Whyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Season 1 didn’t need to exist. Season 2 without a doubt also didn’t need to exist. My faith in anime ends once Season 3 is announced.
OneRoom S2 continues the trend of creepy Point of View storytelling with awkward camera angles that don’t make any sense as a POV anime. POV isn’t my cup of tea, but at the very least the anime can commit to it. It sacrifices its POV shtick for creepy camera shots of these characters. All it does is make you feel uncomfortable, overly awkward, and a douche as an insert character. OneRoom really wants it’s viewers to imagine themselves as the main character. This works in things like RPGs where you make your own character and all, but not something like this where the camera (Where you as a character are looking at) keeps jumping all over the damn place. It’s inconsistent and breaks whatever immersion you somehow manage to have while watching it (Which 100% of the time is usually none whatsoever.) If the characters weren’t always designed to look like FBI bait, it’d be easier to sit through. I do *kinda* like the fact that the first arc focused on a girl from the previous season though, as it presented a chance for actual plot development. However, it was just more of the same. The other arcs were also uneventful, vague in what it wanted to do as a story, and ultimately felt like a waste of time. You won’t care about who any of these girls are and will forget them basically after each episode. The animation certainly looked good, but that’s really the only thing worth praising. After thinking about it, it might be worse than Season 1 purely due to the fact that it’s not as fun to make fun of. It was too dull and boring to really talk shit about. Like season one, OneRoom S2 doesn’t work as a romance, doesn’t work as a slice of life, doesn’t work as a POV production, and doesn’t work in general. Keep this series dead. Let it die. Let it fade into obscurity. It’s for the best. No one will miss it.
