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TanatatTigerTruth wrote: the story is sort of trying to rush to the finish here in order to fill the 24-26 episode slot as opposed to stretching it out like IE GO did.

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

The worse offender is the two-episode split between Seishou vs Outei in tandium with Zeus vs Raimon where the latter was almost nearly ignored for the development of the former in order to speed things along to get into other story moments.

Was the whole 3 protagonists thing really needed? The anime could've spent those episodes on Raimon instead

It really risks alienating fans in that regards especially when they are the opponents this time around.

Yeah, like SyckInsanity mentioned, it'd be dumb for Raimon members to lose to beginners, especially Endou

I will say that it's somewhat relieving to hear the Japanese forums complain about it as well which hopefully means this would pressure Hino to step up his game.

As far as I've seen they complain a lot, not just the anime but about Hino himself and the game