The only time truly antagonist villains appear in sports anime is like Jabberwock from Kuroko no Basket, or Bryan Hawk from Hajime no Ippo, or the Blue Mars from One Outs, or any other two dimensional evil-for-the-sake-of-evil villains out there. It’s ALL mutually understood competition wherein the opponents are never genuinely malicious and are only causing conflict for the sake of sportsmanship. Seriously, just take a second and think about it. Sports anime, simply put, NEVER have committed villains. It’s a seriously wonderful cast that brings the relatively straightforward story to life, and there were a number of times I had tears in my eyes watching them cross the finish line.The final point I wanted to discuss before concluding is the villains. Call me a wishful thinker, but they’re back. No matter how attractive and sharp the male designs were and no matter how shapely and sexy the female designswere, no matter how lively the color palette popped and setting design shined, no matter how elegant the soundtrack nor how powerful the dialogue, the show simply could not inspire, grip, or elate it’s audience in the same fashion it’s predecessors could for the stain that was it’s poor quality of animation. Themselves, those who’ve defined high-quality TV animation with the sports shows Kuroko no Basket and especially Haikyuu!, as they aired a similarly structured sports anime that panned over still frames and used basically constructed CG character models for background athletes like you’d expect from any other garbage studio. I watched as the industry titan Production I.G. Overall10Story10Animation9Sound10Character9Enjoyment10Watching Welcome to the Ballroom throughout it’s six month long two cour run was one of the most disheartening experiences I’ve yet to endure in all of my years.
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