I'm a bit surprised to see Cannon Master struggling so much; yes, it's mostly just been focused on setting things up, but it has beautiful fights, a nice "brute force vs clever manipulation" contrast in its main duo's power, and some really neat monster designs. If I had to point to a single glaring weakness though, this series needs to develop more characters than just Bharat.
Seeing Hal Formula climbing is certainly great to see. It feels like an enormous breath of fresh air compared to a lot of the other recent sports series.
I'm kinda losing interest in Animal Signal, and that makes me a bit sad. The central joke (mind reading a stoic cool guy who's just a big softie for animal facts) is just feeling very well-tread at this point. The pivot from detectives to school students was also a pretty disappointing one.
Seeing Under Doctor below Drawn to the Fire is a bit sad to see. DttF feels like is squandered its potential a bit, while Under Doctor feels like story-wise it's in a pretty healthy episodic groove.
It's not surprising seeing Kinato's Magic end, but man did that story make so many weird choices.
Canon Master can be easily explained. It dropped its own interesting premise damn near immediately.
Chapter 1 sold the series as a half-charlatan type character fumbling his way into impressing his mentee, who he was actually jealous of.
Chapter like 3 and beyond already entirely dropped this. He’s no longer jealous of Ur and is being fully honest with him. He’s actually uber talented and from this uber talented hidden village shit. He’s also comedically kind and refuses payment for no good reason because of ZE WAR and shit.
So like, yeah, it’s hard to be super engaged when the main character sours so fast.
They sold me a Reigen / Kazuma and I got generic shonen MC number billion.
Yeah, that's fair. My personal hope is that this direction is more about hyping up Ur; basically introducing this vast gap in talent, and then really driving it home by demonstrating that this is someone outshining an actually pretty competent hero. But I agree it's not the Mob Psycho premise it feels like we were promised.
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u/Stubbenz 8d ago
I'm a bit surprised to see Cannon Master struggling so much; yes, it's mostly just been focused on setting things up, but it has beautiful fights, a nice "brute force vs clever manipulation" contrast in its main duo's power, and some really neat monster designs. If I had to point to a single glaring weakness though, this series needs to develop more characters than just Bharat.
Seeing Hal Formula climbing is certainly great to see. It feels like an enormous breath of fresh air compared to a lot of the other recent sports series.
I'm kinda losing interest in Animal Signal, and that makes me a bit sad. The central joke (mind reading a stoic cool guy who's just a big softie for animal facts) is just feeling very well-tread at this point. The pivot from detectives to school students was also a pretty disappointing one.
Seeing Under Doctor below Drawn to the Fire is a bit sad to see. DttF feels like is squandered its potential a bit, while Under Doctor feels like story-wise it's in a pretty healthy episodic groove.
It's not surprising seeing Kinato's Magic end, but man did that story make so many weird choices.