>>53439601>Tamer had better storyFirst half of Tamers was dull monster-of-the-week bullshit, with Takato literally crying all the time, Ruki/Rika being way too angsty and emo for a literal ten year old, and Henry/Lee having barely a fraction as much personality as his own partner did. It was fucking rough. I firmly believe that the first half of Tamers was written under some kind of heavy scrutiny from the executives, and as soon as the higher-ups looked away, Chiaki J. Konaka immediately got high on LSD and started cramming in as much Lovecraft and emotional trauma as he could fit into the story, and by the time the executives peeked in again, it was too late to rewrite the later half of the series. There's no other way to explain the magnificent tonal shift from, "ineffectual government agency monitoring monster attacks that kids fight off because adults are useless" to "entropic nightmare from two-levels deep into alternate realities has breached dimensions to consume the world and speaks with the voice of a little girl, who it also holds hostage, and by the way the little girl is a victim of parental neglect"
