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Originally Posted by DaikaijuSokogeki01

It's like Sakamoto and Naoki Hayashi rewatched the finale of Tiga and tried to do the same thing here, but absolutely fumbled all of the catharsis and emotional beats that series had in their failed attempt to recreate it. It was all payoff for things the series never established, or established poorly.

I just couldn't bring myself to care about this crew because it never gave me a chance to. The show was so focused on telling its story of "light vs. darkness" without actually building up any of its characters outside the three leads and Ignis. So when Kengo got to say his "final" good-bye, it just rang totally hollow for me.

And "Pull The Trigger" will never replicate "Take Me Higher".

I feel like I grew to like the GUTS-Select team in-spite of their lack of development, so it still hit me, but ironically for a show that seemed fairly razor-focused plotwise for an Ultra show it maybe could have used a few one-off filler episodes developing everybody and showing Kengo/Trigger being close to kids.