[Omnikaiser]

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Originally Posted by Double

It got repetitive for a long time. Whereas Zi-0 had surprises and curveballs along the way, good or bad. That's why I'd take it over a show where you know what's coming.

There is a difference between surprises/plot twists and "we write nonsense just for the sake of "you didn't see it coming huh ?"".

I don't dislike Zi-O, but objectively you can't compare it to Build in terms of structure and plot/character development. Build felt written from ep1 to ep49 as one big thing (felt, not said it was) and every character felt like having a past that led them there. While Zi-O felt more like "so what are we going to tell this week ? oh yeah what about we go that way" and every character past is "they lived until now yo".

Just ask a random person to choose 1 single episode every 10 episodes of Zi-O (random numbers like I don't know : ep 1, ep 13, ep 28, ep 34, ep 45 etc...), and you can lose the guy because he will have a hard time figuring where we are in the show.
Just take the Geiz element "i want to kill you" => ""ok I tolerate you now" => "ok you're my friend somehow" => "no, I want to kill you again" => "i don't remember you" => "i'm dying for you".
or the sudden and random Tsukasa appearances all along the show.

You would lose anyone not sympathizing with the franchise

I'm not sure someone doing the same with Build would be lost the same way. For sure they would not understand everything (like suddenly Sento being referred as Katsuragi sometimes), but they would probably feel that some things happened in between and not just randomly shifted just like in Zi-O. And they would probably be able to guess where we are.