![]() I liked how low Nove estimated the four youngest girls’ chances. Looking Ahead – The Inter-Middle Tournament Combined with a lot of dry exposition, the second half of the episode was perhaps necessary, but not a whole lot of fun. Now I feel like I need to remember all this stuff, instead of them encouraging me to pay attention and guess at what each combatant can do. When Saki does this kind of thing, it lights a fire in my imagination, because I’m wondering what these new mahjong-playing lesbians can do. With only a few attributes to remember each of them by–the one who trains with Team Hayate, the weight-lifting ojou-sama, etc-they’re just going to have to reintroduce them again later on, so what’s the point? But that’s not even the problem, not really. I don’t think they succeeded here.Īs for the character introductions, they gave us too little, too early. As I’ve said before, exposition is tricky-you have to figure out a way to impart often dry details in a way that’s not boring. The exposition needs to be done, yes, and there was some character development in Einhart deciding to take part, but it was all a foregone conclusion once again. While I love the nostalgia of Hayate and the Wolkenritter, everything after the first battle was all dry exposition and introductions to rivals who will undoubtedly be important later on, but are sliding out of my memory as I speak. Once again, I wish the pace was actually a little quicker. I hope pulling punches isn’t something the plot is getting into a habit of doing. But, but-I mean, come on! It would have been nice if Vivio got even more demoralized, or Einhart accepted that she could totally lose, or something! If this happened during a real match I’d be pissed-which I don’t expect to happen-but as is, it’s a lost opportunity, and a potential harbinger. Granted, it doesn’t really matter-this is a practice match, and they did several more after, so it was blatantly only there for some combat fun + to show off all the character’s moves, especially the soon-to-be Inter-Middle contestants. That’s why I was disappointed that the original author took the easy way out and made Vivio & Einhart knock each other out. Without innocent lives hanging in the balance, and where the protagonists have no chance of death, it’s harder to predict who will win because life will proceed more or less as it always did after the battle that is, since no outcome is liable to fundamentally destroy a pillar of the story (ex: a character death), anything can happen. And one of the best things about sports anime is that anyone can lose. If anyone was still in doubt, this episode made it abundantly clear that ViVid is a sports anime. The training match ends with a bang, and segues into the real heart of the episode: blatant exposition and introductions. ![]()
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