note weari now officially having made two new friends who she even started calling by their first names episode 16 was all about horoscopes and Naga developing an interest for them after learning what her sign was gained that week [Music] this also featured them doing a little inventory of the hearts they had gotten so far though really this plpoint has felt like such an afterthought that I kind of forgot they even had this little toy uh did Nagisa Just Master the power of Instant Transmission anyway as you could guess by the title naga’s lock seemed to be the exact opposite of Dy with everything from the lottery to her quote unquote love life being on the upt this L her becoming the actual first evil preure ever yeah because wearing a lot of yellow worked out so great for other magical girls and common writers granted Nagisa did acknowledge that her luck wasn’t going to last forever so she figured that she should enjoy it while she could including during their midterms without studying and just hoping that she could guess all the right answers as it was multiple choice but yeah you ain’t nag Kida so don’t hold your breath meanwhile the villains were having yet another recap about the connections between hiari and the heals and Reviving The Queen of light yeah probably one of my biggest actual criticisms of this show and in particular this quarter Miss how it really feels like they’re just kind of spitting their wheels with this whole subplot kind of like how these candles aren’t actually burning regardless they need to figure out who is going to fight for this episode anyone else missed the days when villains had had actual personalities and interact with each other like this then I guess oranos won that little exchange and of course he chose the most direct approach though of all people the vice principal actually tried to stop him from entering the school and of course this giant ogre of a man wasn’t going to take anything from this pencil Pusher and excuse me I need a minute to process all this what of course he then just as quickly circled back and turned the school statue into a zaka as a result it put everyone except the cures to sleep before it launched an attack this led to a decent fight in spite of some obvious reused and slow animation it did have its moments with stuff like urugo G involved and chesy hiari and well oh come on she’s just Rocky out a little but I guess you really shouldn’t headbang in the middle of a fight so the kir quickly dealt with organos and his monster their actions also caught the attentions of another heart tail that was obsessed with academics named intelligen which I think I used to use in my old computer and the episode ended with the most predictable results for the preakers midterms even though I think they really should have postponed the test if everyone suddenly caught a case of narcolepsy hm an episode with a lot of nonsensical jokes mostly because the characters acted like they were off their Ms I’m just going to assume yep of course to give Nagisa some time to calm down episode 17 was hle focus with a club trying to figure out their next big [Music] project who agrees all wuss are trash and okay you all didn’t have to raise your hands all at once it was going to be for another science Exposition like the one from the previous season when they unveiled the Ule number one before it got taken over by the sigma virus regardless they figured they could do a similar themed project as it was overall successful or try something different with the wifeu project so obviously the focus of this episode was going to be about honah trying to figure out both what she wanted to do whilst also leading her Club to a successful project meanwhile though the actual best characters in the show were dealing with far more important conflict figure out better ways they could play with the mysterious kid and yeah I’m only half kidding as I generally do think that the Butlers on Kenna had the right idea in wanting to take the kid out of the mansion and show him a little bit more of the real world rather than just constantly buying the kid new toys again I relate way too much with this show nowadays as my nie always wants something but ma’am our Amazon Prime memberships are about to run out and we can’t afford to renew them back with the science club they managed to get their previous experiments parts off storage but also just realized that they had already presented most of what they could about lightning in the previous season as a result hono was left unsure of what their next course of action should be as she was even unsure of whether or not she really wanted to do the whole lightning thing instead of her wifeu experiment fortunately yurio was there to encourage her to just do what she wanted to do rather than just letting everyone else decide for her when they themselves were pretty much directionless yeah Jokes Aside this was one of my favorite conflicts of the show so far because let’s face it we’ve all kind of been here we can’t decide whether to go with a safer proven option or try something new that we really wanted to but can’t guarantee any sort of success this of course is made even more difficult when you’re leading a team though fortunately for hukah she had her own set of waifus to encourage her not just uo and thanks to a little happen stance through a device she had made for Kan she found her answer said device by the way was surprisingly not a real toy for sale even though it looks like something right out ofi rather it was a digital restaurant ticket taker which yeah have been a thing in Japan for a very long time even before the onset of tablet menus and yet this show managed to predict what would happen when a boomer would try to use one of these [Music] apps going out to dinner with my folks and not sh anyway ited is a good reminder of one of the most important aspects about being a scientist Andor inventor the desire for