To Heart 2: Dungeon Travelers

The_Blue_Lotus★ 10

Goddamit, I didn't expect this anime to be as good as it ended beign. Before I started watching To Heart 2: Dungeon Travelers, I had many doubts regarding the contents of this series: for once, it presented ourselves with a completely different setting and tonal structure to what we were usually accustomed from a To Heart IP and I was kinda worried on how it would deliver it. Just so you know: I didn't believe Dungeon Travelers would be an "abyssmaly bad experience with little to no redeeming qualities", but rather as a somewhat mediocre experience who would leave me with a bitter taste on my mouth.Something completely unheard of from the To Heart franchise (at least in my experience) and would be kinda sad considering this is possibly the last of the franchise we will ever see, you catch me on that. Well, let me just say I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Dungeon Travelers not only not proved to be a "rather mediocre experience" nor left me with a "bitter taste on my mouth" as I for so long had tought, but rather, exceded my expectations by a mile and turned out a rather fine experience among To Heart properties than I ended-up enjoying more than most of them in the end. To Heart 2: Dungeon Travelers strikes me as a very fine parody-show of all those Isekai-Fantasy animes that were beign released in the early 2010s, when this series itself came out. It features most (if not all) the characters we so know and love at this point embodying various character archetypes common in these genres and twists them in such a way that not only pocks fun at these aforementioned type of animes, but also results higly enjoyable for the audience in the process. To Heart 2: Dungeon Travelers is not your "bland and generic Isekai with no tought or inspiration behind them", but rather, a threat for those who are tired of the repetidness of those shows. And the fanservice, oh, what can I say about the fanservice? Never have I seen any other To Heart IP that dared to show so much skin, not the beach episode, not the bikini special, no, Dungeon Travelers tops it all. Hell we even have a character whose main gag is that she strips naked whenever she feels stressed (that would be Ilfa, in case you were curious), and even an slime and onsen scene. I know not everybody will aprobe of the inclusion of such heavy fanservice on this piece of media, but for people like me, who enjoy those kind of scenarios, that counts of a point in favor for Dungeon Travelers. So you'll have to bear with me on this one. Dungeon Travelers is a MUST WATCH for people who fell in love with the characters of base To Heart 2 and wants to see them in more funny, complicated (and potentially, risqué) situations who no doubt will get a laugh out of them or two. It makes for a pretty good watch for anybody who might be having a good day and wants to cheer up with a little, easy to watch and understand anime such as this one. Go on, give it a watch, it is worth your time :)