Nanbaka 2

Nanbaka is an absolute joke of a series. What I saw in the first half of the first season was absolutely discarded for a more serious but ludicrous second part. It is non-cohesive and fails to focus on backstory and explanation. Not to mention, the comedy is pretty much nonexistent They throw in Gokuu's older brother for the sake of having an enemy. They could have made anybody the bad guy, hell, even Hajime's brother could have turned bad and it would have had the same impact. Gokuu and his brother have no chemistry when they collide, and eventhe main character's themselves seem to fall under this same category. The art I do kind of like. It's got style and enough distinction to make it different from others of its kind. But that's as far as it goes. It's nothing special, the animation is sloppy at times, and they mix way to many damn colors. See, jojo can get away with that since it flashes to different palettes of colors at serious scenes, but when a show is like that all the time, it gives you a headache. Also removed sparkles soooooo Sound is meh. The intro, I must say, is the one thing I'll always enjoy (if I go back to watch the show). It's catchy and poppy, but has that shrill guitar sound to make you reminiscence about the experimental early 2000s music scene. There are various guitar songs riddled throughout the show that are just pretty much space filler...and don't even get me started on the ending theme...it's atrocious As I said earlier the characters are not different enough to make them unique. Everyone collides with someone else's personality at some point. Hajime was definitely my favorite of all the characters I saw, and the Warden too. But what was up with everyone getting these weird powers? Is that like the norm or something? Is there someone that gave them all these powers or are they born with them? Like at least give us some backstory so we're not left wondering why the only thing that sets them different from each other is what they can do. So yeah, if you want to hear honestly, there were several moments that I wanted to drop this show, but I didn't cause I actually had some aspect of hope. I now realize that hope was ineptly placed because I do not like Nanbaka...I really don't. Please don't waste your time. Watch the first half of the first season if you must, but don't continue Overall I give it a 4

İts literally like 7.5 well i just voted 8 . Story is not a story we usually see and it grows like you would expect , overall it might have been boring for most people but like this kind of shows . To be honest for characters they really look cool ok but way too coloful and some of them are kinda gayish bro . While other people complain about harem and ecchi genre animes i think this one lacks screentime of female creatures in general :D but gotta give credits to head manager/warden and Hajime's meetings , it was fun Art like i said was colorfulcharacters and pretty good enviroment , well basically a prison , but still was good . Sounds were unexpectedly nice especially opening and some fight musics . Overall glad to see this shows in 2 cours of this 2016-2017 year

The second season of Nanbaka picks up right where its first season left off but I think in comparison to the first season its definitely lacking and has its flaws. STORY: 6 Overall *probably a spoiler* the story never gets resolved in the end and instead we're left at the halfway point or even climax. In comparison to the first season's comedic interludes Nanbaka also changes drastically in tone to a more serious note, or it very much tries to. And while it still holds onto what makes Nanbaka, Nanbaka, most people will probably find the change a disconnect to what drew them in at first. Whileits gags are still charming, its attempt at a more serious storyline and character development seem a little more shounen cliche. And it definitely shows in the last 5 or 6 episodes of the anime where a battle seems unnecessarily drawn out. For a series so self aware, it's a little disappointing that it isn't utilized in these aspects. ART: 8 Art quality is still the same as the first season, but less sparkles! Which I have to say that the dedication for animating all those sparkles is amazing. The vibrant color palette continues and surprisingly works very well for some of the more serious battles and darker undertone scenes. In the animation of fighting actions, it is impressive in how some of it is choreographed in the scenes and definitely is able to show tension when needed. Also facial expressions are very well animated for the wide arrange of emotions we can actually see this season. SOUND: 8 The soundtrack is as nice as ever! Very epic sounding feel to it and definitely gives impact for fighting sequences. The catchy opening and ending continue as well. CHARACTER: 7 This might be a hit or miss but there is actually quite a bit of development for side characters (or everyone but Jyugo) previously introduced briefly in season 1. While the main character is definitely lacking in a well written development or even a good portrayal of why he isn't developing, the side character stories I found to pleasantly enjoyable and even surprisingly unexpected. However every scene with Jyugo and his internal struggles will definitely look neglected when compared to how everyone else is portrayed. Probably the villians are even worse off but given how little time they've appeared it's not unexpected. ENJOYMENT: 8 Despite all of that, I quite enjoy Nanbaka and its comedic aspects well enough. And I would say what pulls me thorugh Nanbaka this season is a new appreciation for the side characters and their entertaining interactions with the main cast. And when Jyugo isn't having internal monologues of self analysis it is somewhat endearing seeing how useless he is. OVERALL: 7 Nanbaka is Nanbaka. You shouldn't really expect more or less and really just accept whatever it throws at you because it's probably more enjoyable that way.

