S2 when?

S2 when?

S2 was not that bad

Just close your eyes.

Just read the manga in place of S2. It's good and the art is great.

>more DtB never
It still hurts, why did Bones have to fuck this up?

I honestly still don't get this meme. Did people really think S2 was that much worse than S1 or is this a meme just for the sake of being a meme?

S2 is bad because Hobo Hei and no Yin.

I didn't say it wasn't bad, I'm saying S1 wasn't that good.

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S1 was pretty great, and when compared to it S2 seems like a steaming pile of shit.

Season 1 was literally perfect, a 10/10. Season 2 is more like a 7/10.

They both big had issues. This is all sounding like S2 is shit because it didn't have Yin.

Only one person said it and you're being oversensitive. S2 took away everything cool about Hei in order to give us a magical gun transformation repeated every episode, plot was a slog to go through every week until they arrived in Japan, some of the secondary characters like the nip agents were cool but underused while Mao being alive as a small animal companion for the magical girl badly retconned his ending from the S1, the resolution of Suou's plot was bad. Then you have the male Yin antichrist being born in the last second as a shitty tweest.

Lack of Yin is definitely a reason, since Hei & Yin adventures in the OVAs were pretty great and they'd make a better S2 than what we got.

>This is all sounding like S2 is shit because it didn't have Yin.
S2 was shit because it neutered the MC, removed the main girl (and then fucking killed her), brought Mao back and reverted all his development, focused more on a dull overarching plot rather than atmospheric episodic stuff, and had an absolute clusterfuck of a final 2-3 episodes (no, S1's ending wasn't very good, but this was on a different level).

>you're being oversensitive
>Posts a 200 word essay about S2
user please.

You wanted an answer and you got it, the second user basically repeated what I said. Time to realize you're in the minority and S2 was significantly worse than S1.

I LOST IT
I KNOW I CAN KILL
THE TRUTH EXISTS BEYOND THE GATE

Hey, old memes.

I want to manhandle yin

ok dumbass, I'll humor you.

S1 - film noir story featuring chinese electric batman. It was a Seinen anime, many shot little story arcs (2 ep each) and an overarching meta arc which culminates in a logical conclusion. There was a mythos to the world which while different was understandable to a point. People became contractors or dolls and changed. While the change was pretty uniform, one of the themes of the show was overcoming fate.

S2 - we get chinese hobo-man and a magical girl (with her own transformation sequences!) featured in a shounen action series. Gone was the film noir ascetic and story telling, gone were the mini arcs. In its place we get a Russian magical girl and her flying squirrel in their adventure across country. Powers no longer make the slightest sense, in fact they blatantly violate any real rules about the powers we got in season 1. On top of that the subtle/quasi mysticism and mystery in season 1 was thrown out for endless exposition and brand new unrelated lore.

In the rules of good sequel writing, it's OK to ADD onto the mythos/powers/setting, but it must adhere to the rules already set down in the pre-existing media, else you alienate the fans. By abandoning cannon, they alienated the fans. By abandoning the style, the alienated the fans. by abandoning the mythos to make up random shit, they alienated the fans.

It wasn't even good. You can't shit all over a good anime like DtB, and expect fans to forgive it if the sequel doesn't measure up to the original (it doesn't). The Yin storyline was... wrong. Everything about that storyline was wrong. Finally the ending was pure shit.

The only people who would apologize for that fucking mess of a sequel are people who didn't watch season 1. I hate Season so much it almost ruined the original for me. until I arrived at the truth. "There is no season 2"

God , 10 years ago, feels like yesterday, I feel young and old at the same time.

Wish we could have seen more Li Shenshung.

Hey guys

I know we don't agree on things too often, but can we at least agree that Suou is the best DTB girl?

I think you meant Yin. Though I don't mind Suou.

I rewatched DtB twice and time for a third

Man, I still want a Heaven's Gate OVA so bad.

You mean S3. Stop this meme.

I actually enjoyed season 2 more than 1.