This anime makes good use of music, the variety helps the atmosphere of the various scenes. This includes serious orchestral music, more comical music for the funny scenes. If you don't like rock, don't worry since Kuroko no Basuke makes use of a variety of music in the anime itself. I know this has been done before which a lot of Japanese anime voice actors, but this is the first one where it stands out to be fantastic, more than just a little gimmick. Who'd have thought this voice actor would be so talented at rock vocals. But one thing, Kuroko's voice actor Kensho Ono also did an album (Fantastic Tune) for the second outro. I had the intro/outro albums long before I started watching this season and as I started writing this section of this review I went and got the full soundtrack of this anime. Otherwise, this anime looks so good.SoundThe awesome music continues in season 2 as the likes of my favourite Japanese bands GRANRODEO and OLDCODEX return with kickass rock tunes for the ridiculously cool intro and outro sequences. The more I watched this anime, the more I lowered the animation score for the unjustified ecchi. Who let hormonal teenagers on the season 2 animation team? At least this kept to a minimum throughout most of the anime, but I must take note of this demotion from the first season. There is then the character of Alexandra Garcia who also has a body like Momoi's and is unfortunately often nude. As a sequel to great anime, I've been so let down by this lapse in maturity. They even point out Riko's normal chest to be small. Episode 2 shows the return of Momoi and I'm sad to say that it had more pointless pervy bullshit in that one episode than the entirety of season 1 (cos season 1 was clean). Well there was in season one at least, they've gone wrong here. It shows off the action and fast-pace of the matches well too.īeing a cast of mainly male characters, there is reduced fan-service. Sort of like snapshots and it made those sequences even better when combined with the sweet music. Might I also add the animation of the intro and outro sequences, the style there is unique and relevant. I may rant on the realism if I ever review season one. Of course, being a fast paced basketball anime, it also manages to depict the action and speed beautifully. Behind the surface, the style really is unique, even if a handful of characters like Momoi, Kise and Riko seem familiar. Especially Kuroko, some of these character designs I have honestly rarely seen before. But further scrutinisation and you realise that somehow, despite overall appearances of the standard style, they still manage to have unique characters. There are little things that might annoy people, like Kagami's eyebrows. Of course the style continues from season 1 and at first glance it seems to be somewhat generic. But what matters is style and I won't go easy on this. Of course in this day and age quality shouldn't be a problem, I watched this in glorious 1080p. If I ever get around to rewriting it, I'll put a link in this review.ĪnimationAnimation quality remains top-notch for season 2. I did write a review for season one last year, but a misclick caused me to lose it all and I was too upset to write it up again. If you haven't watched season one, then I recommend doing so before reading this review as it may otherwise contain spoilers for the events of the first season. If you enjoyed season one, put on your seatbelts for a continuation of the adrenaline-filled rollercoaster that is this anime. The first season was an anime so enjoyable, that cycnics of the sports genre, people who didn't watch anime and anime lovers alike all enjoyed it. Unfortunately my expectations for this are sky high which didn't bode well since this season added something I dislike to great anime series. It has everything a good anime needs, action, comedy, seriousness. Kuroko no Basuke 2 is the 26 episode continuation of the critically acclaimed sports anime from 2012.
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