Spy Kyoushitsu 2nd Season

Four of the Din Republic's spy team Lamplight embark on a mission to capture an enemy spy. Although they struggle to work together due to their clashing personalities, Thea, Monika, Erna, and Annett complete their objective. While enjoying a short break, the four girls encounter a woman named Matilda, who claims to be Annett's mother. As they get to know Matilda, the team is dragged into an escalating conflict that tests their teamwork and allegiances.

Meanwhile, the remaining Lamplight notice that the dispatched squad has yet to report back. Worried about their allies, Klaus and Lily set out on an emergency expedition to locate their missing teammates. As the two uncover troubling information about rising tensions in the area where their friends last were, they must act quickly to reassemble the team before the mission reaches the point of no return.

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Lily Main

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Thea Main

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Grete Main

Itou, Miku Japanese

Monika Main

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Erna Main

Minase, Inori Japanese

Annett Main

Kusunoki, Tomori Japanese

Klaus Main

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Sibylla Main

Touyama, Nao Japanese

Sara Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Eve ing

Sugiyama, Riho Japanese

Iizuka, Aya Producer

Motonaga, Satoshi Producer

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Maruyama, Hajime Producer

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Sep 28, 2023

Marinate1016

Recommended

After the disaster that was Spyroom season 1, Spyroom season 2 is an all around better and more enjoyable experience, that faithfully captures the essence of the best arc of the light novels.

Studio FEEL really dropped the ball on the first season of Spyroom. The pacing was awful. The adaptation cut out numerous key details that would’ve helped things flow more cohesively, and all the magic of what makes this series special was gone. I legitimately found myself falling asleep watching some episodes. The difference between this season and last season is night and day. They’ve taken their time and given volumes 3 and ... 4 the love and care they deserve.

What’s significant about those two volumes is that the story is substantially better than the first two books. Yes, the first season wasn’t a good adaptation, but that’s compounded by the fact the story simply isn’t that great to start. The slice of life elements of spyroom make the progression slower than your typical LN. This season really shows Lamplight coming together as a proper team, some good action scenes, emotional story beats, as well as characters like Thea and Annette getting fleshed out. Both really serve as the focal points of the two main arcs in season 2 and are simply brilliant in them. Had a blast seeing two get the shine they deserved. Particularly Thea over the last 4 episodes or so growing into a true leader.


Not only are the episodes a near 1:1 adaptation of the source this time around, but the inclusion of the side stories volumes in between arcs was a nice way to expand on the girls and get audiences more invested in them. Last season they did some side story volumes, but they were positioned really awkwardly and killed the momentum of the show. FEEL learnt from their mistakes and wove a much more cohesive narrative this time bringing the whole team to life.

For a story about “spies” I think last season many people may have felt there was shockingly little espionage and tricks employed. While it’s still no Mission:Impossible level of spy thriller, this season definitely leans more into the spy genre and there’s some really cool reverse uno style trickery and action. I still think there’s room to improve on this, but it’s slowly getting better and this was a big step forward.

As I started to touch on before, the story has got much better overall, and there seems to be a clearer direction in of the overarching goal. We actually have some enemies and something to work towards which makes the show much more enjoyable.

So to sum things up. If you liked the idea of a team of hot waifus being spies, but found the pacing and story to be weak in the first season, I think you’ll enjoy this season a lot more. While it’s not the strongest piece of writing, it’s still pretty fun, has some surprisingly heavy moments and just flows way better. The characters feel more alive and there’s much more weight here. Hopefully we get a third season with the same level of quality.

Spyroom season 2 gets 7 out of 10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 30, 2023

Bisalissy

Recommended

Spy Kyoushitsu's first season recieved mediocre critics at best. It did many mistakes - mes everywhere from a too fast pace to seemingly screening the episodes in the wrong order. It's mystery wasn't thrilling and the cast was far too big to give proper development to the individuals.
So it's hardly a suprise the expectations for the second season weren't exactly high.

