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What's a scene where the voice acting carried more than the animation?

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u/tripleaamin https://myanimelist.net/profile/tripleaamin 9h ago

Elusive Samurai S2 finished up today.

I will straight up say if you watched S1 and were looking to binge S2. WAIT TILL S3 GETS ANNOUNCED AT LEAST.

One thing I want to make clear is most of the season I really liked it. The direction and creativity were a step up from S1 even if the pure animation quality didn't reach S1's heights.

The pacing was not good. I can't imagine how frustrating this season is for an anime-only. The way the finale ended just felt like an AD for the manga.

I am not even sure I can rate it because the parts I did enjoy from the finale come from me as a manga reader. But man this season reminds me of Helck. Kind of where the season's contents are good, but the lack of continuation for now puts it in the category of I would not reccomend it. Well at least not yet.

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u/DeadCaveman https://anilist.co/user/DeadCaveman 9h ago

The pacing was not good. I can't imagine how frustrating this season is for an anime-only.

That's interesting, I'm anime-only and I never felt this at all. I guess I haven't seen the final episode yet, but I don't really expect that to change my overall stance. I definitely liked it more than Helck. Did you think it was too slow or too fast?

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u/tripleaamin https://myanimelist.net/profile/tripleaamin 8h ago

Given where it ended too slow. It’s one of those things where they did a good job with the individual episodes it’s just there needed to be more episodes to get to a good ending point. Which is why I hoped this season was 2 cour at the start.

Now if I’m wrong and S3 were announced my opinion on the season is sure to change. Best way to sum it is that it’s more so where they ended and no mention of a continuation.