innovation hona made that device for aane not just to make her job easier but also because she wanted to expand her own creative Horizons thus she decided that the club should go with the trash experiment but she also did try to approach it as sensibly as possible with their limited budget and time so they repurpose May of the components of the lightning experiment it’s a really good lesson for anyone who’s into creative activities like science and art you should try to do new things to your heart’s content but also be willing to compromise a few things here and there as often it’ll just make things a lot easier in the end in short don’t be like those Rich smart guys who over complicate things just because you have the money for it honestly this is one of those episodes that did really need a monster of the week fight but it also wasn’t unwelcome as it even managed to work in well with honoka’s plot as the zaka turned out to be the very garbage they were required to use for their experiment and again this show does its monster design so well that even overshadows a franchise that’s all about the monsters unfortunately the fight itself was very mid due to again a lot of repeated animation which is going to be a bit of a pattern for a lot of these episodes during at least this part of the series whatever the actual main plot of this episode with the exhibition was still really good as it even added to the drama of the plot when the remote they were to use for the project was broken and left behind during the chaos fortunately yo was there to save the to day as she realized that like when you buy two different TVs from the same company the remotes can work between each other as they tend to have the same frequency and similar controls so they just needed to borrow a con’s device though for some reason the presentation also ended up showing off A’s menu even though it’s just a different remote those images would have to be like a part of the software they were using to show the result or did honah just use the same software between designing a science experiment then a food truck menu and those images were still programmed in or something it didn’t make a whole lot of sense and was most likely just there to give the episode a quirky little ending whatever their presentation did go over well with the snafu even kind of adding to it because a joke or two doesn’t hurt too many might but that’s more of an issue with the MCU following this we got a Camping Episode now just don’t forget your cardboard box sleeping bags and you’ll be all set also it would been funny if this had turned out to be G Tanaka’s for episod for the franchise but we’d have to wait for doky doie for that anyway they also continue the subplot of the mystery kid whing to see the outside world and yet be denied by most of the villains for seemingly nefarious reasons I mean obviously the butler Zenna wanted to take him out but uranos I’m honestly not sure whether this smile was nefarious or Genuine I’m kind of leing more toward a because come on how can you not love this dude anyway the B family was going on their trip with honoka and chutaro as their guest they had also invited Hikari but she prioritized helping aani with her food truck this was mostly a plus for meel as it didn’t give it more time with his wifeu when the kids weren’t around thus it made it all the more hilarious when aan and Hikari happened to be in the area and she decided to drop the kid off to be with her friends me Meo got the ultimate [ __ ] blocking at the same time the main plot of the episode was about Mr be me turning out to be a good camper showing off all his skills in less interesting ways than what I’ve actually seen in the affir mentioned laidback Camp yeah without the fun narrations or food prawn it’s just not as engrossing and madebe much of this episode just kind of me as a result yeah because we all know your obsession with bread granted there were still some other cute exchanges like between the and the preure with both parties just appreciating the star night sky though most importantly there was more Meo abuse anyway the next day the ks ended up chasing chutaro when he seemed to sense danger he ended up leading them to an illegal Dumping Ground probably to hide the corpse of some guy who was building a dam was it being an environmentalist that’s more a moth Karen thing and instead it was eranos who created another garbage monster probably because there’s a lot of unsold copies of unspoken to go around anyway another cool design kind of wasted on another Soo fight and the episode ended with more Dy worship with Mr be me being able to predict that bad weather was coming their way I mean it’s a good message about respect to your parents and all that especially if they’re experienced with the S of stuff but yeah it doesn’t make for much of an interesting episode regardless the C’s got our hardl as well as a bit of product placement with diaries that were pretty much the same as the ones from the first season including having the hit message gimmick this would end up playing an important role in the next episode when Nagisa forgot hers and ended up hearing a talk between her parents actually she ended up hearing something about someone moving to Osaka and of course assume they were talking about their family gee I wonder if there’s going to be some sort of Twist by the end of this episode that’ll prevent them from moving all right I kid because there was actually a clever twist to this as right after the tile card they actually C clear things up really early into the episode as it turned out the only one relocating was Mr bcb’s Boss and he was just going to help him move out over the weekend so yeah they did needlessly prolong this cliche plot point and instead replaced it with a misunderstanding plot when Hikari heard Naga talk about the move before she cleared things up with her dad which yeah okay misunderstandings