Arknights: Touin Kiro Episode 8 Discussion

The only thing that still bothers me from last season is that Doctor has so little speaking lines and are just there, while still not having any presence, and i know it's a self insert character from the game, but they could have tried to make doctor more of a character than they are in the game(doctor is really smart in the game), that's what usually makes or breaks a game adaptation is on how they use the MC( i hope they don't do this to the Sensei from Blue archive anime when it comes out, or rather if they remove the mc entirely like in azure lane game :P)

Otherwise a decent season 6/10

was expecting the singing to last twice as long at least, and the fight to last at least twice as long with one or two more random operators...big let down. it basically ended up being a rushed summary overall, now that it's finished.

i understood a lot of the choices made in season 1, but then they repeated those same choices for season 2 even though it had vastly improved ideas and scenarios already created for it. (Sasha's death was dragged out and garbage in the anime, but actually sudden and shocking in the visual novel game)

Awww I wanted to see Ch'en pulling her sword on Wei, what a pity.

Anyway, the season had some underwhelming traits, but this episode, is just flawless.

@WatchTillTandava That is what I think season 1, and the early game as well, still manages to do right. Even getting to look back at the writing with the anime, it still introduces the viewer to a well-designed world that was ripe for stories. However, the anime still failed in it's own ways. Like I could only take so many fights where the reunion guys just... stand there to be hit without moving. Season 2 just has better writing in the source material and had proper love given to the animation elements, excluding episode 5 (Edit: I meant 4).

I still remember first downloading the game, and the update screen is a slideshow of different game terminology. Even before you start you are being introduced to oripathy with a little girl sitting in an alley with rocks on her skin, or originium itself with the massive crystals jutting out of the land. It does well to gather your interest, and I still think the early writing is better than many other gachas.

@xBLEVx >excluding episode 5

I believe you mean episode 4 as 5 was fantastic.

I don't play the game so the adaptation might be lacking in one aspect or another, but for an anime it was a great season. I'd be lying if I said things were great from start to finish, honestly the first 5 were dragging quite a bit in my opinion, which sucks but makes the finale even more epic. For a villain, FrostNova feels to have more depth as a character than Talulah who only says one liners, so a massive improvement. My favorite moment has to be from episode 7 where the Snow Devil Platoons suggest a truce with Rhodes to save their respective leaders. They may be enemies on the battlefield, but outside they're just drinking buddies!

That being said, the season ended in such a massive cliffhanger! I wish they would step up the violence during combat scenes too. Prelude to Dawn almost had no blood while this one does, so that's an improvement. They'd better show us what Ch'en saw down the sewer in the next season!

A solid 8/10.