Hello there! I'm really glad I found a blog that gives wakfu the critique it deserves, I feel like a lot of fans just glaze the show to no end and either ignore and/or fail to see its shortcomings. I agree with a lot of the criticisms you've presented on your blog, and idk if you've talked about this, but the number one thing that really irked me about season 3 was the weird trauma guilt trip they did with Yugo regretting his actions against Nox and Qilby. Qilby I can maybe understand feeling guilty over that, but one of the things that made Nox such an interesting villain was that Yugo didn't actually defeat him. I saw you've talked before about inconsistencies in the plot so you're probably aware of all that, but one of my favorite aspects of season 1 was that Yugo technically lost to Nox. Nox defeated himself because his goal was too far from his reach to begin with. Claiming in season 3 that Yugo "killed" Nox annoyed tf outta me. I love this show but they coulda stopped at season 2 and i'd be fine with that.
Sorry for the ramble! I also wanted to say that your art is gorgeous! Have a lovely day 🌸
Oh, that's a hilarious topic. I've brought it up plenty of times with friends, just never on Tumblr.
Whether people agree with it or not, I've never understood why Yugo suddenly became so hung up on this. Between Season 2 and that point, we had the Wakfu manga and the OVAs, and then Yugo suddenly wakes up one day and goes, "Now is the time."
Honestly, this is one of the reasons I don't see Yugo as a particularly autonomous character. He often feels more like a puppet of the plot. His personality shifts depending on what the author needs the story to be.
That's why in the OVAs he suddenly turns into this aggressive, jealous guy who insists he'll never be with Amalia while simultaneously sabotaging negotiations with the Count at every opportunity. At this point that even Eva calls him out on it. Earlier Yugo, while admittedly a fairly archetypal kid, would at least try to understand his enemies. Look at Nox situation in s1. Yugo wanted to talk to him, understand him.
Then OVA Yugo shows up screaming shonen lines and trying to punch his way through every problem. But where did that come from? What was even the setup for the fight with Adamai? What happened in Emelka that suddenly awakened all this aggression?
Season 3 just continues this trend. Yugo becomes a vehicle for the author's reflections on past villains and moral responsibility, all while criticizing... the very people who helped save the world multiple times.
What a terrible Brotherhood of the Tofu.
Saving the kingdom from collapse and preventing the Shushu from taking over the world, truly unforgivable crimes.
Yugo already let Nox go. Nox got his farewell. As for Qilby, there wasn't exactly a better option at the time, especially considering Yugo was still young and not even a king yet. So where is all this guilt and resentment suddenly coming from?
And then Season 4 puts him right back into angry chihuahua mode whenever Qilby is involved. Which makes the whole angst arc feel even stranger, because it doesn't actually lead anywhere. It doesn't change Yugo, it doesn't resolve anything, and it doesn't produce any meaningful conclusion.
And thanks for the compliment! Have a nice day too.
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