They're still one of the best parts of this show. While it's no Daily Lives of High School Boys (that show is god-tier) I still can't help but love Kimi to Boku. Despite my complaints when I blogged the first season, I did get pretty attached to the characters and I'm really glad to see them again. However, I did hope that the show would fix some of the problems that the first season had, and going by this first epiosde... They didn't. The animation frequently goes off model; just look at the opening scene! They're sitting around eating tangerines, I can't imagine that this costs a lot to animate. I don't think I'm asking for a lot here, I would just like their faces to continue looking like faces and their hands keep looking like hands no matter what distance we're viewing the characters from. Putting that complaint aside, I also thought that the pacing for this episode dragged a bit as well. It felt much longer than twenty-four minutes. A lot of the scenes felt like they were extended way beyond their natural stopping point to pad it for time. Maybe it was shorter in the manga? But like I said earlier, I can't help but love this show anyway. The episode was a re-introduction to the character dynamics of the central group, standard stuff for a second season. Even with the incredibly neutral set-up (they all stay at Kaname's house for the night) it's clear that this is meant to be a refresher, not a replacement for the things that happened last season. There's an unspoken assumption that the viewer has seen the first season, and I hope that means that this season will skip a lot of the fluff (as fun as it was the first time around) and get to the good stuff faster. They mentioned Yuta's former relationship, which was my favorite episode, so I'm taking that as a good sign for the romance aspect this season. And the show does still get a few laughs from me, this time from Kaname's mother and the re-interpretation of the Greek myths. I wonder if this season can go one episode without Shun in drag. We'll see. And the cats! I still love them. Overall in seems like nothing has changed in Kimi to Boku land (even the things that I would like to see tweaked), but I'm still exicted to see where the new season will go. Images from Crunchyroll.com.
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