LogFAQs > #906907031

I love OPM and couldn't get into this show at all. It's so dated and basic. I feel like it's even more basic than Naruto. Every character is super archetypal and shallow yet the show feels the need to slowly walk you through all the same old story beats, like you're some sort of idiot. Like yeah we get the whole main guy/childhood rival/girl dynamic, get on with it. After 5 episodes they were STILL focusing on the same boring core characters, instead of the 30+ potentially cool other characters.

All that is okay I guess. It doesn't compare to OPM in the slightest, which is more of a drama and cares about good writing, but there's nothing wrong with some basic shonen.

But the show promises so much and provides absolutely no substance at all. None of the characters changed at all since episode 1. I skipped to the end of S1 and still no one changed. They pretend they have this thematic subversion because the main guy hurts himself when he uses power... but literally all the conflicts from episode 1 through the finale are solved by brute force. The show thinks it's cool and mature for merely asking deep questions, even though it completely avoids answering.

You might like it for the animation and the basic formula and mayyyybe some characters, but there's nothing thematically or emotionally interesting in it.
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