KAGE NO JITSURYOKUSHA NI NARITAKUTE! 2ND SEASON

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NOVEL ActionKage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!
ANIME ActionKage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!
MANGA ActionKage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!
TV SHORT ComedyKage-Jitsu! 2nd
MOVIE ActionKage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!: Zankyou-hen

REVIEWS

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  Ionliosite2

  10/100
  This series is not a parody

  The last time I complained about this series I said that if this was a parody, it was a terrible one, but after analyzing it and talking to other people I have to come to a simple conclusion, Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! is not a parody, the novel is an actual work that uses isekai tropes in a completely unhinged way, the only reason why you hear the series is a parody is because people read the manga version, which is almost like a parody of the series and get to the conclusion that this series is a parody when it isn’t. Now, does the series not being a parody suddenly makes it better? The answer is still a no, a bad isekai where the world bends over in favor of the MC for him to be the best ever to have ever existed is not a good series by any means.

  There’s not much to say for this season that I didn’t say for previous one, I mean, did the series actually change at all? No, the jokes are still repetitive to the point that, even if you were to find one joke funny, it would be so overused that it would make you roll your eyes after the 10th time it’s used. Let’s take for an example the first couple of episodes, where half of Cid’s lines were repeating the same phrase over and over and over again, and apparently that’s what makes a joke in this series.

  This season there was even an entire arc built on fake drama, I can’t even think why someone thought this was a good idea, it was as smart as someone asking “if there’s poverty, why don’t they print more bills?”, which is almost the basis of the entire arc. Oh, and that arc is followed by an original episode obviously for the sole purpose of promoting the gacha game, so instead of actually doing something with Shadow Garden, they just thrown them in swimsuits, because actually creating a character out of these pieces of cardboard with boobs would be too much work.

  The battles of course are still as uninteresting as ever, because as the first arc showed, the MC is so strong that even one of the monarchs of the Lawless City, who was strong enough to actually fight against Shadow Garden, was still easily defeated by him. How is he so strong? Because he is the protagonist of an isekai series where the world bends over in favor of the MC to get maximum power fantasy points for those self-inserting as him. Actually, that is the entire joke of the series, that whatever delusion the MC has is actually true, and this problem goes all the way back to season 1. And don’t worry about animation, it looks about the same as it did in season one, which is mediocre but nothing too bad.

  How this shit is popular or considered good at all is something I will never comprehend, I always compared it to Overlord as it has pretty much all the same issues that one has, and while I guess that is good for some people, for me it means that the series belongs in a trash bin.

  Thank you for reading.

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  oliveirafre

  62/100
  A fine anime that's massively overrated and not that great of an adaptation

  Note that this review is coming from someone who read all the light novels, meaning that my perspective is influence by my conception of the show as an adaptation rather than as a stand alone anime.

  The Eminence in Shadow, to me, is a great story about a brain-damaged (he canonically used to slam his head into trees) special needs kid who was given unmeasurable strength, while still lacking the cognitive abilities necessary to take notice of the things that are happening around him. That's what makes me personally enjoy this IP, however, this season of the anime seems to want to deny its origins and to go in a completely different direction.
  This wouldn't be a problem necessary. However, the direction it decides to go in is "generic wide appeal power fantasy action-comedy", that is not to say that the base material was particularly deep to begin with, however, the change does take away a lot of the focus from the well built really stupid jokes that made the story stand out to me in the first season, manga and light novel, to put more focus into the "story" (which is literally meant to be taken as a joke), action scenes (which seem to constantly want to try and 1up each other by having more destruction) and the shorter, simpler jokes (especially in the lawless city arc, which I think was very poorly done).
  I think this problem mostly lies in the length of this season, while season 1 had 20 episodes to develop 2 volumes of the novel, this season had 12 (actually 11 because one of them is just filler) to develop 1 and a half novel, meaning that a lot had to be cut especially so for volume 3, which contains the lawless city part, the money printing part and half of the Oriana kingdom arc. That time constraint means the anime isn't able to build up anticipation for the jokes or plot points as well as the light novel, while also not having the ridiculous art of the manga to back up all its jokes, meaning that a lot of the jokes got removed and the ones that remain often feel undeveloped or kinda rushed (which is also true for plot points, though they are all still present, they often lack build up).
  The visuals also didn't wow me like the first season's did, they aren't bad, on the contrary, they are very good, especially for the first and last episodes, but nothing really made them stand out greatly for me, maybe it's because there's a lot less random visual comedy, maybe its the constant use of bust and butt shots (which I despise, except for Epsilon's that one has a proper reason behind it), maybe it's because things were built up a lot less, but I just don't remember as much of the visuals as I do for the first season (for instance, I still clearly remember the first instance of "I AM ATOMIC" from S1, but already barely do for both the ones in S2).
  Finally, I think it also made some seriously odd choices of jokes to add in (did we really need to see Cid repeating the same thing 8 times over?).

