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...punch pals" who will push the story along.⏎ Jairus Taylor ⏎ Rating: 4 ⏎ The Backwind Delinquents are back for another season, and it feels like they never left. I mean that literally, as this premiere picks up right where the first season left off, and since that was right at the start of a new arc, I can imagine there's plenty of folks who might have forgotten some of the details during the break. Thankfully the content of the episode is pretty straightforward, as Sakura leads his new crew into breaking into the turf of another gang called Keel in order to rescue one of its who's been abused by his bosses. This raid ends up going south pretty quickly when the Bofurin boys end up being outnumbered, and while they're able to make up the difference thanks to the team's strongest , that backfires when Keel brings out some heavy hitters of their own. While things seem pretty dire, the situation turns back in Bofurin's favor when the second year leaders arrive to lend a hand, and Sakura is determined to give one of Keel's leaders a well deserved punch to the face. ⏎ If it feels like I'm doing a whole lot of recapping here, it's because there isn't a whole lot going on here beyond some good old-fashioned delinquent violence. Of course, since that's basically what I signed up for, I'm happy to say this episode delivers that in spades. The first season gave us a lot of great fight choreography and the team at Cloverworks consistently delivered on action scenes that matched the level of intensity needed for a series centered around street brawls. That intensity carries over to this premiere as nearly all of it is a feast for the eyes, and while there is some use of 3DCG during some of the crowd shots during the raid, it's not particularly distracting, and the rest of the episode looks so polished that it hardly even matters. ⏎ Still, good action can only get you so far, so I'm happy that we also got some bits of development for Sakura and Nirei in between all the punches. Even if it mostly ended up backfiring on him, it was kinda nice to see Nirei attempt to defend his fellow delinquents, and it was also good to see Sakura called out for his whole lone wolf routine as he can't keep trying to do things by himself now that his position will drag other people into his problems. Exactly how much growth we'll get from either this season is a bit hard to determine, but I have grown to like these boys, and I'm looking forward to seeing how they change now that they've got a bigger group behind them. Since this season is picking up mid arc, I have basically no idea where it's going but if the rest of it can keep matching all the intense violence with some equally intense drama, I'm all here for seeing these boys stinking up the classroom yet again.