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Originally Posted by Kurona

It went from a show asking complex interesting questions and portraying them in ways that are groundbreaking for a show like this, to just "Ark bad we need to defeat him but he's so powerful oh noes D:"

It's funny because this is exactly how I feel about Evol and I've still never totally forgiven Build for turning into a generic shounen anime after 30 episodes of being a gripping political thriller turned war drama. The "powerful evil Rider everyone needs to beat up" thing is almost certainly less to do with Takahashi as a writer, and more to do with Oomori as a producer, since he worked on Drive, Ex-Aid, Build, and Zero-One, which all pulled that same stunt to some extent. This probably sounds like I'm trying to start an argument, but I think I mostly just wanted an excuse to vent about Build a little.

I see where you're coming from with your opinions on Zero-One and I don't really wanna disrespect that, but what I will say is that if you've managed to mellow out on the contest arc over time, I only hope the same will prove true for some of the later parts of the series, because I do still think there's a lot of great material in there that ties into things established at the start very strongly.