Well, what can I say? I'm frankly appalled at how the author cold-heartedly butchered this crap. I'm let down and I want my time back as I feel pretty much tricked in a way. This was supposed to be a nonsense gag comedy, that's what it introduced itself as. Even in season 1, it wasn't THAT bad even if the author decided to introduce a lot of out-of-place serious drama/tragedy into a show that can't survive without being moronic. But in season 2, it was decided that being a gag comedy sucked and they wanted to, all too late, go the more serious shounen battleroute with comedic relief in style with such a work, it's not even good comedy anymore, it's just boring crap. Giving it a 4/10 was quite generous of me, I can't see anyone but teens or people who haven't experienced much manga/anime/novels to ever give it a higher score than 6/10, and that's pushing it. Tsk. How retarded do you have to be to take what people watch your show for and remove it in order to twist and disfigure it into something it can't ever be good at? This is a show that repeatedly goes on about how it's a gag anime and its very title shows that it's not meant to be serious. The flamboyant colors and excessive energy of every character is also something that could never be taken seriously. However, for some reason, they thought it was a good idea to try. If I want tragedy/drama or a nice serious story, I will damn well go read/watch something that is meant to be one, that actually CAN be taken seriously and is interesting. This is just extremely tepid. It doesn't go all out for anything and thus fails big time at everything. I can't take any of the characters seriously and the drama/tragedy is so bad that I don't feel anything for the characters, I've seen so much worse, you want me to feel sympathy for some butthurt chuunibyou-esque people that can't help but feel sorry for themselves over something really stupid? That's just not happening, especially not when there's no good mood going on. So, now we have a whole bunch of pimped-up chuunibyou-like prisoners and guards looking like peacocks and as colorful as christmas trees running around with the maturity of ten year olds acting cringeworthy and trying way too hard to look cool while we have to sit through their sobstories that no one cared about and that isn't even a big deal to anyone who've watched/read true tragedies/dramas before, I've seen mcs do a hundred times worse things to other people than what these guys has gone through despite being the "good guys", it's so damn mild. The comedy has become just as horrible as the action and drama, it's incredible. Even the first episode wasn't really good despite being full-on comedy, because that idiot in the background just couldn't shut up with his announcements. The story is just horrible in every way possible. It's pure chaos as it jumps around and can't decide what it wants to be. It's good at nothing and absolutely subpar. The art is probably the thing I can complain the least about, it's the same as season 1 after all, not much to complain about, well, if anything I guess that I'd have to point out that characters and buildings more pimped out than the biggest pimps out there who can't act like adults does not fit in with this more serious story at all. The sound isn't that bad, but I feel like it wasn't anything special, the opening song didn't even change and that was the only thing that pulled the sound score up in the first season. As for the charcaters, pretty much all of them are either boring or irritating, they have no proper personality, sure, they have extreme traits but that's all they are, they feel empty and dead, like machines. My enjoyment was, at the best of times, around average, that means 5/10, that it's watchable without feeling like it's a pain. Usually it was lower though. I'll just go for 4/10 for the overall score because it had promise and it had moments now and then that were watchable. We also don't get any explanations for anything. People just mysteriously has powers but no one knows why. The guards thinks it's scary that the mc and the other people have powers, so does the inmates, but it's a fact that everyone is pretty much as powerful or more powerful than the mc and those people they experimented on. No matter who it is, they all have weird superpowers that no human can possibly have, but it seems they're blissfully ignorant of how they're freaks and monsters themselves whenever the author wants them to. If it was just a comedy anime, no one would care about the fact that nothing is explained, but since it wants to be serious, we need to know more, however, seems the author doesn't realize that like many other authors and fails to explain what needs to be explained. The power levels are also extremely dependant on whatever the author wants, there's nothing set. In one moment, they're so OP you'd think they could fight a demon king by themselves, the next moment they're so weak they would barely match up against a midboss and at other times, they're so weak they'd get their arse handed to them by the start village boss. Sometimes one character becomes weak and the rest becomes stronger. I absolutely despise it when authors can't keep power levels consistent and doesn't care enough to do so, feeling like it's okay to change it as he goes. Oh, by the way the ending sucks more than anything I've seen lately. Guess what? It stops pretty much in the middle of everything. There's no conclusion whatsoever. We're left hanging in the middle of a climax, I'd say there's at least another several episodes left before we can see that particular dragged out battle ending. I guess they planned to make another season but failed. This garbage doesn't deserve a third season, so I hope they never make one, but it's still frustrating to painstakingly sit through this thing only to get left hanging in the middle of the action without even knowing who will win in a battle you just spent several episodes trudging through while feeling like dropping it the entire time just because you feel like you have to watch the rest when you've already come so far.

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