This episode was pretty decent imo, I mean it kinda felt quick since this episode has a normal length unlike the first ep, but in terms of the content it was normally paced, though there was that part where they’ve went quickly from Chihaya entering the club to Kotarou’s wet dream.
it feels like they are prioritizing the “Kagari spooking Kotarou” gag to good scene transitions.
its the same issue that the first episode had.
in terms of animations this episode was okay, the characters looked on model most of the time though there was one small scene that was quite unpleasant.
the scene near the end where Kotarou says “I could carve out a place to belong all on my own”
Sadly I don’t have a gif for that scene but here is a screenshot of it
The animation in that scene was too inconstant, I feel like it would have been better if they just used a still frame of Kotarou instead of that shitty movement.
I mean the staff complains a lot about how the girls uniforms are hard to draw but the bad looking scene is a scene that has Kotarou only, and as someone who knows how to draw, Kotarou isn’t that hard to draw at all, I seriously have no idea why they hired an amatuer to do a scene that develops Kotarou’s character. if it was a comedy scene then it would have been kinda fine but this is just…
That scene was like the only scene that bothered me in this ep, the rest looked fine, just small mistakes that can be fixed quickly for the BD ver.
Judging from the staff listing of the ep, it doesn’t seem like they are having a super awful schedule, the 2nd episode has 4 Animation directors and 13 animators only, maybe they are trying to save money and effort for the more important future episode or maybe Aniplex and Key didn’t give out that much money to the animation staff for this project, I really don’t know.
Alright lets move to the good stuff!!!
The OP was way different from what I imagined but it was great!
I really like the first scene where (Terra spoilers) Kotarou tries to usehis powers and gets attacked by Kagari, the ribbon animation in that scene were so great!
Also the Kotarou cut at the end was so good that I made it my Laptop’s background pic!
also shout-out to Ryouma Ebata and his amazing ending animations!!!