#which is a shame because koito used to be good. if his character wasn't orbiting tsukushima's maybe we could have had nice things

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Your summary of those chapters was unironically better than what we actually got. Smh where did nodas sense of humour go during their arc for real? I can’t recall a single thing that didn’t feel dreary at the end. Remember when Koito got to be funny? Even noda said he liked him the most like that so i have to assume he got bored too when his character got Serious. Should’ve let Koito join the circus fr…Tsukishimas arc would end the same either way since he literally just faints

that's the thing about koito, like the result was logical and foreseeable, it's the way we got there...... 😭 have you seen this post floating around lately? koito's story arc and why it sucks follows a similar logic, there's a complex formula and there's an answer to it but it just doesn't make sense when there's no elaboration! even if the answer is correct.

like story arcs are linear (yes even with detours or returns), start in point A go through points B, C and forth, end in point Z, even if it's a roundabout and Z=A. not all characters will get through ALL stops obviously (no time for for that) but a character MUST go from A to Z (regardless of how many stops) in order to make sense and be compelling. the worst is when they get stuck in like P and never move past that, like in tsukishima's case. koito reached his logical conclusion AND there were deliberate seeds of his journey planted along rather consistently, this is precisely why his ending makes sense and was anticipated, but noda really betrayed his own consistency and organic storytelling and went ahead and skipped a few crucial steps in order for the needlework on koito's canvas to be tidy. it just feels like he gave up at the very end and was like ehhh this will do, the way you bullshit the end of an essay you're tired of