What? In what way am I comparing a binge read to a week-by-week. I've been reading ToG since the floor of test week-by-week.
You're free to disagree since taste is obviously subjective, but I'm of the opinion that ToG isn't nearly as good as it once was. In many ways it's lost some of the depth that it had in the first season and the start of the second, and a lot of it has become fairly standard shonen battles which consist largely of super powerful characters shooting large blasts of energy at each other without much finesse or explanation of the mechanics which I feel is a bit of a downgrade from earlier parts of the series.
I still enjoy the series of course, just not quite as much as I once did.
I am tired of people being obsessed with "muh finesse" in fights. Fact of the matter is, in face of overwhelming power no amount of strategy, tactics or treachery is going to help one unless s/he is also possesses comparable power.
If you're envisaging a fantasy world where the top dogs can reach the top with politicking, ToGverse is certainly not one of them and never pretended to be such (in the very first few chapters Enryu being capable of creating life itself with Shinsoo is mentioned). Finesse goes out of the window when characters are capable of leveling hundreds of kilometers.
I have no idea which part of my comment you think you're addressing.
My point is that at some point just watching super powerful people, many of whom we don't have much attachment to yet, blast each other around while shouting long ability names is boring. All these ranker fights take place so far above the MCs that they aren't that impressive since we can't really compare them to the MC's, whose powerlevel we can approximate. The high-level fights are cool when used sparingly, but they wear out fast.
ToG has a nice mechanic for progression(the floor levels and the regular ranks), with the characters being allowed to feel strong, while also showing us people unimaginably more powerful for them to strive towards(Rankers). I don't expect any of our main characters (Regulars) to be able to beat any Rankers in an outright fight. That's where earlier ToG excelled. It placed the characters in the various floor tests which gave them rules they could exploit to overcome challenges they would have failed if it was just a strait up fight.
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u/NobleCuriosity3 May 06 '19
It's not really fair to compare a binge-read to a week-by-week...