regarding Drops of God, may contain spoiler or triggering content
finished watching Drops of God 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
The series starts with a psychosomatic superpower outage, which gets unreasonably resolved in a flash. I don’t understand why the series had to make Camille be so sensitive to alcohol that she bleeds like a fountain after a shot/kiss, proceeds to confirm this to be a result of trauma with a lengthy brain-doctor scene, only to resolve this major life condition in a single moment of clarity. The writers could not make up their mind whether her childhood was traumatic or not, and suddenly it does a 180. Instead of a major trauma, what’s left from her childhood is the bounty of all her training, exposed slowly in a sequence of “time to unlock more true potential” episodes.
This contortion takes nearly a third the series for no good reason other than an attempt to reconcile common East-Asian tropes (hard training, wisdom of seniors) with common Western tropes (rural rich, sacrifices for success, life scars, youth freedom). It doesn’t work well to me, and for the most part I was more interested in Issei as a character because he was made complex in a similar way but without glaring inconsistencies.