Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28171999-20190208002539/@comment-24032889-20190208174325

I think when people say V6 was anticlimactic, they're referring to just the finale. As in, the only major thing that happened that episode was Ruby's use of silver eyes. These past two volumes, the major conflict presented in the "third act" was already solved by the finale's time (Cinder's Fall, Mech's cannon destroyed), but this finale was far better than V5's because Levi presented a new conflict for the finale.

Also, it wasn't anticlimactic because Ruby learned to harness her power, but it took way too much to do and wasn't just a knee-jerk reaction like Maria's use in Episode 7. It would be anticlimactic if Ruby's silver eyes suddenly weren't needed and Levi got off'ed some other way. Now, she didn't kill Levi, but he had no chance to attack anymore. But since Ruby got considerable development this volume, the finale paid a lot of that off and it wasn't anticlimactic.