Minami-ke Okawari

While the first season was your standard "Cute girls are doing cute things", second season is weird, and mostly from the directing and animation point of view. Strange pauses, transitions, views and movements kinda catch you off-guard. Yet because of that it's way more memorable and interesting to watch. It kinda breaks itself, but not to the point of being unwatchable, but just weird, a tiny bit surreal even.
Plot-wise also gives you a bit deeper things, but again, does not overstay it's welcome, and most of the time it's your average slice of life.
Definitely not for everyone's enjoyment, but definitely worth trying.

Minami-Ke Okawari is the 2nd season of the series and with a studio change there's plenty changes that are apparent from the start.

Tl;Dr : Jump straight to EP8 if you want a more similar vibe to the first season.

The first change that you'll see is the art, the characters are changed into a more generic anime look with very distinct features to differentiate themselves from others, such as Haruka's eyes having a red color, Chiaki's hair has a fade color and the strand is animated and more that screams "hey we are the important characters" + the unimportant characters have blacked out skin. The ... surrounding area is more realistic and is also more metropolitan with the apparent tall buildings around + Haruka's high school felt like a completely different building.

The story is also formatted differently, can't really comment much since if I'm being frank the plot of the first 7 episodes are very forgettable and very boring while at the same time try really hard at the entertainment aspect in more ways than one. The reason why I mention only the first 7 episodes is because they are different than the rest of the episodes moving forward and I'll tell you why.

The obnoxious fan service, I usually just shrug it off but the fan service shown here just felt wrong since the fan service is straight up just the characters being nude, and worst of all the majority of them are targeted towards Chiaki, previously it would only revolve around Haruka and Hoshino's suggestive poses but this time they really need to push the fan service really hard.

The characters also felt very out of character, Haruka becomes mean, Chiaki is just the straight man to Kana's shenanigans, Touma is just boy, Makoto is just girl, Uchida's stupid, and the people that I see still maintain their established mannerisms were the middle-schoolers. The kid that they introduced are very forgettable and there's no sights of Touma's brothers.

The only reason why it's not a straight up "Not Recommended" is only because the remaining episodes starting from episode 8 are very watchable, while they still maintain the art and all, the characters revert back to their usual selves and there's an interesting plot happening that pays off in the end alongside the lack of fan service which is actually great to see

Overall, this season is a half disaster and the fact that the 2nd half is very different from the 1st half shows that they made a mistake along the way, because the 2nd half is genuinely a great watch if you enjoyed the previous season, it's just the 1st half is a bastardized version of what existed, almost felt like Chiaki told Haruka to complain about the quality(season 1 tv gag, highly missed) and asread did change it for the better.

I'm giving this one a 5.3/10, skip the first 7 episodes if you liked the vibes of the 1st season and the rest are worth the watch if you want more of Minami-ke, I'd give episode 8 and onwards a pretty solid 7.8/10.

Minami-ke's second season is utterly boring, forgettable, ugly and a complete waste of my and most likely your time.
The first season was cute, I liked how the three main characters (Kana, Chiaki and Haruka) interacted with each other, it wasn't boring for the most part and it served it's purpose as a CGDCT show.
The second season however drops the ball on absolutely every aspect, the characters' designs look ugly, the episodes are nothing but filler, the main characters who were enjoyable in the first season are completely boring and I struggle to even a single thing that happened the entire season. I say this ... as massive fan of this genre famous for being boring filler.

The characters who were generally in memorable parts in the first season are fine Housaka and Makoto/Mako-chan for example. But for characters that were in a bigger focus this season I have absolutely nothing to say, there is a massive reason why this season is seen as a massive drop in quality.
This is amplified in the anime original character, Fuyuki. After getting tortured with 13 episodes I cannot even any surface level information about this character or the entire season.

I would not recommend this season to absolutely anybody, if you loved the first season I would highly recommend skipping this season.