Audience reviews
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Kurosaki2905
I love the first season of this anime. The episodes always ended with a feeling of happiness. The character development and stories are very good. I like how in the first season the characters seem to respect Catarina's boundaries, but in this new season they even kiss her without her consent and put her in uncomfortable situations. Overall, I give the first season a 10/10.
I watched this second season right after finishing the first, so I was expecting something of the same quality. From the very first episodes, I had a strange feeling that something was different about the anime. I wasn't enjoying watching it; it seemed like the anime had changed, but I kept watching because I wanted to see where it would go. Overall, I was disappointed; the characters that used to be cool were kind of…
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Mixed feelings, because there are obvious issues with the series as it is presented here. For one, the story is definitely getting dragged down by the MCs oblivious nature. The entire premise of the show, that she is unaware that everyone around her is romantically in love with her (except Sophia lol) is run dry by a few key events, along with everyone constantly confessing to Katarina, and her complete lack of understanding. While it was potentially understandable in the first season, the extreme situations she's put in with these episodes, along with other issues that repeatedly come up without congruence eventually lead to a frustrating watch.
My suspicion as to why this show gets annoying to watch is as follows: Katarina is characterized in two ways, one as a highschooler who was into…
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Hamefura X leaves a lot to be desired in comparison with the first season. In the latter, she had a clear goal: avoiding the "Destruction Flags" and making back-up plans for exile, which is exactly what led the other characters to be so fascinated by and dependable of her and also gave us so many funny scenarios. On this season the protagonist, now free from any signs of destruction, just enjoys life and, in consequence, very few things end up happening. Recollecting the events at the end of it, I realized most of them were only important for character introduction and ground settling for another season, so it felt kinda pointless, too slow-paced and overall really boring. I feel like whatever they have in stock for a third season could've been developed on this one if they cut most of the…
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✒👩🌾 Play the Game 🍀 It's Not the Same 🌾 The Plot is Lame 🌱Hit Head’s t’Blame💐 °5.6° °slightly better than a bad Sat am cartoon° 💯%🔍 some minor spoilers
What's going on? I'm a 17 y/o Otaku chick who got struck on the head. Why am I now 8 years old and living in an opulent mansion in a positively Victorian society?
They are calling her Claes Catarina - “Cat”. Why does that sound familiar? Wait a minute❕ Pampered lifestyle setting… Her name... Bump on the forehead… This is all exactly like that game she played. Claes Catarina is the /Villainess/ of the game. She had four love interests:
1. Stuart Geordo. “As long as I'm at your side, I'll never know boredom in all of my days,” he assured her.
2. His younger twin brother, Alan, is in the mix. “Listen, it's not like I was lookin…
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What a disappointment. The first season was a great feel good story where the main character tried to avoid their doom by making friends with everyone. This season though, every character just seems to be boiled down to just one character trait/gag they repeat constantly. It's the same as season one, but the gag you would see maybe a few times in season one is done multiple times an episode here. Everyone is always constantly fighting over Katarina, and it gets old quick. Even new characters just introduced quickly start pursuing her as well, in often pretty inappropriate ways. In the first season there was a bit of contention in addition to the normal plot, but the plot just isn't interesting in this season. I kinda had to force myself through this show, hoping something good would come o…
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I loved season one, but I feel like something really important was lost between seasons. Season 1 made me so happy that we didn't have anyone trying to push Katarina too hard, but this season we have at least 4 moments when people crosses her boundaries completely. I felt absolutely betrayed by some characters. I don't know what happened or who was fired from season 1 to season 2, but I don't know if I wanna continue if it keeps going down this patch.
Since this type of gimmick is used again and again in romance animes, maybe most people won't think anything of it. But yeah, it rubbed me the wrong way.
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in the first season, they tried to make the main character look like a clean-hearted person. (I think it was a failure)...
this season, the main character has become a mindless person. excesses should be avoided when creating a character. but I think the writers want to show the character as a god of goodness. this makes the character repulsive rather than believable.
other than that, the colors are beautiful but the animations are average. the story is not as interesting as in the first season (although the last episodes of the first season were very boring)
the characters are extremely boring and uniform, this problem has been like this since the middle of the first season.
when the main character turns 15, there is nothing left involved in character development. but still, it's not…
Read at the sourceDrakestalker
Objectively speaking, there’s nothing to this sequel. There’s no point in watching it. Nothing happens.
