The production values looked really decent. I guess the studio found funding easier to secure this time.

The episode content was kind of all over the place. If I wasn't a novel reader, I wonder how I'd have felt about it? Would it have felt coherent to suddenly include so many new people? A part of the problem is that the first season cut some stuff because obviously they were never dreaming of making a second season, so it made sense to drop material that was only necessary for later things the original anime would have never covered. So, they needed a bit of a rushed start here.