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Maybe I’m just dumb but I really liked season two

Thank you for the vid! You got me laughing SO HARD with the sims joke you can't even imagine xD To be honest, I don't agree with you on A LOT, and I do think you are taking writing with a very uncompassionate way to see characters and actions in a story. But I'm really glad you made this video nonetheless, because you do point out a lot of how ridiculous some decisions are. Don't get me wrong, I like those ridiculous decisions. Real high highs and real low lows, S1 was a tight braid and someone in S2 forgot to weave the end back. But as much as I really liked what they did on an individual scene level, I did felt the aimators and the writers were not writing the same story. I do agree with you with the commitment thing. We got a buffet with fastfood after going to a gastronimic restaurant, and I LIKE BURGERS, BUT NOT WHAT I EXPECTED THERE GUYS xD

Let’s go over the characters that got fucked over this season, shall we? Jinx Vi Sevika Fucking Silco somehow Victor Ekko Jayce Caitlyn Sevika Vander And that’s probably not even all of them

(WHISTLE) Who's tour sidekick? 😍

Why did you omit Jynx blowing up the council room thing? It's a main motivator for a lot of the characters turns, in fact it's a constant thread in the season. Is it cause it goes against your thesis?

i think theirs beauty in the imperfections of arcane. it was honestly well loved in creation and obviously imperfect. I like the points you bring to light and agree some parts get a bit fuzzy and confusing. i still the series was great a truely mind altering experience for me and many others since they handled thing so uniquely with different plotlines and a beautifully unique character palate and hope to see more shows arcane footsteps and walking the path arcane has started. Cuz whether u like it or not the few mistakes and poorly resolved matters arcane is still a great series that many put heart and soul too.

U funny asf awesome vid 👍

Ngl vi and cait shoulda broke up for the rest of s2, it would take a LOT more episodes for the relationship to recover after jinx killing Cait’s mom 💀 but unfortunately there wasn’t enough episodes Also they did vi wrong broooo 😭😭😭

Add racism to your stories to make them deeper.

It’s not that it’s something that Frieren is falling fore, but more that she is gambling. The “mimic check” spell has a very high accuracy but not perfect, so all she sees is a slot machine with a very small chance to win, and no impulse control to pull the lever

Please do a Murder Drones video, I need people to see how bad the writing is and not blindly praise it for "Indie Production" and "Edgy Characters".

Viktor was such wasted potential it's insane.

I wish I could like this 100 times

One of my biggest gripes with season 2 (and trust me, there are many) is how they handled Jinx’s wish to die. I hated the placement of the CaitVi scene right after Vi learns Jinx is planning on disappearing, but the fact that Ekko’s consolation of Jinx is off screen is borderline disgraceful. Apparently it was confirmed that Ekko told her about the other universe and that’s how he managed to talk her out of her choice, but they decided to cut it for time constraints. And of course Jinx showing up at the end is a cool surprise, but if you think about it for five seconds it feels like a total deus ex machina with a BARE MINIMUM set up. One second this character is at their lowest point in their arc. In a matter of moments, boom, they’re fine again. The fact that this emotional turn around happened off screen and we have to go off of “well the writers said this happened” is always a sign of bad writing.

A re-upload, huh. Still watchin' it

Thank you for putting my feelings about this season into words 🫶

The only good analysis of Frieren which has actual critical points to the way it's written. I may not agree with some of them but they are valid ones.

This is how I see it. Season 1 was the best season. Season 2 has the best episodes.

They should have just kept the conflict being zaun and piltover as season one was building up to. That's it, no multiverse noxian war route to force zuan and piltover to work together

I get extremely annoyed at all of Ferns stupid overly exaggerated emotions. Its the worst part of the show

i dont mind the mimic gag at all since frieren gives a perfectly reasonable explanation for it and the risk to her is always worth it. (1% of the time its a magical item) Edit: She is also perfectly able to get out herself but it messes her hair up badly so she rather get some help

I saw the cyberpunk segment and screamed and just could hold myself back from commenting. I had the same exact thoughts during that episode lmao. Other than that, this is an extremely well made video with clear points and great writing. I agree with everything and I get upset thinking about what could've been. Ironic, given how it's season 1's main theme. also isha being a self insert would make so much sense lmao and IM SO GLAD you mentioned the music videos. They were unnecessary and executed poorly.