The core conflict of the story is resolved at the end of season 1. Catarina clears all of her death flags. She’s safe now. She’ll be fine. We’re done. Yet the show goes on for some reason. The conflict that is the literal title of the story gets resolved by episode 12, yet we’re treated to another 13 episodes of just slice of life nothingness.
Will you have a good time with this if you enjoyed S1 and emotionally invested in the characters? Yes, you will. Think of it like The Hobbit franchise. It’s much worse than LotR, but at least it’s a chance for you to revisit that world and spend some more time in it. That’s kind of what this is like. You’ll get to just spend some more time with t…
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The second season of Hamefura is sure to please enjoyers of the fun vibes and warm empathetic notes of the first season. Catarina once again excels in being what fans have come to call "Bakarina": an amusing yet charismatically caring buffoon who seems eternally oblivious, but manages to stumble backwards into solving problems with her friends and her five brain cells. The dissonance between the situation and how Catarina perceives (or doesn't perceive) it makes for great comedy and permeates much of season two. The large, jovial, central crew of characters who came to love and admire Catarina in the first season reprise their roles, remaining great friends with one another aside from the sparks of romantic rivalry, and continue to showcase their personalities when the central cast faces d…
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Hametsu Flag Season 2 takes everything that was somewhat fun in the first season and completely throws it out the window in favor of the most bland, do-nothing plots you've ever seen. 9 out of the 12 episodes are forgettable (very generous), and when something happens to develop a supposed "relationship", Katarina is quick to forget and return to her smooth-brained sweet-snacking status quo.
It's typical for harem shows to stunt the development of relationships, as doing so would "pick favorites" and destroy the harem, but you can't just have NOTHING happen like this, especially when there's so many involved. There's barely even infighting, or jealousy. It was a mistake to have only 2 of the 7 (mainline harem) display their love so overtly.
There's a shocking lack of character developm…
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I like this anime and this genre in general. I'm also someone who rewatches series. During this, I'm re-evaluating series and characters. And one thing that has pushed the series down a notch over time for me is a certain character.
And no it's not the Pervy-Bear from Season 2 Ep09-12.
It's the first male lead, Geordo.
In Season 1 I already found him to be the worst of all "Conquerable Characters". But in Season 2 he got even more annoying I think.
I hope for season 3 he changes. Because I strongly doubt that MC is dating (Ending Up with) anyone else. The series won't be so "progressive" that she ends with any of the other girls, and for everyone else, who ends up with who has already been hinted at.
Alan = Mary
Nicol = Fray
Keith = Sophia/Maria/Ginger
Keith is the only one who hasn't had…
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The reviews commenting the lack of plotline must not've watched the first season: nothing changed but Bakarina's acknowledgement she dodged all Bad Endings back in her childhood. This is still a generic Slice of Life story more than anything.
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The annoyance that is harems was lessened a LOT compared to the first season and subsequently became more enjoyable. And with Geordo finally being more assertive, the conflated love from Bakarina's harem members was finally dampened as they realize their feelings are 1) unreciprocated, and 2) never going to be reciprocated. Even tho most aren't actually *in* love with her. Side note: those with actual romantic love are Geordo and the new romantic rival, Sora. The others are still just conflating their love for her with romantic yearning.
The pl…
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I'm not used to write reviews, but I decided to write one for this anime !
Usually, reversed harems are not my thing, but here, the reverse harem is not the main plot but more an element of the plot. We still follow Katarina in her adventures with her group of friends, and multiple shenanigans happen as usual.
We get introduced to new characters who technically are only new members in Katarina's already huge harem, but hearing about their backstories is often really interesting. I particularly liked the stories that were told outside of the castles, in the poor villages and cities. It gives more credibility to the whole world building in my opinion.
