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Originally Posted by Byg42

Just to add to the Ghost discussion, Post-Mugen is definitely the part when Ghost pacing starts to fall upon itself. It perphaps spent a bit too much time with its Votw side stories and while the show never forgot its ongoing plot, it ended creating so much build up and set up for them that the actual execution of those plot points leave a lot to be desired, the biggest case being the Demia Project. With that said though, I never actually minded the Votw stories.I liked the way they tried to integrate them with the ongoing plot which made them not feel totally pointless even though it did end up artificially lengthening it.

In fact, I think Ghost had some really good Votw stories. Most were paced well, I liked the messages and themes they presented, and I liked how they started to integrate them with the eyecons post-Boost, something which was greatly needed due to how hastily they were introduced in the first 10 episodes. Another thing I think Ghost did well was its set up. The show build up a lot of its events and was constantly teasing you with new questions and new information. Its part of the reason why I think that while Ex-Aid may have the overall better plot, Ghost I think was better at trying to keep you interested in its plot as I wanted to know what new stories were going to happen or what lingering questions were to get answered. While this did results in a number of its plot points falling flat due to how much build up they had, again look at the Demia Project, when the show executed them well, it really executed them well. The biggest example was probably Alain's redemption arc, which in opinion is Chase's redemption arc done right.

The pacing of the overall plot however was a bit all over the place. The first 10 or so episodes was definitely too fast due to how quickly they introduced the eyecons and how they just skipped weeks in between episode in order to rush through the first 99 days. Post-Mugen had the opposite problem where the pacing was too slow, dragging out some of its plot points far longer than they needed to. The middle of the show was where the pacing was at its best, building its plot at a reasonable pace and ending them where they needed to.

On a related note, something I didn't mention early because it wasn't relevant was that I would have loved it if Ghost was like Dekaranger and, rather then having a big bad or an over arcing story, simply focused on the character's personal growth and development. I think a slice-of-life story enhance with the supernatural would have worked really well with Ghost's themes and, like you, I thought Ghost had really good MOTW plots.