The story of this season just continues where Season 1 left off. With Grete, Lilly, Sara and Sibylla getting the spotlight in the last arc of Season 1, Season 2 starts with a story around Anette, Thea, Monika and Erna.
After they ... successfully completed their mission, they take a few days off, but their vacation is cut short by a fateful encounter. This encounter forces the girls to make some very difficult decisions, and shows them the true reality of their life as a spy. All without their teacher giving advise and protecting them from harm.
This arc does a great job in giving Anette, Thea and especially Monika some much needed development and growth. And at the same time, it tells a great and exciting story with a lot of twists, mystery and action. Something both Arcs of the first season didn't manage to do.

After the first excitement follow three filler episodes, just like in season 1. They focus on Monika, Thea and Anette and work well to satisfy the interest gained in the characters from the previous arc. Monika gets mostly backstory, Thea's story focuses on her values and inner conflict and Anette's goes deeper into explaining the "method in her madness". They also manage to hit with the comedy where Season 1's fillers missed.

The final arc rounds up the first "act" of Spy Classroom, connecting the dots of the first 3 stories told. It does a great job of highlighting each of the girls and how much they've grown, both individually and as a team. But the main focus is on Thea, Klaus and their backstory with the previous of Lamplight.
This arc once again suffered from slightly high pacing, but unlike the first season's arcs, it's no problem to follow the plot and enjoy it. And it did a great job in finishing the season(s).

Last episode is Lilly's filler - a funny comedy episode. But that's only half of it, as the other half is about Thea processing the previous arc. It finishes with a nice bridge between the two halfs anf finally a tease of what would be next in a potential 3rd Season.

In conclusion: The second season of Spy Classroom is nothing like the first. It fixes all the major problems and finally makes use of the great potential this show's characters and world-building have.

If you cared about the first season enough to look up reviews for the second - go watch it. Even if you are disappointed and conflicted on whether to continue. It was the same for me. If you've come this far, keep going!

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 28, 2023

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

Season 1 of Spy Kyoushitsu a.k.a Spy Classroom — getting to know the main characters and the setting...that ultimately overpowered itself in its own heft to do an adaptation right.

Season 2 of wannabe spy girls ready for their mission — it's Lights, Camera, Action!

There has always been the saying that novelist Takemachi's Spy Kyoushitsu a.k.a Spy Room is one of the most notorious hard-to-adapt anime adaptations that absolutely butchered the impeccable LN when it first came out back in Winter. And with one more season of the anime to prove its worth, does Part 2 a.k.a Season 2, finally justify what its prequel season set ... out to be? In many ways, it's definitely a redemption arc for the anime adaptation, though still a far cry from being like its great source material.

TL;DR, just in case you missed reading my review back in Winter, the other Lamplight girls who get the spotlight this time that were missed in Season 1:
- Monika, codename: Glint. The most talented of Lamplight, being able to think on her two feet of last-minute decisions.
- Thea, codename: Dreamspeaker. The oldest and most attractive member of Lamplight, she is good with negotiations.
- Annette, codename: Forgetter. The one who is good with engineering, her becoming a spy is just natural progression thanks to her special skills.

Otherwise, there is just nothing that is significantly new to add to the sequel, other than acting out the part of truly being James Bond's Mission Impossible, where the Lamplight spy girls and Inferno's head honcho Klaus head out to big lands to conduct their spy sortie shenanigans against other prominent spy groups that risks their reputation and lives on the line. The other girls (a la Lily, Grete, Sybilla, Sara and Erna) already featured in Season 1 get better as time es, and so do Monika, Thea, and Annette, showcasing their reasons of wanting to become spies. I felt that the compromise of "show, don't tell" works well in the sequel for being adequately paced, though the prequel had the train of thought from director Keiichiro Kawaguchi to cram as much content as possible should there be the off chance that the Winter show was the only one they would get, which does a major disservice to the LN either way.

With nonoc's 2nd OP song, I pretty much liked the 1st OP song just because it made sense and was a good fit for the show, and that goes the same for sajou no hana's sequel ED song, to which I preferred Konomi Suzuki's prequel ED song. But it's not like either song really piqued my interest for the "I Spy" tunes. The OST was average, and still continues to be so in the sequel.

"Disappointing" is the only word I can use to describe Spy Kyoushitsu a.k.a Spy Room's anime adaptation as a whole, even if Season 2 here is better constructed overall. It's an improvement, no doubt, but in my opinion, not much.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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