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# “My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too!” Vol. 2: Much talked, nothing said

# “My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too!” Vol. 2: Much talked, nothing said

Rom-Com, the second! “My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too!” goes into the next round with a new volume. We watched the disc again for you, of course – you can read our conclusion here.

  • Label: AniMoon Publishing
  • Publication: 03.09.2021
  • FSK: Approved from 12 years of age
  • Running time: 97 minutes
  • Image format: 16:9
  • Resolution: 1920 x 1080 p
  • Genre: Rom-Com, Slice of Life
  • Languages: German, Japanese (DTS-HD MA 2.0)
  • Subtitle: Deutsch
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Packaging: Mediabook
  • Extras: Iroha-Acrylfigur, Booklet, Clean Opening, Yukino Ending

 

Story (7/10)

The student representative election is over and the first big event of the new student committee is coming up: A Christmas event in cooperation with the Kaihin-Sogo-Oberschule. But the joint planning of the event is only progressing slowly and so the new student representative asks the helper club for support. The reason for the unsuccessful meetings is the perfectionist student representative of the Kaihin Sogo High School, Tamanawa. Hachiman decides to take care of this job alone instead of working with the helper club …

Personaly thinking (Warning, spoilers!)

The consequences of the second volume strike again more serious tones than the season opener. The Helfer Club finds itself (once again) in a kind of existential crisis when Hachiman takes on Iroha’s order on his own. Yukino in particular doesn’t seem to like this at all, even if the viewer is left in the dark about what exactly is going on in her. The lack of communication between club members is also responsible for this – even when people speak, nothing is actually said.

Because of this fact, the viewer, like Hachiman himself, has to try to read between the lines. As I have already noticed in my previous reviews, this is extremely difficult with “My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU”. Even at the moment when the teacher Hiratsuka gives the protagonist some advice, the wording remains very general and vague. In the end, more questions are raised than answered. The student representative Tamanawa is also a master of empty formulations and empty phrases. Therefore, the meeting scenes with him get a rather tiring character.

Overall, the episodes of Volume 2 have a more tenacious story flow than the first four episodes. If you don’t think much of dramatic anime, you should keep your hands off the series. Because despite the title, it has once again proven to me that, despite the title, it is practically hardly a Rom-Com.

A major change only occurs in the last few minutes of the disc. This leads to an unusually emotional scene with Hachiman, which I don’t want to anticipate here. However, the event could trigger an interesting turnaround in the final volume.


 

Animations (8/10)

As I already wrote in my review of the first volume, I like the animations from the house feel. The more realistic and detailed style fits better with the plot of the second season, which is a good deal more serious. At the same time, the new character design can also lead to brief moments of confusion when minor characters from the first season reappear. Sometimes I had to think about who it was because of the changed appearance.

The characters move so smoothly, even if the anime with its many static settings can benefit less from it. What was noticeable in the episodes, however, were the circling hand movements of the student representative Tamanawa, which were depicted quite exaggerated. However, the colors and backgrounds really appealed to me again.

 

Music (9/10)

The opening doesn’t change during the season, so we can still listen to Nagi Yanagi’s song “Harumodoki” at the beginning of the episode. In this case, I find that to be welcomed, after all, it’s a beautiful song. The ending “Everyday World.” could already convince me in the last volume. This time we also get a quiet Yukino solo version after Yui’s narrator has already sung a ballad version.

The familiar soundtrack is also used for the background music. In emotional scenes I noticed again that a piano version of the title song was used.


 

German localization (9/10)

The German version of “My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too!” was created at G&G Studios in Kaarst, which was responsible for numerous anime synchros in the past. Tom Sielemann wrote the dialogue book, Richard Westerhaus directed the dialogue.

As expected, the cast around Felix Mayer as the cynic Hachiman once again does a great job. Above all, Luisa Wietzorek (including Taiga in “Toradora!”), Who has only been with Kaori Orimoto since this season, brings out the shameless character of her role well in my opinion.

In my opinion, the German dialogues were also successful. In the meeting scenes, for example, various buzzwords such as “brainstorming” or “outsourcing” are thrown around to show that the discussion is basically just hot air.

At this point it should be mentioned again that the picture – as usual from AniMoon – was completely Germanized. For example, the translations of signs and blackboard addresses are seamlessly incorporated into the image. I am a big advocate of this approach because it comes across as a lot more elegant than clumsy subtitles.

 

Packaging & Extras (8/10)

It should come as no surprise that the second volume of “My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too!” comes along as a mediabook. As always, this has been processed flawlessly. The glued-in booklet is again a mix of magazine artwork and background information on certain characters.

The extra continues the tradition from season 1: Here we get a small acrylic figure of Iroha Isshiki included. This also feels valuable and goes well with the other acrylic figures from the previous volumes.

On the disc itself, the selection of extras is unfortunately very meager again – there are again only clean versions of opening and ending.


 

Conclusion

With the second volume of “My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too!” Another high quality release as usual. The German localization is particularly convincing.

In terms of content, the mood cools down significantly in the episodes, and the interspersed gags are relatively few and far between here. Again, not being understood is the theme of the dramatic plot, which moves far away from the usual Rom-Com scheme.

Only at the end of the contained episodes is there an interesting U-turn, which will hopefully unfold its episodes in the third (and final) volume of the season. Therefore, I am already looking forward to it with excitement.

valuation

Story (double weighted) 7/10
Animations 8/10
music 9/10
German localization 9/10
Packaging & extras 8/10

total

8/10

 

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We thank AniMoon Publishing for providing the review copy!

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