So with that we are reviewing: Zeo Abyss
Season 2
Zeo doesn't get introduced until late in season 2, but for entering the season fairly late, we see Zeo has a lot of personality, and I think in the season, he becomes one of the most interesting characters to watch, we see how loyal he is, and the lengths he would go to to protect his friends. I'll go more into these points when I cover his personality further down, through his personality we see many different sides to him, and the bad sides as we continue to watch, does become understanding to his character, and it's very easy to show sympathy for him, while also feeling sympathetic for the other characters on the other side, I've never felt something like that before, so I felt it was very unique.
Overall this season, I feel Zeo has a great personality, one of the very interesting characters to be introduced this season, and finding out his reasoning and his backstory was very interesting and kept me wondering what was going to happen next, it felt great for suspense, and he really added amazing emotion to the scenes he was playing a big role in.
Score: 9/10
Season 3
Zeo comes back for season 3, with all past issues behind him, we see his nicer sides much more, and they're very well done also. His role in season 3 isn't as large or as important as it was in season 2, but he showed up every now and then for quite a good amount of the series, he still contributes well to the team, and we get to see more on the friendships he has with his friends, which we didn't get to see very much during season 2, due to how the story went along there, I think it's good to see how he acts being a bit more carefree and seeing how the bonds with his friends is shown was also very lovely.
Overall this season, Zeo doesn't have the larger role he had in season 2, and that is a bit of a shame, but seeing a new side to his personality this season felt very calming, it was nice to see him happy again, and he still had a lot of great appearences, I think he was a great character in this season too.
Score 8.5/10
Overall
Design: I found Zeo's season 2 design to be very interesting, I'll probably assume this is due to the detail, I just find it to be a very unique design, though It seems to be far from natural, which I think is quite clever, it feels a bit like it's refering to how his personality had changed and become less natural to his true personality, and how he felt about all the events that had took place. After season 2 he gets a new more relaxed looking design, there's less detail to it, but it feels a lot more natural, and fitting to his personality, so I think I actually prefer the more simple season 3 design, it fits his nature a lot more.
Personality and other notes: *spoilers*
As I've already said, I find Zeo to be an incredibly interesting character, when we first get introduced to him, there doesn't seem to be anything different about him to other characters, but we see as we look further into his story, that there's a lot that has happened between some of the other characters, and him.We see how he met Dr. Ziggurat while his friend, Toby, was sick, and how this led to him feeling betrayel from Masamune, who left the country at the start of season 2, which led to a big misunderstanding between the two of them.
While we see how angry Zeo acts towards Masamune, and how upsets he makes him during these actions, it's understandable for him to be feeling this way, and I don't feel he can really be blamed, it shows how intense his loyalty is to Toby, and how his heart really was in the right place, and along with that, the added effects he was recieving from the Arrangement System increases his anger and intensity.
While he does and says a lot of things to the characters that is incredibly harsh towards them, I still find a lot of sympathy for him, because it was a very hard time of life for him, one of his best friends being incredibly ill, his other best friend leaving, and then being used by Dr. Ziggurat, it's hard not to be sympathetic for him, despite his actions, people have different ways of coping with things, and Zeo clearly struggled, which is completely understandable.
Zeo made season 2 very suspenseful due to this, we were left really wanting to find out more, and when we eventually did get more, it wasn't a disappointment, finding out his backstory and reasons made me see him in a new light, and you can tell deep down, he doesn't want to be doing this, and seeing how the friendship between him, Toby and Masamune used to be is both, heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time, seeing how things have changed to such an extreme, and it's great that after season 2 when all the bad moments of his life were over, we got to see the friendship between them all grow once again. (I will be discussing the friendship between them more when I get to Toby's review, since I feel that Zeo's may be a bit longer.)
You can see how much the events that take place in season 2 change Zeo, compared to him at a younger age, as we see how their life went before that, you can see the major change to his personality, where he used to be fairly carefree, with some exceptions, and quite weak in term of skills, everything changes in season 2, mainly due to the Arrangement, but it shows how strong his beliefs and morals are, to be willing to put up with everything he did, and while he changes a lot, he's still respectable for going to any lengths to look after Toby.
In season 3 when everything has settled again, Toby has recovered and Zeo has stopped taking part in Dr. Ziggurat's experiments, Zeo is shown back in his more calmer nature, which he showed when he was younger, and it's good to see him in that kind of personality again.It's nice to see how all the bad moments are behind and how Team Dungeon can just stay together as friends again, they all still have important parts to the plot, and they all still contribute a very good amount to the plot, enough to show they are still important.
Zeo is often shown together with Toby in season 3, and later on, when King joins the group, they all seem to be the perfect team, and it's really great to know they all stayed together at the very end, It makes me wonder of all the good times they must of had, while being back at Dungeon Gym, I would of loved to see more of what had happened between them all, but either way, it's a great group of friends.
But in all, Zeo's change in personality I was really happy with, since he came back to what he used to be, and showed even more how much he cares, I think he's a really respectable character for his loyalty.
Overall, I find Zeo to be a very interesting character, his change in personality was incredibly interesting for me to watch, and it always kept me in suspense, while also feeling sympathetic for him, after season 2 where the suspense in him ended, we got to see his nice side more often, and that was also great, his change in personality was something I really enjoyed and while he was more interesting in season 2, and the story was more plot important to him, he was a wonderful character in season 3, also.
Score: 9/10
Okay, that wraps up Zeo's review, looking at the current time, this may actually have to be all I can do right now, so if that is the case, reviews will start back up in a couple of weeks.
See you then.
- Surii
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