Little time has passed since the Magic Knights’ final confrontation with Princess Emeraude’s "Mashin." Still haunted by the princess’ death, Hikaru Shidou returns to Tokyo Tower. There, she meets her friends Umi Ryuuzaki and Fuu Hououji for the first time since their spontaneous quest to save Cephiro. Plagued by nightmares of the realm she had left behind, Hikaru is relieved to find that her companions too want to return and serve the kingdom they once so dutifully protected.
The Magic Knights’ wish is answered, for at the top of Tokyo Tower, the three are blinded by the same great light they had seen on the day they first met. Once more on the back of a flying fish, the group returns to Cephiro—a world now desolate and in ruins. With the collapse of the Pillar's power, monsters freely roam the land while three nations seek to annex Cephiro with hopes of seizing the Pillar for themselves. Complicating things further is the mysterious Lady Debonair, who proclaims herself to be the rightful heir of the fallen country.
Now confronting graver stakes and radically different enemies, the three Magic Knights set forth once more to save Cephiro and bring peace. With the bonds they have forged together, the trio stands united in the face of such a great challenge.
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Galactic_Kitten
Magic Knight Rayearth 2 is the telling of the second arc of the manga. While it differs from the manga, it is still a good story. The tone of the series becomes much darker in this season, and it deals much with the past of the pillar. We see the sorrowful role the pillar really is. This is emphasized by the three nations invading the crumbing Cephiro, each who have their own reasons for invading, but eventually, two of the three decide the better, and actually help to save Cephiro during the final battle. Besides the invading nations, there is the mysterious Nova and her"mother" Debonaire. They are, in fact the only real bad guys in the story. The characters from other nations are all likable. It's neat how they play off of different civilizations too. Even the music matches, which is very good!
The series develops Hikaru more, from the naive hyper girl into a much more mature girl. She also has her first experience with love. What I dislike about this season, however, is that too much time is focused on Hikaru, leaving Umi and Fuu pretty much forgotten about.
It's also nice to see the bonds that have formed between the former villains of the series. Lantis is an interesting addition, but is far too emotionless. I find a lot of CLAMP's male characters, especially the tall skinny black haired ones, to be hard to tell apart, and somewhat emotionally dead. But it's great to see Ferio back, now fulfilling his position of royal blood. And the romance between he and Fuu is shown a little more.
The story is moving, i would say it is even more moving than the first season. While it is missing some of the beautiful scenery, it is made up for by the story.
Besides focusing too much on Hikaru, I also did not like the mecha theme that was there. The knights spend most of their fighting time in their mashins. But the battles where they do use magic and swordplay are good.
The music is amazing, especially the last opening theme. The first opening theme of the season is meant to link the two stories together, each showing scenes from the first season as well as the current. The song kind of sucks. But the last opening theme, Hikari to kage wo dakishimata, is beautiful.
The end of the series is also very emotionally involved, but on a happier note than the first season.
Overall, this season is very good, and if you liked the first season, you should definitely watch this one. (as long as you avoid the dub, then again, I have never seen a good english dub, I don't even bother anymore!)
jmoriarty84
I personally felt this didn't live up to the first season. I really felt the impact of the ending of the first series. Sure it left things open, but it still felt conclusive at the same time. I thought the ending was really touching and you really feel how the three magic knights bonded with one another and you really see that. To me, making a sequel just takes away the impact the ending had on me. Personally, I thought if they were going to do a sequel, they could have just made them stay in Cefiro instead to try solve the remaining problems ithad and would eventually come and then end it the same way the first season did. The series doesn’t really have the same unpredictable plot twists the first series had impact wise. And I just really didn’t like the newer characters. The Chizeta twins and Lady Aska just came across as annoying and I didn’t like the rest of the cast. When you have your antagonists as your comic relief and not acting serious, it just goes down the toilet.
I thought the magic knights were developed enough already and they were able to use their maturity and experience, but they just simply couldn’t develop any further to some extent. To me, at that point, they just hit their peak. If they didn’t go back and have that ending where they are embracing each other and crying, then this story would have worked out better. It’s just my main beef will always be that the ending had an incredible impression on me filled with emotion and resolution But by going back, and then coming back, you truly do see their development of how much they cared about protecting Cefiro.