  All things considered, I still think it is a fine anime, it does have great animation and music, some good jokes from time to time and the John Smith part is done REALLY well, but I just can't help but be kind of cynical towards it because of how inconsistent the quality of some of the episodes is cough cough episode 8 cough cough and of how I keep comparing it to its alternatives (LN/manga) or its predecessor (S1), which I feel were more enjoyable and did a much better job at standing out from other stories.

  Low 6. I'm not too hopeful for the movie that's coming out soon because of how the introduction to Cid going back to his original world was changed in a way that's way faster (again, less anticipation and simplified) and because of the fact Beta didn't also get transported, which means that we probably won't get the scene where we see Beta argue online with strangers on the internet in a broken English Japanese...

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  DrkNinja

  50/100
  A cool concept with an MC that has no motivations really at all, that comically fumbles through the whole show

  This Review is spoiler free with only vague details, with the exception of the last two lines.

  Eminence in Shadow is a show that sets up a really cool concept of a guy trying to fulfill a power fantasy for no apparent reason other than to be powerful. Our main character has no plan 90% of the time and comically spews bullshit that just so happens to be true. He isn’t an edgelord, which honestly I’d be OK with, he’s a guy desperately trying to be as edgy as he possibly can. What is even worse is our main character’s hollowness echos off the backs of the side character that are full of well… CHARACTER! Honestly as with Bleach, this show would be better off without the main character as a whole in my opinion. He ruins any immersion into the world as we are constantly, and I mean CONSTANTLY (like every episode), are reminded that he is barely intelligible and his only motivation is to be edgy. The problem with this of course in true isekai/harem form everything he does is misconstrued as sheer genius, even though honestly he doesn’t even care that the people around him are even there.

  Which brings up another point entirely, the MC doesn’t care about anyone. Great example, at some point he just disappears, abandoning literally his whole organization for some “self reflection.” During which a sequence of events beginning with his dumb friends finding tickets to an exclusive event in his room while he's gone and then RANDOMLY asking a girl who just so happens to in his shadow organization out because guess what? They are all super hot! This ends in them magically creating a mission he didn’t assign them, and then thinking that he did all of this as a master plan to get them some leisure time that they sorely deserve. All of this from him just abandoning them after failing to greedily take all their money from them. Honestly after watching this to completion I genuinely wondered if our boy was in a coma, and that the reason everything just always magically works in his favor is because his mind makes it so; which saying this now I kinda still believe?

  Combine all of this with the main antagonist group of literal clowns, who never really challenges the MC or his organization whatsoever. What starts as an occult group of nobles experimenting with “demons” blood ends in a highly technological group of scientists experimenting with a multiverse and disguising it all as just demons and magic. In fact it would seem that half of the organization is truly just under the impression that they are just dealing with demons and magic, and have no concept of the greater picture AT ALL. This results in literally every antagonist that appears pulls the same exact move of “oh I’m powerful on my own gets defeated Fine I’ll use this secret powerful drug to win still loses” which honestly is just too stale and formulaic for my taste.

  TL;DR There are really great fight scenes, some very cool twists, a beautiful cast of very unique and interesting women, and a complete lack of delivery on anything cohesive that you could call a story due to an extremely poorly written main character with zero character progression. This delivers a mediocre at best isekai with no real depth anywhere to be seen, which is a real shame. Maybe that’s the point, but it doesn’t make for good entertainment.

  P.S. I know this won’t be a popular opinion but if you honestly think about it I’m not wrong.

  P.S.S. SPOILERS! At the end of S2 we abandon the entire world which we've set up across the last 30 episodes or so to start creating a new one that's some form of post apocalyptic? I'm gonna watch outta sheer curiosity but man this hurts my brain.

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