Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko 2nd Season
By the Grace of the Gods 2
神達に拾われた男
Since reincarnating into a new world, Ryouma Takebayashi has used his god-given graces to tame countless slimes and employ them to improve the lives of everyone around him. With the astonishing success of his laundry shop, Bamboo Forest, he is finally ready to take on new frontiers and open a branch in the neighboring city of Lenaf. Abiding by his promise with his dearest friend, Eliaria Jamil, Ryouma makes every day count, whether learning new techniques, forming connections, or even discovering more species of slime. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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Since reincarnating into a new world, Ryouma Takebayashi has used his god-given graces to tame countless slimes and employ them to improve the lives of everyone around him. With the astonishing success of his laundry shop, Bamboo Forest, he is finally ready to take on new frontiers and open a branch in the neighboring city of Lenaf. Abiding by his promise with his dearest friend, Eliaria Jamil, Ryouma makes every day count, whether learning new techniques, forming connections, or even discovering more species of slime. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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KANLen09
March 26, 2023
Season 1: It's a slice-of-life Iyashikei of an Isekai that's heartwarming and good in spots. Seems like it has potential for a Season 2. Season 2: Why is this a goddamn Rune Factory-ish season of just growing business foundations? Novelist Roy's Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko a.k.a By the Grace of the Gods, back when it first came into the scene in Fall 2020, I thought it was kinda of a decent Isekai that explored the Iyashikei side of things with slimes and both human and demi-human relations for the once-deceased Ryoma Takebayashi, now onto the new world that he could manifest his powers for good and forthe people around him. But there is a mistake in the process: there is a possibility that we could get a Season 2 in the future, given how much potential it still has under its belt to be more interesting in the long run. And when Season 2 finally dropped this season to give us more good content...I'm not gonna lie: IT SUCKS ASS. Isekai/fantasy worlds are good because they explore the world at large, not only just the characters and their motivations alone to make the world interesting as a footnote together with it. But this is where Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko gets it all wrong and breaks one of the most fundamental storytelling plots to retain viewership of its audience: they explore the characters instead, while forgetting about the world-building itself. To make matters worse, much of the explanation (e.g. research) of the slimes' progress in manifesting new variable types that Ryoma has yet to discover, it's just glanced out of knowledge and doesn't feel genuine. At all. Hear me out: Ryoma Takebayashi isn't a bad guy per se, but it's just because of his growing business acumen that sets the stage for Season 2, enhancing the laundromat business that he has laid out its base foundation way back at the tail end of Season 1. To make things more interesting, having Eliaria be off on her way to her studies for 3 years, I thought that this will make for a refreshing change of pace when Ryoma's stuff was covered too much in the sequel. But once the sequel came, much like everybody else, I was flabbergasted that the progression of the LN that was adapted to the anime, was what we've seen as such in these 12 episodes (minus that 1 episode where Eliaria's school side POV was explored for a desperately needed change of pace), and it was BORING. You know the expression "the world is at your oyster", and yes, Ryoma technically embraced that, but I don't know where Season 2 got its foot off on the wrong path: Roy's LN, or Maho Film's same staff team as Season 1 who did some drastic changes to the storytelling, it's hard to say. While Maho Film's production technically feels the same as before in Season 1, I feel that for the OST in Season 2, it's gone to mediocrity. Both Azusa Tadakoro and MindaRyn exchanged places for the OP and ED respectively, and though both songs are good to hear outside of the anime, I just felt that it didn't gel together the whimsicality that Season 1 offered and made the series interesting in the first place. All I can say is that Season 2 in a nutshell is this: business, more business, festivals, people, less of slimes, and that's it. As a fledging reincarnated kid, Ryoma should have the will to consider for more outside of his business that's growing much bigger thanks to his world "growing at large". But this obstinance that creates for such mild content, it's honestly just a case of a bad call, but I beg to differ. Season 2 IS a mistake, and the potential that has raised from Season 1, thrown out and squashed like a pumpkin thanks to random, or even more scathing, idiotic facts that don't add to the world-building. Not good, not recommended at all, don't even try to think you can sit through this mind-numbing mediocrity.
