G witch plot rant

[michifugu]

 Disclaimer : this is just my opinion and my criticism of the show plot. if you dislike seeing some negative comment it is best to ignore this

After watching a recent episode, I feel the plot of gwitch is..late to advance? Like this is already half of 2nd cour?

I didn't like the pacing from the start because the first cour focused on dueling and slice of life, and the second cour immediately delved into heavy politics....like with lacking build up. "inb4 the Plant Quetta shit"

yeah after like 9-10 episode of slice of life and dueling lol. and no I'm aware they already laid the foundation for Aerial and such but I am specifically talking about how I dislike the way G-witch handles the pacing.

I don't mind if they really want to focus on heavy politics, but the buildup is really lacking, so it feels like they have to rush the pace.

 
 

Not to mention that in the second cour you have to focus again on the school drama. It should be right after the open campus that the school plots don't have to be dragged too long and the earth house should take action directly on the conflict. Because the conflict in the episode seems redundant if we remember the open campus incident not too long ago from the timeline of this week's episode. Moreover, the death tolls feel cheap as they are only meant to shock the audiences who are still invested in the school's drama setting..

The writers are afraid not to scare away a new audience, relying too heavily on school settings that don't add much to the overall story.. All the mcguffin-like plots on Gwitch can happen just because people stupidly believe in Shaddiq (which normal people already know is really a red flag). Like idk? There's heavy politics and at the same time there's a school plot right away, so it doesn't feel connected. Actually, it's not a problem if you want a school plot to be accompanied by a political plot as long as they're good at executing it and have ACTUAL direction. If you want to compare it with Code Geass, which incidentally has a school plot, it's also not dragged on for too long and isn't the focus. Even though the characters are high school teenagers who carried out the coup. 

Code Geass doesn't make the school as the focus of the conflict, but makes it a place to show a different side of each character that is less stressful than their usual personality. Whereas Gwitch wants to be like Code Geass where high school teen is involved in heavy politics but don't have clear direction like CG. Meanwhile, Gwitch is like wanting to juggle both (school and politic drama). So yeah, the pacing is bad, the school plot is unironically even holding back the characters to take part in the conflict & also the prison narrative. Because it makes the plot difficult to progress and being interesting because they're all trapped in school drama, and the school plot so fucking dragging lol. The only great thing about gwitch is prospera. I swear I'm really not really interested in school drama, and Earth House is just a spectator and Sulemio cheerleader's team lol. The IBO drama alone still makes me interested and invested than the Gwitch drama. 

like seriously, G-witch's plot direction is really mess. if you really want an important school plot in the story, why not just make it a military school like Gundam SEED and it makes a lot more sense? While the school at G-witch is... bourgeois school? 

It just a duel and high school teenager piloting mobile suit doesn't make sense with that type of school. what are the benefits of piloting mobile suit for high school students? it would make sense if it's really for military matters, if you really want to do sports like GuP but Gundam, well, you should be CLEAR about that in the world building and just GO for that direction instead, like Build Fighter for example. I know Okouchi was really inspired by Utena, but in Utena, the duels and such sort of thing fitted the theme and the conflict. It clearly centered the focus of the story on the school.

G-witch is really unclear and messy. If you really want to be like Utena or Build Fighter or Gundam GuP, that's fine. Don't force there has to be heavy politics in the story if you can't execute it properly, and tryhard juggle both. And Suletta was even more sluggish, with no development at all. It's better if Miorine or Guel is the MC lol