@IzanaSolos Alright, I get that not everything is for everyone, but calling it"shounen slop" right out of the gate just feels lazy. Yeah, it shares some similarites with Fire Force, which makes sense considering the creator worked under Ohkubo, but dismissing it entirely because of that is like writing off Black clover for having Naruto-like elements. Shared influences aren’t the same as copy-pasting.
As for Rudo being just “an edgier Shinra,” I don’t really see it. Rudo’s got more raw emotion, more instability, more rage behind his story.(arguably) His situation is rough from the start. He's not some polished hero with a flashy power-up. He’s a kid who got framed and thrown into a literal pit of garbage. That’s not edgy, it’s kinda sad. And his attitude fits the world perfectly. It's not about being "cool" nor having "aura", it's about survival and anger, which are core to the story.
Now, the visuals. Look, if you don’t like the art style, fair enough, but calling it “vomit-worthy”? Come on. The animation is intense, rough around the edges in places, but it feels like part of the world they’re building. Gritty, overwhelming, chaotic, because that’s what the world of Gachiakuta is supposed to be. The designs are bold, the direction is energetic, and even if the CGI at the end wasn’t perfect, it wasn’t nearly the disaster you're making it out to be.
And that scene at the end where Rudo gets framed and falls into the pit? You laughed at his final line, but to me, that moment actually hit. He just lost the one person who believed in him, got betrayed, and thrown away like trash. Him lashing out with a defiant line as he falls isn’t cringe, it’s emotional and shows the despair and sense of inability to do something that he was feeling in that moment.
And honestly, while it starts with a revenge setup, Gachiakuta doesn’t stay there. As the story progresses, it moves beyond personal payback and starts exploring ideas like justice, redemption, class divide, environmental decay, and how people rebuild identity when they’ve been thrown away. It’s a broader and more thoughtful narrative than what you saw.
Also, that OP at the end? Absolute banger. Agreed. But maybe it hit so hard because the rest of the episode built up the tension, the anger, and the energy leading into it. It wasn’t just a good song, it fit.
So yeah, you're free to dislike the episode, but writing it off as the worst thing ever just feels so forced. For a pilot, it did its job: it introduced the world, set up the stakes, gave us a protagonist with a reason to fight, and looked pretty damn cool doing it.
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