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Yo I appreciate the effort you put into exploring the Keijo series so thoroughly but I am not interested in it enough to read through an article about it.

You've mentioned more than once in your reply to my post that it's all about 'execution' and I do understand that. Whenever I call it an archetype, I mean it in the most demeaning way. Even if it's an archetype, if I feel like the characters are written well enough I wouldn't have called them out. Or do you prefer if I call it generic instead? I really don't want to go back and waste more time re-watching the series just to give you a few examples, but the general idea I remember was that a lot of girls were introduced, given only one side to their personality and they just ran with that. The cast is huuuuuuuuuge for a one cour series and as expected, there was barely any development at all for most of the girls. As I've said too, it had a lot of cliche scenes where I've seen the exact scenarios being played out in a different anime.

Also, before I continue, I would like to say that it's apparent that you've read the manga, experienced the original source first hand, and you have to understand most of my criticism came from the anime.

When you retort with "smart.. interesting.. good.. creative.." it's not doing well in making the other person understand your point, you know. What you've said are mostly subjective based on your personal experience. Yeah, I've seen basic strategy being employed in game to counter the opponents, but it's nothing special. It's as basic as water > fire or dodge when a punch comes right at you.

When you said creative, I can't help but disagree. The reason why it even became supernatural/superpowerish in the first place is because of the lack of imagination in my opinion. This also somewhat ties in with what you ask in your last sentence on what I mean with the meme stuff. It's basically where given a very ridiculous scene, people treat it as entertainment regardless of whether it's actually good content. If you have a show about girls squeezing their boobs and spilling breast milk all over the place in an ecchi/action anime series, some people might like it just for that fact alone, and it's not beyond imagination if it becomes a cult culture and used as a meme very often despite not being funny at all. Basically what I am saying is what people like how ridiculous it is rather than the actual content, it's like liking a character because he feels cool but is actually super one-dimensional without much of a personality.


I completely disagree with this statement. It's not the first time I've felt this way, it wasn't just Keijo, but I've seen some other series (which I can't recall the title now) that actually started well, but then superpower/supernatural was introduced into the series. My issue with that is that with the lack of scaling, and the lack of proper steps in obtaining those skills, it often looked to me as if it was a deus ex machina. For example, I don't mind if the rules were set and we actually know how these characters actually train and obtain these skills, and there's a scale within the world where it gives a limit to said skills, so that it wouldn't have come off as if it could be pulled out of their ass any time to save themselves and it wouldn't seem "cheap". In Keijo it was like "girl shake her butt she obtained skill 'A' out of nowhere", it did not reinforce the idea that the same thing could happen within a match in order to turn a completely dire situation around despite the low probability of it. It takes away from the suspense, and to me it often take me out of a series.

The lack of effort I was referring to the jokes, not the series itself. Drawing manga is a tough job that's why I tend to be lax with most mangaka. The jokes were just out there, used to death in similar situations in other anime. I am currently watching Touken Ranbu and I feel the exact same way with the comedy here. Touken Ranbu splits the dark and light scenes without finding a harmony between them, so the series felt very forceful in its writing and often felt cringey.

My bad I misread the comment I saw. Cool, so it didn't adapt 7 chapters per episode, they still adapted an average of 5 chapters in an episode though.

Maybe this is just me misinterpreting your intention, but your tl;dr not 80 chapters suggest your intent is to disapprove what I said instead of correcting me. You may have misunderstood me. I have nothing against all type of anime, nothing personal anyway, I tend to leave a "mini review" in the last episode discussion thread of most anime I've seen, and despite being quite open minded I have my own unique taste when it comes to enjoying an anime series, so most of the time my "mini review" is more negative than positive. Also, the reason for that is because I would know which series to avoid when I've forgotten about the series and was planning to revisit it. P.S. I love Fune wo Amu, great series and I've rated it rather high, despite that I still have negative things to say about it. It's not really about me hating it. Just wanna clarify to you.