#In retrospect they do fit the story but I feel that side-story was kinda unnecessary

[ridiasfangirlings]

what you think about K project story and also about fushimi and yata relation in K : LSW ?

Just in general,you mean? As far as the story goes, I think it has its strengths andweaknesses – the story as told in the anime itself I think has somedefinite issues particularly as far as pacing goes, and there’s a lotthat ends up unexplained or glossed over. Season one I think wasn’tso bad but suffered from some obvious ‘we’re just throwing everythingat the wall to see what’s popular’ overtones and in the first fewepisodes especially I think it’s clear that Gora didn’t quite haveeveryone’s characters entirely ironed out (the Blue clan inparticular come off as a lot more on the villain side than theyultimately end up being and Fushimi’s character especially is a lotdifferent when you compare seasons…they can explain episode five ashim doing the 'Niki mode’ to piss off Yata but then he rarely acts soextra again outside of ROK episode one and it makes me think theoriginal plans for him changed a bit when he turned out to be sopopular). Mikoto’s death I didn’t mind at the time but in retrospectI think there were more interesting things that could have been doneif he’d lived. ROK is really where things fall apart a little more,the pacing for season two is really bad and stretched out and I thinkit suffers a lot from needing to make the Silvers the leads when mostof their development – for Shiro and Kuroh anyway – was largelycomplete by the end of season one. I also found the ending a bitdisappointing, I’ve mentioned before how much I disliked the wholefake out with Shiro because it makes no sense and wasn’t foreshadowedat all and pretty much just got tacked on there for last minutedrama. The destruction of the Slate was kind of a letdown for me too,I’m not really a fan of ending a series by wiping out the specialpowers thing anyway but the way Gora did it was really half-assed,like 'okay the Slate is gone and no more Kings – but everyone stillhas their powers and actually Kings still have powers too just not asstrong so really not a lot changed actually.’

On the other hand,I think the story as told in the novels, manga and side stories ismuch stronger. I feel like when Gora doesn’t have to worry aboutstretching out a narrative things do better and since the differentside materials tend to have a much smaller cast there’s more time tolet the individual characters breathe. The vast majority of myfavorite character moments are from the side materials because therewas less need to juggle the entire cast and they could focus onsmaller groups. In general I feel like K’s story is stronger when theshow is able to tighten the narrative – just from a writingstandpoint I think the movie is the strongest animated part of thefranchise simply because it had a story that fit into exactly theamount of run time they had and worked well at balancing the needs ofmain characters with that of the plot, rather than stretching thingsout to end on certain moments. Even with the side materials there’sstill weak points and definitely plenty of things that Gora neverthought of or left out (we still don’t know if a King can abdicatelike Munakata told Mikoto to do in S1, the Slate’s origin remains acomplete mystery) but I don’t entirely mind that, it gives more roomfor fanfic to fill in the blanks :P

As for Yata andFushimi, kinda the same with everything else I like and dislike theirrelationship in LSW. I think the early half of the novel is the best,I love seeing how they became friends, Yata taking care of sickFushimi is one of my very favorite moments in all of K and I like howyou can really see why Fushimi especially became so attached to Yata,how Yata was the first person to ever really care about him or showhim affection and he clung to it, while Yata who wanted to be neededfound someone who he both looked up to and wanted to protect andthey’re just so sweet together. The final third of the novel thingsget messier though, mainly because the focus on Fushimi makes itharder to get what Yata’s feeling (I’m also not a fan of having Hisuiin there just because there’s never any payoff and it even adds anunnecessary plothole when ROK comes around and Hisui never evenmentions what happened in LSW after meeting Fushimi, like if you’renot going to make use of it why even have it in there). I would haveliked to see a little more focus om the real issues pulling themapart rather than Hisui’s intervention, that more worked as acatalyst of things that already existed. I do think you get a goodidea of how isolated Fushimi felt and how he felt like he and Yatawere breaking anyway so he might as well smash the rest of it. Thebetrayal scene in the manga especially was a gut punch, particularlythat last frame of little Saru standing angrily in front of a burninganthill, just giving a visual to the idea of Fushimi setting fire tothe thing he loves on his own because it’s easier than watchingsomeone else destroy it.

#k project #Talking K #these are just my general thoughts though #the anime is the weakest part of the franchise to me #ROK had some big glaring pacing issues #I already made a whole post back right after it aired detailing changes I would have made #I actually liked Mikoto's death originally bc I thought it was refreshing of them to actually kill him off and not bring him back #but after some of the asks I've answered I feel like it could have been more interesting if he'd lived #there would have been a lot of possibilities for ROK