S1 of Wakfu wa pretty nice

>S1 of Wakfu wa pretty nice
>S2 was ok
>Rest of it was shit

I hate that it became more mediocre after each season.

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Lore man. It's the bloat of every show. What's essentially the spice of a story has become the meat over the course of this decade.
I think writers are trying to chase this notion of larger than life story-telling. But trying to out-do Tolkien is madness, when Tolkien's lore made his books bloated. Ultimately, it's the themes and the characters that people remember. The world is just a place to craft obstacles for our characters to overcome. Not a character in and of itself.

It seems to me that the issue the show has is it doesn't really know what to do with the characters it has. Eva is good example. Her high point was the beginning of season 2 and then she was Grovy's GF from there on out. Ruel's not really relevant anymore.

And if they did have an idea for a character, it's execution was either botched or the idea wasn't that great to begin with. See Amalia in s3 or s3 love drama.


Also while i understand why the pitched the adventuring format and i know people generally don't like non-plot episodes, losing the adventure of week stuff i felt hindered the franchise.

>when Tolkien's lore made his books bloated.
Please, that was litterally the point of his books. The story was ultimately secondary to his world.

And that doesn't make them good books. Tolkien shit stayed niche for decades for a reason.

I think poor management of characters is a symptom of the problem, rather than the problem itself. The more you focus on world-building and lore, the less time you have to focus on the characters and the themes. I mean, how much of the world did we know in season one? Very little, right? Funny how season one is also the best season. Might have something to do with that.

But they are good books, they're just not built for the purpose of being a novel, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's okay to dislike them, but saying they're bad because they're not good novels is ridiculous.

Bad or good is beyond the point. They're self-indulgent and there's everything wrong with that.

>Eva exists to pop out babies
>Amalia exists to angst over her love life
>they forgot Ruel at a gas station back in season 2

He killed millions

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to save dozens

Ankama killed the show

Speaking of Grovy. Him coming back to life in S2 spoiled the impact of his death in S1 and also the whole 'eva struggling to accept his death' thing too.

The lore and characters and whatever is only the result, the *reason* is Wakfu, like most Ankama projects, was a hole in which they were throwing money, which they thought was fine since they had tons of money from the Dofus game and thought Wakfu would eventually produce money back thanks to all the people loving the carton then wanting to play the game. But the game was stuck in dev hell and came out years later, and had none of the things that made the cartoon fun and few things that make a game fun for that matter so that was a loss like so many other projects.

Now that the money's gone and the supere terrible release of their movie gave them a further huge blow, Ankama was sold to a big media company and their animation studio's been merged with a "more experienced and successful" studio, the guys who made that fucking Garfield CGI cartoon, so Ankama can better fit what sells to the US. You're never, ever gonna get something like the original Wakfu series again, and whatever you do get will be a covert advertisement for Waven because that's Ankama's make or break project now and it's not progressing any better than their other game projects.

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Yugo should be a villain

Don't get me wrong, but pretty much the only decent thing about Wakfu was the Necron Lord Nox. As soon as they killed him off, there was pretty much nothing watchable left

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I kind of wonder if Harebourg was supposed to the main villain of season 1 (like in a super early draft/concept) but they went with Nox to ease newbies into the world/franchise.

Nah, it's the other way round, Harebourg was introduced in the Frigost expansion of Dofus 2.0, itself released in 2010, at the tail end of Wakfu's S1 airing. Basically Nox had proven super popular but they couldn't put Wakfu era characters in Dofus so they created a Dofus-era Xelor villain as a knockoff.

I'm pretty sure Harebourg and Nox were conceptualized around 2008 or something but yeah, Harebourg was 'officialy' released as the main guy to the 3 part Frigost expansion for the dofus game years after Nox (With Harebourg being fightable at the 3rd part which was released around 2013 or so).

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I only watch it for the ecaflips

So fucking much time wasted turning football into soccer then using it twice. Dear lord they turned Wakfu into a soccer show.

That's because they had a spinoff Boufbowl game (well, two, there was a web version and a boardgame version) to sell, whch is why they pushed it hard. But then the project was left for dead, as usual.