are also an overused plot device but in this case it did act as a good character piece for Hikari she ended up considering both of her friends’s feelings and whether or not it was her place to intervene when it seemed like Nagisa wasn’t going to break the non-existent used honoka it’s a good conflict that does explore hikari’s morality as someone who still adjusted to this whole human thing thus when she didn’t clear things up when she had the chance it wasn’t so much a frustrating moment like it normally would be in this sort of plot but more pity because we know this girl is still trying to figure out proper social cues it’s good reliable stuff especially for those who tend to be reclusive the time stop holding on me of course we didn’t got the fight of the week that was surprisingly pretty terrifying like not to say that these villains haven’t been intimidating at all or that this tops something like the death of the dark seeds from the last season but when did this turn into Friday the 13th with this freaking [Music] music or maybe we should have gone with the blob as the zaka ended up absorbing her into it though fortunately it didn’t cheap out on the monster design and instead turned into an ice gedra because this season just refuses to have any bad monster designs also which one do you think is Kevin anyway in the literal Belly of the Beast hiari encountered circulus who wanted to learn more about her connection with the mystery boy he tried to do so by fighting her directly which hiari can really do being the White Mage of her team but she was at least a Dodge tank in an impressive sequence honestly she ended up looking a little better than our original Duel who on top of not getting that much time were also still just reusing animation anyway they use the usual finisher to repel circulus and also steal a move from the Big G and blow up aaiu from the inside they also noted that hikari’s powers seem to be stronger than usual probably because they were titter bullshits because that’s just about the most anime thing possible s emotions were of course coming from everything she had bought up and finally let loose when she asked Nagisa about her move she of course cleared things up and the next day Nagisa apologized whilst reintroducing that aformentioned diary gimmick it was both a sweet way to end a strong episode that even called back to one of the best episodes of the first season and also be very toyetic so yeah good stuff all around episode 20 then open with Nagisa and Meo arguing wait let me just get a little drink in before we proceed and uh huh there not really good focus on this well okay then still cused the drink I mean yeah they do end up kind of tying things back by the end of the episode but it still felt a little Superfluous when it’s already be established that these two have a lot of hate relationship and they would miss each other if they ended up getting separated again which yeah spoilers was going to be a big point of this episode I don’t know it just doesn’t feel necessary when we already started the season with the reunion in any case the actual Focus the episode would end up being on Reena who was seemingly barred by something that was making her look out the window a lot and this would actually kind of cleverly parallel with the mystery Boy again the nutshell thus our heroins would end up stalking their friend to a secret cabin where surprisingly she wasn’t hiding denji but something potentially much more dangerous a wild Tanuki like seriously between this and wonderful this franchise really needs to stop encouraging kids to get close to these disease ridden rodents yeah I think someone has been watching one too many ji movies legit that’s the one that I just feel uncomfortable watching fortunately her friends did encourage her to return him to the forest though not for the reasons we just mentioned and again stop trying to make these cousins of the raccoon cute later the precare were visited by yet another heart who foresaw the arrival of some sort of impulsing force that she called the truth it started with me when I met Mickey and Minnie anyway as I mentioned they tied the Tanuki plot back to the Fairy stuff with Nagisa kind of regretting her fight with Meo when she realized that they might also have to say farewell again which yeah pretty sure we’ve all done this plot before okay that was a clever joke they ended up having a fight with Den dji’s Old dogghouse that was just kind of there I mean the episode was animated by mitro ayama so it is best to just not have any expectations the only real notable part of it was Viet further foreshadowing the truth got R into flavor oh so like I’m vanilla and you’re strawberry later after Reena finally got rid of the over cutified red Naga was able to deliver a good speech about how the truth they were living was one Phil with happiness for the time being so they may as well just enjoy things to their fullest because sure enough the other truth that they kept hyping up was finally leaving his Mansion this SL right into the next episode which of course was another Hikari outing I got a rock though before we got to the main boy of this episode she ended up ringing into this runaway kid named Dy and his whole thing was just being your typical rebellious little brat who thought that the only way of becoming a man was to not listen to your parents while you’re still in grade school that makes sense to me again thankfully this boy wasn’t the main focus of the episode but rather the mystery kid that the villains let leave the Mansion knowing that they couldn’t stop him for some reason and yeah I’ll admit it does a little aggravating that we’re 21 episodes in and they’re still playing really koi with this whole mystery subplot but episodes like this do at least keep things interesting for starters the kid was kind of cute as he took in all the tanabata decorations though most importantly he brought with