Bye Bye, Earth 2nd Season

Bye Bye Earth is probably one of the best stories i have ever witnessed Contrary to the popular consensus, i believe this work deserves far more praise. The story, like the main point of this second season, begs for you to question it. Question the world, question the characters, question their words, question their actions, hell, even question the music. Which by the way is stunning, as to be hoped from when the world is built around the idea of an orchestra. Where was i again? Ah yes, the story. It’s a deep and meaningful plot that not only makes you question but also think. Thisis something that we’ve lost, we’ve lost shows that don’t just skim this top layer and give us everything. Shows don’t ask the viewer to think about things themselves anymore, they just give you it all on a silver platter. The plot will mean different things to different people, which is the true beauty of a good story. The characters themselves are built well too, Belle’s growth is both recognizable and understandable from our outside perspective. You can basically see each step happen. The side characters also grew accordingly and there were barely any sudden unexplainable character bursts. Now that isn’t to say that this anime doesn’t have its flaws, there are times when some of your questions will be answered purely by “because”. The ideas of this anime are hard to grasp, which means i don’t suggest this as a light watch either. To truly enjoy this you have to pay attention and be in the state to think. This isn’t something you can watch casually, because you will just grow frustrated at not understanding. This is also why it’s gotten such a low rating, people tune in thinking it’s some easy to digest background material when it’s the exact opposite. While the story is the most praiseworthy, the adaptation must’ve been difficult, yet it was done very well. As i said before the music is stunning, fitting with the emotions both character and the viewers feel. The animation during fights brings an enjoyable energy, though the awkward 3d animation parts still exist. So as for the conclusion, is this anime for you? If you like to think, like to leave some things to your own imagination to interpret then yes, this will be something you enjoy a lot. However if you’re looking for some content that can be easily enjoyed as is, you should probably reconsider. It is brutal in the way that if you miss one sentence you could be struggling to understand for the rest of the episode. Yet the beauty lies in that, it’s a thought provoking story around a girl that longs for family and home, and nothing will stop her from finding the truth about herself.

Bye Bye, Earth, the latter journey - This is, for the second and VERY last time, truly a bye-bye to an entity that is hard to get your head around. Let's just not mince our feelings: Tow Ubukata was, and still is, a very talented and gifted writer by any stretch of the imagination, giving us classic franchises like Mardock Scramble, Soukyuu no Fafner and (the most well-known of them all) Psycho-Pass. But take one look into his stuff from the pre-2010s, and you'll notice that he's all over the place with ambitious ideas that, for one reason or another, didn't quite set the world onfantasy fire. Case in point, his LN of Bye-Bye, Earth, which I've mentioned in Season 1's review that it has ambition and is worth a look into, with the Achilles' Heel that the 1st half of the anime just did not do a very good job at trying to show and tell what its fantastical world is concocted and made out of. Sadly, with Season 2, which covers Volume 2 of the 2000 edition novel (Volumes 3 and 4 of the 2007 edition), I'm just conflicted to say that I've tried but felt the urge to tap out so many times that the ad nauseam devil within me just cusses out for episode after episode just to see how all of this would conclude. And if you're thinking about what I'm thinking, we're all on the same page here: Bye-Bye Earth, is simply put: unsalvageable. Continuing on with the second half of the story, the tide changes to the Man of Question, Adonis himself, being distraught by all the surrounding factors that caused his downfall, when he was THAT close to having Belle for all his own benefit near the end of the first half, only to skimp away like a scaredy-cat. That's not to say that the Girl of Reason herself stood in one corner trying to figure out how to make sense of the Man of Question's affections. It's how she takes it that defines the fate of both characters in question, and its significance plays a lot on emotion here. Together with the cast to liberate the gods, which gives rise to the Army of Insatiable Emptiness, thwarting the Katakombe, Belle and her gang, alongside Gaff and his kingdom, can't afford to waste time locating where Adonis is, before he wreaks even more havoc with his cursed swords. And that's the main plot of the conflict to resolve to put things to an amicable end. I'm not going to beat around the bush here: literally nothing has changed since Season 1's showing last Summer, and as much as director Yasuto Nishikata and his staff team at Liden Films tried to salvage whatever they can for this rather heavy mouthful of a dialogue disposition adapting from the books to the small screen, if Season 1 was already hard to get your head around, then the worse can be said for Season 2, which will rack your brains and nothing else more. I've also already mentioned in Season 1's review that a fantasy of this sort requires an act of fine balance between plot and understanding, so to see it all come together, yet in a squandered manner, doesn't give hope that the entire show in 20 episodes, binged or not, can be easily gotten the gist of. The only upgrade IMO is with the OP, and Who-ya Extended did a good job with the OP song being more representative than ASCA's Season 1 OP (that, in fact, I liked it better than the latter). And speaking of ASCA, I'd hoped she would shine after being transferred to the ED, but whatever the case, it just feels average and un-noteworthy at best. All in all, I'd imagine it's easier to read Bye Bye, Earth as a novel, and thanks to Yen Press having released Volume 1 of 4 of the 2007 version just very recently, that is an option I'd recommend if the anime's lore just doesn't cut it for you. Otherwise, as a product altogether, Tow Ubukata is a man of wild fantastical ambitions alright, and this work being one of many released before his famous heydays of the 2010s, it's quite the intrigue...yet, with insurmountable substances of potential that is left untapped. It's a very hard recommendation...unless you're one of the majestic few that can think like Tow Ubukata to enjoy Bye Bye, Earth.

This anime is well animated, had good characters and action scenes. Why then am i posting this as not reccomended? The story, it is convoluted and confusing for the sake of it. It is frustrating to watch as an anime only viewer. The world is definately interesting and very alien in a good way. I wish the story had made better use of this than just trying to mystify (confuse) the viewer. And honestly, the payoff at the end of the story simply isnt worth it. Perhaps it wasnt well done in the anime but it just felt like a storytelling cop out.

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