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I am devastated to the point of breaking my own rule about not writing reviews to avoid the unparalled cringe of viewing the opinions of my past self. I have witnessed bad endings plenty of times, but never before have I seen something quite like this.

Let me start this off by saying that this really didn't need to be made. The first season's ending is exactly what you would expect for this type of show, and there was always going to be issues going forward. The first few episodes re-affirmed to me that this was just going to be a worse version ... of the first season. The new characters introduced for the season all ventured a bit too far into the wacky anime comedy side-characters territory for me, and the comedy was noticeably worse than in the first season. After four episodes, I lost the will to continue watching it weekly and shelved it until the end of the season.

I picked up episode 5 expecting a similar level of quality as the first four episodes and to my surprise the show remembered what it was supposed to be. The annoying sides left and the main couple got to shine. I only really have one issue after the first few episodes, but I'll get to that later. The parts of this season that are good far outshine the best parts of the first season. Specifically episodes 6 and 10 were far above anything I would have expected from this.

The biggest surprise for me during the middle episodes had to be what they did with the side couple. I found the both of them to be alright in the first season. This season gives them more to work with and they really benefited from it. I am convinced at this point that male tsundere's are just the superior breed. Every good friends group needs a punching bag, and he fills that slot really well.

The best part of the show is still definitely the main couple. If this show was just the two of them goofing around in the lab I could honestly almost give it an 8, but unfortunately we do not live in such a blessed timeline.

Kanade is one of the worst executed characters ever written. Everything they tried to do with her failed horribly. It's really a shame, I thought that in the first season she did a solid job playing the straight man, but the author decided that that was not enough. In goes everyone's favorite thing, forced drama! Her backstory is painful. Her relationship with Yukimura is painful. Her awful definition of normal, and the way the show tries to force it's themes down the audiences throats is painful. And the way it all blows up at the end is, more shocking than anything.

If PN2 didn't exist the last episode would be the worst episode of TV that I've seen. I just don't understand how any human could watch that and enjoy it. I don't understand how the guy who wrote the rest of this managed to think up such an abominable conclusion to this arc. I don't understand how an entire Anime studio came together to create this, or how this was actually approved to be shown to the masses. Everyone who allowed for this to happen should be ashamed of themselves.

What could have been a great addition to the Anime Rom-com library was obliterated in mere minutes. They managed to completely kill any desire I had for a second season, or even to continue reading the manga. I can't even recommend this anymore because I know that "just don't watch the last episode" will never work. At the time of writing this review I still believe that the upsides of the middle are enough to just barely give this a 6, but that could easily change.

TLDR- fuck Kanade, all my homies hate Kanade