Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24510002-20180720172819/@comment-4525039-20180803101929

Overall thoughts on the new episode.

Let's talk about bit about the story first.

First off, the whole Kira Hiroto being neglected story is honestly a bit disappointing. It's just not done well and Hiroto never tries to voice his problems or attempt to talk with his father. This is also a failure inpart to Seijirou who doesn't even acknowledges his son for ANYTHING. Breaks vase, and you don't even scold or say anything to him?!? The whole relationship betwen Tatsuya and Hiroto doesn't have any sort of good chemistry, and they are just going through the motions. They are many ways to write a neglectful parent scenario, and an edgy teen seeking to lash out against those he is jealous from but this is just poor. In fact, while I understand the in-universe reason why he would not go to the match against Inakuni. It doesn't make any sense that he would want to skip this one match out for no absolute reason than to be the "second-half" player. Why would this narcassitic God Striker just wanna skip out this match? It's like they flip his character on the head to avoid him being a repeat of Atsuya from the last match or something.

On to the wazas.

Unpopular opinion. I prefer the new Ryuusei Blade for aesthetic reasons. It could be more that I just didn't really care for the old one. It's very subjective, so it wouldn't be surprising that this one just isn't on par with the old one. I do like the whole blue star effect going on.

The new Astro Break feels like it should have been given a different name or something (NOT ASTRO IMPACT). Otherwise, it's decent. Could have been Astro Gate or anything else really.

The new Wormhole is just.....alright? It looks a bit cooler but I would have honestly prefers a new Drill Smasher or something else really. Hopefully, Saginuma isn't done yet with all his boasting.

Flash Dance is a funny move for the sake of being funny and it doesn't fit any of the characters who are performing it at all. Worse is that does it need to be a shoot? It could have been a pass waza or dribble. It just doesn't need to be another shoot! Otherwise, it's a shame because it feels so tacked on with Tatsumi. It's like they realized that the writers Goujin and Tatsumi have not gotten any real wazas yet but since they are like meme worthy for how useless they are. Let's give them this dancing waza while shunning Goujin for another joke, before giving him his "Fire Lemonade" or shunning him again next episode.

As much as I love most of the Eisei group here, this episode was a let-down. I would say that it has a better buildup than Hakuren and some okay characterization with the rest but this one wasn't very fun or interesting.