So it's suddenly now wrong of me to hold anime up to a certain standard of storytelling? If Black Bullet was advertised as something like Gurren Lagann or Kill la Kill then maybe I can forgive it. But since it wants to be taken seriously then I will critique it seriously by taking other like-themed animes as comparisons, is that so wrong?
It's an LN to Anime adaptation !!
What were you expecting ?? A bones project ? a IG production ?A kyoto animation original IP ?
Thank to their source material , all LN to anime adaptation work by arcs. Why ? because they need to keep the readers occupied.It's different when you're a romance story like golden time for example , but if you're in the action territory , a climax per arc is the standard.
The problem is ending its first introductory arc on a "high note," if Index decided to end its first arc with Touma 'Touma-punching' Aleister Crowley and the Catholic Church simultaneously then yeah I would have the same problem of being it rushed, except it didn't.
Touma ends each of his arcs punching the current vilain , it's always the same thing.Everyone is punched ...equally , mercilessly .... if you're the vilain , you get punched dammit , that's how index is. Accelerator , the strongest ESPER ALIVE ? Punched . every magician ? punched. All of god hands ? punched . Every gremlin operative ? punched .
Seriously. i'm not even joking , it's how each arc in index is.
Aleister ? He is not set as the vilain yet. But when he will , you can bet he will be punched too.
You're acting as if , with this episode 4 the entire set of problems in Black bullet is solved when it isn't.
How about watching the second arc , before making those assumptions ?
You refuse to admit that the guy in black bullet was just maybe one guy, one vilain and the more will come afterwards in other arcs. Not only he was never set to be the main vilain, but the franchise itself already moved on, that's how it is.he was never meant to be a recurring guy ?
Wait maybe he is not , and the your entire point about things being over is wrong
or maybe he is , and you were wrong about him being so important in the first place.