>>56791921>you'd expect him to have a full meltdown when the haughty Gary had his will broken for somewhat less. Instead, Paul just smiles and everyone acts like they're now best friends. There's no payoff, no lesson truly learn, no comeuppance; it's a copout ending, like they couldn't bear to have their OC look bad for even a minute.I agree it could have been done better. Well, the ending of DPP is trash anyway so it fits the theme.
As for Gary and season 1. I suppose it's less of a shonen and more of a fun, surreal anime from the 80/90s so it's fine if he is a big jerk who accomplishes nothing.
The problem, as it's been noted, is that most of the creative juice was used during the first 24 episodes.
It's not bad after that, but the early run is just kino after kino
