Episode 8 - HS




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This really is a big downgrade after the first season, which I rewatched recently to refresh my memories. Like this episode that somehow seemed to assume anybody would give a shit about the annoying little sister of the first season's most annoying character. And even if you didn't give a shit (I doubt even 1% of the audience would), there still remains the completely inconceivable element that apparently Team Try truly believed that arrogant fool of a girl with her nameless sidekicks would beat the previous year's local champion. In general there's not a single opponent presented so far that I'd care about at all. That's a weakness the size of Olympus Mons compared to the first season, which was full of exciting opponents for Sei and Reiji to possibly face, right from the beginning, and more kept appearing throughout the show. In fact many of the other players were so developed that you could even care about their fights, not only about the main characters'.

Hard to believe this is made by the same people. Whatever happened to them between the seasons?