him the best characters in this [Music] show uh I’ll take scenes that haven’t age well for 200 back with hiari and while Dy wasn’t exactly the most likable character he did act as a good means of highlighting her better aspects most notably she was able to make the kid realize the importance of parents when she didn’t have any of her own they were nice scenes that got across the idea that true Freedom doesn’t mean rejecting all authority figures but rather that it is fine if you’re a bit of a bird in a cage as people especially kids can’t live entirely on their own good stuff with I think some light shipping between these two I mean it is an art descript but at least she’s not obsessed with the stuff just yet in the end though the quote unquote truth eventually cross paths with all of our heroins and in particular Hikari after Mr Kitty chose destruction that day but come on what’s the worst that could happen if these two are meet oh well that’s a little inconvenient actually I’m not exaggerating all that much as they were all sent to this trippy ass pocket Dimension that actually kind of looked like labate no not that one the one from press freaker and not wanting to be overshadowed by a villain faction that hadn’t even been created yet circulus stepped in to retrieve the mystery boy as well as take care of the girl who seemed to cause all of this of course the original duel defended their friend which after a biva drought of good fights this season so far we got a pretty good one with an evil General no less I mean yeah it was short but it did also have a good amount of intensity with circulus just going full beast mode on the cures with completely new animation which is the least I asked for with this show but yeah in the end all the parties dispersed with the mystery of the boy and his relationship with Hikari deepening meanwhile the other less likable boy did edibly get a sweet ending when hikari’s appreciation for her mother figure in aan reminded him of his own real bomb so he finally decided to go home and hopefully have his PlayStation ticket away for being a little idiot but yeah hear T of wish that he’d just make up with his mom was a very nice way to end a very strong episode and sure enough the good times would keep rolling with the next episode that would follow up on the events of the previous ones though first Nagi had to face the despair that was her report card and oh Jesus uh okay is it just me or is that like the saddest face I’ve ever seen in this franchise someone get this girl a milkshake or something jeez anyway we would also get some World building from some slightly reliable sources with wisdom and this old [Music] fart um I’m pretty sure you’re mixing them up with kir Bond’s mom and a disgrace poor wrestler and that’s just the Salin Warrior anyway they were concerned that the villains were getting too close to discovering the truth of the heals as well as certain other truths that they kept on going on and on about on that note we also checked in on the mystery kid and the best boys e that’s what happens when you introduce them to the real great kids I mean the HD kits are still good but they do feel a little lesser by comparison meanwhile Naga tried to forget about her sorrows by choking down on to of a kan’s takoyaki and while Hikari was serving them she also recollected the mystery boy which poon compared to his pres with hiari when they first met however he didn’t felt a much more ominous presence as they spoke oh come on y’all are exaggerating I mean how bad could it really be ah no of course it was the guy who said he’d confront the preure earlier in the episode and was then immediately backed up with a of the episode bald is and credit where it’s definitely due he made a hell of an entrance first by just suddenly appearing out of nowhere and yet seemingly not being visible to anyone but the preure and then suddenly making all the civilians disappear much like JY at the end of the first season pretty much confirming that yeah he was at least on par with a final boss of the series oh and then they had a little fight afterwards yeah just a little one yeah if you couldn’t tell this is just another one of those episodes where they let tatsuo Yamada go all out and not only make some epic fights but also some epic chins like seriously the nied chin doesn’t look as evil as this dude and as a result the whole city was completely demolished and our heroins were downed until Hikari joined the fight and yeah this is one of those times where I kind of wish iari had not shown up as things were just starting to get good with this fight but no they just had to pull out their big finisher that would defeat this villain and [Music] up what what what what okay well yeah he still retreated but damn their big finisher didn’t really do any damage and while you could call this a draw it also rightfully left our heroin shocked that the power creep was finally starting to catch up with them thus they realized that they need to start getting a little more serial and fortunately the hard tals were there to help seeun acted as their personal guide to use that one toy that I legit forgot was even a thing to summon one of her allies which turned out to be intelligent but she probably should have rolled again because I think they ended up with a dud yeah hello can we get a different operator this one kind of sucks like seriously I don’t know who’s worse this fairy or the professor’s hologram from iroot fortunately hono was around to ask the right questions which they would get out of the apply name book of wisdom it described where they could find some great power of hope that hopefully would be better than that quick somebody get tandal though R didn’t just giving them a direct answer the book only spoke in riddles fortunately through some rather clever deductions they were to realize that one of the things that the book described had to be a lake that could