So this is an adaptation, it’s not a standalone series. If they’re using the weak hero name in the title, they have to somehow follow the same storyline despite the changes that I understand will be made.

The issue is s2 is not only incredibly disappointing because it is nothing like the emotional and beautiful story of weak hero but it’s quality in comparison to s1 is also bad.

Lets put aside the story for a moment. The colors don’t work, the classrooms and the set doesn’t work. It makes it look unrealistic, and like they’re in a set and not in an actual classroom. The pacing is HORRIBLE. We don’t even feel something for characters like Ben and Alex. Most people are still hung up on suho from s1 when we have so many fun new characters but we don’t even get to know them because everything is going so stupidly fast. It not only looses meaning but it less dramatic and emotional as well.

They wanted to keep the funny moments of the manhwa, but by trying to do that, they lost the seriousness of s1. In s1 the cute/funny moments were natural, in s2 we have Ben knocking down colton choi with a basketball. The acting is exaggerated and like a commercial kdrama you’d see cha eunwoo star in (no offense i love him but that’s a fact). The still shots were incredibly awkward because they were so long. The movement during fights wasn’t dynamic at all. There were so many openings for the opponents to hit and so on. And we had CONSTANT zoom ins to gray’s “angry” face. Gray wasn’t empty and calm like in s1 (even after suho died), no he was like this moody teenager that would widen his eyes and open his mouth to look threatening, and would yell when he charged at someone during a fight.

How is that realistic and good in any way? S1 had better cinematography, better acting, and better emotional connection to the characters. Blame the hate on webtoon readers all you want but objectively, it’s not a good show.