To mention the cast, the casting here is fantastic from the very lovable Kana Hanazawa as Tomoka, Yui Ogura as the moe-tastic Hinata, and Kanae Itou as Aoi Ogiyama (the fact that she’s in here more works in benefit to the show.). Fortunately, the voice acting is outstanding and fun due to a stellar ensemble cast, and the writing is competent enough to go through with less eye-rolling drama. Certain cliches have been done in many cases, and you can make cliches in anime still work if you have competent writing and voice acting to go with it. The characters themselves are about as cliched as you’d expect from a show like Ro-Kyu-Bu, but that doesn’t necessarily break the show entirely from this angle. We finally get to meet most of the girls’ family members to get some interesting background information about their family lives so that we don’t see the girls' lives as one-sided. Their development in how these girls have grown to love the sport isn’t done with as much forced melodrama as the first season did, so I applaud the writers for at least showing some restraint. We come across new characters that are supposed to be the opposing team players for our main leads. It is played straight without any needless fanservice in the game sequences, which is nice to see that the writers aren’t trying to be forceful in trying too hard to entertain us. Any basketball fan will feel at home with how the girls strategize their movements and give out orders to their teammates, just like an actual team would do. One thing that Ro-Kyu-Bu does well is how they handle the actual basketball strategy when a game has commenced. With the sequel in question, one thing that might disappoint fans of the previous season who enjoyed the fan service is that SS doesn’t feature as much ecchi comedy and mainly centers on the basketball aspect more. You can tell the writers are just having fun with the concept and putting it on-screen for us to see.
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Again, it’s one of those things that you’re either going to love or hate, and from my perspective, as someone who doesn’t like or dislike lolis, it isn’t anything too demeaning or offensive since the tone is very lighthearted.
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That isn’t to say all of the ecchi jokes or situations all hit the mark just right, as some of them felt overly long and drawn out at times, but for what it’s worth, the ones that work are charming enough to overlook the bad ones.
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think it’d be more focused on that aspect than the basketball, which it is also focusing on to my surprise, the show does a great job of balancing out the fan service and the basketball development, so they don’t feel out-of-place. Ro-Kyu-Bu SS, the sequel to the infamous Ro-Kyu-Bu anime, is a by-the-book moe show that shows cute girls in rather suggestive positions and scenes related to sexual situations. Unfortunately, these people didn’t bother to go through the entire show than just the first episode, which is just a tiny fraction of what the whole show is built upon. The guilty pleasure stems from the show’s primary appeal being looked down upon by almost everyone who cannot stand the way anime has pandered to the moe and loli fanbase. Saying this show is the guiltiest of guilty pleasures would be an understatement.