Good, but it's League. That's enough to bring it down. -Great, interesting characters.
-Good world building.
-Great music.
-SPECTACULAR animation and character designs.
-AMAZING voice actor performances.
-I like how it follows different stories and how they effect and intersect each other.
-So why an 8? I'd honestly put it at a 7, but the animation is so good, it deserves another point. Quite frankly, it's the story. I've never felt like so many things happened, yet nothing progressed. Yes, stuff happened, but it was way more world building than plot which made it pretty boring. I don't wanna watch 10 1-hour episodes of just world building, definitely not again.
-And when plot/progression did happen, it was small, and what did it accumulate to? A hard reset in the finale. Wtf. It's like they want to hold off on any plot until they've written out all the other characters and their worlds and bank on those seasons- oh wait. See, that was the biggest issue. It felt like the writers were holding back on progressing anything and taking as little risks as possible. Probably for the reason I stated earlier. I'm hoping this issue will get better as Arcane gets more attention and more funding, but that doesn't change the product that came out finished.
-Just the fact that it is part of the League franchise is what puts me off too. League is notoriously known as the most toxic gaming community, filled with racists, sexists, and all sorts of horrible people that I have personally been a victim of, and it just doesn't feel right that instead of trying to fix their community and game, they decide to get funding from elsewhere to keep their toxic community fed. I don't like supporting that, but I'm hoping that isn't the case. For all I know, they could be using the traction of Arcane to flood anti-incels into the League community, but I doubt it since they're a huge corporation. We'll see. Just do not expect me to fund League's exploits at all until they improve their community.