[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

Zero-One's image has greatly suffered from "tHe jOB cOMpeTitiON aRC"- internet brainrot. Some people are way too obsessed with dunking on the show for like 9 episodes which were fun and serviceable but ultimately predictable and average at best.

Zero-One also got infamous for making characters unreasonably stupid to further the plot, its handling of the first tertiary female Rider (extends to Takahashi's reputation too in handling females... even if there's Izu), and also making scumbags on Gai level undergo a redemption arc and/or also getting away scot free at the end even compared to the main cast's fate (though at least for me, Aruto, Fuwa, and Yua's reactions to it are good ones).

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

It did work for me and I liked it, but I have no ground to argue against this

Well, the thing is, like the job competition arc, the final ar(k)c does get kickstarted with some idiocy between the characters (even if I'd think the execution is quite good and I think Horobi's redemption feels more natural than Gai's), like Izu approaching Horobi, while done due to Azu's manipulation, it's incredibly unsafe to do so without being backed up, and also how Aruto, after watching Izu got killed in front of him, wasn't suspicious of Azu approaching him, despite that the only disguise she did was adding blue streaks on her hair (instead of red), but her hair is still long, not short like Izu's, and he accepted Ark-One Driver despite that he already got the stronger Zero-Two to easily beat Horobi (at that time).