Radiant 2nd Season

Much like the first season, Radiant throws all the shounen cliches you can possibly think of into yet another shit show. It’s more the aggravating because you think it will somehow get better, and you hope it does, goaded on by reviewers, but none of it ever materializes. Like renting an apartment that checks all the boxes, but it turns out the running water is actually a sewage drain in the back, the wifi is dialup, and covered parking is a tent made of rags. Any possible intrigue among the inquisitors boils back down to the same black and white obsession with genocide and baseless self-righteousness. They all turn out to be the same sadistic one dimensional psychopaths of zero redeeming quality, but Radiant turns it up to 11 by denying them any backstory and laying on the gratuitous violence and jeering laughter and pompous speeches. Instead of triumph over evil, it’s just sheer masochism with nothing but death and destruction at the end, even if the anime tries to paint it as a great victory. And no character in the show has an IQ above 50. Everyone is so easily manipulated, so easily deceived, and utterly devoid of intelligence. Even the ostensibly clever captain Dragoniv is easily duped like a child. The animation and sound is just as bad as the first season. The only good thing compared to the first season is the pacing is a bit faster and the detestable MC has significantly reduced screen time. His dialogue is still basically the same two lines though. 1: HA???? HA???? 2: I’m gonna beat up Radiant!!!!

Spoiler: There’s a girl in the show that has a mark behind her neck you can push like a button and command her to do whatever you want. It’s one of the worst plot devices ever imagined.