For the #AnimeWatchAlong , today I watched Dive!! Ep.6.

I'm trying to put into words what doesn't work about this #anime for me. It's perhaps best illustrated using the competition from this episode:

• How does the scoring work? Most good sports anime I've seen explains the sport and its intricacies to get you interested. The most I get from Dive!! is "don't splash".
• Okitsu was so close to having an interesting arc. He did his cool dives and splashed a lot - but what's the result of that?
• Sakai's teammates had a bit of a comeback the last episode or 2 and started training seriously - but they just... failed quietly?
• So much more could've been done with Pinky - he wobbled and fell. Okay, expected. But I wanted to be invested.

It's trying to do too much and failing at all of it.

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Such unnecessary drama at the very end.

The episode was okay, I guess we're in the level-up arc (if we can call it that).

I'm getting irritated at Shibuki. Why is he there? Why not listen to the coach? He can have a "wild" or "amazing" jump, but it won't amount to much with such splash, right?

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Wow, a lot happened this episode. I was very happy to see Sakai's "friends" getting chewed out by the coach, who tells them frankly that Sakai's getting the "special" treatment cos he's actually bothering to do the training and put in the work - and they are not.

Thankfully, Yoichi has a chat with Sakai too to help him move on - which I think is why the very half-assed "apology" from the two works...

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Finally, his "friends" explode and express how they truly feel, envy.

It's not hard to see that the main character has zero ill intent behind his words, yet his envious teammates can't stand it. Just leave...

I do not agree that everybody wants to be number one. I know plenty from my badminton classes who do not want to improve; they're happy as they are. It's hard for me to understand, but there are people like that.

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The storyboarding / flow of this episode seemed a little flawed. The cutaway to the story of Yoichi's injury seemed quite out of place, and I think didn't serve much other than to take the viewer away from the main plot.

Which I'm still invested in! Sakai's training is paying off, but as his success builds resentment in his training buddies, I think he's about to learn that it's lonely at the top...

Also, uh... who is this absolute pantomime villain of a character?

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So this dude has a hobby he can focus on, that's what he's good at (or at least getting better), plus a girlfriend who wants to spend the time and brings him homemade food.

Bastard.

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