#you can tell i was sleepy when i wrote this because i made like 764 spelling mistakes

[katsuragitakumi]

eps 20-24

okay, enough 01 for today! so these are today’s impressions:

the good

this scene between fuwa and aruto was very good and i wish there were more scenes like that. everything is much more realistic when the characters do have an impact on one another. not only humagears learn from humans - humans also learn from other humans.

isn’t a bit too early to get yet another power up? anyway, i like aruto’s new suit very much. one of the best suits in the show so far

it was cute to see the humagears from previous episodes again

the meh

the trial was... very boring. i won’t put it under the bad category bc i appreciate that at least the bad human wasn’t the lawyer the humagear was competing against

fuwa’s character development is right there. he’s still wary of working alongside humagears, but in the end he did it and that’s what matters. i wish aruto’s own stance about humagears changed a little bit? it’s about time we get some sort of development from our mc. as i said in other post, aruto’s feelings are basically the same as yua’s but sugarcoated (”humagears are tools” and “humagears are good because they make us happy” are basically the same thing). it’d be nice if he acknowledged that humagears deserve to be respected because they exist, regardless of whether they’re useful to humans or not

i still feel like the characters are walking ideals rather than actual people. i’m midway through the show and i don’t feel i really know aruto other than a couple of very shallow details, and some rando-of-the-week characters are much more fleshed out than yua. izu is just... there (although fortunately she did play an important role in ep 24). the most solid character so far is fuwa, hands down.

stop teasing about naki. where are they

horobi. dude.

the bad

dear god, izu and yua barely have lines at all. valkyrie has transformed ONCE in these eps. it doesn’t sit well with me that the two major female characters are basically servants to men. i know it’s at least temporary in yua’s case, but i’m not so sure about izu. i really wish she had meaningful interactions with anyone other than aruto and developed dreams, ambitions and hobbies other than being aruto’s secretary. go befriend shesta or something!

while i like the suit, i feel a bit indifferent toward aruto going berserk? i didn’t find the execution particularly interesting. however, i dislike that he didn’t do anything to overcome this hurdle. while i understand that his kindness was indirectly a big factor, i wish he was allowed to play an active role in his own growth as a rider!

the wedding episodes... that woman’s childhood friend was creepy and yet we’re meant to find this romantic somehow? and they end up getting married??