After the first episode that was a recap, the second episode was very good, as good as any season 1 episode. A well-balanced mix of humour, romance, slice-of-life and Morita-san mystery, akin to middle episodes of season 1. I’m quite glad and I hope they keep up this good work.
I do see a few potential problems though. First, there’s an insert song – I prefer to reserve such way of presentation for really important moments, which had a long build-up. Not for random mid-episode moments in season starter episodes. I can forgive them in a recap episode, but not in an episode like this. It seemed out of place. I hope they don’t keep it up because it will devalue those moments when an insert song is really needed
Second is, they still linger on Yamada’s obsession with Mayama and her attempts to solve it – but they are still get nowhere, and the situation has not changed a bit since the show start. Well, one indication in this episode points toward further developments – thankfully! – but we’ve seen that several times before yet nothing came out of it. This is going to be a problem for the series – even in the first one I thought the Yamada-Mayama thing was dragging on without resolution for far too long.
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1 Steven // Jul 10, 2006 at 23:13
Ah, but remember that there were 2 insert songs in episode 2 or 3 of Hachikuro I, so seeing that Hachikuro II is only a half season, using an insert song in episode 2 is just following the pattern for Hachikuro I.
2 andrija // Jul 11, 2006 at 18:20
I don’t remember
. We did see it not even two weeks ago but I already forgot. Season 1 didn’t really get superbly good for me until episodes 8-9 or so.
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