Review 54; K. Return Of Kings (No one told me about this)! SPOILERS!

So, if you know me as a person and not just some weirdo sat behind a computer screen, and you know me pretty well, then you should be aware that I absolutely love the K series... But was it as good as I anticipated?

For starts, you have to go and watch the movie that came out before this second series. I had no idea that there was a movie so I had to go back and watch it quickly before moving onto the second series, however, I won't be reviewing it since its only one movie and I haven't really got time for reviewing just one thing right now. But yeah, movie first and then the second series.
I am still a little bit annoyed as well since no one even mentioned that there was a movie and then a second season being released! I've been waiting for the second season for so long... (Almost as long as the deadman wonderland fans waiting for the second season which will never be released).

I started watching it as soon as It finished airing over in Japan, which was about December time. I quickly whizzed through the film first and then moved onto this second series, but this is the down side; if you don't have access to that movie, then the second season will make virtually no sense to you at all. There were some parts where I got confused and I had to remember what had happened in the movie... But this is (luckily) not as confusing as the first season.
If you've watched the first season of K project, then you most probably know what I mean by "it's confusing" I know quite a few people who had to go back and re-watch episodes of the anime to try and figure out what the hell had just happened at the end of the season. It was slightly confusing for some people, and near the end of that first season... My head had just gone and done the hugest fart you would have ever smelt.

Back to the anime then...
THERE MAY BE SOME SPOILERS UP AHEAD IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE FIRST SEASON!!!
If anyone complains about spoilers, I think I might stop doing reviews since everyone complains about spoilers even when I bloody tell them that I might spoil something, mardy!!

We begin this amazing second season with one of the most heartfelt flashbacks of when Mikato was still alive, then an awesome fight begins against the red clan and the blue clan; a rather welcoming and nostalgic start I must say. Then obviously, we get back to reality, Mikato is dead and the blue clan’s king is slowly destroying his sword. If you haven't watched the previous series and want too, then please don't read on because I guarantee people will hate me for this.

So Anna is the current leader of the red clan, which is seriously strange since we never saw her fight or even be close to aggressive in the first season. Yata swears to look after her and protect and the red clan seems a whole lot closer than in the first season. One of the best and small touches I thought there was for both the Red clan and the Blue clan, was that every time there was a conversation; they all clearly said each other’s names, I don't know if they were doing this to make sure that you remember everyone else and not just the major characters, but I thought it was quite a nice touch to the series. You learned more about the red clans and the blue clan’s clansmen, you learnt about their personalities, what they fight with and who they hate the most in the opposite clan. Even in the opening scene you see them pick who they want to fight the most. Like I said, small touch, but effective.

The whole storyline in this second season is based around a clan that had nothing to do with the storyline of the first season. If you remember, the first season was all about Blue, Red, and Silver and a then a few appearances from the Gold leader. This time around we have the Blues, the reds, the silver, something bad happens to the gold leader (trying to cut out the spoilers) and then the green clan appears out of bloody nowhere and think that the whole clan thing is just a huge game. The green clan recruits other clan’s people by using an underground social network where anyone can join up, and the majority of people don't even know that the clans have powers. The clan is called "Jungle" the J players are the top rankers and E is the lowest. People lower down in the rankings are encouraged to find out information on other clans, collect images and then take them out; for any of these you'll collect points and the more points you have, the closer you can be ranking up. However, there are only three J ranking players who have been granted powers by their clan leader. No one else is allowed to have access to powers, and most of them just have small little green birds that explode, that's the only weapon that they're given against other clans. (A few do have guns).

Long story short, the Jungle clan gets cocky... way too cocky for all of the other clans liking as they are trying their best to draw out the king of the silver clan. Most of all, they want the slate that gives the clans their powers so they can unleash it to the rest of the world; which by the way, is hilarious because no one knows why flames are coming out of their hands. The Silver clan king does appear and all of the other king’s band together to come up with a plan on who to beat the Jungle clan, it's quite smart and something that's much unexpected from people who just hate and want to kill each other.

So, the real question is, was it as good as the first season?
The answer is,
possibly even better than the first season actually!
So, the majority of people who watched the first season found it all pretty confusing as it got closer to the end and had to go back and watch it, I was one of those people. I watched it all the way through, and then had to go back and watch the last 5 or 6 episodes to fully understand what had happened; this time around everything was told perfectly and timed just right, nothing got confusing and everything made perfect sense. Everything fitted together perfectly so there was no need to waste time and go back, to watch two episodes to understand one thing; the only problem with that was the film before this season that you have to watch.
Being introduced properly to all of the side characters who only made a proper appearance at the end of season 1 was also interesting, they all have different enemies in the opposite clan and when they team up everyone who were enemies before end up getting on and fighting together.

This season was brilliant, it all made sense, we got to see every character in some form of action and It did have some pretty good twists and unexpectedness about it. Obviously the animation is brilliant because it's brand new, and the animation in the flames seem bloody badass this time around. The OST's where quite different too and seemed to have more of an edge to them instead of the slower ones in the first season. One downside, even in the opening sequence for the first episode there was quite a bit of fan service from one particular woman... Didn't quite enjoy that, but then again Woman crush right there. If there's any anime characters I want to be it would be her, and we all know who she is, just take a wild guess and it'll be correct.

One bad thing, the Jungle leader mentions something about him and Neko being the same as each other and both chose to erase their memories... I have no idea if missed something but oh well!

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