#seibai itasu at what cost (event that hinges on a plot device and a retcon and doesn't even have a payoff)

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what is your least favorite event in terms of story ?

sekai happy new year is the most filler event to ever filler but if we don't count the filler new year events then.... detective tenma? aside from that one conversation between daigo and tsukasa where the untrained is from it's abysmally written. like i get that that slot had to be a tsukasa event and there was no way around it, but it needed more time in the oven. like he's been shown to be pretty athletic and flexible and the fact they backtracked on that especially when he's still doing the splits and high kicks in every other 3dmv is just really lazy. the wall thing is also kinda stupid and Not That Hard but idk metaphor for him struggling to overcome walls in terms of skill, and he's the kind of character to obssess over those sorts of things. he's married to the grind it's fine.

the thing that probably frustrates me most though is that he doesn't actually learn anything. he learns how to climb a wall but that wasn't his real goal here. his goal was to be able to do stage combat in-character, and work on his core strength (actually consistent detail) and flexibility. only then this plot device thief shows up and now tsukasa's issue is that he can't run fast enough or jump walls to be able to catch them. and admittedly the parkour thing was something he needed for a role (also. he loses the audition for lead role. this is an important plot detail. it's shown in a card story) but it's just. comical that they couldn't even keep his goal consistent for more than like 2 chapters. and when he finally is able to catch the thief and do all the cool parkour, HE'S NOT ACTING. He just happens to see the thief and then chases them down. and the people in town think it's part of the show so he does some adlibbing, but that's after he did all his cool stunts and has caught the guy. so he literally doesn't learn how to do stage combat in-character but the story treats it like he did so. cool i guess.

also they immediately forget the thief and then in the last chapter they're like "oh i wonder who that guy was" which is the biggest tell this story is bad. literal writer's worst nightmare aside from it was all a dream. the best part was when tsukasa did the splits and injured his crotch because it was funny.