Forum - View topicREVIEW: Ishura Season 2 Anime Series Review
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IronWish
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I think I've cracked the Ishura code somewhere along the second season. It's a fighting game trapped in a LN/anime body. It all fits: dozens of overpowered larger than life characters. Power systems and power scaling are all over the place. Central plot is simultaneously world shatteringly grand and paper thin. Everything should converge in a tournament, but it is delayed as much as possible, because it would end the story, at least current arc. Basically everything is just an excuse to smash bunch of action figures together.
Once I came to this understanding and accepted Ishura for what it is, its structural flaws stopped bothering me as much |
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Moderator
 Posts: 19140 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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Entirely agree with the review, especially about the potential for spin-offs; this franchise could make Raildex or Tenchi Muyo look simple by comparison.
I also think IronWish make an apt analogy in the post above, and I agree with that take, too. |
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Ryuji-Dono
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In that case, which archetypes would each character fit?
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Covnam
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Good to see it turned out well, but after making it through the first season I stopping watching after the 4th episode this season. That fact that it just continues the same structure throughout the season means I think I made the right choice.
It's not terrible, I just got tired of the format and it couldn't hold my interest over watching other shows. |
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Animegomaniac
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I don't think the fighting game analogy works because several of the hero candidates by their nature are non fighters with one being an outright pacifist. My conclusion was that the show was a "who would win?" internet debate of anime lead characters and outright villains.
One character was definitely an isekai Japanese high school girl who was on a power fantasy while there was another probable isekai lead who had the other kind of experience, one of the "conflict makes me stronger and have I seen conflict" variety. The show works because it's the ultimate shared universe experiment. We want to see what happens when these characters interact. This season had the ultimate gimmick character with high level dual casting for singer and actor... with the appropriate internet reaction with how it was merely a one episode wonder. |
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v1cious
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Still haven't finished season 2 yet. I hope they get to make more, because this show is a hidden gem.
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Sleipmon4
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Ishura is awesome. I'm hoping they make a third season.
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Sekaro
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Its actually insane how this is one of the few series from last season to not get an immediate greenlit continuation after the season ended. After 2 seasons of introductions, we finally reached the starting point for this whole tournament arc they've been hyping us up for from the very beginning & I'm just supposed to wait in limbo for a season 3 that might or might not even happen.
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