produce two suns through a reflection in the water and it would also have to be something connected with their fairy Partners okay the cross is ready so let’s nail him in actually they had remembered that previously mepple had dropped the prism hotfish in the lake back in the first season which yeah that’s just a good continuity right there love to see it thus we immediately followed up on this in the next episode with the Curious revisiting that Lake of course it was a pretty big area and they had to find a very specific spot where they could see the Sun and Its Reflection in the lake at the same time wisdom and the Elder were still going around in circles back with the cures intelligent managed to look up at least a few more useful clues for [Music] them funny I thought the lion was supposed to be sleepy tonight of course they figured it wasn’t a literal lion but something that could at least look like it this ended up leading them to a rock formation that formed the shadow of a lion that ended up pointing them where they needed to go all around it was a pretty clever and interesting little journey for our heroins to deduce their way to their goal and in the end they found their six pillars and yes a rock that ended up being a direct line to the Garden of Light which would grant them some new powers however when your Heroes get a new power up they also a villain to test it on and hey baldus was feeling very generous that day and sure enough and in spite of some sub Parish animation at first they really got across how freaking strong this guy was as he just blew away the entire surrounding Woods oh and if that wasn’t [Music] enough now you see kids this is what a threatening villain looks like however as the power of darkness and fear was taking over the Earth and even reaching the garden of Lights something had to counter it for that there was of course our heroins and some brand new toys which to the show’s credit they did make sure to have it be an epic debut both with some great animation and M plane spinning I am a battle droid this led into the second half of the fight with baldus where they were clearly saving up their sakuga I mean yeah they’ve used a little animation including that one jump that I’m sure will never get old or overused but then we got some good old tat Yamada plus a new [Music] finisher yeah I know we kind of already used that joke but come on something that epic deserved it with the actual power of Hope the ks managed to defeat Bal this this time ending the episode and this first half of the series on a very strong note and yeah I know this video is probably going to end up being shorter than the other parts as we are only covering 11 episodes but one it really does feel like a good stopping point here and two at least this way we’ll be able to split the last two parts evenly into 12 episodes each but at the same time we may as well just give a little summary of this first half and overall my thought was pretty good I mean I’ll be honest I’ve only really seen scatterings of the season and have heard the horror stories but honestly at least for this first half I found it pretty solid seeing Nagisa and honoka take up new responsibilities as the leaders of the respective clubs was a really good progression of their characters as it gives them new challenges outside of the whole superheroing thing meanwhile Hikari while so far not being the most intriguing addition as a character just being the nice girl trying to figure out how to be a human her power set is actually interesting being a Pure White Mage to a couple of powerhouses more importantly though she manag to give poon a little more development and actually make him tolerable and yeah while I do make fun of him same does apply to mepple being a lot less grain than he was in the first season so it is just a relief to have far less annoying characters though yes I am aware of what’s coming up soon but we’ll cross that bridge when we get there I also do kind of like the villains of this season a little more yes obviously there’s no kirya amongst them but their back and forth is generally very entertaining especially with the butler Zenda game more Spotlight all the while circulus and especially baldis actually feel like genuine threats so they are far from just being a joke with all that said though is this season just as good as its first season not exactly as we said the mysterious boy and the Heart taals plot do kind of drag and in general there’s just nowhere near as many standout episodes even when compared to just the first half of the previous season the fights while heavy moments of great sakuga and overall bare stock enemy ations also kind of feel and probably are much sure likely due to the season not being fully planned out as again preure was going to end back during the first half of the first season and yet and maybe it’s because the recent seasons have lowered my standards I didn’t mind it too much yes I certainly noticed the repeated animations in the regular fights and they did kind of annoy me but at least the fights were often connected with the main plot of the episode and didn’t feel Superfluous most of the time obviously opinions can and probably will change the latter half of this series for better and for worse but overall I still did find this to be a solid continuation of the OG that I’m looking forward to cover more however before we get there I think we need to do a little diversion in order to celebrate the fact that behold Sky breaker 2 has got to its official release date yes I know people want us to review the series proper but we are kind of in the literal middle of this show so that’ll have to be safe for another day however the world of do she has some good material for us and I think I found a really good one so do look forward to it and until then F I’m my friends and Excuse me yes oh you’re looking for some blond kid yeah I think he’s over there [Music] …