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<\/a>There are a couple possible explanations for Aharen-san<\/em> taking a pretty big step down this season. It\u2019s possible that the staff cherry-picked the best material for the first season, not knowing if there would ever be a second (I have no idea if that\u2019s the case, mind you). Or maybe the pacing is a problem simply because the plan is to adapt everything S1 didn\u2019t (about 100 chapters) in a single cour (this week contributes evidence to that effect). Or maybe the manga simply isn\u2019t as good in its later stretches as it is in its earlier ones.<\/p>\n<\/a>I don\u2019t know which if any of those apply \u2013 as is so often the case in these situations, it\u2019s likely some combination of all of them. What I do know is that for me at least, S2 has been a pretty major disappointment. The pattern has been roughly a snoozer every other week, and this may have been the low ebb of the series so far (though S1 did have a clunker or two, not coincidentally also involving Oshiro-san). When I actually go to the fast-forward button, as I did in the third act this week, you know things are pretty rough.<\/p>\n<\/a>As we\u2019re already in third-year, it seems very likely this season is all we\u2019re going to get. Yet somewhat paradoxically, the overall impression is that there simply isn\u2019t enough good material for a full second season. We get yet another new character, this time a rookie teacher named Henzan-sensei. The main gag with Henzan is that she\u2019s a total noob, and as usual with new teachers she\u2019s terrified. She\u2019s totally misinterpreted Toubaru-sensei\u2019s warnings about Raidou and Aharen, but it turns out Henzan-sensei is susceptible to ahare too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a>This is all\u2026 fine? It\u2019s basically universal that the stuff with the secondary cast isn\u2019t as funny or good as that with Reina and Matsuboshi, which is why there being so much of it lately is a problem. Henzan has her funny moments but this whole bit is just kind of there. Then we settle into a focus on Mitsuki, though the teachers are still involved. She\u2019s recovered from her truly awful introduction as a character, but Mitsuki still isn\u2019t especially funny or entertaining. So another half-episode splashed on a mediocre supporting character is not what Aharen-san wa Hakarenai<\/em> needed at all.<\/p>\n<\/a>I can only speak for myself, but none of that stuff with Aragaki<\/a> and karate interested me in the slightest. It\u2019s not funny (it barely tries to be) and really adds nothing in the big picture. Henzan encouraging Oshiro-san to pursue her actual dream (beauty) over the pressure to accept an athletic scholarship was fine, a good message. But it\u2019s not the basis for an entertaining episode of anime, really. It feels supplemental at best, irrelevant at worst. Unfortunately that applies to much of this season so far.\u00a0 And with only three episodes left in the season \u2013 and probably the series \u2013 that\u2019s something you just don\u2019t want to see.<\/p>\n