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Jul 3, 2023
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If invested in the growth of Miorine and Suletta and their romance, maybe you can excuse everything else about the season. If you liked the cast dynamics and the thrilling aspect of the show, I can get your enjoyment out of it. But Gwitch is a show of half-hearted delivery, where so much intrigue was built up just for all the mystery to be barfed up in fairy tale resolutions.

I can't recommend watching this because I was never attached to the characters. Suletta and Miorine's relationship felt borderline toxic at certain moments with their blatant disregard, distrust, and miscommunication from season 1 to season 2. The fact that Suletta had to be written as a reactive character who got strung along by everyone without any proactive choices until the last two episodes frustrated me to no end. I get it, but I prefer my characters to proactively fight within the framework and deal with the consequences like other Gundam protagonists. Meanwhile, Suletta busts out new Permet score techniques like how everyone thinks Goku busts out forms.

I couldn't care about the cast of characters who had middling impact on the background. The background that was foreshadowed is incredibly important and central to the conflict. But that foreshadowing just resulted in sloppy resolutions and a last-minute villain. Perhaps if you read Shakespeare you can go 1-1 with this show but the pacing here is seriously poor. They spent time introducing characters that didn't really matter and then fridged some of them just to shock the audience in the last minutes of each episode. It's a show of cheap thrills and I don't appreciate it. It just seemed all in service of building up to that moment, and never to the long term ending of the show.

It's not about giving the show more time. They needed to make the main cast integrate into the main narrative but we only had one character that actually went that route. Most others were just playing pawns in this proxy war that unearthed new machines like it was a super robot wars game.

I recommend you watch Birdie Wing instead. It had a narrative that had an incredible execution and delivery and relationships that are incredibly healthy.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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