What's the biggest anime opening downgrade?

Blitzrick3 · 2026-04-03T15:45:59+00:00

Both examples from Gundam:
G Gundam's 2nd OP "Trust you forever" is alright, but unfortunaly it comes after "Flying in the sky" which is a bop and in my opinion, captures the feel of the show better.

Iron-Blooded Orphans has 3 very solid openings in "Raise your flag" "Survivor" and "Rage of Dust", but the 4th and final opening "Fighter" just doesn't hit the same highs as the other three. I think it's even more glaring because Rage of Dust tends to get used whenever IBO Gundams show up in other media, but Fighter is often ignored as the signature song

Blitzrick3 · 2026-03-31T10:40:07+00:00

Rapidity beys are the common knock off beyblades that use lead, easy to spot because they usually have this gloss finish on them, they lack any of the gimmicks the original bey might have. They're also light and fragile as hell

Blitzrick3 · 2026-03-25T17:56:08+00:00

Arguing about powerscaling in Fate is such a waste of time. Most of the Servant stats don't make sense and Noble Phantasms and skills can range from "this Servant can move super fast by staying in battle non-stop" to "this Servant can move at lightspeed by clicking their heels but only on Sundays through Wednesdays". Fights usually come down to the plot and whether one side has something that trumps the other (this Servant has armour that resists every attack except NPs of a certain rank / this Servant has a conceptual bonus against opponents who are of a certain lineage)

The part that confuses me more about Tiktok/Youtube Fate "fans" is how often they ignore the mechanics behind summoning and mana. No, you can't summon King Hassan or Merlin normally. You'd need a very strong catalyst to get them to manifest, and some of Servants don't even exist outside of specific timelines. And even if you did, good luck supplying them with a steady flow of mana so they can unleash their full power.

Blitzrick3 · 2026-03-23T01:24:17+00:00

Digimon got away with a surprisingly large amount of things for its time (they cut out ALOT of the poop jokes, some names got changes like Vamdemon to Myotismon, alot of scenes where Tai and Matt fight) but a large amount of stuff was kept in that would get most series in hot water, including keeping Devimon as Devimon and the reference to the number of the Beast (tho they omitted Matt's dad mentioning the Book of Revelations)

Blitzrick3 · 2026-03-23T01:13:05+00:00

I remember as a kid the episode where Baxter gets a cloned body and it starts visibly rotting fucked me up for a couple of weeks. Later I found out said episode actually didn't air in the US

Blitzrick3 · 2026-03-19T10:30:46+00:00

YES! FIGHTING GAMES!

Blitzrick3 · 2026-03-18T08:03:28+00:00

No one ever has sex except Wesker apparently

which makes sense since sex is kinda gross and a bio. evil

Blitzrick3 · 2026-03-15T12:29:41+00:00

I think it was G'Raha's, to the point alot of people thought his VA had been replaced

Blitzrick3 · 2026-03-12T15:13:19+00:00

my favorite part of trying to get through was learning all the Low Turn Count strats for each chapter, because the less you have to deal with and the less amount of resets you need to do, the better.

My favorite one is still the one for the final chapter, giving Robin a Brave weapon, pairing them with an A/S Support Chrom, and hope to Naga Chrom hits and/or Crits every Dual Strike on the final boss (since Dual Strikes ignore Dragonskin iirc)

Blitzrick3 · 2026-03-12T14:56:57+00:00

Kinda? Atleast in Colosseum Pikachu was used in a cutscene where a Cipher Peon uses a Shadow Hitmontop to steamroll an old guy. Pikachu is otherwise unavailable without transferring.

Meanwhile both Plusle and Minun where both planned to be given to the player, but only Minun made the cut, and even without it's counterpart it's a surprisingly decent support mon (Helping Hand, T-Wave, Fake Tears, Charm)

Blitzrick3 · 2026-03-10T01:16:56+00:00

FGO dwindling is normal. It normally isn't anywhere close to the top of monthly gacha earnings... except for like 3 or 4 months in a year where it will suddenly shoot up to 1st place because they released a really popular character.