The main characters are still here, but they are developed a little more for some of them (mainly Geordo, Keith and Nicol). We also unders…
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Hot dang, a season 2. I got to say, I loved the 1st season and didn't even know there was a 2nd season. Now that I've seen it, it's great. I love this season too. Catarina is still the same lost in the sauce go fitty girl and it's just pure gold. The characters still hold their flame and the story is a goon continuation of the story. Did they need to make a season 2? Nope. But we got one anyway, and this was good. The misadventures of Catarina still holds true and it's nearly a masterpiece in my book. Honestly, I prefer the 1st season but the 2nd season still holds it's flame regardless if it should have happened or not.
Honestly, if they make a season 3. I'm gonna hold out hopes for that as well. Easily an entertaining and heart warming show to my monkey brain.
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Remember near the end of the first season when a character was kidnapped by someone using dark magic? Ready to see that plot reused twice for 5 episodes total?
While the show is still enjoyable, it's mostly fluff and does very little to grow the characters or advance the status quo. Notably, some people may be frustrated with Katarina's obliviousness to everyone's feelings towards her, now without the excuse of focusing on avoiding the doom flags to distract her from everyone's obvious affections. Additionally, with how the first season ended resolving Katarina successfully avoiding her doom flags, there's little to drive the overarching plot this season. The final episode does add a sequel hook, but how many more accidental romantic conquests does she need?
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Seasons 2 starts out with none of the actual stakes that season 1 had, ( adapting to new life, understanding the perils, erasing the death flags, etc ) and doesn't really care to invent any new ones. I'd interpret most of these episodes as fan service if it weren't that I personally found them really dull. This whole show had a fun-loving denseness to it in Season 1 but at this point, it feels like watching an ever-present status quo with no payoff. None of the cast lets anyone else of the cast be alone with the protagonist unless it's convenient for the plot to forward.
There's an edgelord plot towards the end that I won't spoil but the resolution was about as satisfying as a cold plate of porridge.
Only at a few points does any relationship actually go i…
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well first of all i just want to say that this anime had a nice story, but only for 1st season...the futher i watching season 2 its getting more generic and nothing special.
*character*
okay here we got to see that catarina was a simply a character that meet the catagory of how isekai mc should be. but, what is getting in my nerve is that in season 1 shes most likely more inteligent than the current catarina. I know that isekai mc are dense and stupid, but catarina is on another level of stupid and dense.
second, is that the side character in this season is having a great development, while catarina the mc is most likely getting reverse development from an average intelligent to be a character with no brain. well what can i expect from a kid that never end middle school and get isekaied…
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Season 1 started off with promise. An Isekai from a Villainess's perspective, a current trend. While Season 1 was enjoyable, since it dealt with Catarina trying to avoid her doom flags, Season 2 falls flat. There is no main plot of Season 2. Each episode is somewhat its own mini-sub-plot with no major correlation to the previous episodes (except some mini plot). Catarina's character was enjoyable in Seasons 1, however, in Season 2 I found her to be super annoying. There has been no character development in over 24 episodes (12+12). She has remained the same simple minded, dense, optimist. She has never realized how she impacted the storyline, nor any other character's feelings for her when it was blatantly obvious. She is always so focused on her doom flags that she never stops to think ab…
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I need to start off by saying season one wasn't so bad. And since I watched season two right after season one, the bad qualities of this season were really highlighted in comparison to the last, not that it was perfect but definitely better than whatever they thought they were trying to accomplish in this season.
Firstly, any good story needs some sort of character development in order to feel like it's progressing somewhere. Absolutely nothing changed between seasons one and two. Everything ridiculous was kept intact, and there was little to no development in the characters and the storyline. It felt like all they were doing was stalling time for 12 episodes. In many areas it was totally unrealistic how the female lead would get out of situations (by asking for snacks, and being nice, se…
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I guess first season make high standard for second season. It fell normal not so much excitement as the first season. We only have 2 big story the intro of Sora and the disappearance of Keith. Nothing new and special except Geordo new approach.
I think the problem of second season is the addition of supporting cast. We have 2 new brothers of Prince Geordo and their finances. We also have Sora and Sirius, too much of supporting cast but shallow development. They just appear without function or added value to story.
Moreover the doom flag has been cleared in first season. What the point of making sequel if Maria (the true heroine of the game) did not make much impact to story. Catarina become boring character because we don't know how the game Catarina fate will come in sequel game.
In c…
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