Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4436931-20190208042000/@comment-28224025-20190213014745

Angelo Gabrini wrote:

I don't even remember most of Inakuni Raimon, nor do I particularly care for them. That's how much Ares made me care about the protagonists. GO didn't have Endou or the others as players but they still characterized Raimon pretty well

I wouldn't say it's still "too soon", we're already at the Asian prelim finals, which is halfway through the series

I can't speak for the entire Japanese fanbase but people on the forums don't have high expectations for the anime anymore, coupled with the fact that the weekly anime threads no longer exist anymore due to lack of popularity. There used to be a good number of posts per episode discussing it on the game thread, but nowadays there's hardly any discussion whatsoever. People don't have high expectations for the game either

Orion got good designs, hissatsus, and character interaction, but matches, character-building, and story are boring to extreme dreary levels of dull that even Ares' trainwreck clown fiesta had more fun and soul. I agree, I enjoyed vs Red Bison but after that it just turned into a repetitive cycle of the disciples of each team trying to injure Inazuma Japan and act like they're so much better. There's not much character building, Endou's got Fuujin Raijin Ghost like nothing and Ichihoshi was all of sudden made out to be a good guy

IJ does some training but there's a lot of flashbacks, and I still don't get why having a strengthening committee makes the Ares teams world level, wouldn't they just get to the same level as Reloaded Raimon? I still question why Gouenji used Last Resort in episode 2, doesn't that prove that IJ was weak if they have to use a "last resort" hissatsu? There wasn't any point to it either as IJ scored normally later on

I don't mind flashbacks, but there's not much buildup like the original had, and Orion's basically "Zhao's amazing training and sasuga Nosaka-san" (Nosaka OP). I liked how in the original they had to devise a way to win, while Orion Japan just dominates. Opponents other than disciples don't do much other than get jobbed, especially the GKs

Hissatsu Tactics aren't really much of a thing anymore, I remember Perfect Zone Press and stuff (well Driblaze was decent but others are meh), and any tactics used are used like once and never again Yes, you could say something like "oh there's Norika and Kozoumaru"

the two most known from Inakuni, didn't even make it to IJ. ninja!Shinsuke ended up being forgettable. Leaving captain Michinari somewhere there, I guess. I don't remember much about the others too lol.

Honestly, I think people legit care more about Seishou players like Mizukamiya and Orio than Inakuni. Same way Haizaki and Nosaka are WAY more popular than Asuto.

Shouldn't the season be much longer, tho? Anyway, a miracle can happen, but I don't think Oron will get so much better like that in little time like magic, or if it's going to make up for it.

Damn, lol. that's quite sad, it's pretty much the same here. People just watch the episode are like "heh, yea it is what it is". When Orion tries to be serious and deep, I always think it's trying to be satirical and self-aware, and when it tries to be funny... It ends up having quite the lame and forced humor. This is when things start getting gloomy.

And yea, the whole thing is a complete fuggin mess, a boring mess even.