How do you fix it /m/?

>>13634217
Don't bitch out when you say you're gonna kill somebody.
Also, Be less "smart." Seriously, at least when Urobuchi is normally being pseudo-intellectual he doesn't come off as a fucking retard, just kind of dumb.

>>13634217

Inaho is a tactical genius due to his unique approach to fighting the Martians, which is basically based on cheating and exploits rather than conventional military tactics. The Earth armies are trying to fight a war, when what they need to be doing is playing Dark Souls or Monster Hunter.

However, Inaho is a shitty pilot. His ideas are good, but he overthinks things to much to have good reflexes. Alcoholic dude and his classmates have to actually carry his plans to fruition, and sometimes that means making the choice between sacrificing someone he knows or losing a fight and getting everyone killed.

After meeting up with the rest of the army, Inaho and his team get drafted into a special unit of martian hunters. Everyone who has had any success at all against the martian Kats, be it tactics, piloting skill, or just good luck, is being grouped together. Inaho is exceptional, but not unique. There are others out there that are also pushing back against the Martian invaders.

At some point, Inaho makes an incorrect assumption about how the martian tech of a given enemy works, and it gets someone killed. The other members of the special team manage to salvage the situation, but it shows that Inaho isn't infallible.

Don't end the midseason with writing yourself into a corner where your only two options are to kill ALL of your main characters or make it clear that everyone in that rooms has too much plot armor to ever die.
Maybe what you do is Inaho is forced to deploy as the pilot whose job it is to ferry around the princess because they need every available pilot, and this way his job is just to stay out of the action as much as possible and let the actually good pilots fight. Sausbaum catches up to them and managed to shoot them down after an extended chase scene. Princess and Inaho are both badly hurt, but Slaine cuts a deal with Sausbaum for Princess's life and leave Inaho to die.

>>13634311

If we absolute must keep the robot-eye with onboard AI thing, make it so that using an increasingly large portion of Inaho's brain actually matters and has long term detrimental effects instead of just being an informed risk.

Like, Inaho eventually stops being Inaho and it becomes clear that the program is just completing the last objectives that Inaho gave it before he lost self awareness. Protect his sister, win the war, and (on the request of the Princess) "Save Slaine".

Once the war is over and all of his objectives are completed, the AI just sort of... stops. All tasks completed, end of line. Basically going into a vegetative state or a coma with no expectation that he will ever recover.

I would prefer, however, if by the end of the show the Princess has to get her hands dirty at least once. We saw this a little in the first few episodes where she used the grenade launcher, and the intro where she pulls a gun. I want Princess to, for the good of both Earth and Mars, be forced to put a bullet into Sausbaum herself.

>>13634217
Shift focus entirely on Slain. Make Eggs-Kun into your average highschool student with emotions.

>>13634217
3-episode OVA short with less exposition in the first episode, or ends at the halfway point, "sometimes the good guys don't win".

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>>13634311
>>13634333
Not bad.

>>13634217
Inaho isn't the brilliant snowflake that he was, and some of his plans fail with severe consequences. He has to deal with it and with those who may be angry with him.

Martians aren't as stupid as they were either. The first few losses are due to legitimate underestimating of their opponents and location they're fighting in, but those losses are learned from by subsequent reinforcement.

Inaho legitimately dies or ends in a coma when that point comes, and the rest of the war is up to his comrades taking up the banner and forging onwards, using what they've learned working with him and their own experiences to forge ahead.

Princess does a bit more. We see she wasn't completely useless. Let her be the one to deliver a key blow near the end.

Let it end on an uncertain note. Not everything was quite resolved, but for the time being, the war is over and things have stabilized. This is not to encourage another sequel, but just to give it a straighter war story.

As it is, it tried to be a more serious Code Geass, but failed in every possible way.

>>13634217
Inaho dies due to overconfidence and the Martians actually making effort to study him and study how to properly fight on and around Earth.

Princess is revealed as the true mastermind, using the war to bring out those who want her dead and dealing with them. She marries to help end the war once all real opposition have been dealt with.

Slaine ends up being one of the Princess' best puppets, and lets him take the fall for everything.

>>13634217
Inaho is a girl. Slaine becomes obsessed with her and pursues her. Stuff happens. She ends up pregnant. Slaine takes responsibility. They end up marrying and leaving the war behind.

>>13634242
>Be less "smart.
Modern anime in general could learn from this.

It's not that you can't have a point/themes, but you don't have to be jerking off to it all the time. Let it naturally play out

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>>13634552
I wish they would stop being outrageous and full of twists just for the sake of it.

inb4 valvrager

>>13634654
The reliance on crazy twists is that even if it is a terrible show the average anime fan will hang on and go crazy when it happens.

>>13634654
The thing is, Valvrave doesn't actually twist for the sake of it.

There's a bit of thought put into its twists, if you go back and look at it. It serves its purpose in keeping viewers hooked on a weekly basis, but it's nothing like the impulsive bullshit AZ employs where things happen without actual thought.

>>13634676
I guess take a look at MJP and Buddy Complex nothing ground breaking but, standard mecha show with good production values. I believe Valvrave BD outsold both of those shows.

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>>13634690
>Valvrave doesn't actually twist for the sake of it.
Found the retard

>>13634699
>>13634676
VVV only sold more due to the ticket offers once they stopped it dropped like a rock, despite tgat it doesn't seem to be getting any more support.

>>13634748
Stick to A/Z faggot

>>13634690
Valvrave twists for its "themes", even if it goes against previous logic. I don't think its story was really strong enough for that though. That's why most people turned against the show when the twists weren't fun anymore.

>>13634823
Most people didn't think Valvrave had a story to begin with and act like it being serious in the second half was the staff missing the point of what made the show "fun."