#iris fire force

It felt far too reliant on you being a Soul Eater fan for the epilogue to be actually enjoyable. Prequel or not, if a show's ending being good relies on you haven't seen another show, that's not a good ending. They hardly explain anything to you because they expect you to know things. I can't be satisfied with the ending when I can't understand what is happening in the world anymore.

I have other gripes. Joker's fight with his doppelgänger was non existent. I'm aware this may be an anime-only issue. I plan to read the manga so I don't know if that complaint with stick. Beni's fight with his doppelgänger while short, was pretty funny, so I don't mind that. For how big of a threat he pretended to be, calling Faerie's encounter with Sho a 'fight' is generous. Iris being the eighth pillar was really good, but they didn't give her enough to do as the eighth. They reveal she's the eighth and then she's in adolla and boom- dead.

Speaking of dead, the ending also feels like a bit of a cop out. Arthur dying in space was a brilliant moment. Dragon vs Arthur was a fight I really anticipated and it ending in both of their deaths was amazing. Only for Arthur, and literally everyone who died before him to return. If it was just Arthur I think I could have let it slide but Rekka and the guy from the 2nd? (Him and the white clad gal who killed him going out was funny though). Obi getting his throat slit by his Doppelgänger was fucking intense and such a stressful and moving moment, yet he survives through the dumbest possible means instead of any of the other possibilities.

The fights in the second half of the season weren't that long. They rarely went over an episode, which isn't always a bad thing. Waka's fight against his old man still felt satisfying. Ogun vs Charon and the entire Giovani conflict were a few of my favourite fights in the show. Yet the fight against Raffles felt so important for it to be such a short fight.

This one is an incredibly minor nitpick and this is just an excuse for me to complain about it but Hinawa and Maki???? Never once did their interactions lean even close to either of them being interested in each other. I don't want to hear 'they developed feelings off screen' bullshit. Hinawa and Maki's relationship was never romantic. It just feels tacked on for the sake of it. Shinra & Iris and Tamaki & Juggernaut work. Hell, even Inca's stuff with Shinra is funny and holds water. Anyone who says Hinawa and Maki being a canon couple didn't come out of thin air is lying to themselves.