Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season

Go! Go! Loser Ranger, the 2nd Sunday Morning Battle Fest — Damn, this is REALLY the Ranger Reject portion coming alive now... I had hopes that the newest creation of Gotoubun no Hanayome a.k.a The Quintessential Quintuplets' mangaka Negi Haruba, will go beyond what we've just seen on the surface with last Spring's showing, being one of pure intrigue and worth its weight to be demanded another look despite its flaws with its plot and gimmicks, literally a seasonal hidden gem if you will. However, come the sequel the following Spring season...and I'd have to say, it sure impresses AND not at the same time, which ultimatelyleft a sour taste in my mouth. With the sequel here covering Volumes 7 to (mid of) 14 of the manga, at this point, you might be wondering: WHY, in a standard 12-episode season, does the adaptation for Season 2 go at a breakneck speed as compared to Season 1? Let's break it down: Despite my praise for how Season 1 turned out last year, there was a clear issue that pacing was one of the series' Achilles heels, with the season containing the introductory notes of the R1000 and D Survival arcs andthen proceeding with the Bailong's Nest exam arc, which was considered by manga readers to be the most crucial because of its content that will supersede into the anime as both cut and significant information for what's about to come. And through it all, the anime largely succeeded in still being able to feel consistent, despite the cut content that, in an otherwise standard seasonal showing, would've been the perfect stopping point for anime-onlines to read the manga further. And with Season 2's showing this Spring, it feels consistent at first going into Volume 6's adaptation with the Dreamy School Life arc, where Fighter D/Hibiki Sakurama teams up with the Green Battalion this time to investigate a cult group that was suspected to be working with one of the 12 Boss Monsters that was seemingly related to the disappearances of high school students. This "Endless Eight" arc is quite the sum of problems, where if a rule is violated, time resets to the very beginning, and you'll basically have to get all of the sequences 100% correct to reach the Boss Monster. It's quite the irritation and amusement to see Fighter D and the Green Battalion struggle a lot, though this is ever more important, especially for Hisui, given her life's calling to exact revenge on the monsters that decimated her childhood, which serves as a straight-line adaptation that feels every bit like the manga itself. Pass a few minor storylines of the Green Keeper and Monster Zoo arcs, and we arrive at the core meat of Season 2: the Invader Rights Association arc, where the Monster Protection Society claims its stance on protecting the monsters and decimating the Ranger Force and its Dragon Keepers, which is where Fighter D will realize that the goal of eliminating the Dragon Keepers...is more complex than it actually is, putting his objective in question as to which side he should actually commit to. This part, the biggest and most extensive arc thus far in the manga...got ABSOLUTELY BUTCHERED to bits in the season, to the point that people were getting lost in all developments going left, right, front, and centre. So have that if you will, as a precaution going into the anime sequel. For the most part, switching character gears to Fighter D/Hibiki Sakurama and his affiliation with the Green Battalion, and not to outdo what was presented in Season 1, but I actually found a better coherence here with the Duster himself alongside Green Keeper Chidori, Angel Usukubo, and Junior 1st-Rank Kanon Hisui, of whom the latter serves as his go-to support for pretty much the entire season, aside from meeting the same and new Boss Monsters. The focus on the Green Battalion here meant that the character switcheroo in Season 1 was bound to appear less often, and characterization can serve as the focus here for what his future will look like while dealing with the usual suspects of the Boss Monsters and the Monster Protection Society. It will serve quite the dilemma for Fighter D and what he has been aiming towards up to this point. Alas, not even the production holds up better than Season 1, not at all. Despite literally having the same staff, Yostar Pictures just somehow could not keep up with the animation, which Season 2 has a HELL of a lot of action involved in, and the cracks slowly start showing that seemingly good animation is only just a front and a fluke. The music too suffers from quite the monotonous melody as well. I know it's a tall order to trounce Tatsuya Kitani's Season 1 OP, which was, in all ways, perfect for the series, and while the once popular rock band Orange Range provided a decent OP song for Season 2 here, it's nowhere near as good and entertaining and now looks like just a normal OP song sequence. At least for Fukurou Note's ED, the POV changes from the Dragon Keepers in Season 1 to the Fighter Dusters here; it's also fine, but a song that I'll cease to ever remember when all is said and done. It's truly an understatement for me to tell you that Season 2 was just miles below average compared to Season 1, because not only was the butchering translation from the manga to the anime more obvious this season, but with the sequel being more serious than the prequel, it didn't have quite the belligerent impact that the manga had. All in all, it was a half-assed adaptation that both manga readers and anime-onliners from Season 1 need not have suffered this late in the game.

What the actual fuck is this? I'm genuinely disappointed because I HATE it when good ideas and potential are wasted like this. The first five episodes went well, and then everything went south. I don't know how the writer approved something like this. This is the most RUSHED piece of media I've ever seen in my life. I remember when this anime was first announced and people said it would compete with The Boys. There was a lot of wasted potential, but I heard the manga is good, unlike how the anime is rushed, so I'm going to read it eventually. I don't understand whyanyone would see this and say, "That looks good, let's publish it." I've been on this site for a long time, but this has made me so angry that I'm writing my first review on MAL. Simply put: ASS, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME.

I think that this season could have been better than the first, but for that it would simply have needed more episodes and better pacing, so overall a better budget. I will not write a big article or summary, just so you know. s1 was up to chapter 51 in the manga s2 was up to 125 .... That alone should say enough. Finally, I will say that I kind of enjoyed the season, but it was very rushed and felt lacking in some departments. So, I will not outright recommend it to everybody, as I think it would not be good to watch this instead of reading the manga,which I would without a doubt recommend.

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