[OptionZero]

Final fight was awesome, but i don't think the show ever fully recovered from a few flaws in concept

Primarily . . . we spent SO MUCH TIME on humagears that got "killed" and then fully restored early on. There are very little stakes, so your attachment to any human gear was diminished constantly. That really robbed some of the impact of Izu's death and reappearance; ditto for Jin.

So much was made of Horobi hating humanity, but several episodes we got thee moment where he realized he was a "father" to Jin. What was supposed to be the thing that made him stop wrecking stuff? And if he truly did, why did they still fight? And if they still had to fight, why didn't Aruto finish him? His suit still hat Ark stuff on it

Did they not bother looking for Azu, knowing she was behind alot of stuff?

Zero-One had some of my favorite suit designs and fights, and Fuwa truly signed in his first half arc. Once he got his memory stuff done, it felt like they didn't know what to do with him. He was basically the main character for the first half of the show since he actually developed, while Aruto languished as wildly mopy and incompetent, letting Gai own him

Gai, worthless. he came in as a genius, never really go this comeuppance, got turned babyface with a stupid robot dog, his dad shows up and does almost nothing.

There was the DNA of a three way battle between Aruto, fighting for Human-humagear co-existence, Hobori, fighting for Human gear independence, and Gai, looking to replace Humangears with his own tech that turned Humans into drones, but it all got muddled up

That whole "contest" arc that dragged on really hurt like hell