[Omnikaiser]

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Originally Posted by KaijuUltraFan

idk 20 episodes is plenty of time to really develop some story and hook a viewer.

It's just the ZAIA arc that feels like that I think.
MJ.net arc (so Ep1 to 15/16) did a great job in developing characters; Except maybe the vice president.

Aruto learned how to fight for/defend his company (while not being a good president. that will be the end goal by the end of the series)

Izu is humanizing herself/reaching singularity

Fuwa is a quest of revenge on legs (but learns the truth behind his most traumatizing event and who is responsible)

Yua starts as "hey so you're AIMS tech girl" and there is all this inside job/betrayal/tampering with Ansatsu-chan thing which ends in "hey wait so you're ZAIA?"

Horobi goes from "Im a bland big bad/the one who started daybreak" to "I'm actually Jin's mentor and my mission was to make him the next big bad even if i have to sacrifice myself"

and Jin goes from a "robot kid" to an "angry human-robot forced to grow up kid".

I really don't like when "filler episode/arc" is used quite often in anime/TV shows, but so far that's what I feel about the ZAIA arc.
Like the story and character development was put on hold (and quite abruptly) and we're following a side story in the lore of Zero-One. Just a company feud.
Except that we SHOULDN'T feel like it's a side story because the ZAIA president is supposed to be the one who influenced the MJ.net events