Along with the characters, we now have a lot of new elements to the series with design. Like the Autozam people represented industrial and robotic technology. Of course with the Magic Knights have those Mashins looking like mechs, the Autozam people have their own mechs like the FTO and the GTO. Their costume designs are pretty nifty as well. It has a descent balance of being fantasy and sci fi features to it. The FTO that Eagle pilots bares a very strong resemblance to the Dunbine from Aura Battler Dunbine which I thought was pretty cool, but had more of a First Appearance Iron Man twist to it. I also like how the other antagonists from Fahren and Chizeta were more cultural looking. Fahren was based on ancient China and Chizeta was more Arabic but they spoke in Osaka dialect. To combat the Mashin’s, Lady Aska brings a drawing that resembles her servant to a gigantic form and the Chizeta twins can use humongous genies.
Which leads me to the action. It is more reliant on the lets say “mech action” and we don’t see much sword play or magic. I guess that takes away from using excessive recycled footage. I really like the action, but I just really miss the approach and how it tried to distinguish itself from other magical girl anime. Now it tries to be more like a mech anime. Granted I do like the designs of the Mashins and the FTO, but giant genies and weird drawings once again comes into why I didn’t like the humor.
And the miniaturization of the characters isn’t really as prevalent as it was in the previous season.
Ferio now being revealed to have royal blood is now dressed up more formally, and lets say Caladina shedded some clothing.
Other than that, it’s the same old CLAMP school of how they draw eyes and faces. It’s a pity thanks to the circumstances of the story, we don’t get to see much of the scenery that the first season had which brought a great imagination element to it.
Well, I couldn’t get past an episode of watching the English dub in the first season, so I never really bothered watching the dub for the 2nd season. But anyway, the cast still remains the same that were initially introduced in the previous series. The original cast still do their roles very well and convincingly. I still love how passionate and emotional Hikaru always comes across. Juurouta Kosugi who played Zagato is also back and this time he is playing his brother Lantis. I don’t think the role really requires his charisma or his dark voice, but character wise, it was important.
Some additions to the cast are Inoue Yo and Hisakawa Aya as the Chizeta princess twins, Tatra and Tetra. Inoue Yo still has that calm voice you always hear in other roles as Belldandy from Ranma and Kasumi from Ranma. But she brings a more humorous tone with how she likes to joke around. Hisakawa Aya who has played Sailor Mercury as Chizeta is not really as recognizable as Inoue Yo. She is more darker toned and tends to sound more angry and serious.
Some of the background music is still the same from the first season. Like instrumental versions of Yuzurenai Negai are still sometimes used and still plays very orchestrated music. A lot of the new background music is well cultural appropriate to some of the characters. Especially that of Tetra and Tarta who represent more of an Arabian kind of background and that kind of music is played to represent them. So I think it’s really well appropriate to the mood as usual.
I can’t really get into the new opening theme, Hikari to Kage wo Dakishimete Mama. Sure it’s still sung by the same singer of the previous song, Naomi Tamura, but because I don’t like the themes of the story, the song also does a good job of telling it but doesn’t have the kind of pacing or the kind of emotion that was appealing that Yuzurenai Negai had. But on the other hand, the video clips does go pretty synch to the song.
Well, in terms of story, on a conceivable sense, it was a great idea. I thought it took a very original and distinctive approach. I really miss the Japanese style RPG like characteristics it had. And as a result, there are no video games based on this particular story arc in considering the fact I do happen to still enjoy the Sega Saturn and Super Nintendo games. And with the art and animation, since the 2nd season aired a week after the first season ended and didn’t have a year break like how other anime seasons do, they really couldn’t do much to have any significant improvement in the design. But the newer characters were fresh, but not really that exciting or distinctive. The music is still alright and didn’t really change too much.
Caeruleus_CCXVI
6/10 - A great sequel, but not a great show. I rated the first part to be 4.5/10 and I would give the over all Show of both parts about a 5/10 to a 5.5/10 when looking at the whole show. Part 1 is really a slog to go through, clearly grabbing every popular idea from anime in the 90's it was surrounded by to make the cluster F that is Magic Knight Rayearth. Part 1 was pretty poorly written, from its charecters to the actual adventure and morals it was trying to tell. However Part 2 really took all those ideas and made itinto something cohesive, that was easy to follow and knew exactly what it was and went with it. Despite this show being Saylor Moon Meets Gundam and lets just throw in as many IP's as possible, things in season 2 did not seem as much out of place.
