Rukodaime91 said:But, in this season, in five episodes, Osamu did not accomplish much, Chika had one cool moment and Hyuse did not accomplish much either. (Yuuma is basically the same with no emotion at all during all his fight). I understand they could not get a total victory but it just felt kinda overwhelming. Strategy like using the light seemed good in concept but did not accomplish much... There's a lot going on here. Osamu is in the process of learning to trust himself and be more confident in his own judgement, although I'll admit what we've got so far is a little weak. Chika accidentally shooting someone was good for her character and in future it may set up an incredible character moment, but as it stands I think they handled it a little too jokingly. They needed to take the gravity of Chika actually destroying someone for the first time more seriously. As for Hyuse, every action he takes reveals more about his character. I'm finding a lot of his decisions pretty interesting, but my biggest problem would probably be that he just doesn't have enough depth (which is a problem with all the WT characters). On a surface level this fight functions as a proper introduction for Hyuse and so we'll probably get more character progression from him in future. Yuuma is probably my biggest issue with WT for a while now. Since his full introduction and the establishment of the team he's been nothing but...there...I guess. WT just needs more character moments where we actually get to know our main cast rather than just having them be vehicles for plot and fights.
Rukodaime91 said:(also I always hate when they are shooting at each other and shields which don't even cover 50% of their body magically block everything... which happens a lot of time during this season...) I feel like it's a budgetary thing. That and the constant narration the show has of the fights. A lot of it is redundant for the audience and mostly used to pad out the runtime and cut costs. Like when Kou threw his Kogetsu into his other hand and was executing an epic blow, but after he cut Yuuma we randomly cut to the commentators and they were like "that was a cool trick, he is faster than both opponents so what are they going to do" and my brain got so confused. How can they comment in the middle of an event that lasted like 1 IRL second lmao?
Rukodaime91 said:Well, I always preferred match where the underdogs manage to win (when it's really deserved), which was accomplished in season 2. In season 3, it's like they don't want Tamakoma-2 to be overpowered so... But, really, between the steal kill, Osamu getting shot by Ema and having to leave without accomplish anything... I feel like the fights have always been about strategy, but the narrative underdog aspect has faded as Tamakoma has become more experienced. To me it feels earned, but I can understand if it's less satisfying for you. There's really no narrative replacement for it. They were always trying to get in the away squad so there needed to be something extra to motivate our protagonists here.
Rukodaime91 said:I understand it's more realistic that way, but, it's missing something... Especially when Chika could have just shot twice and kill everyone "accidentally"... making all strategy useless. Well the thing is, no one realised she could do it. But to think that Chika would make the shot not realising that someone could get killed from her seems a little unrealistic to me. Surely she would have realised this. If there was a brief debate between her and Osamu where he convinces her she won't get anyone, and then she does, that would have been a lot more believable and have added more narrative weight to her actions, as they would feel more like a consequence rather than an inconvenience.
Rukodaime91 said:One of the weakness of World Trigger matches as always been the fact there is no "pain", so, it's juste like "ok, I'm dead, see ya" (and because of the realistic way they react, you don't have a lot of "emotion"... especially Yuuga which has basically the same look no matter what happen). While it's great because it allows teams to fight without holding back, you really need big strategy to make up for it. I'm personally fine with this tbh. It allows the characters to fight harder and us to see way more epic kills than could have ever been possible in this story otherwise.
overall I just wish someone could come in and rewrite the characters. IMO that would solve pretty much all of the show's major downsides now. |