This series fundamentally cannot decide what it's trying to be, which is highlighted by its abuse of sexual violence. Most of the time it's a goofy and upbeat action-adventure with Arc screwing around in an alternate world as a skeleton armored like a main battle tank, and picking up some strong and goofy companions.
But then we turn around and basically every villain is victimizing women to show how evil he is and then show how much of a badass Arc is when he swoops in and rescues them. I don't really have a problem with the use of sexual violence in fiction: tropes are tools. I have a big problem with fetishizing it, and this series is awful about that.
And then we turn around and it's off to the next goofy adventure: no stopping to even acknowledge the horror of what we just saw, it's random acts of fanservice committed against an extra, except when it's committed against Ariane instead. And the cycle repeats to the point of annoyance.
But then we turn around and basically every villain is victimizing women to show how evil he is and then show how much of a badass Arc is when he swoops in and rescues them. I don't really have a problem with the use of sexual violence in fiction: tropes are tools. I have a big problem with fetishizing it, and this series is awful about that.
And then we turn around and it's off to the next goofy adventure: no stopping to even acknowledge the horror of what we just saw, it's random acts of fanservice committed against an extra, except when it's committed against Ariane instead. And the cycle repeats to the point of annoyance.