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I like enjoying my shows not enjoying the TV Tropes dive after the fact but it's okay to have different tastes as me.



This could be true if it didn't take 11 episodes for the most interesting character to appear in a non-cameo form, and 21 episodes to appear in a relevant manner at all.



True, if the pacing of the episodes within the arcs allowed for actual character development. We see the characters one way, and then with no care for how sudden, the show forces them to fit within a new cutout. Just look at Yang Chen. How did he end up like this? Dunno. We don't see it happen. Same with Lin Ling accepting his circumstances as Nice. Some characters have pretty solid development over the series, but they're the ones that we see frequently—Cyan and Johnny come to mind. The rest get saddled with one or two montages as the most they'll get.



I'm sorry that you think that providing the audience with... a single date at the start of a new arc is spoon feeding. Just because the final episode recontextualizes things pretty decently doesn't mean that giving the audience a single date every three episodes would harm this. If anything it would enhance the experience as the viewer could more easily place scenes in their mental timeline while paying attention to relevant details rather than how old Cyan has gotten without changing appearance at all.



I agree that it's not complicated. It's just poorly done. It's inconsistent in strengths, sources, and downsides. I can explain how the show works, but that explanation just comes with several footnotes of situations where it doesn't work that way, isn't consistent with previous/future episodes, or has no reason to be explained at all.

Really if the power system isn't going to matter (besides, notably an external audience vote, another point towards external content such as PVs mattering) why have it at all, and why try to explain it to the extent they have. It's a tournament arc show. People get powers, some of them are better than others, but not so far that you can't overcome that gap with skill. That's everything that's going to matter in the tournament. They spend episodes on perfectionism and being unable to bend knees, but I can practically guarantee you no one is winning a tournament fight by spreading propaganda posters about Dragon Boy.

Regardless on our differences in opinion, thank you for your comment!