We finished the second season tonight and what a crock of "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" it was. I'm sorry, but I didn't think it got all that much better at all. The eighth episode was horribly edited together and tried to cram way too much information into such a small timeframe.
The ninth episode pretty much killed off like a million characters and I didn't feel a single bit of sadness for any of them as they were all useless anyway. Although, it's a nice social commentary on the Japanese retirement system as even when the dude with the glasses gets ripped apart, he's still working. I guess he's only a part-time employee now. Though, I hate half days personally, so that sucks for him.
I feel like the rest of the show was an allegory for the fandom's feelings on Chiharu. That dude sucked and the show writers clearly knew it as they were handing him his ass at every second possible. Good riddance as he was a lackluster character from start to finish and so utterly unlikable. I get what they were trying to do with him, but they failed on so many levels thanks to his poor acting, uninteresting writing, and just generic all around. The necrophilia stuff was some pointless too. Of course, the part that pissed me off the most is that they spent all that time on this waste of skin and they didn't even bother showing his final battle. What a god damn "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" let down that was. There was no payoff to him at all.
I also didn't understand Mamoru this season either. I had no idea whose side he was supposed to be on nor what the hell his purpose was. It seemed like they just cleared up that plot with a McGuffin weapon because Toei didn't even know what to do with it.
Nanaha being the villain was also dumb.
Finally, my last complaint is not on the show itself, but Amazon. They didn't subtitle the post-credit scene with Tachibana. -_- I got the gyst of what was being said with my basic knowledge, but what the hell did they not sub it?
God I hope the movie rectifies all of the garbage writing from this season, but the fact that I can clearly see why Zi-O is a piece of "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" series given its done by the same dude as this one.