The thing about the mimic is that it's a weakness that she can afford to have and it's clear it poses no threat to her so there isn't any downsides. It's not like it's actual bait as if things were actually serious she can make the right judgement.

This is exactly how i felt after everything ended, esp how they treated my babygirl Jinx. The fact that they spent 250M on shit self-insert script that a 12yo would post on wattpad is an absolute crime and the writers need to be smacked. The sheer disrespect to all the other world class cutting edge creatives who worked on this show.

Arcane season 2 only u just watch it without thinking season 1 the more u think the better serie become

Can u make part 2

this has to be bait.......

I like your revision to the original video. Can you make a video on another anime??? There's really not enough technical writing analysis on anitube

The first critique is one i've had for so long. It makes the show feel so flat

I might be a little biased since the first of your videos that I watched was the Frieren one, but I like that the best. The Hazbin Hotel design would be my second favorite.

Whether you like the season or hate it, Jayce and Mel getting caught in an explosion that killed and critically injured people and walking out unscathed sums up how much of a rollercoaster this season was.

Out of all the criticism I’ve seen from arcane S2 this was my favorite

You absolutely hit the nail on the head with the characters being treated like dolls. After finishing season 2 I went on a lengthy rant about effectively the same thing to my gf. In season 1, ideals served the characters. What they were mattered insofar as it contextualized who they were. Their motivations were flexible, they bent and twisted as they were challenged, but they never broke or fully resolved (except maybe for Powder/Jinx). Big feelings, big emotions. In season 2, the characters served the ideals. It felt like every character had been reduced to a tool to get the narrative from point A to point B. As said in the video, these simply weren’t the same people we fell in love with during season 1. All that said, something that really bugged me about season 2 that I wish your video had covered more was the dialog. Season 1 truly made every word count, season 2 barely had enough unique words to count. So many characters go the entire season with only a handful of lines, it makes me feel like something must have gone wrong behind the scenes to prevent them from recording new lines. You’re telling me that not a single person Jinx broke out of prison had one thing to say? Not even Ekko’s right hand man (who was featured center stage for a weird number of shots given that he wasn’t relevant at all to the season). And all the repeated lines just irked me. Having a character say something and another character parrot it back after a few episodes is fun. Doing it five or six times where the call and response is separated by all of thirty seconds? It’s not cheeky, it’s not clever, and it’s not memorable. Every time it happened it made me wonder, “was there really not a better way to do this?” To no one’s surprise, of course there was. Granted, I have not worked on any high budget, high profile projects like Arcane, and especially not for a company as famous (and demanding) as Riot. I have no idea what happened behind the scenes, and frankly, I hope I’m never in a position where I have to go through what they did. What Fortiche was able to do under the constraints they were given was nothing short of miraculous. I just wish that all the setup from season 1 had been followed up on instead of abandoned.

I think the first half up to the critique is very good. In the critique some things are said I agree with, others not so much. Since you are "anime only" some of the points you would not make or different if you were deeper into the story. One thing I think you blow a bit out of proportion is the point you make around the "repetitiveness" of monolog telling what is visually going on on the screen, like in the scene with the chaos flower (33:04) - The medium first is the manga for it to work you need the full telling because one panel can only capture a moment with many details, but not everything (and here we need to make the caviate even, that not the mangaka is creating the story but a real author writing it up and it gets illustrated - so to speak the creation is fully nonvisual first and explains thing somebody who creates a visual alone would not need to write down). Getting the anime adaptation helps to visually explain beyond a single frame a manga can - you can tell a whole stories without a word said - so you can not scold the anime for being a 1:1 adaption of dialogue, but rather that it does it and not skip is paying the homage of a true adaptation instead of a "being inspired by thing" most motion picture are bringing text or even much manga / comic into this form of media. I can not critique that this stays so close to the source material I rather find it praise worthy. Frieren does only in small part have convoluted dialogue, many fat is cut and on point so to speak. So it works often as confirmation that what is said is what is displayed. Which establish a trust? I love the mimic gag - and actually I find it hilarious that people come to the idea defeating the clone with a mimic thrown in would be an option. Isn't this good make the audience engage with the flaws to that level? Anyway. I kind of see your point with to many characters that are writen as to be emotionally distant (27:37), but then again many of them are traumatized by tragedy in their live even many early on so it kind of reflects that this world is hostile.

