In the Rinne vs Miura match, they did a good job of making us doubt, but it all turned out as expected. They had to, right? And working off the assumption that they’d do it in the tournament, because we were already there and why wouldn’t they, that would mean that Miura and Vivio would need to lose. Going into it, I expected that Rinne and Fuuka would fight.
Which feeds into the (other) element I seriously liked: the tournament matches didn’t proceed how I expected. That would have been an uncomfortable place to set a heart-to-heart battle, so I’m glad it didn’t go that route. Which is the other thing I really liked: their final match didn’t take place in the tournament.
The point was to see Fuuka and Rinne reconcile, and unless that took place during the tournament, the tournament wasn’t important. The tournament never took over the plot, because it wasn’t the point, as shown when the entire last match took place off-screen. Fuuka and Rinne were not just the main characters, they drove the entire story, and it was their character flaws-mostly Rinne’s-that were the impetus for everything that happened. What I liked, and liked very much, is that the focus was always on the characters. If it had, I would have stopped watching, instead of just wanting to after seeing little girls getting so brutally beaten. Though, to be fair, her destroying her bullies the day after her grandfather died said something that small flashback never could have, and fortunately it didn’t glorify her actions. That short glimpse of Rinne, with a valuable piece of jewelry tossed in the toilet and three girls looming over her, did more to emotionally convey what she was running away from than her blow-by-blow trauma report. This is where I said the script could have benefited from a few more revisions or tighter plotting, because they did better in twenty seconds with an unexplained flashback at the end of episode three (when Rinne and Fuuka were confronting each other after Rinne’s exhibition match) than they did in one and a half episodes of detailed flashbacks during episodes four and five. The other part that I didn’t much like was the extended flashbacks into Rinne’s past. I just wanted to back it up on that theme. So not a real complaint there, since the show and I are on the same page. Jill saying that denigrated Rinne’s hard work! But Nove took that head on, and shredded her argument. Yes yes YES! Talent is justification after the fact for people who want to believe you had some innate reason why you succeeded, when the real reason is usually that you worked hard, were interested in it, had a good teacher/a smart plan, and were lucky. But if you fail, then they say you didn’t have it.” “Don’t you think talent is something that’s only mentioned after the fact? If you succeed, you’ve got talent. I’ve never liked the “talent vs skill” plot, but that one was adequately confronted by Nove at the end. The other thing that annoyed me was-okay, actually two other things. It’s stupid, and I’ll Sky-Severing Knuckle you upside the head. Over training hurts your body’s ability to recover and will get you WORSE results! So don’t ever let me hear any of y’all endorsing that nonsense. That’s not you “working harder.” That’s you going past the point where you body is saying “You are harming me!”, and not stopping because you’re thick. Same with fainting or working yourself to the point of utter exhaustion. The first is something that chaps my bum, and I started sputtering curses every time I saw it: if you’re throwing up when you’re training, you’re doing it wrong. To being with, let’s go over the elements I didn’t like. While ViVid Strike could have benefited from tighter plotting or a few more script revisions, it never forgot one thing that so many anime do forget: it’s not about the plot. Have fun getting the bugs out of your hair later on.
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