#but the seinen i am familisr with it is still battle oriented

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That part I mentioned is just one of the sub things about her character. Deep in the crevices that stuck with me after kick it up a notch. Just a little interesting footnote in her character that I cannot get rid of. (I've tried)

Also like, yeah, I think people focus on the inherit act of love that making shows and music have while a rap battle is more emotional and raw and less gentle in showing it. So they both have merits. But since VBS runs on more shonen logic in an idol game, I don't think people catch it as much.

If this was a duel match between the mentor who turned his back on the mentee, then people would see it differently. Which I won't say it is, but there are some similarities.

Actually the whole proseka has shonen tropes in some places, VBS just feels more apparent. There are legit rivals to allies stuff that's going on there.

Anyways back to the rap battle thing. There's less thought of love there compared to Niigo's making of music to save and WxS's making shows to spread joy to others and them raising their talents to achieve that.

This is absolutely a beat down they need so they need to get better. People can hate it all they want, but narratively they needed this. In story and out, they needed Taiga to break it down into this battle. So there's less act of love and more despair since a death just got revealed.

An actual death

Like I don't know dude, they made us attached to Nagi and then killed her off for plot reasons of course that's gonna stick more even if batshit insane stuff happens after. Either that's a good sign of story writing or a sign that the people that stick to it just has a thing about it.

Lutf just sticks to people for a lot of reasons. The reveal, the battle that breaks near everyone's motivation, fucking Caucasian destination. But I don't think VBS should be facing any scorn. It's damn good writing if the reveal is that impactful.

Also now that I think about it, I have to think about the classification that the other units should be put on. Uh, it's in tags

Sorry, I'm horrid at rambling

I've decided I'm gatekeeping Light Up the Fire from all the people who don't understand what Fiction means