all the skill descriptions are clear
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fake edit: or well, to be fair, most of them are. But quite a few aren't. I've needed to ask here many times.
a bunch of insanely apologetic nonsense
What you are describing has a definition. It's called "bad writing." There are a few plot beats and character conflicts where you can see some bits of interesting, creative expression
behind the poor writing, that's true. But mostly, it's just a terribly clichéd, nonsensical story told by people who have no idea how to tell one. What it is mostly, however, is
juveline. With lots of really "oh wow so cool" characters that have really edgy moments about how mysterious and powerful they are, unless they're the exact opposite: loaded up on sugar rushes and naiveté. The story is continously told in an "and then this happened"-style where each individual beat has no relation with previous event. Exposition is delivered in the most hilarious infantile manner:
Let's say, for instance, that a character uses a pronoun of a place or a character we don't know. Then what will follow is three or four text boxes - sometimes even with brackets - word for describing what that is.
Like, Ray will say "the white tiger gang", and the next text box will literally be "the white gang, the gang which so-and-so, led by him-and-him, who has done this-and-this." Sometimes this will even happen with stuff we do know about, but the writers have made up som new element of whatever it is we're reading about, and so they have to repeat the exposition in full - only now with their new addition. It's kind of incredible that there are adults who will write stuff in this manner, even the worst fanfiction online will usually be more refined than this.
It is horribly clear that the team made up the story as they went along with minor characters barely introduced suddenly becoming significant plot points out of the blue only to lose their relevance again (something very typical for anime) - and almost every single plot beat and character motivation is the kind teenagers dream up when they have to explain to themselves why their trivial lives are very important and whatever happened to them at school that day was very dramatic. It is melodramatic and has next to no redeming qualities.
Though, and unfortunately I went through a good amount of crap before I finally drew this conclusion; anime fans just enjoy melodrama and teenagers doing teenage stuff in a way teenagers would think makes for good drama. Which is the only explanation I have for why so many attempt to write these things off as good storytelling.
Troubleshooter is just about the worst example I've ever seen, though.