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People of course should be able exercise their right to dislike any aspect(s) of a show, or any piece of art or media more generally, but to then use that to completely center said subjective experience in any sort of judgements which are tied to evaluating the work as a whole, and implying they are objective, I think is quite silly. The whole premise of analysis is to dig deeper into what a piece of art is doing and how it is operating (i.e. how it is interacting with everchanging dialogue within the world be it in the past, present or future). Sure the goal may be to answer whether a work is “good or bad”. But far more important than the answer are the methods, questions, and observations we use to answer it. Because in the end the determination of what good or bad is quite arbitrary. What we want are typically the properties, or the things we say about “good works”. We want them to resonate with people. To move them. We want them to be influential. In the techniques and ideas they propose. We want them to be entertaining. To what degree a work does these things, and others, is also not set in stone for any one particular piece, set of pieces, or any given moment in history. Such things change over time. Was the appreciation of works like the Mona Lisa, Huck Finn, Citizen Kane, Blade Runner as high or detailed as it is now? Absolutely not. We are able to say and learn so much about these works because we have already placed them in the context in which they were created, observed their effects on the world, and have thoroughly attempted to try and answer the question of what makes them “great”. Works such as these only get the acclaim they do because people see the good in it. and communicate it to the world. Conversely, people are only driven to do so because the work resonates with them at some level. Any platonic, history-ignoring, notion of “good art” fails to recognize this. It’s also, in my opinion, the largest defect with a “negativity centric” mindset of analysis and critique. This is not to take away from anyone's dislikes or criticisms of writing choices, such inputs are of the utmost importance to the creative process. But I think if you can’t understand “the what” of what someone’s work does, can you really say your evaluation of it is sufficient? What ideas are the creators trying to communicate? What are they trying to accomplish? Know one really knows or would be able to articulate the entire answer. Not the creators themselves even, as not every meaningful choice has to be conscious, and certainly not even the most critical and dedicated audience members. If the vast majority of one’s comments are negative, are you really seeing the broader picture? Ok sure you may disagree with things like how the Zaun/Piltover conflict was handled thematically/in terms of time spent/focus. You may not like how the characterization was not as thick as it was narratively as in the previous season. You may have major qualms with the different paradigm of continuity the show is operating under. You may be right about all such things. You are in fact likely right, that with whatever sensibilities and definitions of “goodness” that you are working with that these things are bad, but then it begs the question if you even have a “correct” definition. Regardless of what answer you reach in the end, it is a natural progression as opposed to simply just hating. Once you decide that a choice is bad AND stop thinking about how it relates to what the creators were doing holistically, you lose out on seeing the good of what a work does. If you simply don’t care to look beyond, or think that the audience shouldn't have to think about it, then that’s a valid sentiment to have. The creators simply trusted you too much then. Regardless of any feelings you have or conclusions you reach, I think it’s healthy to question what led you to such things, both in terms of content of a work, and otherwise. I think the time, effort, and other resources spent in the show (along with creator statements saying they maintained lots of creative control), indicate that maybe, just maybe, the distilled experience put into the show has a lot to learn from. P.s. I am happy to talk about/elaborate on any particular or general points I made or anything regarding the show.

The second design for sure, but the Hazbin video was my favorite video of the four. :]

It's nit as good as weebs say But then again weebs don't know what is good if it does not have great animation

Hazbin hotel

I understand your criticism of over exposition, but people are too stupid and if you don't tell them two or three times they won't get it. It is sadly now necessary so people kind of understand what's happening.

Is it just me or when i make a scene i just can't write it out? i never know why but i always prefer to show it through visuals instead

"That's what I would say, if I were one of the hundreds of video essays who are scrambling to make their Sou Sou No Frieren videos." Didn't you make a video about said anime a month after it released? Also, aren't you, by definition, a video essayist?

Frieren glazing video number 69

It's an anime (and manga) that I do love. It's nostalgic, whimsy, but can also be serious and real. A lot of "perfect balance" is there of various things. IDK if it's "the best Anime ever" - at this level it depends on a person and heck even to me it depends on the day. But it is an example off taking already great source material and elevating it through adaptation. When it comes to adaptation alone I consider it perfect and something that should be studied so that people can learn how to make great adaptations.

I see another Frierer video. I watching it.

2nd > 1st > 3rd=4th