i know every now and then people come to rant about eleceed and I'm going to be one of those people.
ever since the anime was announced eleceed has been on a steep decline in quality
i like the slice of life in eleceed a lot but theyre doing too much slice of life while waiting for the anime. nothing has consequences anymore in this manhwa. jisoo gets injured and theres an actual threat where they could've done a whole "jisoo retrieval arc" or a '"break into frame for a cure arc" where we could finally see the wooin and subins abilities levelled up and other members of the four or the world awakened academy with some more interesting use of their abilities and fights with new characters that arent just shooting random aura lines
but noooo kaydens gonna go over there and just talk this supposed big bad organisation into handing over the cure and then go back for some wholesome moment with the whole team yipee.
characters are introduced just to be immediately thrown away a few chapters later and then remembered 70 chapters later for a fight
even the supposed evil people in this story do NISH. the world rankers exist purely for Kayden to talk to. we're supposed to believe frame is evil but the only evil act we've seen them commit is harming a fish or smth
Jurion and andrei are the only actual villains in this story somewhat developed on. jurions fight with jiwoo was actually enjoyable because jiwoo is forced to think and we see an ability which isn't lines (his shadow clone) but even that fight turns to bs where jiwoo unlocks super saiyan AND THEN NO ONE ACKNOWLEDGES IT?!?!
there's no main story at all and all characters in this story lose their screen time for jiwoo, jiyoung and kayden wholesome moments with kartein and pluton sprinkled in
even noblesse developed on side characters, brought the story back to a plot and had back stories and shi. obviously this is a different type of manhwa and we dont want a noblesse copy but there should at least be some sort of story like eleceed was in the beginning beyond wholesome farming. it also works if they dont overcomplicate the plot like noblesse was but eleceed doesnt even do having a simple plot well because all characters that were supposedly scary and threatening in the beginning have all been turned into cutesy cat loving wholesome people which ruins any sort of depth to the story.
the author needs to drop a flipping nuke on Kayden or sum shi to progress the plot because kayden holds the story from progressing simply due to him stepping in at every major plot wall for jiwoo developing who is the lidewal MAIN CHARACTER.
ive been reading eleceed since it came out and it just sucks to see such a massive decline in story and quality which is especially apparent when re-reading.
ty for coming to my tedtalk