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>I know there's other good stuff out there might be missing, but time constraints these days either way.
only one i always recommend is samurai champloo. in the end everyone just needs to find the sources of entertainment that insult their sensibilities the least.

>Just starting to feel it's heavily carried by Ufotable's animation.
definitely agree. it's very nice to look at. if you ignore the weird proportions of the characters, that is.

>but the main cast of characters are largely boring and have one trick gags that keep getting repeated and repeated.
they're boring at best and completely insufferable at worst. the yellow one in particular. i was considering dropping the series because of him the most. than i watched digimon: ghost game and discovered that the screaming, narcoleptic retard that becomes hyper-competent when unconscious is actually an archetype now. a character who only exists so they can keep him screeching for the whole show with no meaningful progression or lessons learned. fucking hell.

>Even for a shonen, character development is almost non existent.
agreed.

>And it tries really hard to be silly in a non funny way during non action segments.
also true. i'd argue the same for fullmetal alchemist, but man did you need those moments the more the story went on...

>Only 5 episodes and then real season starts and stays good all the way through.
maybe they should have told me somewhere. i was watching the show when it aired and waiting an entire week to watch an episode in an arc i couldn't care less about with no clue when it would end was not very enticing. by the middle of episode two i was seething pretty hard. ^^' only one show that made me madder, i think.

>Flashback itself I thought was pretty meaningful development by the end
i'll take your word for it. ^^