Ququ Bucai, Zaixia Yeguai 2nd Season

With the world exposition done in previous season, more stress is being put on the overarching plot of the story. The crisp feeling of discovering a new world fades bit by bit, and storytelling is in my subjective opinion markedly worse than the preceding season. With the plot armor of being fundamentally and inextricably linked to the THE mystery of being isekai-ed, our protagonist uncovers new facets of the plot wherever he goes, despite having no real agency to understand it. Other characters linked to the mystery tend to push the protagonist where he needs to be in order for plot to progress. It is not a good thingin a show where there is a progressing conspiracy of secret to uncover, and it rightly leaves an unpleasant aftertaste. In a bid to make characters more memorable, majority of them have now been given bargain bin sob story flashbacks, whether the character is freshly introduced or had a role in the first season. This too isn't very interesting or pleasant to watch. The worst thing that happened structurally is that the shows battle dynamic shifted from the 'clever MC does the smart thing to win by using his brain' to a milked to death shounen 'OUR BONDS AREN'T WEAK ENOUGH TO BE SUPRESSED BY THE DEMON KINGS TYRRANY!!! LET'S JOIN HANDS AND SHOW OUR FOES THE POWER OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP!' with a sprinkle of dragon ball powercreep ping-pong (think battles that go "-HAAAAH, NOW I'M STRONGER" "-ku ku ku, are you sure, hero?! because HAAAAAAAAAAH!! I'M STRONGERER NOW TOO! KUUKAKAAHAKAKA!"). The core dynamic between characters stays the same, and many things were still done right as well, so it's not all bad, but including the language barrier and 3dcg used... I would not watch this to the end if this was my first entry to the story,and I probably won't rewatch this either.