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KamiErabi GOD.app Season 2

Twelve years after the events of the first season, Goro Ono has disappeared. The incident that took place at the end is now referred to as the 828 Incident, and is widely believed to have been a mass hallucination. But young Eko Sasaki doesn't buy that. She believes that what took place that day was the work of a god. Her pursuit of the truth leads her to a young girl named Lall, who seems to know a lot about the 828 Incident. Together, the two restart the deadly game for godhood that happened all those years ago.

KamiErabi GOD.app Season 2 is an original project from the minds of Yokō Tarō, JIN, Atsushi Ōkubo, and Hiroyuki Seshita. The anime series is streaming on Crunchyroll on Wednesdays.

This second season picks up twelve years after the events of the first season. To avoid spoiling too much, let's just say that the events of the finale result in the disappearance of our previous protagonist, Goro Ono, and the whole ordeal is being treated as a mass hallucination. But even so, there's precious little that the world seems to understand about what took place. After all, the area is still sealed off. But a student named Eko Sasaki thinks there's more to the incident than what meets the eye. Or to be more specific, she claims that god has spoken to her in a dream. And she associates this with the 828 Incident because a lot of people who were at the 828 Incident described seeing god in the light at the incident. And… I guess that means there's a connection? Flimsy as this is, apparently it's good enough for Eko.

In any case, the bottom line is that Eko is obsessed with learning more about the 828 Incident. And her journey for answers ultimately leads to her being kidnapped. It's actually really weird—when she meets her familiar looking kidnapper, the kidnapper is so blasé about the whole thing before immediately changing the topic, and asking Eko if she wants to accompany her to… something? For… some reason? And Eko does.

What this ultimately leads to is Eko meeting a girl named Lall who's in the area that's been sealed off, and with something that's being regarded as a holy relic (which, I guess, was just left laying around?). Or rather, the kidnapper threatens to shoot Lall, and ultimately, Eko—who was invited to this whole showdown for some reason—comes to her rescue. One thing leads to another, and the two have (accidentally?) restarted the death game for godhood that took place twelve years ago.

The CG doesn't look particularly better or worse, and in case you didn't pick up on it in my description, the writing is still as convoluted and nonsensical as ever, and offers infinitely more questions than answers. And I don't mean that in a, “I guess we'll have to keep watching and find out what's going on” way. I mean that in a, “these character actions/motivations make no logical sense” way. But unfortunately, horrendous writing and ugly CG is exactly what I've come to expect from KamiErabi after its disastrous first season. I'd love to be proven wrong, but if this first episode is indicative of what the rest of the series will be like, then I don't exactly foresee this second season making the trudge that was watching the first one worth it.