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Arcane Season 2 review - luxurious animation returns with lavish angst and melodrama

Some iffy pacing moments aside, Arcane's second and final season truly puts the money on screen. This is a striking, emotionally wrought, hard-punching climax.

I'll rewatch this season very soon, if only just to keep an eye out during rapid-fire quick cuts for more little decisions and moments of craft – the clever binding of a book in an artful flashback; the switch of camera perspective in a brief cutaway – that must have been laboured over by artists for weeks, only to risk being entirely missed. Along with moments of slightly stiff dialogue for instance, there's also a lingering sense that we are absolutely whistling along through the story in order to cram this into just two seasons, jumping between parallel timelines to scenes that are months in the future, flashing backwards to memories, and beyond. As a shameless LoL player myself, I can't help but watch Arcane's many exceptional, intricately choreographed action scenes and wonder if that new, named character with a tagline ("I like to get up close") and clearly distinguished array of skills (Blocking bullets!

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