I understand the goal of the author to quickly want to establish Anos as overpowered but it led to forced situation and forced character interaction.
First, you got Zepes just waiting (for what reason except plot ?) so he can decide in less than one second he needs to kill two people in front of ten witness in front of the school he is supposed to join. What if Anos was not overpowered ? Did Zepes kill them and then go to enjoy his life without any consequence ?
Then, coincidence (of course), Zepes is the guy Anos needs to fight. Sure. Why not ? (lazy writing ? probably). Anos decide to kill the guy just by snapping his finger then ressucite the guy (seems students did not even know about resurrection spell), then Zepes get killed 4 times (for a total of five times). And not even a teacher try to stop the fight ? Sure, make senses. No referee, nothing, just people getting to school and killing each other.
Zepes get killed 5 times (traumatic experience ?) but hey, the same night he's trying to kill Anos like nothing happen. Zepes's brother behaviour make no sense but hey, just trying to make them as bad guy as possible as quickly as possible so we don't pity them when Anos destroy them.
What about Misha ? Anos barely talked with her and he's just casually bringing her to diner ? Seems a little too "forced".
I think that's the problem with this anime. Individual motivation don't make sense. And come on, it's not that hard. I can come up with something better in less than 5 minutes (hopefully) while keeping every main point.
First, instead of having Zepes wait, make him walk and overhear Anos name while he's talking with Misha. Then, he said "I know who you are" ; Anos think someone has already figured out his real identidy but turns out Zepes knows he has to duel Anos "You are... my next victim". So, with arrogance, he flashs his flame to make Anos fear him, telling Anos he should forfeit the fight because he has no way of winning against a noble. Anos shenanigan happen with him canceling the flame.
Zepes realizing he has no chance of winning use his connection to change his opponent and win (and enter the school). Anos win his fight easily but against someone "not noble" so everyone just think his opponent was weak. Zepes and Anos are accepted in the school, Zepes try to "impress" Anos during the school but he's ridiculized so after a few days, noticing Misha is getting closer to Anos, he kidnap her with four guys (outside of school) and ask Anos to come otherwise she'll "suffer". Anos come, destroy the other four guys and then ask Zepes "You're the leader, right ? A leader needs to take responsability... I'll let you live but you need to experience death so that you never are tempted to think you can hurt my friends without consequences." and he kills and ressucite Zepes five time.
Misha is still not "feeling well" after her kidnapping so Anos offer her to have diner time together and then to bring her back home. Misha say "it's not your fault", Anos say "they targeted you because you are my friends, that's the least I could do". While we spend some time with the funny wife and husband, Zepes has been lying to his older brother telling him he's been ambushed by Anos so Zepes brother wants to get vengeance.
When Anos is bringing Misha back home, he has to fight them. Zepes is a mess, he can't even look Anos in the eyes, the consequence of experience death so many times so quickly. None of the shenaningan between his brother killing him needs to happen since killing someone just to ressucite them is meaningless.
This way you avoid most of the problem with the school not protecting students and you can keep Anos "true power" hidden for most people.
Just saying if you focus a little more on the character instead of focusing on "how to get as quick as possible on the next savage moment for Anos", you can have a much more believable story.
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