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ok everyone says this but ima say it as well cos why not... I've been a fan of inazuma eleven for quite a long time. The OG was amazing, the animation, even though I look at it now and it looks old and colourless, I find that it makes the whole thing look a lot better. From ep 1 right to when they win the ffi, I was hooked. Both the music (amazing btw) and the hissatsu techniques. Now this, this is basically.... the opposite of everything in the OG. The music, it's just the same ones, just used in the wrong places often. The ... story... appalling af! Random death at the very beginning, a pathetic attempt to try and connect the viewer to the main character via sympathy. Speaking of main character. Ye ok endou/mark was super optimistic and used friendship to win a lot of things. But this MC is beyond stupid... there's a limit to how much optimism an MC can have, I say this MC has passed that limit. Now let's talk about the team, mainly the raimon team. At this point I feel like facepalming myself, the team has 0 skill, near to no hissatsu techniques and yet still manage to beat teams who are supposed to be the best in the country??? Let's note here that when raimon beat Zeus junior in the OG they had a really nice arsenal of hissatsus, then the first match against royal was a forfeit which was a default win. But this isn't like that, they win solely off of plot armour, the coach and the... eleven band....???

The eleven band is the next thing I'm gonna talk about. This thing removes every ounce of what makes inazuma eleven interesting. I enjoyed the players thinking of tactics and deploying them by themselves. But this thing basically allows the coach to give them orders about when and where to use tactics. In fact i'd go as far as to say, this thing is the only reason why the raimon team wins... no skill involved... just the coach (cos they have a genius caoch :/) giving them orders. But then all the other characters think the raimon team have some amazing skill...

The matches are often interrupted by sudden flashbacks, this makes them feel slow and like they stretch on for far too long. None of the hissatsus are seen to be practiced on screen and instead it appears as a flashback. This happens pretty much every time throughout a match and it just gets repetitive and boring. Again I'm gonna to refer to the OG and even the Go series, the team themselves thought of the hissatsus they want to do and practiced on their own accord to try and obtain their hissatsu. But in this... here comes the chinese coach who just gives orders to individual members and give them "special training"... *sigh*

The opening theme is NOT good, the inazuma eleven series haven't rlly excelled in the whole opening thing so it's not really that big of a surprise to me. This doesn't do well either.

The art and animation have completely went off the grid inazuma eleven wise. Losing the originality of the characters and making them seem more modern isn't the way to do I'm afraid. The new animation isn't that amazing either. The fire tornado hissatsu animation being the main reason I say this. Take a look at the original, the flames burst out and yell "HERE'S AN OP MOVE!!" But this has a literal black screen that keeps you from seeing those 2 seconds that matter in a fire tornado. Of course there are times when the animation is ok, such as the uzumaki the hand animation and all the emperor penguin moves.

Character development is terrible and i'd say there's hardly any of it, 17 episodes in and half the characters haven't been described and we haven't seen their true personality, so they all seem pretty much the same.

This is getting too long so I'll end it here. Yes I'm referring to the OG a lot and it may because I like it so much. The animation isn't that good, the art isn't that much better. Story seem a bit too generic and gets repetitive and boring, cos somehow a team with 0 skill beats teams who are supposed to be unbeatable. The OSTs haven't really been changed. Terrible character development, including a failed way to connect us to the main character right at the beginning. Solid 1 star rating, half if that was possible. I'm only watching this too see how the original characters will turn out tbh :/