Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28224025-20180803155658/@comment-28224025-20180808042018

Imma just make this one post and have some sleep. kinda bored and tired. 🕸

Angelo Gabrini wrote: Based on episode titles episodes 22-23 will be vs Tonegawa Tousen

I've been thinking about this for a while, but on a serious note, why do you guys think Ares ended up like this? I haven't been following the series recently (haven't watched past episode 6 yet), but everyone was hyped before the anime and now after every episode I see complaints both here and on Japanese forums. Hino even gets complaints on his twitter Well, first, thanks for the usual, and wb.

As for the main subject, there is no denying that Ares is rushed and of questionable quality.

Remember that Firstef dude from the "old" days, his pessimism was right the whole time, lol. Or how I was the one to come up with the "reverse hype" shit, if I, the one who had that thought, can point out on Ares BS, then things really ain't right. Ahmed/Dilmi himself said he already dropped Ares before even seeing his favorite (Sakanoue) play, although I'm not sure about that.

There are many reasons why Ares ended up like this, @TanatatTigerTruth got some valid and fair points, worth reading.

Now my views and reasoning are:

Inakuni in general, where to even begin, lmao

Scoring without using Hissatsus is probably the worst one, it adds insult, salt,  H₂SO₄ to the fucking injury. Like, I won't even bother with this one, it's bad in every and all senses, even a half-assed/poorly-animated Hissatsu scoring would make things better.

Half of the team = characters with no actual reasons, story, or ideals. I mean; Tatsumi is the most useless and bland captain of the entire franchise, Hiro has less personality or depth than a rag doll, Goujin and his forced jokes overstayed the welcome, shark backpack manlet is forgettable (don't even remember his name lol), Iwato is Kabeyama 3.0 (technically 2.0) and his gosu crap got annoying.

At least: Kozoumaru is ok, I guess. Hiura is aight, Mansaku is aight. Norika has some depth and potential, but jobs way too much. Hanta barely receives screentime, but he's ok.

Asuto, well, not as bad as people say, Asuto grew on me and at least he got some story, and depth, but that's about it. .

Extreme lack of new characters and Hissatsus, old characters aren't doing shit, most don't even use a single Hissatsu.

Haizaki Ryouhei is the only 3-dimensional Ares character.

Midouin and his secretary are painfully boring, unless the latter pulls a nothin personnel on the former, those two are currently worse than that Michael Jackson dude from IE2, DE coach.

Nosaka Yuuma in general; Actual, literal Gary Stu Mary Sue donut steel fanfic OC with  forced 2deep4u tryhard trash. "dude brain tumor lmao, dude change the world ayy" He is that character every 14 year old come up with when they first get into politics and philosophy and think shit like that is "deep" or "interesting".

Girls are "allowed" to "play", but so far, Nae was the only one who did stuff, and look, she's oooout!

The art and animation look really atrocious sometimes, check episode 14 - 15. Some characters were either off-model 90% of time or looking like Leatherface or some shit.

Matches in general are lacking struggles, rivalry, development, etc.

Override, Eleven Bands, and Pass Hissatsus are the new concepts in Ares, so you'd expect them show up more often and be relevant, right? Actually, no.

It goes on and on.

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