#nah that hurt so bad. i actually had to pause it bc i couldnt see my screen through the tears :)

[nanjokei]

nah yowapeda s5 was crazy. they just randomly cut out two characters and their race. they gave them superstar seiyuu too..

my personal theory is the network (it was airing on a different tv network this time too) really didnt like the gay yandere ish backstory and made them cut them at the last second... i mean it what makes the most sense. i wanna say it led to all the weird budget issues later too. but does that justify how bland the direction was too? like its the same director, but suddenly there was absolutely no dynamic camera whatsoever, shots were boring as hell so most races hit like wet noodle. seeing flashbacks from s4 made my stomach hurt from the difference

also no c part!!! that was honestly the worst part!!! yowapeda has always had a c part at the end of every episode for four seasons. did they have to scrap all of them bc the two cut characters cameo'd too much in them and they couldnt pick and choose or else itll look weird?

i remember it actually hit me really hard the first few episodes being bad because they replaced the relevant race with literal whos at such a critical point, and it had no impact whatsoever, and on top of that no funny c part... im not kidding, like i got genuinely depressed over it

the flashbacks and anything not involving racing were REALLY GOOD it was the usual yowapeda quality!!!

its fine overall as a full package. but like. what the hell happened...

idk, i got really sad, i put my manga read on a pause because i was like well the anime is definitely gonna do it justice so i wanna keep it fresh! i could have just read it years ago and the impact would have been better bc everything just felt like a matter of course. doesn't help the outcome of IH2 kind of feels... wrong even within the story itself (idt most people disagree with this)

the anime was pretty so-so compared to how god tier the first four seasons were. (ok, s3 i have my gripes with after reading the manga but its still VERY GOOD)