So I’ve just watched the first episode of Skate-Leading Stars and I never post meta on anything cause who am I to judge but what the hell just happened in the anime.
please don’t kill me just listen up
Generally speaking I liked it but...
Is it just me being clumsy and having hard time memorizing a basic aerobics choreography or you have to actually be nuts to consider anyone after (presumably) years of break could put on a random, more or less fitted pair of skates and freaking nail a performance first time he stepped on the ice (according to the the dude who gave him skates he hasn’t been skating of a long time (I mean, if he didn’t even have skates (also was the dude stalking him?))) falling literally once, but other than that doing fantastic, and having maximum a few days to practice?
Isn’t it the level of insanity Disney made in one of plot-wise the worst movies they ever made, Jump In, in which a dude comes last minute to a competition, kicks out a team member and then kinda wins without actually training because Disney wanted so and those who actually worked hard are made into bad guys?
So the watched-it-once-and-memorized-it magical ability of the main character, is that a thing? But even if, after years without skating? Whaaaa...? What was it even proving, plot-wise? I was watching with subtitles that said axel instead of flip and had to double check but i feel like at this point it doesn’t matter because our red ray of sunshine must be a superhuman anyway. Unless I’m wrong. Unless it’s actually a supernatural story (now that would be a plot twist!)
I can’t say I wasn’t kind of enjoying watching it but thinking realistically I do hope it won’t continue the level of pointlessness and “because the authors said so” kind of storytelling and character building cause damn, that was weird. The main character? Got me. The glasses lil bro? Got me even more. But the nonsense part? Ugh!
I also wonder what happens next and hope it won’t take one of the obvious directions, like:
a) the white dude kind of protecting his lil bro and acting cold because of that
b) the little brother vengeance being a lie all the way like the ankle and the white dude sent him and is a sneaky motherfucker
c) they’re not even related
d) the grand finale will reveal hardly anything and leave the audience waiting for the next 4 years *ugly sobbing*
So yeah, I hope for:
e) something entirely else (give us rage, srsly)
sorry i was too lazy to check the characters’ names
Idk, if you’re still here, what are your thoughts reader? I will probably argue that learning a basketball move and an entire ice skating choreography are two different things
