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J.C. Staff's artistic quality slips just a little bit in places compared to the first volume, but this is still a good-looking series featuring attractive character designs and quality background art to go with the ever-changing wardrobe of certain characters. The animation seems more limited here, especially in one scene where Mai is falling over, but the artistry pulls off enough positive visual effects to compensate for the flaws. Thankfully the artists actually put some effort into sprucing up the visuals for the opener this time around, but regretfully the series continues the same lame theme. The closer also remains unchanged, but the use of the musical score to enhance the more regularly intense scenes has notably improved.
Though the character designs never quite return to the depth and detail they once had, important emotional revelations are aided greatly by some unusually mobile and detailed facial expressions—though Jin's mania is allowed to get positively excessive. However, the polish is only periodic—only patches of the sleek surface that made the first volume so easy to swallow remain, certainly not enough to make the series' shortcomings entirely palatable or to seduce you into forgetting how uneven the series overall is. As an interesting aside, in an unusual move for an action series, the show's fan-service leans heavily towards beefcake.
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