#01 negativity

[r4bbitdragon]

there are so many riders i could tolerate an Edgy form for and aruto has exhausted his limit. everytime i see hellhopper my energy is drained

[katsuragitakumi]

Yua has been so disappointing and I'm sad about it since like, almost everyone wanted her to be good as the first real female rider lead, but she does like nothing. The fact that the AI that was programmed specifically to obey Gai broke free of his control before her is insane to me.

Yua is definitely step forward for the franchise, considering Build had no female riders whatsoever and Zi-O had a female rider for 19 seconds, and I hope future installments will learn from 01 (although Saber having no female riders from the get-go is a bad sign in that regard).

That said... Yeah, I have to agree with you. She was fine in the first episodes and seemed very promising, but... I can’t even say I like her at this point. Every tertiary rider since Micchi has played an important role in their respective series, so it’s so underwhelming that Yua -being the first female tertiary rider!- gets to have little to no agency and when she finally does something it’s because of Fuwa. Even Mayu from Wizard got to have a more interesting arc than her. Her personality is nearly non-existant, she transforms into Valkyrie once in every 5 episodes and she doesn’t even have a strong bond with the leads, Aruto and Izu. I really, really hope the remaining episodes will be kinder to her. 

[veeranger]

01 spun its wheels on humagears for 44 fucking episodes and in the end the status quo is VICIOUSLY maintained. hiden intelligence still exists, aruto is still the president, humagears are still property of a private company instead of free people. there was a RIOT and takahshi obviously had no idea how to resolve that so it just goes away like it never happened and nobody gets anything. all th epilogue gives us is like....aruto will have to do really good at making people accept humagears. nobody accomplished fucking dick in this show. 

[katsuragitakumi]

this... is the most underwhelming power-up i’ve seen in kr so far. don’t get me wrong, the suit is fine. but there’s nothing emotional about this scene. it doesn’t reflect aruto’s growth throughought the season (~guess why~). in fact, i thought he’d just get another form rather than an actual power-up

[katsuragitakumi]

aruto seems frankly touched by horobi’s father instinct. in that same scene he also killed an innocent humagear, sure, but aruto is an angel who chooses to see the best in everyone

[katsuragitakumi]

@tamaraheartz​  I have mixed feelings when it comes to humagears. On the one hand, the show focused so much on random humagears -especially in the first 10 eps and in the tournament arc- that the human characters were poorly fleshed out in comparison and weren’t allowed to form relationships with one another. As a result, by the end of the series it looks like nobody in this show has friends.

On the other hand, despite this whole “humagears are great and unique and they have dreams and a heart! uwu” message that the show won’t shut up about, the humagears are still fairly poorly treated by the narrative! Izu in particular is in theory the most prominent humagear and she’s so irrelevant to the writer that in a matter of episodes:

1) she goes through a traumatic experience so that aruto gets a power-up he’ll use like... twice

2) is killed gratuitously

3) is created again from scratch, and ~agency~ and ~dreams~ are nice for every humagear (in theory, at least) except for izu 2, who is supposed to turn into the original izu regardless of what she may actually want

Not to mention the little agency they seem to have, how their longing for rights is kinda a nuisance rather than a legitimate demand or how the actual message the show sends -despite what it actually says- is “humagears are great because they’re useful to humans :)”, which is just another way to call them tools. In the end, the treatment of humagears was very half-assed and inconsistent and the human characters didn’t get to shine much either. Nobody wins here :’)

[katsuragitakumi]

fuwa who?

[katsuragitakumi]

@tamaraheartz​ I feel you :/ It had the potential to become an incredibly good, solid show, but... in the end it felt -although this is just my opinion- mediocre and generic. The Yua thing especially gets me because I think most of us were very hyped about getting a female tertiary rider, but in the end she didn’t feel as such. Izu, too, was treated terribly. 

I can only hope that Saber won’t be as disappointing.