March Comes in Like a Lion · Season 2 · Crunchyroll
March Comes in Like a Lion Season 2
March Comes in Like a Lion Season 2 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.7/10. 22 episodes on Crunchyroll from 14 October 2017.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Season 2 (October 2017 to March 2018) is the run that cemented March Comes in Like a Lion as a landmark. The bullying arc involving Hinata Kawamoto portrays how institutional silence enables harm with an unflinching specificity that stands among the most devastating depictions of this subject in anime. Shogi remains central but the series increasingly uses the game's logic - patience, sacrifice, reading the opponent's intent - as a moral framework for Rei's off-board relationships. The MAL community gave Season 2 a marginally higher score than Season 1, a rare outcome that reflects genuine escalation. The season concludes without false catharsis, a mark of the creative confidence the series earned across 44 episodes.
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Standout Episodes
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- E22Chapter 97: Spring Storm (Part 1) / Chapter 98: Spring Storm (Part 2)8.8
The season finale brings Rei to a hard-won reckoning with identity and belonging. A measured, earned conclusion that resists the triumphalism of the sports genre while still delivering the emotional release the series has been building toward across 44 episodes.
The moment: Rei's quiet acknowledgment that the Kawamoto household is, finally, somewhere he belongs.
Season Over Season
Season 2 deepens every thread the first season established, with the bullying arc marking a shift from interiority to social critique that stands as the series' finest achievement.