Wind Breaker Season 2

Not sure why there haven't been any other positive reviews so far, but personally I have been enjoying Wind Breaker season 2 a lot. Is it perfect? Of course not. But it knows exactly what it wants to do and executes it well.

First off, if you are watching season 2 that means you have already seen season 1 (and presumably enjoyed it). If you didn't enjoy season 1, then I see no reason to continue watching something that you don't like (hatewatching is lame).

Alright, now that that's out of the way, onto the rest of the review.

Story and Characters: Definitely the weakest part of the ... show. Sakura is a typical tsundere MC with a good heart. He wants to protect Bofurin from all the rival gangs and does so semi-successfully. However, I think the side cast is more interesting. Characters like Hayato, Kyotaro and Ren are easy to follow and provide and are more dynamic and have more layers than the MC. Other than that, it's a typical delinquent story. Gangs fight other gangs. Nobody is watching this show for the story anyways so for me the criticisms are somewhat unfounded. On one hand, the story is generic but on the other hand that is not the main appeal of this show at all and was never from the beginning.

Score: 6/10

Animation: By far the best aspect of this show. The fight scenes are clean and fluid, and the choreography is exceptional. Additionally, the camera work in the big group fights is impressive and the hand to hand combat is done very well. Cloverworks are a great studio, and although they don't usually do fighting anime, they really knocked it out of the park for this one.

Score: 9/10

Soundtrack: The OST in this show is good, it gets you hyped up and does its job well.

Score: 7.5/10

OP and ED: Both the op and ed are good, tho I prefer the s1 op personally.
OP score: 7.5/10
ED score: 7/10
Mean score: 7/10

Voice Acting: The voice acting quality in this show is very high. There are a lot of high profile VAs in the cast such as Uchida Yuuma, Shimazaki Nobunaga, Chiba Shouya and more. They do a good job of portraying the emotions and personalities of their respective characters.

Score: 8/10

Overall, Wind Breaker season 2 is a solid show. It's not a groundbreaking story, and it's not reinventing its own genre, but the delivery, execution and presentation makes it a damn enjoyable ride.

Is Windbreaker season 2 worth watching? If you like fights and cool coreography it definitely is. If you want any plot you will not find it here just move along.

I just cannot take this show seriously man, the premise is ridiculous, from the lack of capable adults, to the lack of teachers, to the lack of any police officers, to how many freaking gang highschoolers are in those towns man there can't be that many. Windbreaker's characters are walking tropes and the plot is just ridiculous. Why are highschool kids talking about philoshophy and sending feelings through punches? It doesn't make any sense. How hasn't ... any of these kids died yet? Also this is a minor detail but I don't get if this is supposed to be a somewhat realistic depiction or some of them just have superpowers, kicks will send guys trough walls, they'll send them flying 3 meters and the worst offender is how everyone of these guys can just straight up block and parry baseball freaking bats. You can not do that shit all of them should have ended up with broken arms after the first hit unable to do any more of this fuckery.

In conclusion, do not watch this for any crumb of plot or good characters, just turn your brain off and enjoy the fights, they're great, music is decent too, anything else? Sucks really. If you can do that it's a good watch for what it is.

I genuinely don’t understand how is this anime sitting at a 7.92. Even more confusing are the glowing reviews praising it as some kind of masterpiece. Scrolling through them feels surreal — like everyone’s watching a different show. The gap between the actual content and the reception is so wide it’s almost comical. It makes you wonder if we’ve collectively just stopped caring about quality.

The writing is painfully weak, the characters feel either one-dimensional or so over-the-top they border on parody, and the plot moves with the kind of manufactured intensity that tries to convince you it’s saying something meaningful — but it isn’t. Honestly, ... I catch secondhand embarrassment roughly every 40 seconds. Whether it’s the dialogue, the forced emotional moments, or the hyper-dramatic posturing, the show constantly trips over itself trying to seem cooler or deeper than it is.

And then there’s the painfully obvious attempt to generate attention by shoehorning in what feels like hollow LGBTQ coding. It’s not authentic representation — it’s bait. A calculated move to stir engagement, not to enrich the story. It doesn’t feel thoughtful or earned, just strategically placed to manufacture buzz and appeal to a wider market under the guise of inclusivity.

None of this would be so frustrating if the show weren’t being praised as if it were some kind of standout. But a near-8 rating? That says more about where the anime industry is heading than the show itself. When shallow storytelling, forced trends, and surface-level “depth” are mistaken for quality, it’s clear the bar has dropped — and it’s not getting back up anytime soon.