S2E28

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Finally got around to finishing this.

I think this came of pretty evidently as a game adaptation. There's no real tension or choreography to the fights at all and they serve to just move the plot along. Things happen, characters say stuff, they move to new locations, battles happen, (ads get summoned lol), battle resolves, cutscenes of more stuff happens and it repeats.

While I did like the character designs and all, it was fairly boring to watch. The original show had better characters which pulled them along. Aruru's the most entertaining to watch across both series. Karura's the hottest. Kuon's tail was probably the best bit of False Faces, while Atui more or less carried the first part of Mask of Truth.

While I have a bit of a soft spot for this, I think it's riding hard on nostalgia and find it difficult to recommend as a standalone anime.