天下制覇

I may hate them all already.

Impressions:

What always gets me about the more supposedly esoteric sports things is how bad the dialogue is. Well, and how Japanese writers believe that everything is too esoteric for the audience to have a basic understanding of it, and therefore needs copious explaining. Characters are constantly explaining to each other what the rules are and what the situation is, often after an announcer has done the same.

"Oh! That mech was disabled!"
"Oh no! We're in trouble!"
"We need to do something or we're going to lose!"
"Don't give up! I am doing something!"
"Oh! That mech has done something and now they are winning!"
"Yes! We're going to win!"

Also note that almost all of those will come with a CGI visual, often showing the same thing. Sometimes by way of text on screen spelling it out. So hell if I know who this is supposed to appeal to. If you know something about the pseudo-MOBA (or any MOBA actually), then it's completely idiotic. It's about as organic as a rock and exists solely to spell things out for the audience. Let goddamned context rule. I guarantee you that you can let context and tone carry, even if the jargon is all but impenetrable to 99% of the audience. If you don't, it's still idiotic.

With the gimmick being handled perhaps even more awfully than usual, that only leaves angsty teenage drama. Luckily, they're all drooling imbeciles as well. I think it's the girl who irks me the most because she's such a vapid doormat cheerleader for the jackass literally every other character. They're all pretty terrible though, from the angst savant doormat protagonist with a perpetually stunned look on his face to the perpetually pissy vest guy. None of them act with really any kind of rhyme or reason, and the obsession they all have with their own little niche and have no ability to socially interact with anybody because they're just so darn serious about their serious thing.  

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