I personally love the show and gave it a 10/10. However it didn't start as a 10 for me. It kind of started a 6 or maybe a 7 and slowly managed to get to the magical 10 for me. A lot of people as I saw tend to say that they don't like Asta's voice, and find it annoying. This I can agree with. It was really annoying, but gladly I kept on since I saw a forum post that it's going to get better about 10~ episode. Like around 15-17 episodes. So I went on and it indeed did get better. Asta didn't yell that much, also even if he did yell, the tone of it was less noisy and bearable. So that removed my biggest issue with the show.
I really loved the story, the characters and the world the anime is set in. I agree in a sense that the show didn't invent anything special whatsoever, but where does it say that every show has to go into some uncharted, undiscovered route and do that? If you put together stuff that works with a good pace, then it can do wonders.
And for others why people hate this show. Since it has like 25 000 drops and like amazingly low score here on MAL.
Well first that if you were following the show from the very beginning, I could see people dropping it. Since you watch the first episode and you find an annoying MC, and a really nothing special rival character. You wait a week, and the MC still remains an annoying yelling idiot, and the rival is still nothing special. This goes for like 10~ episoded. That's 3 months. If you can marathon the show, sure you can get past these rocky parts under a day, but for those who are following the show required months of time this very same task.
Secondly, if you go on youtube you will see big anime channels (like gigguk) complaining about BC, thus you will either not start it, or drop it even more likely. Luckily some of them are starting to promote BC and try to get people back to watch the show, since it became a much better show than it was.
And lastly, the first impression. If you have a really bad first impression for something, it's really difficult to change your opinion about it. Since you kind of start to watch the anime with a pretty much negative mindset, you will not enjoying it. Lot of people dropped the show, and could come back to give it another chance, but the damage was already done, and it made a very bad first impression for a lot of people, and when they came back and started to re-watch it, they just reaffirmed themself that the show just bad. |