On the run from the Erste Empire, Gran and the crew of the Grandcypher receive an offer to negotiate a ceasefire. Meeting at the neutral territory of Albion Citadel, they are welcomed and hosted by Vira Lillie: current Lord Commander of Albion and a friend of Katalina Alize from her officer training at Albion. Imperial General Furias grants the Skyfarers an official pardon, but fails to defuse the tense situation. Given time to unwind, the Skyfarers attend a gala hosted by Vira to celebrate the arrival of the crew. However, tensions run high, as Furias and the Erste delegation remain at Albion even after the negotiations conclude.
Cygames and A-1 Pictures will eventually announce the Granblue Fantasy Season 2 release date, but in the meantime, fans can look forward to a Granblue Fantasy OVA episode titled “EXTRA 2” that will ship on October 25, 2017 with the final, seventh volume of the Blu-Ray/DVD box sets. Watch All 12 Episodes Subbed on Funimation Stream at funimation.com/shows/granblue-fantasy-the-animation Regions Available: US, CA, UK.
Learning about the existence of a Primal Beast on the island, the crew is shocked to discover a letter from Katalina announcing her resignation. While Gran heads off to find their former comrade, Eugen and Rackam decide to investigate the Imperial presence on the island, suspecting a more sinister scheme lying up the Empire's sleeve.Summary taken from.
Synopsis On the run from the Erste Empire, Gran and the crew of the Grandcypher receive an offer to negotiate a ceasefire. Meeting at the neutral territory of Albion Citadel, they are welcomed and hosted by Vira Lillie: current Lord Commander of Albion and a friend of Katalina Alize from her officer training at Albion. Imperial General Furias grants the Skyfarers an official pardon, but fails to defuse the tense situation.Given time to unwind, the Skyfarers attend a gala hosted by Vira to celebrate the arrival of the crew.
However, tensions run high, as Furias and the Erste delegation remain at Albion even after the negotiations conclude. Learning about the existence of a Primal Beast on the island, the crew is shocked to discover a letter from Katalina announcing her resignation.While Gran heads off to find their former comrade, Eugen and Rackam decide to investigate the Imperial presence on the island, suspecting a more sinister scheme lying up the Empire's sleeve.Written by MAL Rewrite. Overall9Story9Animation9Sound9Character10Enjoyment9Onboard the AMAZING FEELS GRANDCYPHER!So this second season starts off with a rather one shot episode focusing on a berserk Primal Beast and a cameo to one of the game characters, but after that.well let's get to it shall we.So after that episode, we move into the Albion's arc and this is the pinnacle of the best arc in the season in LA's eyes, mainly because of one sole character that of Vira Lillie voiced by Asami Imai, a best friend of Katalina. At first she is the typical fangirl of Katalina but further and further down the line she's outed as a yandere, aREALLY investable and interesting breed of yandere to the point LA fell in love with Vira as a result (she is LA's waifu of Fall 2019 so that's saying something). So usually yandere's kill for their love or those around her, but in Vira's case, yes she has a DEEP obsession with Katalina and this obsession starts as soon as she introduction but guised as the calm, stoic but cheery girl at the start.
See Vira sacrificed HERSELF for Katalina to give Katalina her dream she wanted but it's not as it seems yet Vira love for Katalina blinds her of what Katalina truly wants let alone Katalina even knowing what she truly wants either in this case, which again makes Vira a really unique yandere, Asami Imai makes it even better mind you with her voice acting but man, Vira just made the Albion arc soo much better as Vira as a character herself as well as developing Katalina before Lyria and giving herself resolution from her past as well. Vira beyond a shadow of a doubt for LA was LA's favourite character in the series and gave a new outlook on the typical yandere. Of course the Albion arc does pertain to a Primal Beast and that is linked with Vira, the Luminiera and of course it'll have some importance to Vira and Katalina's relationship. Nonetheless Albion's or to be more precise, Vira's arc was probably the standout of this season hands down.Afterwards we get a small arc focusing on Orchis, Sturm and Drang when the crew crash lands in a zombie curse-filled island that a Primal Beast has a hand in, that of the Ghost Ship Primal Beast Celeste.
This small arc focuses on Orchis (the new mysterious girl who stuck with the Black Knight) and Lyria's relationship as they finally get to intereact, what with them both being in similar situations in being girls who can 'control Primal Beasts'. Io gets some screentime with Orchis and Lyria and oddly enough Drang too due to a resident 'ghost' of the island Ferry voiced by Madoka Yonezawa.
Overall giving Drang and developing the relationship of Orchis and Lyria as well as Io too helped with this arc.Finally we have Rackam's arc where he goes back to his childhood island where he made a promise to but it expands due to Pommern coming back and showing Gran and Lyria to his boss, the Prime Minister that gives us BIG revelations to the entire creation of Lyria as a whole. Overall7Story7Animation8Sound7Character7Enjoyment5Granblue Fantasy The Animation Season 2 (2019)Continuation of season 1 with links and references to the games.The story does progress quite far from the first season but this is a typical case of trying to change the pace and it doesn't work. The first season was suspenseful with plenty of moments on the edge of the seat with revelations and events happening. The OVA's were a great twist with the female choice main character. Season 2 however, just doesn't bring anything new to the table nor does it do it as well as the first season.The story this time round has a grainy feelto it in that it just doesn't pick up at the level the first season did and this is a great shame because it is still a good show. It feels in areas that it is a bit dragged out without much need.The art is the same and I really do like it. I enjoy the older style backgrounds with more modern animation layered on top.The OP and ED are as fun as ever and the sounds during the show are good.Characters do get a lot more development than before and we see more into the main cast.
Learning a bit more about the black knight was great albeit not really explained much.The show this time around is enjoyable but not quite to the same standard. It started out as a 9 in expectations but fell down to a 7 for me. Hopefully, if they continue the series they will sort this.I also feel like many plot devices would be solved with the Grandcypher just has a few weapons on it. Overall9Story7Animation9Sound8Character10Enjoyment9Granblue Fantasy The Animation might be a generic fantasy but it does everything right in the genre, and so far the second season is doing great, though a few changes have occurred that were easily noticed after re-watching the first season.Gran's chin especially has grown a lot longer in season 2 and Catalina is looking a little older but everyone else so far looks similar enough to how they were in the first season.The art is still beautiful with vivid colors everywhere. The voices are good and the music is still great and hasn't lost the sense of fantasy.
The animations are amazingly done inthis season and don't feel out of place or look low budget. So far its more of the same enjoyable fantasy so if you enjoyed the first season from 2017 you'll also enjoy the second season.