I was watching this primarily because I didn't like Yuri on Ice much and wanted to see if something that is a blatant attempt to cash in on it would be better - because while YoI delivers on one aspect (being hella gay), it really is an absolute shambles of a sports show. It's watchable and even enjoyable scene-for-scene but it's getting harder and harder to call it a solid show overall. So sure enough, after a season of much ado we still don't end up anywhere - you can't really raise the stakes if all at stake was "who wins" to begin with. But by far the most annoying aspect is its insistence on keeping all the options valid, since it prevents any real progress and makes everything seem arbitrary and pointless. And it still keeps wasting precious time on vestigial nonsense like its framing device and the Kyoto flashback scenario that was already the worst part of S1.
You see, to deliver a steady drip feed of meaningful character moments it apparently has to rush through the source material at a breakneck pace, which completely wrecks the "story" part of this story and makes every episode seem like a recap. S2 is actually better at the core of its appeal, since it gives all the characters a sharper profile (things like taking Nino from joke to badass and making Ichika a villain are no mean feat), but it does pay a steep price for it.
S1 was a barely good enough (i.e., well above average) implementation of the ages old harem chestnut.
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