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Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo
I wonder if we've become so inured to one-cour shows that what used to be considered normal development is now dismissed as slow and pointless....
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This may be so -- and I can often feel my own impatience -- but a one-cour anime has more than twice as many minutes in it as the average feature film. I think that's enough.
In a movie, you are supposed to hook the viewer to the characters and the plot within the first few minutes. I don't see why an anime TV series can't do that, and still have time to flesh out the characters before (or while) driving the plot toward its conclusion. Sometimes slow development actually
is pointless.
I'm not particularly complaining about this show, since I find myself quite interested in both the main characters. I do wonder, however, if we could have gotten as much character development and plot set-up in two episodes as we did in four. It depends on how the contest aspect ties in with larger matters. I think I had a good feel for the two main characters after episode one. I just hope that Kai's negativity still has a dramatic purpose. It seems to have almost disappeared in episode 5, for some reason.