What really bugs me about ViVid is Einhart.
She doesn't make sense as a character. Take every complaint I have about the lack of information regarding Yuuno's family and childhood, and double it for her.
Despite her long royal lineage, all other evidence points to her simply POPping into existence fully formed from the aether, complete with enough money to support herself, pay for a prestigious private school, buy a nice home and extensive set of training equipment, and presumably bribe all government, school and tournament officials into ignoring her utter lack of parental figures or legal guardianship.
Where are her parents? Grandparents, uncles or aunts? Where are the individuals who signed the forms that would allow her to attend that school and competition? Who the hell told her that Vivio existed, let alone that she was the clone of Olivie Segbrecht? Who told her about Ixpellia, whose very existence should be a top federal secret?
At the beginning of the manga, I was absolutely sure that Einhart was being used as a catspaw by some villainous benefactor, much as Jail was using Lutecia. Because only a villainous benefactor would be THAT well-connected and well-informed, and do nothing to stop her from going out in the middle of the night to harass and clobber innocent people.
Not only did the manga fail to deliver on these reasonable expectations, it asked me to swallow that there was ANOTHER Belkan Emperor contemporaneous with Olivie (a senseless multiplicity which would only get worse further on), and somehow his descendants survived to the present day and NO ONE apparently knows about them, despite the fact that they would periodically sport his hair color and memories and ridiculous strength because of magic-science genetic tampering.
My current theory is that Tsuzuki wanted to give Vivio a lesbian lover who had equal royal status and similar genetic-engineering issues (not that these issues seem to bother them at all), and that's basically the only reason why we got Einhart as she is. Oh, and she had to be the Fate figure to Vivio's Nanoha, but Tsuzuki "helpfully" cut out the "delay" of also having to deal with a Presea Testarossa analogue.
Aside from that, I suppose my next major complaint about ViVid is how all of the flashbacks depict Ancient Belka as some kind of idealized hodgepodge of Medieval Western Europe, with stone castles, foot soldiers using simple swords and plate armor, and horses.
This is supposed to be an interdimensional/interstellar empire where magical talent is common, weapons are computerized magical swords or wizard's staves, armor is made from mana and thin as cloth, people fly under their own power or in fricking spaceships when they don't simply teleport, orbital bombardment is a valid tactical option, armies were supplemented with robot drones, and military industrialization of mass-based weaponry was SO BAD that the Belkan homeworld might now be uninhabitable because of global pollution rather than some other empire's planet-cracker super-weapon.
She doesn't make sense as a character. Take every complaint I have about the lack of information regarding Yuuno's family and childhood, and double it for her.
Despite her long royal lineage, all other evidence points to her simply POPping into existence fully formed from the aether, complete with enough money to support herself, pay for a prestigious private school, buy a nice home and extensive set of training equipment, and presumably bribe all government, school and tournament officials into ignoring her utter lack of parental figures or legal guardianship.
Where are her parents? Grandparents, uncles or aunts? Where are the individuals who signed the forms that would allow her to attend that school and competition? Who the hell told her that Vivio existed, let alone that she was the clone of Olivie Segbrecht? Who told her about Ixpellia, whose very existence should be a top federal secret?
At the beginning of the manga, I was absolutely sure that Einhart was being used as a catspaw by some villainous benefactor, much as Jail was using Lutecia. Because only a villainous benefactor would be THAT well-connected and well-informed, and do nothing to stop her from going out in the middle of the night to harass and clobber innocent people.
Not only did the manga fail to deliver on these reasonable expectations, it asked me to swallow that there was ANOTHER Belkan Emperor contemporaneous with Olivie (a senseless multiplicity which would only get worse further on), and somehow his descendants survived to the present day and NO ONE apparently knows about them, despite the fact that they would periodically sport his hair color and memories and ridiculous strength because of magic-science genetic tampering.
My current theory is that Tsuzuki wanted to give Vivio a lesbian lover who had equal royal status and similar genetic-engineering issues (not that these issues seem to bother them at all), and that's basically the only reason why we got Einhart as she is. Oh, and she had to be the Fate figure to Vivio's Nanoha, but Tsuzuki "helpfully" cut out the "delay" of also having to deal with a Presea Testarossa analogue.
Aside from that, I suppose my next major complaint about ViVid is how all of the flashbacks depict Ancient Belka as some kind of idealized hodgepodge of Medieval Western Europe, with stone castles, foot soldiers using simple swords and plate armor, and horses.
This is supposed to be an interdimensional/interstellar empire where magical talent is common, weapons are computerized magical swords or wizard's staves, armor is made from mana and thin as cloth, people fly under their own power or in fricking spaceships when they don't simply teleport, orbital bombardment is a valid tactical option, armies were supplemented with robot drones, and military industrialization of mass-based weaponry was SO BAD that the Belkan homeworld might now be uninhabitable because of global pollution rather than some other empire's planet-cracker super-weapon.