>So fucking much time wasted
>6 episodes out of 65 episodes

>Board game version

wasn't that releaed years after season 1 and 2?

That's when it eventually came out, but it was originally revealed at the same time as the web version, in 2011, and spent the next half dozen years in dev hell.

Not the same person, while s1 bouf gets a bit of pass, s2's felt like waste especially since there was stuff that could have been better fleshed out toward the end.

it could be worse, user

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Power creep kinda ruined it.
I still love that characters though.

>Dat adult Poo design

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I would rather have 3 more Boufbowl episodes the the lame tournament arc we got in S3.

>dem kali titties
Thank god for France

It's genuinely incredible they had one successful season at all. Ankama are utterly incompetent.

S2's Boufbowl arc was badly timed when it aired originally. It aired in June I think and there was no indication when the series would resume. It ended up restarting in October.

Man, season 2 would have been interesting without Grovy. And i say that as a grovyfag.

>yugo amelia romance
Boy that was completely unnecessary

>Tfw the amount of pages and pages of Kail nips we will probably get

The whole Yugo/Amalia romance was a mistake.

It was timed to coincide with the web game's beta. One of the rare instances of Ankama getting their timing right.

I didn't even pick up on it until it was thrown in my face at season 3. Honestly I thought he had more chemistry with his dragon bro than her.

my god was my yearning for more wakfu after s2 a fucking monkeys paw. i found and watched the original 2 seasons in like 2012 and was bummed that there was no news for more at the time. tbdesu i actually thought the ovas were pretty good even if already not even better than s2. and s3 started with some potential with the premise but oh my fuckin god that ignited into a mountain high dumpster fire in the span of four episodes. they struck gold with how s1 went and just went downhill from there. sure a bunch of it is france3's faggotry but ultimately it couldn't have gotten as bad as it did without tots monumental hackery

YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE

Keeping Yugo/Amalia while adhering to the networks demand that Yugo not age was a bad idea, especially since Adamai for some reason DID age.

Actually scratch that, having everyone else age and making Yugo not being able to age a Thing was just a bad idea in general. When the network made that demand they should've just kept the show in a monster of the week format.

Let's try that again with English.

Oh no, I meant in terms of its place in the show's schedule. They were the only episodes in about 6 months.

>ywn fuck xelor thighs

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Blame Tot

straight downhill is a sad trajectory.

Like Rick & Morty.

will season 4 ever be made?

No money & no network. Best we'll ever get is a webcomic.

Nah

Season 1 was also just "okay".
Nox was the diamond in the rough in this whole show.

>Yugo doesn't get Amelia
>in fact, he gets cucked

Dropped hard.

Imagine if instead of just having Grovy come back in the first few episodes you have this entire A and B plot going on where you have Qilby's bullshit going on on one side and on the other you have Grovy trapped in Shukrute and having adventures with Rubi and the whole thing comes together for the finale with Qilby's deal with the devil.

Stop forcing this.

Damn straight.
Season 1 was mostly filler with pretty bland single-episode adventures. Nox was the hook, and they did a great job with him, but everything else was pretty forgettable.

I'm disappointed with how quickly Cleophee became irrelevant. Seriously, Eva even chose Amalia as her maid of honor rather than her own sister, I'd at least would've liked to know more about their relationship other than "jealous sibling". We already have that with Armand (I would've like to see him develop more than just Amalia's asshole brother).

>the project was left for dead, as usual
Why does this happen so much? Do they just get bored or lose the funds/audience doesn't care?

And yet they are beloved; not least because of the lore.

>Abraca airs in september
At least something new.

It's gonna be terrible

NOX movie > dofus > Ovas > Season 1 > Season 3 > Ogrest Movie > Season 2 > IOP short movie

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>tfw best girl is ded

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Who

That will probably become cancelled with only a few pieces of concept art.

Most characters end up being irrelevant in the long run (poor ruel).

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>7 months later

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>Season 3 over Season 2

Peak contrarianism.

Season 3 has no buffball