The Fall Anime 2025 Preview Guide – Let This Grieving Soul Retire! Season 2

What is this?

It’s the golden age for treasure hunters—adventurers hungry for wealth, fame, power, and glory, who risk their lives in treasure vaults throughout the world.

“Let’s become treasure hunters.”

Krai and his childhood friends swore to become the greatest of them all, but that dream should have died the day Krai realized he wasn’t cut out for the job! Yet expectations continue to mount, right along with Krai’s fear for his life. While his childhood friends climb closer toward their dream, this grieving soul has one simple wish: to pack it all in and retire!

Let This Grieving Soul Retire! Season 2 is based on a light novel series by Tsukikage and Chyko. The anime series is streaming on Crunchyroll on Saturdays.

How was the first episode?

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When it comes to season premieres of ongoing series, they usually start out one of three ways: 1) jump right into the next arc, 2) simply continue plodding along with little-to-no fan fair, or 3) reintroduce the cast with a one-off adventure. This episode is option three but with a twist. Rather than an ultimately meaningless adventure set in the present, this episode gives us a vital bit of backstory: the first meeting between Tino and the Grieving Souls.

Thus, this episode allows us to get to know Tino before her obsession took hold—before she saw Krai as an omnipotent, god-like savior and before Liz’s training began to warp how she viewed the world. It also gives us a bit more time with the members of the party who haven’t appeared in the present day storyline yet—namely Luke, Lucia, and Ansem—and gives us a taste of what they can do by showing how crazily strong they were half-a-decade ago.

Overall, this episode is a good example of what to expect from the series as it follows the usual pattern. Krai stumbles through some complex and/or dangerous situation, his friends end up defeating whatever evil they come across, and he comes out of it looking like a mastermind who manipulated everything and everyone to achieve the perfect resolution.

But where this episode really succeeds is in the low-key humor. The jokes about the masks really got me. Revealing that the party is literally blind while wearing them redefines a ton of scenes from the first season—and makes our heroes seem even more powerful. That those masks were bought solely for the reason they look cool (despite basically bankrupting the party) is also a good gag—but not as good as the revelation that they are bulletproof because they are made of top tier materials (hence their cost).

And then there is the big joke of the episode. To quote the late, great Raúl Juliá:

“For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me… it was Tuesday.”

In the same vein, for Tino, the day she met Krai was the defining moment of her entire life. But for Krai, it was just another day of him meandering through life with no real plan other than trying to slack off. Krai doesn’t even remember the event until hearing Tino describe it at length to anyone who will listen (and many who don’t want to).

And, like Bison, he doesn’t really even care—either about the events in general or forgetting in the first place. Instead, he instead thinks about how to use the now much stronger Tino for his own plans—namely using her as a body guard while he adds to his massive relic collection.

All in all, this episode is more of the same—and I mean that in the best way. If you watched the first season and enjoyed it, you’ll enjoy this episode too. I know I did.

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