Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28224025-20180803155658/@comment-4525039-20180808042215

Angelo Gabrini wrote: I feel like this is more because Hino wants to hurry and get to the FFI arc. If the anime had aired as planned, it would've made it in time for the arc to air at the same time as the real life World Cup I see, it's a shame it turned out this way. That's probably what a lot of people were thinking but I guess nothing works out perfectly.

Was the whole 3 protagonists thing really needed? The anime could've spent those episodes on Raimon instead On paper, I think it's a great idea. To focus on other teams that isn't just Raimon. It sounds it could be a nice to way to build up Raimon's main rivals by focusing on how their matches and dreams. We know that Raimon always win anyway but if it's done with proper buildup then it could be forgiven and we would have had a nice arc.

The execution we seen so far is well, as expected of Inazuma Eleven. The whole three protagonist term is a blanket term for the three usual main character (Break Trio and Gryphon trio) with Asuto as the main focus. It's okay from what we seen so far but it would have been better done, especially because the best match we seen so far in Ares is Seishou vs Kidokawa. That match had good pacing, an exciting premise, and Gouenji was a threat to be dealt with. It even had good character development for Haizaki and we got to see how the new Seishou Gakuen plays instead of the usual Raimon. It was something new and cool which I wished Ares delivered more.

Yeah, like SyckInsanity mentioned, it'd be dumb for Raimon members to lose to beginners, especially Endou I will say that what bothered me more wasn't that the old Raimon members were going to lose because that's expected for the most part, but HOW they are going to lose.

Aside from Gouenji and Kazemaru (to a small extent, because he at least used a waza), Kidou and Someoka had performed nothing but be secondary captains in the match. I'll forgive Kabeyama since it kinda implied he could have given Inakuni a hard time without his injury. That's the big problem is that the Raimon as reinforcement players have done very little. I do understand that they want to focus more on the team of the day, but at least a returning hissatsu waza for them would be appreciated at least.

It's that they could have been more active and did more.