Bye Bye, Earth 2nd Season

This is such an underrated anime. This might be the anime with female protagonist which has the deepest plot I’ve ever seen.

The story is definitely unique
It gives me some ORB vibes due to philosophy. Beautiful animation,complex plot,decent fight scenes.

Belle is somehow still alone or even more alone in the end! She’s kinda like me! You can related to her feeling!

The first season is kinda slow because Adonis gonna do something in season 2! Do not drop this anime and if your friends have dropped,tell them not to!

In my opinion,the rating of this anime is way too low! There exist many other anime with ... such slow pacing like this!

Recommend this to your friends ASAP! This anime is kinda slow paced but trust me it’s worth it!!!

Kekeke

Bye Bye, Earth, the latter journey - This is, for the second and VERY last time, truly a bye-bye to an entity that is hard to get your head around.

Let's just not mince our feelings: Tow Ubukata was, and still is, a very talented and gifted writer by any stretch of the imagination, giving us classic franchises like Mardock Scramble, Soukyuu no Fafner and (the most well-known of them all) Psycho-Pass. But take one look into his stuff from the pre-2010s, and you'll notice that he's all over the place with ambitious ideas that, for one reason or another, didn't quite set the world on ... fantasy fire.

Case in point, his LN of Bye-Bye, Earth, which I've mentioned in Season 1's review that it has ambition and is worth a look into, with the Achilles' Heel that the 1st half of the anime just did not do a very good job at trying to show and tell what its fantastical world is concocted and made out of. Sadly, with Season 2, which covers Volume 2 of the 2000 edition novel (Volumes 3 and 4 of the 2007 edition), I'm just conflicted to say that I've tried but felt the urge to tap out so many times that the ad nauseam devil within me just cusses out for episode after episode just to see how all of this would conclude. And if you're thinking about what I'm thinking, we're all on the same page here: Bye-Bye Earth, is simply put: unsalvageable.

Continuing on with the second half of the story, the tide changes to the Man of Question, Adonis himself, being distraught by all the surrounding factors that caused his downfall, when he was THAT close to having Belle for all his own benefit near the end of the first half, only to skimp away like a scaredy-cat. That's not to say that the Girl of Reason herself stood in one corner trying to figure out how to make sense of the Man of Question's affections. It's how she takes it that defines the fate of both characters in question, and its significance plays a lot on emotion here. Together with the cast to liberate the gods, which gives rise to the Army of Insatiable Emptiness, thwarting the Katakombe, Belle and her gang, alongside Gaff and his kingdom, can't afford to waste time locating where Adonis is, before he wreaks even more havoc with his cursed swords. And that's the main plot of the conflict to resolve to put things to an amicable end.

I'm not going to beat around the bush here: literally nothing has changed since Season 1's showing last Summer, and as much as director Yasuto Nishikata and his staff team at Liden Films tried to salvage whatever they can for this rather heavy mouthful of a dialogue disposition adapting from the books to the small screen, if Season 1 was already hard to get your head around, then the worse can be said for Season 2, which will rack your brains and nothing else more. I've also already mentioned in Season 1's review that a fantasy of this sort requires an act of fine balance between plot and understanding, so to see it all come together, yet in a squandered manner, doesn't give hope that the entire show in 20 episodes, binged or not, can be easily gotten the gist of.

The only upgrade IMO is with the OP, and Who-ya Extended did a good job with the OP song being more representative than ASCA's Season 1 OP (that, in fact, I liked it better than the latter). And speaking of ASCA, I'd hoped she would shine after being transferred to the ED, but whatever the case, it just feels average and un-noteworthy at best.

All in all, I'd imagine it's easier to read Bye Bye, Earth as a novel, and thanks to Yen Press having released Volume 1 of 4 of the 2007 version just very recently, that is an option I'd recommend if the anime's lore just doesn't cut it for you. Otherwise, as a product altogether, Tow Ubukata is a man of wild fantastical ambitions alright, and this work being one of many released before his famous heydays of the 2010s, it's quite the intrigue...yet, with insurmountable substances of potential that is left untapped.

It's a very hard recommendation...unless you're one of the majestic few that can think like Tow Ubukata to enjoy Bye Bye, Earth.

This is a story that is so far up its own fourth point of contact that it has lost itself in the confusion. It would be slightly better if they were juggling fewer balls, became a little more focused. A lot of the "emotion" feels forced, and I just can't gel with the story whatsoever. Most scenes are dragged out for some dramatic reason but if I'm not feeling the drama then it's like watching paint dry while the paint yells at you.

The animation hasn't changed much since S1, it's serviceable, not much to write home about, but even if I did write home about ... it the letter would be far more interesting than the dialogue. This is just another show crapped out by a studio with a decent premise but cannot stick the landing. Our heroine vacillates between tragic hero and utterly useless crybaby, particularly when Adonis comes up, and I really don't see why she should give a damn about him since his only redeeming quality in her eyes is that he's tragic too?

None of it makes sense and I suggest the creator take anti-depressants and try again.