Second season was a little less difficult for me in terms of the disturbing scenes, which then allowed me to enjoy the anime a bit more. I like that there are growth in Emilia too. aside from the complicated world dimension they're in (like, why is there the witches and witch factors and archbishops, and then the throne... wow.. it's complex for my little mind to comprehend), i found it still enjoyable in terms of the story plot and character development.

It really brought to light the idea of death. Subara's "power" of being able to reset his time at a certain checkpoint, on the bright side, allows him to override certain mistakes he did. yet at the same time, in order to reset, he has to die.. that fact itself is cruel. too many a times i see in Subara the difficult decision for him to sacrifice his own life (but not without the pain) in order to reset time. yet it just makes death all the more painful. to say that you have died a thousand times doesn't mean that you'll become fearless. 

The despair that Subara felt when he kept trying and trying but failing and failing is telling. Even i as an observer could feel how he felt. It's not like a video game where you can keep trying the difficult level as an when you like. It's a life, things will keep progressing in the wrong direction until he ALONE does something about it. But many a times, that SOMETHING is really difficult to decipher all by yourself. the loneliness he must have felt. wow..

Take the arc with Witch's cult maniacal Petelgeuse as an example.. I honestly cringed.. and found every bit of the antagonist disturbing. but his effect on Subara is even more disturbing..

till the point where Subara could lose all sense of himself.. im just thankful he has people by his side to encourage him on, namely Rem.

Which is a pretty interesting relationship they have developed. I see that the main character doesn't have any physical superpowers, but yet has many strong allies made in the course of the anime, who can fight damn well. a little thing about influence here..

ofc, i didn't really get to see how the romance between Emilia and Subara until the second season, where they FINALLY came round to support each other (instead of Subara's weird manly ego to want to protect and protect without first understanding what she was going through in the trial)