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Originally Posted by Annuga

I'd argue Shinnosuke's dad was done better, as it was established rather early on that his dad's death was Shinnosuke's main motivation for becoming a police officer. Takeru's mother has been rather insignificant, but hinted at.

Yeah, but it was established in all of like, one throwaway line. Which is what I'm saying. Obviously I don't know what kind of payoff any of this will have, but it seems a little unreasonable to act like Takeru hearing his mom's voice briefly like 3 times is some kind of supreme annoyance. There's just so many better things to whine about, you know?

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

Well, I'm still enjoying the central plot of the show - Ganma world, Adel, Ganmeizers, Eadith, etc. But the random nonsense is getting out of hand, and too many things have been going on that have absolutely no effect on the story. Like, why did we get that episode where Takeru still insists on using Grateful Damashii, other than to say "hey look kids, we still like the heroic eyecons and you should too, so go buy them"? He still uses Mugen 95% of the time.

I guess I just don't don't have a problem with that kind of thing. You know, like a lot of you are complaining that the show is wasting time with standard VotW plots but I don't really see why you need a reason to show your hero helping people out. I think it's actually really fitting for the kind of character Takeru is that he'd have half a week left and still be bothered to help some random person out. Same deal with that episode where refuses to accept that the heroic Eyecons are last quarter's toys.

I consider it less a failure of the show to focus on the Plot and more the show not trying to focus on the Plot. I really don't feel every show has to be hyper-serialized, and for that matter, the VotW stuff directly connects to the main Plot, so this isn't even the worst example.

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

This is a show that had a lot of good ideas and just didn't know how to implement them. Why would they introduce Igor and Deep Connect so early into the series, only for it to not show up again until the very end? And why haven't they fully explained why Eadith was using two identities? What was his real goal?

I will more or less agree with all this though. Ghost has been pretty messy. It's the flaw that hangs over the whole show more than anything else. I'll go ahead and add in that if feels super weird to have Javert pop up like once every ten whole episodes mostly just to remind you he exists. You'd think whatever arc they're doing with him could've been dealt with 20 episodes ago. Maybe there's a reason they've kept him around to the very end, but that's another thing that nobody will know until the show's over.