IS: Infinite Stratos 2 - Infinite Wedding

Do you remember the old saying "once you hit rock bottom, the only way to go is up"? Well, apparently, someone forgot to tell that to Infinite Stratos, which keeps reaching new and abysmal lows with each new installment. If World Purge wore my patience for Infinite Stratos thin, this particular story put it on life support. How bad it was? Well, let's hop on and find out, shall we?

There are gonna be spoilers, but come on, do you really care?

Story
So, the girls are having a day off and having fantasies about how their perfect wedding with Ichika would feel like. I like the idea ... (again, the idea) of girls trying to picture the future with the men they love but the execution was painfully lacking. Every time one specific girl has a fantasy, another girl has to ruin it and this gets repeated over the coruse of the entire story and we are supposed to find it funny.

Laugh. Come on, laugh. Laugh, you fool. Why aren't you laughing? This is top-tier writing! Good grief. (3/10)

Characters
How is it possible that a group of objectively interesting characters could be done dirty by such a painfully boring story? The girls don't grow or evolve in any way during the course of the story, which only serves to reminds us of what we have known all the way back in season 1: they love Ichika. It's like that's their only defining trait as characters.

Speaking about Ichika, it seems that the show itself has lost all respect for its main character. For most of this story, Ichika is treated either as a prop for the girl's stories at best or as a butt monkey at worst. Ichika is in a serious competition to become the ultimate beta male in anime history. (3/10)

Art
Props should be given to the series for attempting to trying out something different with the story, but I just hated that the story was presented as, well, a PowerPoint presentation rather than as a fully animated feature. It's like the crew of the show just threw up their hands and lost faith in the IP. (4/10)

Sounds
God bless the brave voice actors who partook in this steaming pile of garbage. Infinite Stratos doesn't deserve them. This is the first Infinite Stratos story that I watch in its original English and it feels so refreshing to listen to the talents of Kouki Uchiyama (Ichika), Youko Hikasa (Houki), Kana Hanazawa (Charlotte) and Marina Inoue (Laura). They're all personal favorites of mine and it just breaks my heart watching their talents get squandered by something so generic and mediocre. (8/10)

Conclusion
With its recent installments, it's obvious that Infinite Stratos is facing a dark and uncertain future. It's 2021 and we haven't gotten any news for season 3, which should have been instead of this... whatever you wanna call it. What's really sad about all of this is that ever since season 2, the show has failed to do both the characters and the story justice and I'm just left worried about what will happen to Infinite Stratos now that so many years since its very first episode made it to broadcast. (5/10)

Infinite Wedding is an adaptation of apparently the last few updated chapters of the light novel.

The music, openings, etc. are really, really enjoyable;the chorus and instruments fit so well together.

The biggest problem I have and I think many other fans of this series has is the character development and latter.

These characters are created greatly, Houki, Charlotte, Laura etc. All of these heroine's have essential ground to create lots of story content, but it never, ever happens.

This OVA is cute, it has great music, and I've always personally loved the art, and animation that Infinite Stratos has offered.

If you took nothing from this review, just know ... this. You will get lots of squabble and no progression in this adaptation.

I still await patiently for Izuru to write more exciting plot rather then changing the personality of every character every time something is released. This series has so much potential, but yet I still find the potential in FanFiction more then the original work.

This OVA is available through the blu-ray special edition. You can find it online, but you'd have to traverse forums. I'd just buy it;if you really want the official squabble.

Final Verdict - Fantastic music, good animation, it is overall very cute/funny. Other then that, it is bland, it has squabble and no plot, makes itself out to be cannon fodder for merchandise.

I'll stick with fan works. ;)

My expectations based on the title and cover: " Oh is Ichica finally spine-ing up and marrying all the girls? I have got to see this.

Reality: It's a Picture drama. the girls are just chatting about their ideal wedding

Yeah...... I will be honest I thought this was some kind of epilogue or something and it's been years since I watched the show so I finally decided to knock this out, but it's really disappointing. one would not miss anything by skipping out.

Ichica is the textbook Harem Protagonist Dense as a rock, and won't pick one girl or maybe all of them but I don't ... have any faith in this author to write a polyamorous relationship well.

There is a reason the harem genre is dying or changing as Infinite Stratos is the textbook example for the genre as it was.