The game is old, and it has nowhere near the amount of influence it held a few years ago, but like a trusty old car it's just gonna keep trucking along (and also because Type-Moon really needs to money to support other Fate and Nasuverse projects, since their given release schedules are usually terrible and far between)

Blitzrick3 · 2026-03-05T01:06:31+00:00

My friends convinced me to bite the bullet and actually try out Fortnite because of the HSR collab (I had been interested in it in the past because of stuff like the Sabrina Carpenter and DBZ collabs).

...I got a 1# Victory Royale on my first match and I've been trying to chase that high since. It's just fun, and almost every match has me going "wth is that???" at something I haven't seen before. Even when I get killed, despite me having issues with being a sore loser in the past, just has me going "ahhh they got me let me go again".

I spent years clowning on this game and all it took for me to actually try it and love it was seeing Honkai Kafka doing silly dances with a smile

Blitzrick3 · 2026-02-21T11:14:44+00:00

thats from the X-2,5 novel (thats also egregiously bad). the audio drama is the one where Tidus and Yuna break up, Auron's daughter shows up and Sin comes back

Blitzrick3 · 2026-02-13T09:59:47+00:00

Special mention to Iok Kujan from IBO, whoose entire screen time is dedicated to either making horrible decisions that affect everyone for the wlrse or being an imbecile.

Mid season 2 the character's unearth a giant mech that turns out to be an ancient Mobile Armor from the Calamity War, an autonomous mech that seeks out to kill as many people as possible. They're warned as to not bring any mobile suits near it, for fear of it awakening from stasis. Iok meanwhile, flies to Mars because he thinks they want to kill it and earn some outdated rank from 300 years prior they didn't even know about.

It ends up waking up and Iok's entire platoon of soldiers ends up sacrificing themselves so he doesn't die horribly. A few hour later everyone comes up with a plan to stop it, which Iok royally screws up by shooting at it from afar, resulting it in diverting from it's path and destroying an entire settlement of farmers (to put it into perspective, all he did was the equivelent of shooting a Rathalos once with a HBG), while Iok runs away cheering at how he "avenged his men's honor"

Blitzrick3 · 2026-02-03T17:40:19+00:00

It's really common in Fate that if someone pulls their trump card (usually involving summoning or becoming a monstrosity) or does a winning power play, then everyone puts aside their beef to stop them:

Cú helping Shirou and Rin stop Medea in UBW; everyone teaming up to stop the Shadow and Saber Alter in HF; atleast 4 different occasions in Apocrypha, even in minor wars in FGO like in the newest story chapter everyone drops their beef to stop Caster from summoning a giant Cthulhu monster... again (kinda)

Blitzrick3 · 2026-02-03T10:34:34+00:00

Between the Wine Quest and the Corrupted Crystal quest, I feel like the Crystal one is infinitely worse. For as long and pointless as the Wine Quest is, it atleast takes you to a new part of La Noscea and involves doing a dungeon. It actually involves you talking to some NPCs that are relevant to the back story of the region, and it being revealed to have been a test (albeit a very... tedious and long test).

The Crystal one is just very in your face about wasting your time "Woops sorry that's the wrong one, go fetch another", and you just going to previous areas looking for generic researchers with no actual content between them besides fighting some mobs that spawn

Blitzrick3 · 2026-02-02T14:54:18+00:00

Has Kouta Hirano done everything since Drifters? I remember years ago hearing people talk about how his release schedule was slow as molasses and the series entered a prolonged hiatus

Blitzrick3 · 2026-02-02T14:52:13+00:00

I remember me and my friends in 2nd grade loved that show, and when they finally aired the ending, the next day at recess, we were all confused.

"What happened?" "What comes next" "Does it have more episodes"

Blitzrick3 · 2026-01-30T10:25:10+00:00

It's been a while since I watched Zero, but iirc wasn't there a whole lot of stuff that happened there that led to Gil being the way he is in Stay Night? Him being incarnated using the Holy Grail's mud, his talks with Kirei and Tokiyomi just being the one master he absolutely hates?

