English Dub Review: By the Grace of the Gods “Ryoma and the Town of Gimul”

Overview

The Foundation Festival begins. The hard work put into the preparation paid off, and Ryoma’s food stall has a good start. Ryoma takes a break to look around the festival and the town he now calls home.

Our Take

Gimul’s Foundation Festival is finally underway, with the crowd control going crazy about Ryoma’s offerings, and it’s about time that some people should take time off and enjoy the festival…, especially Ryoma, who is running around and tending to many business offerings happening all at once. The hard-working 10-year-old must take a break as well, but his work is not done, for a lost child came out of nowhere with no recollection.

Bringing the lost child Theo around while finding his mother, Ryoma recapping through his journey from Season 1 to now, he has indeed come this far. The after-party with the Semroid Troupe and everyone else, it’s a testament to all the friends and allies he’s made along the way. To round things up, exclusive handmade music boxes are sent to Eliaria as commemoration, and the world at large continues to move according to Ryoma’s plans.

Overall, this was a serviceable finale to the 2nd season. At times it got exciting occasionally with an action scene here and there, and it was nice to see that Ryoma has blended into the town pretty well now and it was lovely to see him grateful to receive the warmth from the townspeople around him. Elia also seems to be doing well in her academy too, guess this is pretty much the “all’s well that ends all” kind of ending and feeling. Upon research, this franchise seems to be very popular with over 12 manga volumes in English so it remains to be seen how much ground needs to be covered next if Season 3 becomes a thing…