Talk:A Episode 2: Friendship Battle! Yuga versus Ranma!/@comment-25600444-20180609012134/@comment-25600444-20180609024429

I find S1 to have the most overall memorable development, tho I personally put most of S1 and Hundred up there in the character development department.

Things like Tasuku's PK moments, Genma and Yota, Tetsuya and Terumi etc.

But Hundred was definately no slouch and had Ikazuchi overall (before his brainwashing reveal UGH) and the Tasuku Sofia Timejump mini-arc, Variable Cord etc. Perticular notes going to Kiri dealing with his Miserea Counterpart and Dawn's feelings regarding Kazane.

Not to mention the awesomeness of Ban and Ricky.

I think the difference for me is that S1 took time to flesh out those moments then the other seasons did in a more natural way. Show their ramifications and such. Tho Hundred again did that with Kiri, the rest seemed like a self-contained episode(s), with no path or aftermath beyond them, seemingly forgottened.

But DDD and X were horrible for me. While Gao did have more moments, the rest of the cast took a dive.

Either because they seemed to retcon character development yet the events still happened for some reason?

Or we had to repeat the same character development path over and over, each time the quality dropping (looking at you, Noboru)

OR Characters essentially became 2D Flat Characters with gimmicks more then personality.

DDD was better cause Bal is best Gao Buddy, and Rouga's final actions were good to me (I may be biased) and Gara was awesome at toning the mood towards serious and the finale is personally the BEST part of the Buddyfight anime overall for me (Tho it kind of got spoiled as per X cause Guru Machina....), but the rest of DDD were forgetable or one notes in a chorus of loud noises with no structure.

And X was........

**closes the door**