>>723534128
It's really, really not. It's incredibly dramatic at all times and takes everything up to 15. Usually it works, but every now and then it's so fucking stupid that it blows you out and you realise it's nothing but hype moments and aura.

Like, the classic example. Creek v Oguri. What was Creek's EVIL PLAN that made her the DEMON QUEEN? She just did normal training. And that was enough to beat Oguri. I guess nobody ever just did normal training, or trained at all against Oguri? Literally all she did was just train? Really?

And even before that, the "From the start, she's been manipulating this entire race! It was all under her control!?" What did she do again? She started her final spurt a few seconds earlier because she's famous for having a lot more stamina than most Umas. Every single other Uma in the race went crazy at the idea of Creek starting her spurt earlier than is standard.

And it's all presented with absolute crazy hype, and we see Creek as this mastermind strategist, hunched over countless documents and training plans, going "No, no, this won't work. I need... Yes, if I..." Like she's this 200IQ genius. And then Inari won because uhhhh, there's really no story reason, she just won that race IRL so they had her win it anyway despite Creek's DEMON QUEEN plans even though that completely breaks the narrative.