SamRavster wrote...
[font=verdana][color=green]Meh. I don't know what to think of this.
Angel Beats was alright; it has way too much hype about it, as nothing actually happened for most of the season. In my opinion, it pretends to be deeper than it actually is; it's a highschool anime drapped with guns. Nothing more, nothing less. But that's just my opinion; don't hate me for it.
The second season...I don't know how that will work. All of the characters have moved on, so will it contain a new cast? Or will it focus on Kanade and Otonashi? Not likely, as it says 2nd term, insinuating that it will be at the school again. Who knows...all I think is that P.A Works are just grinding on Angel Beats undoubted popularity, instead of trying something new. Season 2 Hanasaku anyone?
Well, the same could be said for Hanasaku. Nothing actually happens in the anime. She goes to work at her Grandma's Hot Spring Inn and works there... For fucking 20+ episodes. It's just a cute girl in highschool working at an onsen draped with pretty adolescent girls. Nothing more, nothing less. But that is also just my opinion, don't hate me for it.
I'm hoping the second season is due to the fact that, as Jun Maeda said himself, 12 episodes was not enough to tell the entire story that he wanted told. As a result, the closure in Angel Beats! is not final. He just ended the first season like that for the sense of closure. I feel that there could be so much more to this series than what there was in the first season, and if that could be expanded, it would be great.
The thought of the original cast all moving away and a complete new cast appearing for some reason excites me more than something like a Code Geass 3rd Season would with all new characters. This is probably because I think more could be done with a new cast, as it simply would not make sense to bring back the characters from the first season. But that's only depending on what the story actually will be.
Overall, this is great news. Really hoping to an even better season 2