Introduction
Two years had passed since he left the City of the Dead, and Will was seventeen by count. As a lord, he developed "Torch Port, a river port of light", and gradually the people's activities and smiles returned to "Beast Woods". However, out-of-season flowers bloom profusely, and an abnormality is discovered in the forest. Will and his friends head into the depths of the forest to solve this problem, and receive an ominous prophecy from the king of the forest.
"In the Iron Rust Mountains, the 'Fire of Black Calamity' will occur. The fire will spread, or it will burn everything in this land."
What is the calamity that sleeps in the ruined dwarven city of Tetsusabi Sanmyaku...!?
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Audience reviews
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BigSaij
The adventurer party goes to slay a dragon and restore an ancient dwarven kingdom. Compared to the first season, this is an improvement in some ways but still disappointing in others. The new dwarven side character introduced to the party is a very solid addition, with a good arc that ties well into the story and has a (mostly) satisfying conclusion. Will's relations with the gods are further expanded upon in interesting ways, and the fight scenes barring one exception feel better than this season's predecessor. From an overall standpoint, it's an improvement.
But there are still many things that drag it down. Other side characters' arcs are still incredibly rushed, leaving them floundering past what their personalities can accomplish without the use of a wider progression. The pacing may…
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If someone where to ask a ChatGPT to combine all generic old children tales to an anime, and make it as predictable and bland as humanly possible, this must be it.
I've never written a review on this site before, but I feel like I need to ward people so that they do not get fooled by the decent ratings of this show. This is the most generic, cliché, unoriginal anime I've ever watched. Maybe it is actually made for young children. The fights are boring and interrupted with even more boring and insanely predictable dialogue. The characters are as bland as they can get. Everything is just so... boring.
Do yourself a favor and watch literally anything else.
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S2 is just a generic yet juvenile low-effort ripoff of The Hobbit. No originality, 0/10. shonen garbage.
The dialogue is brain damaging exposition. The plot is filler. The characters are idiots. The plot armor renders the constant "you will die" lines hilariously dumb. There is almost nothing of value in here and it starts off with an entirely pointless filler episode walk to a school for pointless exposition. Almost every scene is infuriatingly dumb.
The irrelevant isekai background amounted to a single offhanded line about using prior knowledge to make paper and run the town in an initial scene.
The characters have all become cardboard cutouts for exposition and comedic relief jokes. The dwarves are the worst and central to the season.
The art was typical low-effort seasonal quality cons…
Read at the sourceCrowelicious
When I think of a solid fantasy anime, this anime often comes to mind. While the plot has some issues, specially in the anime, where much that happens is not covered properly or outright not explained (I'm looking at you, Valacirca fight...) it is a very good take on fantasy and isekai genre, with some well put Tolkien references.
Yes, it is Isekai, but no, it doesn't revolve around MC's constantly remember his life prior to his reincarnation. The story itself understands that the MC was something in his past life that he is not very proud, then he uses that feeling as fuel to become a better person and that is pretty much it. Like many other Isekai titles where MC is outright OP due to retaining memories and mentality of someone older from previous life, it felt that in Saihate no Paladi…
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I liked the end of the season, it is a very cute anime, tender you could say.
The cast of characters is very well put together, it feels like the protagonists have become a family. That's nice, you feel like you're part of the adventure.
You want them to do well, you don't want anything bad to happen to them. It is very interesting how the protagonist knows that he is in a privileged position and decides not to exploit it to the fullest. Yes, he takes advantage of it but he doesn't fully squeeze it and that makes it feel very real. It is very interesting how its story develops, it is very well written and directed.
The animation is very nice and fluid. The character designs are very good. We see a goddess who is really pretty, I'm not saying anything more.
I highly recommend the anime i…
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Season 1 was a captivating story of a lad coming of age and beginning his journey.
Season 2 continues the story of William G Maryblood as a Lord and Paladin.
Main issues I find as the story continues is that as the story progresses, William's motives and drive becomes much more whimsical and fictional. A fantasy character with no flaws. He becomes less human as the story progresses. A device to drive the story rather than an actual character with strife and challenges. A mythical hero that's been embellished so much so that they don't seem to actually exist like the songs written about him.
