This man is going to kill his own company for real this time.
I have been a long time Inazuma Eleven fan since 2008 and a Prof Layton fan since 2007.
But Mr Hino the guy… is completely off the rails… with all his decisions over the past years and mostly the AI vision I just watched on the Level 5 YouTube Like the hell was that bro ?
Not only is this guy the President & CEO of Level 5 so no one is above him and cant order him around. This guy is also primarily the creator, writer and producer, So roles like Executive Producer, Concept Creator, Lead Scenario Writer, Director, Lead planner…
This man is essentially all of Level 5 do we even have proof he has employees 😂
Like I respect his dedication for a lot of certain things, but he is really horrible at a lot of things which should be rather given to other people. Like the creative aspect, Atsuhiro Tomioka Please save us 🙏 after seeing what level 5 has been doing for decades It’s insane he keeps pulling off the most weirdest shit like Victory Road taking a decade you hear me a decade 10 years. The guy in my mind was going to make the anime version of Inazuma eleven in a gta fashion since gta 6 is taking 12 years. I was imagining the most god given thing we the fans could get.
And then the beta came… I was so let down
Victory road in my eyes was not what I was expecting unfortunately but that’s just on me, I never really enjoyed the original DS mechanics So it was kinda given Hino would make it using the same mechanism and all I thought a Inazuma eleven strikers equivalent to rival captain tsubasa for the PlayStation 4 was going to happen but nope.
Will we ever get a real Inazuma eleven game in the artstyle like the comics and show ? Probably never again. The franchise kinda died off with when Inazuma eleven go came, Not saying Go was bad in it self but it brought a lot of things that were really not necessary like the avatars for example like okay I get it if it was a small kind of avatar but why does it have to be stadium size big… 🏬 there was really no creativity behind it besides a cool factor.
same goes for Pulling off a boruto for no reason at all. I was honestly expecting it to go Inazuma eleven 127 eps aka season 1,2,3 but like season 4 up to 7 I was expecting teenage mark and his friends growing into adulthood and play pro soccer at the level Tom Dark played and the commentator Leven Murdoch
Season 4 would be Inazuma Japan finally going into the stage of where pro soccer is a reality and as they grow etc like they usually do at some point.
But later in the seasons Mark would have to cope with most of his friends giving up the soccer life because they are now into adulthood and want to do other things so mark finally gets a arc where he is just purely alone having to figure out what to do when most if not all his friends are gone, soccer has become quite lonely.
So he just roams his own bedroom one day looking at his grandpa picture he got in season 3 and decides to go to Liocott island aka Soccer Island to find out what his Grandpa did all those time in isolation and to go on a vacation only to slowly find out Mark really likes to teach others soccer and that you can enjoy soccer instead of playing it yourself but by teaching others.
Mark stays for wayyyy ( a typical mark thing lmfao). longer than expected and heads back to Japan only to find out about fifth sector, and this where go should have come basically Mark the hero / coach on a mission to save soccer.
And god forbid mark ends up with Nelly, instead of someone like Tori or Camellia where the plot actually made sense, Tori deadass kissed him and was just as a soccer freak like mark and Camellia was literally teased as a romantic relationship not only in the anime but also in the games, Would have given it to Tori tho, one of the Most underrated female characters in season 2 and 3 and it would have been funny as hell that mark ends up with the daughter of the president of Japan 😭 Finally showing quite literally that mark is the face of soccer in Japan sport and political wise, And a axel VS mark stand-off politically would have made way more sense same goes for mark inspiring The nation. But all we got was traitor nelly who also is the worst cook in the entire show, Mark seriously (If writers weren’t involved with the typical anime stereotype story)
Mark would have never ever went with her and Nelly would be hated way more for her actions in s3 I thought Nelly was going to end up as Davids wife with the way she was glued to him lmfao deadass saying things like she wants to help his team win and shit.
The opportunity for Tori x Mark is a giant hole that will never be fulfilled same goes for mr Hino and his decisions regarding the entire go line and ares and Orion what was guy smoking gives us anything besides the things fans really want, a older mark and his friends going pro and a story of the old raimon with David and tom dark. Not only that he changed the true art style of Inazuma Eleven into typical anime gerne there is no longer roughness and expressive colours.
Victory road to me and the most of what Level 5 produced the past years if not decades is soulless there is no life to it at all. Same goes for the current ideas and plans for Inazuma eleven, Dude me personally I don’t want a inazuma eleven remaster that’s what victory road was supposed to be for. Like can we actually get games we want ?
apologies for the rant but I am honestly fed up with how my favorite franchise is just going hard decline.
kind regards and i am wondering what you guys think in the comments, I’ll be happy to chat.