Since this thread is still going....

- Awful villain with the motivation of a teenage emo child

- The end times didn't feel impactful at all

- False high stakes with a much too obvious happy ending

- Time travel? Seriously?

- Is even worse without knowing the ShB story

The villain is trash, nobody actually thought the world was going to die, or the scions, friendship is magic is a tired trope, time travel never works, and the introduction of dynamis is an enormous deux ex. And Zodiark deserved better, I'm so tired of brainlets going "but he wuz suppased to beh secand fiddle, it subv0rtz the expuctashions" - that does NOT mean they had to make him filler garbage for the first trial!