User blog comment:AdventureWriter28/Point of View on IE GO Season 1/@comment-4703969-20120323205039

I guess it's time for me to give my opinions on IE GO Season 1. I'm gonna continue this later, 'cause if I post it all now, people probably won't read it due to the length~ xD


 * Character Design: To be perfectly fair, GO's character design deserves a 10/10. You could tell Level 5 put their heart into designing the characters as they took the time to change the designs as they didn't feel pleased with their first designs, and all of the character designs reflect something about the character. (E.G: Matsukaze, his hair reflects his wind background).


 * Hissatsu Waza / Tactics design: I'm gonna have to agree and go with a 7/10. There were a lot of simple yet greatly designed waza (E.G: Death Sword, Ballista Shot), but the hissatsu waza don't give us the immense feeling the original series' Season 1 gave us (E.G: Fire Tornado, God Knows and even Death Zone). Double Wing doesn't really feel like Dual Typhoon, but more of an amped up Muteki no Yari.


 * Keshin / Keshin waza: 6/10. I don't have much to say, wasn't too impressed at the design of the keshin waza except for around 25% of them: Lost Angel, Icicle Road, Sunshine Force, Bushin Renzan, King Fire, and obviously Bakunetsu Storm & Majin The Hand. As for the keshin design themselves, they were pretty good; the main reason this gets a 6/10. Every keshin reflects the user's aura & personality, a great example would be Tsurugi Kyousuke's Kensei Lancelot.


 * Character Development / Backstories: 7/10. Let's be honest, Matsukaze's development throughout this season was great. He quickly changed Raimon with his soul for soccer, and became their destined captain who Raimon needed in order to bring out the courage to rebel against Fifth Sector. Sangoku, Shindou, Tsurugi, Kurama, Amagi, Kageyama; the list goes on. Every character had great development. The downside of this category is that I didn't have much interest in their backstories, only interesting ones (in my opinion) were Matsukaze being saved by Gouenji while he was under hiding in the Aliea Arc, and Amagi's past with Mahoro and Yukie.


 * Quick comment about the goalkeepers: Despite what was shown in the anime, Yamato is almost as powerful as Endou Mamoru as proved by his stats in the game. The anime just trolled him. There were also other great goalkeepers in Holy Road: Miyabino Reiichi, Hyoudou Tsukasa, Sata Tosamaru. They were all just trolled by the anime. (btw, Miyabino is far more powerful than Kaiou's GK)