World Trigger is a very solid battle shounen that focuses more on tactics and strategies in it's fight rather then the usual ass pulls we see in most shounens nowadays. It's similar to why I love the battles in Railgun, they rely on no power ups mid battle and only their current selves and the show does this very well making each of it's battles very enjoyable and engaging to watch. Adding onto it is a great wide cast of characters all with their own quirks and way of fighting that adds onto how enjoyable each battle is. It's power system Triggers are done very well, it could look complicated on the outside but it's fairly simple once you understand it. The show definitely hits it's peak during the middle where we got to see all of this at its best.

The content after the middle sadly isn't as good I found. One complaint I'm sure most know of this anime is that it's pacing is very slow, and it definitely is but honestly I don't think it gets that bad until near the end. It takes its time building up everything to it's big arc and it does that well enough to where I didn't really care how slow we were moving at the beginning. The B-Rank Wars is where I feel you really start to feel the slow pacing at its worst, it's a fine arc but the battles in it feel much slower bogged down by lengthy dialogue that feels like too much at times. Of course the dialogue is what makes half of World Triggers fight so entertaining, seeing how characters plan out their next move against an enemy, but with this arc some fights also have constant cuts to flashbacks of characters backstory to flesh them out throughout multiple episodes that after a while just feel annoying.

You start to enjoy a fight only to be interrupted five minutes later by something you most likely wont even remember, it makes each battle harder to enjoy. I'd rather we just get all of the backstory in one go just to focus on the battle without this many cuts. Quite honestly I'd recommend the manga for the last part of the series, you'll go through it much faster and probably have the same or even more amount of enjoyment there. I just wanted to get back into the interesting parts of the story by the time I was on episode 70, I had stopped caring for the most part about the B-Rank Wars. World Trigger in it's writing is solid and easily the best part about the show, I have no issues with it's story. If you're a big fan of any shounens new or old you'll probably enjoy this.

But when it comes to the production is when it starts to show it's flaws. Along with it's slow pacing is Toei Animation consistently giving you the most bare bones C- grade animation, it's very rough around the edges but is barely passable enough to keep me invested in how each fight will play out. They can still make a fight feel fast pace but their was multiple times where I had wished the animation were better. Side note one of Toei Animations freelance aces [Naotoshi Shida](Naotoshi Shida) only showed up once throughout the series which I even now find surprising. I would love to keep this at a 7 but these flaws became more and more apparent as the series went on, still I had a great time with World Trigger very interested to see where the series goes.

oh and episode 49 - 63 are filler, skip that shit.