Despite the mountain of responsibilities he is shoulders with, he just accepts it and just continues to do as he is told. Like a doll. Endlessly repeating the difference between being dead and not bei…
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A marked improvement over season one. That's a rarity in anime. Typically they don't improve, but rather nose dive. Animation has more to offer in terms of flashy action scenes, with a couple that stand out. The art work in general is slightly worse, bad cg, but still good character detail and amazing backgrounds. I still feel the characters are lacking depth, but at least we get to wee a little bit more of Will's internal struggles without it feeling completely forced. The world building continues to be one of the best parts of this anime. The story line feels more solid and less of the generic isekai we got after arc 1 in season 1. Still a little generic, but better. Pacing is much better, and picks up quite a bit over the last season which was kind of painful after arc 1. The dubbed voi…
Read at the sourceSenpaika
Saihate no Paladin had a good premise in the first season that somehow made it interesting to watch. It just shouldn't have gotten a second season. Everything is just bad maybe worse than the first season. There is like literally no interesting filler. you get one episode with 1 to 5 minutes of interesting content and then just a boring part.
Tutorial on how to make slow-paced anime interesting: backstories worth being interested in, beautiful scenery and SFX, main character day activities, and bonding characters.
Saihate no Paladin is a disaster. I read the manga and watched the first season and still, I think whoever worked on this is inexperienced. From the feel of enjoyment from the first season because I liked the manga I overlooked a lot of bad things. But you can't overlook them an…
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The second season of The Faraway Paladin took me by surprise – it’s much better than the first season.
I was torn on whether to watch this season or not, considering the first season left me with mixed feelings. The first season started out great but quickly became horribly subpar and so I did not have high expectations going in. However, what we got in this second season was a change of pace and focus that turned The Faraway Paladin into an enjoyable adventure story. The kind of adventure story that makes you think of a tabletop roleplaying game set in a European medieval setting.
While Will is still very much an overpowered little snowflake it bothered me much less this time around. It doesn’t matter that he’s so powerful because they managed to give the events that transpired a very d…
Read at the sourceLeunPuppet21
The first season of the faraway paladin suffered from a low budget and poor directing which I feel had failed to capture the captivative and emotional feel of its story compared to the LN and manga counterpart. And while season 2 did improve on animation, the storytelling remains underwhelming.
The story - 5
Season 2 covers volume 3 and 3.5 that is about William's quest into the former dwarven kingdom of the iron mountains to subjugate the evil dragon, with the theme being centered around our protagonist's courage to rise up and challenge an impossible foe. New characters are introduced and we especially got new lights shedded on old ones such as Bee, Menel and Stagnate. Sadly just like season 1, there were way too many moments where "it was supposed to be epic but comes off as cheesey" o…
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A story that follows the hero and his party on a quest to vanquish evil, and purify the cursed lands.
This season of The Faraway Paladin revolves around the tale of the rust mountain and its denizens. We follow William going on a quest to help them, where he travels with a band of friends, to cleanse the mountain from the evil that has overtaken it.
The plot is very linear and follows the classic structure of an adventure group going out to save the lands. It is generally done in an interesting way, that explores the road they have to travel and the dangers along the way. The first couple of episodes are lead up, and is sadly kinda forgettable, but the rest of the story carries a nice feeling of a true adventure.
When it comes to the characters are they rather basic in some degrees, whe…
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The Faraway Paladin - It's still one of my favourite "not-so-Isekai" Isekai reincarnation fantasy shows to come out of recent years, just behind the juggernaut that is Rifujin no Maganote's Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation.
I'm still very firm on the belief that novelist Kanata Yanagino has done an absolute "masterpiece" for Season 1's content, which covers the first 2 volumes of the LN, that the anime sadly weighs it down to just being decent, if based on the overall production alone. That said, waiting 2 years to finally see Season 2 come out...and while it's still good, it's just not on the same wavelength that the author used to write compelling stories that really secured the sole thing that sold the prequel: its humble storytelling that comes from inspiration, not imitation.
I…
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While the start of the first season was a rather interesting one, in S2 we are given more like the ending of the first season - a rather ordinary isekai OP MC story with no innovation or effort put in it. Let me just give you a quick rundown so you can go watch something better instead.
Story. Typical OP MC isekai stuff: our hero takes on “impossible” challenges while being constantly praised for being basically godlike. This time “The Hobbit” was taken as the source of inspiration and most of the season is about the journey to a fallen dwarven country to kill a dragon. Sadly no creativity was put into making this copy so the entire arc was so generic that not once I was caught off guard and I always managed to predict what will happen in the next scene. While being predictable and well t…
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