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Without spoiling the source material as I haven't read it, it seems like this has no outright villains
and the entire series is just the tournament arc.
I was trying to think back on others I've seen and they all essentially follow the same few rules:
There's no crafting.
but the only headlining mentors seem to be the competitors themselves
teaching and learning from each other.
and wound up coming to the rescue of the main hero team. There was a masked silent character that had to have been an assassin of some sort, but that individual bore no qualms after the intense match. There's also a high-tier competitor that throws off how messed up this feudalistic society is, but she herself isn't perceived to be any more malicious than anyone else beyond her rival and has since even been befriended by other altruistic characters.
I'm guessing eventually there is a big crashing twist, but right now it's remarkable how well characters stand out when there isn't a terrifying opposing entity/force that needs to be dealt with.
and the entire series is just the tournament arc.
I was trying to think back on others I've seen and they all essentially follow the same few rules:
If the main character is a kid, he's constantly and enthusiastically trying to better himself.
The characterless main lead here seems to fall under isekai standards in that he's been thrown into a foreign situation and is learning this strange new world at the same pace as the viewer.There's no crafting.
The main character has to have a troubled backstory that feeds into his motivation.
The only reason he has to climb the tower is to potentially reunite with a lost companion. He found that person within the first 4 episodes. The show manages to keep the intrigue going because other characters have glimpses of that motivation.If the main character is a kid, he has to have a rival who's loud, mean, and too easy to agitate.
They took the pretense out of such a character by making him simply be the guy who's looking for a worthy opponent because he's a giant talking gator. He's not here for the big prize at the tippy top.There are eccentric mentors.
There are trainers for this show's version of a superpower. There are administrators who oversee the tournament,but the only headlining mentors seem to be the competitors themselves
teaching and learning from each other.
The villains are really vile.
There was a moment in the show of a possible bad guy group, but those were the tough rules of the entry stageand wound up coming to the rescue of the main hero team. There was a masked silent character that had to have been an assassin of some sort, but that individual bore no qualms after the intense match. There's also a high-tier competitor that throws off how messed up this feudalistic society is, but she herself isn't perceived to be any more malicious than anyone else beyond her rival and has since even been befriended by other altruistic characters.
I'm guessing eventually there is a big crashing twist, but right now it's remarkable how well characters stand out when there isn't a terrifying opposing entity/force that needs to be dealt with.
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