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It's been about a week or so since I finished Zero-One, and I kinda wanted to let the show stew for a bit. Stop letting immediate thoughts take center stage and just try to take the show in as a whole.
And, to be entirely honest, it's kind of a middling show.
I feel one of the biggest issues it has is keeping momentum. The MBJR arc ended on a strong note, and we finally get a proper introduction to Gai, who has been playing in the shadows the entire time.
And it's immediately followed by the Job Arc, which is a rough 10 or so episode stretch of the same thing in a different setting (With a brief 2 parter which features Jin and MBJR's return).
After a complete flatline that was the Job Arc, MBJR's return as well as learning more about Ark starts getting things back on track, but it just constantly trips at the hurdles. What formerly took excessive pressure and straight up hacking, now Humagears were snapping at any mildly rude person. Yaiba's character arc was too repetitive and was thoroughly unsatisfying. Gai basically getting a stern talking to for almost ending the world. Aruto's melodrama concerning Humagears' destruction when we established that they were all backed up (Aside from Was and Izu).
Ark however, wasn't without it's problems either. Mainly in that they basically changed how Ark functioned. Ark was just a super computer that was fed malice by Gai, but by the end, they were basically saying that as long as malice existed, Ark existed? I don't know where that notion came from, since they made it a point that a very specific set of circumstances happened for Ark's initial creation, but eh.
The series did have it's good points, though. Aruto is annoying, but I don't hate the guy. He has a lot of heart, which is nice. I always love heroes who can see the humanity in his enemies (The irony). Fuwa was also a really strong secondary. His non-reveal when it came to his true backstory was great, and I'm glad his character had grown to the point where it didn't matter. He didn't need a tragic backstory to do what was right, and he also grew to understand that Humagears aren't evil, but they were merely being used, like he was.
In the first and final arcs, Yaiba was nice. A competent and straight forward soldier. Shame about literally everything in between. Thouser got a dog, so good for him.
Horobi really shines as a villain, especially when he kills Izu out of spite. It's also cool to see a main hero broken like that. Aruto knows he's being a hypocrite, and he knows he's going against all his values, but his robo-wife died, and he wanted revenge.
Back to another issue, was the endings. Either you get the happily ever after ending where everyone gets what they want, or you get the middle finger ending that changes status quo at the cost of being utterly unsatisfying in every way possible. Either way, Zero-One doesn't end on a strong note.
Zero-One feels like a competent show, but it doesn't excel in any area, at least, not in a way that makes it feel superior to or on par with other shows. And it hits a hard slump that it just doesn't fully recover from.
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