[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I... don't think the show tried to tie the Raidriser stuff and ZAIA together yet? This feels a little spoiler-y, so please try and keep the discussion to what's been revealed in the episodes. Thanks!

can we please not talk about where the story is going to go

thank you

Sorry... and I can't do anything to undo this. I've been a menace to these talks.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Admittedly, I don't recall seeing many tournament arcs, but maybe an abundance of filler would be an inherent risk. It must be easy to fall in to that trap, instead of thinking about how to use that framing device in a clever way that develops the main characters. That's what I appreciate about Tekken, how it puts character motivations in the foreground.

In Zero One's case, it's not even directly between Aruto and Gai, but between their champions in each round. All their literal fighting, the more heated part, happens outside of that. And while most of the early subplots with Seine and Kobe were contained to a single episode that also found time to accommodate AIMS and Metsuboujinrai, the Job Competition expands each round to two episodes and distracts from the plot happening around it.

Though there are clear motives for most characters, actually Tekken does waste a number of it, in the execution. Like relegating characters into comical levels like Paul and Law (or those associated with them), or Asuka to a catfight with Lili, or 7 had most characters getting the shaft in favor of the Mishimas and Akuma. So to be specific you're talking about how the tournament is separate from the main conflict (of which actually this episode had parts like Fuwa or Horobi taking a backseat, for MetsubouJinrai stuff, or parts like that are the ones should be more focused on or relevant to the competition...). Or perhaps the literal fighting actually matters less than the competition arc where Aruto's belief in Humagears and his goal for the co-existence between them and humans is put on a test against a company who tries to discredit him?