The first season of Tsubasa Chronicle was riddled with problems that bogged down an otherwise great show concept. Having an expanded universe of inhouse creations across different worlds/dimensions is an exciting idea. Sadly when coupled with mediocre animation flat voice acting and worst of all oneoff stories that dont go anywhere its hard to still justify that concept. The 2nd season promises more exciting and dangerous adventures and to possibly repair the mistakes of the past. But does it actually deliver on its promise? Personally I have to disagree. With the last major arc of the 1st season we are left with a few unresolved questions. Who is the mysterious clone of Syaroan kept by Fei Wong? Will Syaroans rival Seishiro come back to impede his progress? How many more memory feathers are there? What about the pasts and significance of Fai and Kurogane? Theres a lot for this show to explain and cover in 26 episodes and yet it seems that the series seems more content dragging its feet than to hold its viewers attention. More feather of the week episodes are abound in this season many of them never relating back to the main questions at hand. The first 3 episodes are dedicated to a race with a feather as the prize. During the preliminaries it is discovered someone is meddling with the race and causing the dragonfly cars to explode Fastpaced action plus a dash of psychological insight would have made this a stellar beginning to the season. Instead its a slow watch as the race plays out predictably up until a nonsensical twist. You could say the same for many of the arcs in this season they have an interesting premise play out slow and predictably then throw a random twist in there thats more confusing than entertaining. Considering the series has been quite straightforward thus far I doubt its anything that you need to think about its more or less a way so the story can start moving to the next world. What could be considered the most disappointing is that a rather large chunk of the season is filler The first 17 episodes are more or less canon while the last 9 are all originals. Are the original episodes at least a worthwhile watch? Normally Id say no but considering the material Ive seen up until these episodes Id say stick with it if you like what you see. Most of the originals are bland like the one where Kero from Cardcaptor Sakura and Mokona meet but some of them have some fairly interesting ideas. The one where they return to Koryo to meet Chunyan and enter a demon parallel world is decent for extended world building and the last arc in Tao Country with the ruler Chaos had a lot of good ideas. But Ive said this before this show is great with ideas but it doesnt know how to properly execute them. With a better studio or writing staff at the helm it wouldve made for a great OVA. Instead its underdeveloped and is more content being padding for a season than it is showing off the teams creative talents. As curious as some of these originals are it begs the question why not adapt the manga portion for the last 9 episodes instead of coming up with originals? Theres a rather intriguing answer behind this. According to a comment made by a fan of the series the show originally aired on a channel that was more educational and made for kids. A major arc in the series the Tokyo arc shows a lot of violence and gore rather than adapt this they instead filled up the rest of the requested episodes with their own. There are many conclusions you can walk away with from this story the studio werent fully aware of the restrictions and they did it out of necessity they wanted a kiddie series like Cardcaptor Sakura and instead they got something much more dark etc. Whatever the case everyone loses with the end result and the Tokyo arc couldve showed off the strong potential the series has. So does this season at least do anything better than the previous one? Gladly it does The biggest takeaway from this is Kuroganes backstory in which we see a tale of a young swordsman hone his craft in a royal family only for tragedy to strike and scar him permanently. Its not as impactful as a solid wandering ronin tale but its a shining moment that the series desperately needed. Though Fai doesnt get any real backstory again an early oneoff episode gives a small peak as to what it may be. Even without all the finer details it still is a rather sweet story that shows off Fais boyish charm. Though we dont get all the pieces to the puzzle theres enough to help shape a better image of Syaroan and Sakuras partners. The animation is still the same for the series bland and second rate. It needs help from Bee Trains parent company Production I.G. badly. Compare this to the flashiness the Birdcage movie had its a real disappointment. As a general rule of thumb if your show is action oriented shortcuts only hurt it overall. This wouldnt be as bad if the series were a slice of life but the cutaways during a critical scene and offmodels really damage the appearance of the show. I will say that there seems to be more variety in the music with a few more original songs. I take back what I said about the first season musicwise the soundtrack to this anime is very good and helps save a few scenes with Yuki Kajiuras wonderful songwriting. The voice acting also seems a bit more lively this time its not perfect but it evokes more emotion than the stale delivery that haunted the first season. Overall I give Tsubasa Chronicle 2nd Season a 4/10. Some series get better if you allow them the chance to shine. Other series are almost mandatory to watch in full to quote a friend you need to see the ending to understand the beginning. Tsubasa Chronicle at least from the anime adaptation is neither of those. It is a series that comes close to achieving strength but poor circumstances deny it from being a series thats worth any investment. I can not recommend it. Do you like or dislike this anime? If you havent watched it are you encouraged to watch it or not? Leave a comment on my profile telling me what you think of the anime and/or my review. Thanks for reading and have a blessed day