[Layton13]

Ok, I can actually talk about something again, and it's probably gonna be very negative.

Not on the stuff, I liked it all well enough and made me a bit more interested in Ren at the time, so, did its job well.

I'd rather talk about something related to this:

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Shorter episode this time, and a bunch of it was padded out with Episode 9 stuff

This, and by extension, this special series in general feels like it was made around footage that had to be cut, unexpectedly. And you can tell, even without watching the specials. The editing in Saber's first arc is... not good. It often feels like in between frames were cut, just instead of frames, it were small scenes, often not longer than a few moments that make everything feel smoother. It makes this arc feel rough in a frustrating way.

And these specials feel like they ended up the dumping ground for these scenes in a way.

Weirdly enough, I still thought it was the best Reiwa first arc before Geats xD

That said, not the worst version of this I've seen. That, honor(?) goes to Ultraman Trigger which somehow managed to have such frantic pacing and editing that every episode felt like 2 full episodes crudely stitched into one. So, at least Saber is not the worst at it xD