Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko 2nd Season

I really recommend this this anime. Loved Season 1, and Loved Season 2.

DON'T LISTEN TO OTHERS OPINIONS. IF YOU WANT TO WATCH IT, WATCH IT.

I watched Season 1 and I loved it so I was so excited for season 2, got quite busy in life and forgot about it, now a few months after the release, I decided I would watch it butI saw the reviews here in MAL, so I got quite .... affected by it, some people said that they loved Season 1 but was dissapointed with Season 2, and like it's so bad and everything... so I didn't watch for a ... couple of weeks until this week. I decided I wanted to watch it because yknow why not? I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT. It really is just Slice of Life, it's great, its fun, it's overall enjoyable, even for children. I don't know why people don't like Season 2 if they liked Season 1 because the main point of this anime is just RYOMA and his life with his slimes as a part time manager of his laundry shop and part-time adventurer. JUST SLICE OF LIFE. NO STRESS. It gives you a break from all the recent isekais with all their booby hot mess and harem, drama nonsense in which the plot is nice but I guess fan service is better because the MC needs atleast like 10 wives who're obsessed with him. THIS IS ISEKAI. RYOMA, OUR MC IS OVERPOWERED but he's kind, respectful, polite, helpful, overall a pleasant and good boy/character. I think his main love interest is Elia but for now, romance is not important. It maybe boring for some people but thats on them, BECAUSE THIS ANIME IS SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THAT, IT'S RYOMA'S LIFE WITH HIS SLIMES. IT'S JUST LIKE THAT.

So people. IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO DESTRESS AND TAKE TIME OFF THE RECENT HAREM ECCHI NONSENSE ISEKAIS NOWADAYS and if you're looking for an Isekai with an overpowered MC who's a kid who everyone he meets and everyone in his life literally loves and fawns over, then this Isekai is for you. It's just a boy and his slimes slowly conquering the world. PURE WHOLESOME STORY.

It's a bad sequel to a nice first season.
While the first season brought with it this sense of child-like wonder about the new world, the second season is all about business. Literally. He runs a laundromat, and he goes from place to place to make this business better. Not for money, nor to introduce decent labor rights into the feudal society, but because all his business pals tell him that "THIS RANDOM BUSINESS IDEA IS GREAT, DO IT BRO, IT'S GONNA DO GREAT".
Maybe as a result, but Ryoma stays the same from end of season 1 to the end of season 2. There's nothing ... he has to think through, nothing he has to overcome, nothing important happening. He's fully kitted for looming dangers and tribulations that will never come.
It's just a shota-fied old man walking around listening to people praise him for being amazing.
Slimes have background roles now.
Animation is cheap.
Elia is gone.
Climax of this season is Ryoma's laundromat running a street food stall.
This season is boring. I'd remember KamiHiro better if season 2 didn't happen if it had to happen like this.

Season 1: It's a slice-of-life Iyashikei of an Isekai that's heartwarming and good in spots. Seems like it has potential for a Season 2.
Season 2: Why is this a goddamn Rune Factory-ish season of just growing business foundations?

Novelist Roy's Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko a.k.a By the Grace of the Gods, back when it first came into the scene in Fall 2020, I thought it was kinda of a decent Isekai that explored the Iyashikei side of things with slimes and both human and demi-human relations for the once-deceased Ryoma Takebayashi, now onto the new world that he could manifest his powers for good and for ... the people around him. But there is a mistake in the process: there is a possibility that we could get a Season 2 in the future, given how much potential it still has under its belt to be more interesting in the long run. And when Season 2 finally dropped this season to give us more good content...I'm not gonna lie: IT SUCKS ASS.

Isekai/fantasy worlds are good because they explore the world at large, not only just the characters and their motivations alone to make the world interesting as a footnote together with it. But this is where Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko gets it all wrong and breaks one of the most fundamental storytelling plots to retain viewership of its audience: they explore the characters instead, while forgetting about the world-building itself. To make matters worse, much of the explanation (e.g. research) of the slimes' progress in manifesting new variable types that Ryoma has yet to discover, it's just glanced out of knowledge and doesn't feel genuine. At all.

Hear me out: Ryoma Takebayashi isn't a bad guy per se, but it's just because of his growing business acumen that sets the stage for Season 2, enhancing the laundromat business that he has laid out its base foundation way back at the tail end of Season 1. To make things more interesting, having Eliaria be off on her way to her studies for 3 years, I thought that this will make for a refreshing change of pace when Ryoma's stuff was covered too much in the sequel. But once the sequel came, much like everybody else, I was flabbergasted that the progression of the LN that was adapted to the anime, was what we've seen as such in these 12 episodes (minus that 1 episode where Eliaria's school side POV was explored for a desperately needed change of pace), and it was BORING. You know the expression "the world is at your oyster", and yes, Ryoma technically embraced that, but I don't know where Season 2 got its foot off on the wrong path: Roy's LN, or Maho Film's same staff team as Season 1 who did some drastic changes to the storytelling, it's hard to say.

While Maho Film's production technically feels the same as before in Season 1, I feel that for the OST in Season 2, it's gone to mediocrity. Both Azusa Tadakoro and MindaRyn exchanged places for the OP and ED respectively, and though both songs are good to hear outside of the anime, I just felt that it didn't gel together the whimsicality that Season 1 offered and made the series interesting in the first place.

All I can say is that Season 2 in a nutshell is this: business, more business, festivals, people, less of slimes, and that's it. As a fledging reincarnated kid, Ryoma should have the will to consider for more outside of his business that's growing much bigger thanks to his world "growing at large". But this obstinance that creates for such mild content, it's honestly just a case of a bad call, but I beg to differ.

Season 2 IS a mistake, and the potential that has raised from Season 1, thrown out and squashed like a pumpkin thanks to random, or even more scathing, idiotic facts that don't add to the world-building. Not good, not recommended at all, don't even try to think you can sit through this mind-numbing mediocrity.