Arc Fatigue seems to be the number one complaint that most people have, although this was presumably when we thought that it would just be an arc. Silly fandom, me included.
Nevertheless, it's still a good arc, even if it doesn't seem to be as great as the Maiami Championship. Things are looking up for the next arc though. With the Lancers attempting to find allies in the Synchro Dimension, they get dragged into...another Tournament Arc after the cancelled the last one. All right. Meanwhile, Security Director Jean-Michel Roger continuously attempts to undermine the Lancers in a scheme that isn't revealed full until the next arc, with a Dragon who also doesn't get his due until the next arc.
The good: We've got some excellent duels, and now that we're in the Synchro Dimension, more Synchros than we can handle. Jean-Michel Roger debuts as an excellent and competent antagonist, and the return of Crow and Jack has been handled spectacularly; while Jack pretty much takes over the season with defeating him being the goal, it's really rather Justified. Crow in addition hasn't Spotlight Stolen, and if anything has been underutilized. The plot actually does move along reasonably quickly; it's just that the influx of the problems of the City mean that it has to swell and space out. The climax of the arc will keep the fans in the series; it's episode 34 all over again, and that is in no way a bad thing. Yuya also undergoes some well-done Character Development, and while it seems to come off as Wangst to some, in my opinion, Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped.
The bad: City sucks. The population are very hateable. And while most of the duels are excellent, the fact that others get broken up is rather annoying. In addition, the size of the cast and their separation for most of the arc means that there's hardly any character interaction that we'd been looking forward to. Thankfully when it does happen, it's always good. However, one has to wonder whether City are even meant to be sympathetic, but the problem with that is that one needs to figure out what the point is.
In summation, while one could argue that it's worse or weaker than the previous arc, the Friendship Cup arc is still pretty damn good regardless, and the above cons just build up more expectation for when they happen.
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Friendship Cup arc review
Arc Fatigue seems to be the number one complaint that most people have, although this was presumably when we thought that it would just be an arc. Silly fandom, me included.
Nevertheless, it's still a good arc, even if it doesn't seem to be as great as the Maiami Championship. Things are looking up for the next arc though. With the Lancers attempting to find allies in the Synchro Dimension, they get dragged into...another Tournament Arc after the cancelled the last one. All right. Meanwhile, Security Director Jean-Michel Roger continuously attempts to undermine the Lancers in a scheme that isn't revealed full until the next arc, with a Dragon who also doesn't get his due until the next arc.
The good: We've got some excellent duels, and now that we're in the Synchro Dimension, more Synchros than we can handle. Jean-Michel Roger debuts as an excellent and competent antagonist, and the return of Crow and Jack has been handled spectacularly; while Jack pretty much takes over the season with defeating him being the goal, it's really rather Justified. Crow in addition hasn't Spotlight Stolen, and if anything has been underutilized. The plot actually does move along reasonably quickly; it's just that the influx of the problems of the City mean that it has to swell and space out. The climax of the arc will keep the fans in the series; it's episode 34 all over again, and that is in no way a bad thing. Yuya also undergoes some well-done Character Development, and while it seems to come off as Wangst to some, in my opinion, Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped.
The bad: City sucks. The population are very hateable. And while most of the duels are excellent, the fact that others get broken up is rather annoying. In addition, the size of the cast and their separation for most of the arc means that there's hardly any character interaction that we'd been looking forward to. Thankfully when it does happen, it's always good. However, one has to wonder whether City are even meant to be sympathetic, but the problem with that is that one needs to figure out what the point is.
In summation, while one could argue that it's worse or weaker than the previous arc, the Friendship Cup arc is still pretty damn good regardless, and the above cons just build up more expectation for when they happen.
Sanokal