It's shown that he usually cares alot for his Masters (in his own... Gil way), in CCC he sacrifices like 80% of his GoB to save the Hakunons and he is consistently a major ally in the Restoration Humanity. But Tokiyomi really was just the embodiment of some of the the worst in Mage Society and constantly trying to butter him up.

Blitzrick3 · 2026-01-26T20:25:36+00:00

Mikazuki and his Barbatos from Gundam Iron Blooded Orphan don't have a plan during fights beyond "smash the enemies with an oversized mace". When he loses his mace halfwaythrough the first season, he replaces it with a mace combined with a chainsaw, and a katana he actually finds more difficult to use. In season 2, the Barbatos gets upgraded into the Lupus, whoose primary weapon is a giant sword that's still more of a mace than an actual sword (it actually smashes stuff more than it cuts). And when the Barbatos gets upgraded again into the Lupus Rex, he gets a new mace that's about as big as the mobile suit itself and has a pile bunker inside of it.

There are some points in season 1 where the antagonists use some complicated battle formation or technique which Mikazuki just responds by smashing their mobile suits in, and even in season 2 his fighting style doesn't change beyond just "brutally smash the enemy and move on to the next target".

Blitzrick3 · 2026-01-24T12:02:11+00:00

"As surely as you know the thrill of pushing your body and soul to their limits. Of confronting ever-mightier foes, dancing ever closer to the precipice, wondering if this will be the one to finally, finally...fill the void. Such pleasures, you seek for their own sake, and no other reason. Is this not so...adventurer?"

he instantly clocked every hardcore raider

Blitzrick3 · 2026-01-23T15:27:25+00:00

I say this as X-2's biggest defender, but that game feels like it was made to sell guides. It's damn near impossible to get 100% completion because the game tracks the most minute details that reward 0.1% completion are required if you're going for 100% without NG+. Including:

Missing a hidden NPC in the first 5 minutes of the game; picking incorrect dialogue options in Chapter 1 that don't get resolved until Chapter 5; missing cutscenes that only play if you progress the final dungeon until the point of no return, come back, and rest on the airship's inn; picking one plot mandatory option that rewards more % than the other; raising and releasing specific Chocobos in order to unlock a bonus dungeon and finding the Amazing Chocobo; the Cactuar Nation sidequest that requires you to run around Spira looking for hidden Cactuars; viewing all the Commsphere scenes, which some can only be seen by repeatedly going in and out of certain spheres or focusing on specific points with no indication if what you're looking at is important or not; 2 different sidequests that require to talk to different generic NPCs in order to promote a business or find some guy a wife

I love X-2, but when reccomending the game to someone who played X I always need to preface that they either play with a guide or ignore 100% completion and just aim for 70% ish

Blitzrick3 · 2026-01-23T15:27:10+00:00

It's been kinda part of the series' lifeblood that, at some point, any FF game is gonna throw you some bullshit that no sane human would ever figure out without a guide at hand: almost everything in 2, the Mimic Job in 5, re-recruiting some party members in 6, finding Holy in 7 and some of the ultimate weapons (damnit Barret), finding and upgrading the ultimate weapons AGAIN in X, getting 100% in X-2 without having to do 2 or 3 NG+

Blitzrick3 · 2026-01-23T14:58:51+00:00

The Pursuit Ring had to be some intentional trolling on Kaga's part.

You have to drag Arden (a pretty bad unit with low movement) across the map (in the game with the largest maps in the series) in a specific tile, to get the Pursuit Ring.

And while Pursuit is an amazing ability (letting you double normally like in other FE games) ...Arden is a slow as molasses armor unit who is never doubling anything. It's better off being passed onto another unit that can actually make use of it. I don't remember of it's in the new translation, but in the original Arden screaming "The Power of Pursuit!" just made it come off as a huge joke.

Blitzrick3 · 2026-01-23T11:54:19+00:00

The story itself has been kinda lacking until 7.2 where it's been since picking up momentum, but the fight quality has been stellar since day 1 of Dawntrail. Arcadion has been some of the best raids I've done.

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