Wind Breaker Season 2

Not sure why there haven't been any other positive reviews so far, but personally I have been enjoying Wind Breaker season 2 a lot. Is it perfect? Of course not. But it knows exactly what it wants to do and executes it well.

First off, if you are watching season 2 that means you have already seen season 1 (and presumably enjoyed it). If you didn't enjoy season 1, then I see no reason to continue watching something that you don't like (hatewatching is lame).

Alright, now that that's out of the way, onto the rest of the review.

Story and Characters: Definitely the weakest part of the ... show. Sakura is a typical tsundere MC with a good heart. He wants to protect Bofurin from all the rival gangs and does so semi-successfully. However, I think the side cast is more interesting. Characters like Hayato, Kyotaro and Ren are easy to follow and provide and are more dynamic and have more layers than the MC. Other than that, it's a typical delinquent story. Gangs fight other gangs. Nobody is watching this show for the story anyways so for me the criticisms are somewhat unfounded. On one hand, the story is generic but on the other hand that is not the main appeal of this show at all and was never from the beginning.

Score: 6/10

Animation: By far the best aspect of this show. The fight scenes are clean and fluid, and the choreography is exceptional. Additionally, the camera work in the big group fights is impressive and the hand to hand combat is done very well. Cloverworks are a great studio, and although they don't usually do fighting anime, they really knocked it out of the park for this one.

Score: 9/10

Soundtrack: The OST in this show is good, it gets you hyped up and does its job well.

Score: 7.5/10

OP and ED: Both the op and ed are good, tho I prefer the s1 op personally.
OP score: 7.5/10
ED score: 7/10
Mean score: 7/10

Voice Acting: The voice acting quality in this show is very high. There are a lot of high profile VAs in the cast such as Uchida Yuuma, Shimazaki Nobunaga, Chiba Shouya and more. They do a good job of portraying the emotions and personalities of their respective characters.

Score: 8/10

Overall, Wind Breaker season 2 is a solid show. It's not a groundbreaking story, and it's not reinventing its own genre, but the delivery, execution and presentation makes it a damn enjoyable ride.

Is Windbreaker season 2 worth watching? If you like fights and cool coreography it definitely is. If you want any plot you will not find it here just move along.

I just cannot take this show seriously man, the premise is ridiculous, from the lack of capable adults, to the lack of teachers, to the lack of any police officers, to how many freaking gang highschoolers are in those towns man there can't be that many. Windbreaker's characters are walking tropes and the plot is just ridiculous. Why are highschool kids talking about philoshophy and sending feelings through punches? It doesn't make any sense. How hasn't ... any of these kids died yet? Also this is a minor detail but I don't get if this is supposed to be a somewhat realistic depiction or some of them just have superpowers, kicks will send guys trough walls, they'll send them flying 3 meters and the worst offender is how everyone of these guys can just straight up block and parry baseball freaking bats. You can not do that shit all of them should have ended up with broken arms after the first hit unable to do any more of this fuckery.

In conclusion, do not watch this for any crumb of plot or good characters, just turn your brain off and enjoy the fights, they're great, music is decent too, anything else? Sucks really. If you can do that it's a good watch for what it is.

It's pretty boring. Honestly I'm not sure if season 1 was like this too, but surely not, I was looking forward to season 2 and now that it's here it's kinda meh...

There's a whole episode dedicated to a "less than side character" backstory, the main fights are also full of talking, flashbacks etc. I season 1 was like this too in this regard, but at least all the sob stories/sentimental bs was either about Sakura or some major characters, it feels so trashy listening to a sob story of a fodder character, trying to squeeze out some emotions, like even if they become a ... recurring character they will still barely cut it as a side character...

Not to mention the noticable CGI in mass fighting scenes. Like I get it, it would've cost a ton to anime that stuff, but surely there were better ways to go about it, like still frames, camera angles etc. But also the fights themselves feel less interesting, season 1 had better coreography and just simply more fighting.

It's best to wait until all episodes air and see how people react when all is said and done, as of now it feels like a chore watching the episode each week, and the first 3 eps were supposed to cover a huge, interesting fight...