Part 2 tries to convey some pretty powerful messages, and unlike part 1 that I feel like was made for girls between the age of 8-12, this felt closer to a demographic of 12-15. Some of the lessons they tried to teach and explore that we do not see enough of:
- Love yourself, not just other people
- Just because you love someone else doesnt mean they will love you
- Just because you go to war doesnt mean you are right and they are wrong
-- Both sides can fight for justice and be correct
---the side you fight for can actually be wrong, and to not have blind faith
(Ironically it does this last point pretty poorly by contradicting itself and saying that you should have blind faith in people that fight for you...)
These messages its trying to teach young girls or really anyone that has watched this can be some powerful stuff at a young age and I do commend them for attempting to due such a thing, even if it wasnt the best executed, the information was so ham fisted it was kinda hard to not get some of these messages.
Pros:
- Mokona was such a savage in Part 2 where it was the do all annoying mascot of Part 1... what a glow up
-Like part 1 the show was surprisingly violent when it needed to be, but never felt out of place
--death is not meaningless and when people die they actually stay dead
-they didnt throw away any of the cast from P1, and cast of part 2 didnt get too big
-actually explored romance a bit even if it was lacking
-they left the monster of the week type of approach for a more character driven story
-if you made it through part 1, I assume you enjoy Clamp art style
- as much as Nova was annoying, I think the whole dark side "im everything you arenot" wasnt terrible
-The ending was rewarding, unlike part 1... almost felt like part 2 was just to make up for how part 1 is
--I swore the creators of Gurren Lagann saw literally the final ep of this and went... yeah we could totally make mechs with faces like that lmfao
Cons:
-The romance they go through are pretty unexplained and people just love each other for no real reason... kinda like real life
-tho the show was better animated then part 1 by todays standards it was hardly animated and really showed its age
-music score was lacking just like part 1
-so many scenes like part 1 of, oh I got you all down and I could defeat you... time to retreat I guess and let you power up and heal
-English dub like part 1 was atrocious, im glad we have left this erra of trash dubs
-Writing was leagues higher then Part 1 which was just objectively bad, however part 2 is was not amazing by any regard
-power level system is still complete nonsense
-why didnt all the other nations leaders at the end just evacuate people...
-so many potholes but the story felt like it did end correctly... so im torn here
-not a single well written character, no not even Eagle between both seasons lol
All and all I dont think I would recommend this show to anyone over the age of 18 unless they crave CLAP, Shojo/Shonen fusion or need magical girls in robots. But I do think that if you Finished Part 1 you forsure should watch Part 2... Part 1 is just so hard to get through despite only being 20 ep. But those 20 ep were so, so long that I cant imagine doing that again.
This show will live on in the eyes of complete nostalgia for most and be in the bin of weird anime that kinda get good in later seasons like KINGDOM, but with such a bad start no one will get to this season.
Alas. Show your kids this one and move on.
davensjournal
Well, watching this season hard on the heels of the first season is a mistake. You should allow yourself a couple days between them simply to absorb the first season fully. That said, however, this season is as good in some ways as the first one. Granted the land is missing and you have only one scene that isn't a spaceship or in space, but they manage to make do with what they do have. The story is what I like to focus on, and there this season is a worthy successor. It took what could have been an awkward ending tothe first season and continued it along logically and believably. I was not upset by the reuse of a plot device, and there was less of a video game feel to it, and more of a real emergent situation that needed to be dealt with now.
You get some more backstory in this, but in my opinion it focuses too much on one character, leaving the other two to languish in near obscurity. They do have their moments however. Additional characters are introduced, and the only complaint I have with that is that the three invading nations who are coming appear to only have two or three people on the entire huge capital ships until nearly three quarters of the way through the series, then you find out there are actually other people there. True, those others are cutouts and one dimensional, sometimes nearly literally, but they do exist.
The stories weave together in a tight whole though and I was very interested to watch it. The plot twist at the end is nearly anticlimactic as they have been hinting at this, and giving it away in the main opening sequence, since the series started. However, that said, the REAL plot twist really does surprise.
If you enjoyed the first season, you will enjoy this one more. I think it's a good sequel, and I would have liked it to continue on, with the heroines resting on their laurels in the place they helped create.
