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One of his contemporaries in that sense is Lea Hernandez. The title character of Empowered hangs a lampshade on this in a meta-text
panel from Vol. 1, lamenting that a manga-styled superhero comic won't have it easy when most manga fans have zero interest in western style superheroes, while most superhero fans hate anything that even looks like manga. X-Men was actually
drawn by manga creator Kia Asamiya for a brief time in 2002. As well, the art of Joe Madureira, who drew the
book from 1994 to 1997, is heavily manga-influenced. The Marvel Adventures version of Power Pack by Gurihiru. Like with most other Japanese artists hired to draw American comics, it is just as much an example of them matching our style even in pacing and storytelling. Ditto the art of Runaways. But looks less animesque as Art Evolution goes. Gurihiru's artwork on
Superman Smashes the Klan. In particular, the villain's hair and facial expressions are blatant "Shōnen manga villain" during the climax, which is amusing given his white supremacist motivations.
The constant edging that comes with this part of the story can come off as drawn out to some audiences, but for me, Sylphy’s character development and intrapersonal conflicts throughout the season made that never happen.
This season helps maintain the continuity of Mushoku Tensei using odd amounts of realism or attention to detail to excel in ways other anime do not. The beginning segments with Sara and Counter Arrow were oddly realistic in the way they showed the cautious social improvements a depressed person attempts to make; this realism got turned up to 11 when they showed a sudden downward spiral with plenty of self-destruction. Most anime don’t use
depression as a catalyst for character development; if they do, the depression is short-lived and resolved linearly. As stated above, neither of these happen in Mushoku Tensei season 2. The conversation with Nanahoshi is a glorified 20-minute info
dump: an info dump that I was on the edge of my seat to consume. I generally dislike info dumps of this magnitude, but the sheer impact of the information being dumped and the extracurriculars with Sylphy during the conversation kept it interesting. Or hell, even the way they characterize side characters. There are 12 characters either introduced or re-established and expanded on this season, and none of them feel like a waste of time that won’t be utilized as the series goes on; characters like Sara have fulfilled their duty to the plot and won’t appear for much later feel like their arcs are completed: they don’t need extra development to make them feel like quality. Side characters that received incomplete characterization, such as Zanoba and Cliff, were set up to be reused in the latter parts of the story. On paper, this seems like a fairly simple decision to make that clears a pretty low bar of establishing your side characters to a great extent before you make them do important things in the plot, but you’d be surprised.
