nondescript

all the wrong moves

[silveyn]

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.

[silveyn]

Remember when I talked about them replacing the Flopin OVA?

Well...

Now it's apparently a Toross OVA instead, while Flopin has been moved to Season 5. Whether that's a good idea or what exactly it's supposed to change, I have no clue. But it's yet another example of people being promised one thing, donating for it, and then getting something else entirely.

Just like the "secret OVA" that was originally supposed to be about Waven and then somehow turned into a Mechasm project and finally ended up as an extended Oropo OVA.

[silveyn]

s3 s4 and the great mid will never really exist to me, but I do like to mess around with what they could have been, and I find it really funny that literally everyone and their mother in this fandom has their own rewrite for the show just because of those seasons and the webtoon

I can't speak for everyone, but a lot of people I know who are still in the fandom have their own AUs and personal interpretations. Not getting mentally upset over it is basically one form of copium. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Personally, I'm still here because of the OCs, and because I really love the old Ankama vibe like the grounded artists and their creative vision. Back then, the story was probably written by more than one person rather than being shaped by a single writer with a very specific set of political and moral views. Ahem.

[silveyn]

Also, I’m not going to stay silent and I’ll keep sharing my opinions about Wakfu and Krosmoz in particular. If you don’t like it, feel free to unfollow or block me. Tumblr is still a free space for expressing opinions and if you disagree or don’t like it, no one is forcing you to stay.

[silveyn]

eh.

just remove grayscreen from all Ankama animations pls.

Wakfu isn't suppose to be that dull and gray.

[geekgirles]

Well, I'll be damned...

The Royal Osamodas Twins isn't just the manga being lazy in the character design department. It actually goes back to early season 4.

Somehow, that's not surprising...

[silveyn]

Considering that Aurora was CLEARLY meant to be a grown-up version of "one of the twins," right down to the model's camouflage, I think these are just lazy placeholders.

Like that floating cloak of the Eniripsa in the T-pose in the concept art.

[shams0smashes]

1/3 rendered!

[liaow9]

Artwork completed!^^

details dre rendering

[liaow9]

Showing a little bit, I intend to make and post several pieces of art of Maskemane and sketches that I've done of him at the same time ^^

[silveyn]

binary brush test.

[miu-ki]

Wakfuu 🍃

[silveyn]

one of the thing that Great Wave did good - reminded us that Maude exists

[vanitysova]

Halloween event

and a sacrieur

[silveyn]

I've always skip the intro because i tired of it since 2012, but i noticed something not so long time ago.

WHAT HAPPEN WITH AMALIA'S FACE LOL

[silveyn]

Look, even though I used to love Evangelyne and considered her iconic, I absolutely don't understand why she's considered a "written" character, even in the first season. And that the authors "spoiled" it. I still like her appearance and the occasional comments, but unfortunately, now I can't really say what her dreams, feelings, and goals were. She was always intended as a prize for Percedal. I honestly laughed when Eva told Cleo in season two that she had to protect her. And at what point did Cleo even know about this while she was in the barracks?

Eva couldn't even properly protect Amalia.

Plus, I never felt like Eva ever accepted Amalia as a friend; it always seemed very one-sided on Amalia's part.

What is DIS?

At the same time, seeing that people consider Amalia as weak and undeveloped, and the parallel praise for Eva, simply disarms me. Cuteness bias is still prevalent in the fandom.

[silveyn]

I went to check out some old news about the game Wakfu and just laughed out loud.

[silveyn]

Look, even though I used to love Evangelyne and considered her iconic, I absolutely don't understand why she's considered a "written" character, even in the first season. And that the authors "spoiled" it. I still like her appearance and the occasional comments, but unfortunately, now I can't really say what her dreams, feelings, and goals were. She was always intended as a prize for Percedal. I honestly laughed when Eva told Cleo in season two that she had to protect her. And at what point did Cleo even know about this while she was in the barracks?

Eva couldn't even properly protect Amalia.

Plus, I never felt like Eva ever accepted Amalia as a friend; it always seemed very one-sided on Amalia's part.

What is DIS?

At the same time, seeing that people consider Amalia as weak and undeveloped, and the parallel praise for Eva, simply disarms me. Cuteness bias is still prevalent in the fandom.

[justhere4lols]

leaking my notes again

based off a reddit post and the Tumblr post

What ARE the main problems with the writing of both the show and other pieces of media within the Wakfu franchise?

HM: OROPO, The Great Wave (ugh), everything after s2.

1: There are far too many side plots and stray plot threads that are there for the sake of it and have no real development or meaning.

2: The complete overshadowing and unneeded retconning of both the Eliatrope story and the dragons in general, and cutting off or ignoring all avenues to explore their lore.

3: Nonsensical breaking of characters to make aforementioned stupid side plots work.

4: Bringing in pre existing characters from other older krosmoz works that already have their own concluded stories to the story that have no reason to be in the Wakfu storyline at all (excluding Goultard and Joris), making a previously very big verse much smaller to just to have 'remember them???' moments.

5: Throwing the original whimsical vibe of the show out the window completely to focus on making it more 'adult' with 'mature' topics that, unlike the OG first two seasons, aren't written well in the slightest.

6. Abandoning the world building, causing plot inconsistencies, actions that make no sense and lame ass design.

7: Nerfing previously or supposedly competent characters to make the protagonists (cough cough Yugo, Dally cough cough HACK) look stronger or/and smarter in comparison.

8: The rampant sexism because TOT doesn't like to write women as competent beyond the bare minimum, unless they're being a plot device of course.

9: Disregarding the plot to reflect his issues into the characters and then brushing it off as normal progression of the storyline.

What can be done to fix these problems?

1: Cutting down on the side plots and plot threads if there is no intention to wrap them up properly. I personally know that when one has many ideas, they might want to include them all, but too much filler and other nonsense crowds the plot and that is never a good thing, a story needs balance.

2: Make Les Gardiens and Islands of Wakfu canon again and PLEASE give the eliatropes their own ovas and the dragons their own lore and either make it so only the main six elias can have dragon twins (explaining the absence of the dragons in Emrub) or give the regular eliatrope kids dragon twins.

3: Stop forgetting pre existing lore and character development and rewatch the previous works if you forget how your own characters act, there is no shame in doing so.

4: Again, stop forgetting YOUR lore in other works that take place within the same verse. It's fine to make a small amount of references, but please don't bring in characters from already finished stories for no reason.

5: Once more, stop forgetting what you write before. If you PHYSICALLY can't stay consistent with the vibe of the show just hand it over to someone more competent please.

6: The main problem is TOT having Alzheimer's when it comes to his own pre established lore isn't it?

7: Stop playing favorites to the point of ruining the plot, the main characters don't have to solve every problem, it's ok to let other characters be useful and it's also ok to have the MCs NOT be the strongest in the verse.

8: Don't be sexist, I am a building.

9: Please stop using the show to vent, it's not a private project, you have an audience that doesn't want to watch you twist the characters to vent.