In Another World with My Smartphone Anime adaptation (Crunchyroll & Funi)
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@HarmlessDave said in In Another World with My Smartphone Anime adaptation (Crunchyroll & Funi):
Was Rene in S1 or did they skip over the arc where Touya recruited her? It's been so many years now I've forgotten.
Yep, she is in S1.
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She is in season 1.
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This season of smartphone must be a joke. It is just terrible, They skip all the important stuff for the side stories. It is turning into a Index III situation. To many books in too short of a season.
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Wow what a train wreck.
As a book reader I am completely disgusted by this season. Way to skip all the good stuff and concentrate on the harem too much. If i knew it was going to be this bad I would have skipped the entire thing. Book 7 which is this episode was one of my favorites. They completely removed the best part.
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@Kamijou-Touma Concentration on the harem was obvious way back when casting decisions for Hilde and Sakura were announced. Especially given how long it takes for their arcs to start, let alone conclude. The Smartphone LNs are jam packed with non-critical content and 3+ different ongoing storylines at this point in time.
As a book reader, I see the constraints the anime production team faced in trying to "finish" what season 1 started with exceedingly unlikely subsequent seasons and while it's by no means great, I do find it satisfactory. I also don't find Smartphone to have top notch writing, it has some good points but it firmly sits in average quality.
And from all the anime I've watched where I've also read the related source material; source material quality directly correlates to anime adaptation quality. The worst adaptations I've seen also have had the worst source material.
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@endoftheline Let's just face it, Smartphone is too complex of a LN to be properly adapted into an anime. Kind of like how entire sections of the Harry Potter books didn't make it into the movie. (SPEW, anyone?)
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@Paul-Nebeling Tangentially, is the LN significantly better than the anime? I enjoyed about the first 2/3 of season 1 and then got bored of it really quickly. Enough that I never bothered with the LN. But I'm currently experiencing Death March withdrawal and would welcome a decently written, moderately complex, but light and easy going story about an OP protagonist.
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@unknownmat In terms of tone, Vols 1-3 fairly closely match the anime. As in it's a lighthearted, walk-the-earth, adventure kind of story. Season one of the anime did a fairly good job at capturing that feeling, but it definitely retained a fraction of the short stories/arcs told in those volumes.
As for season two, while it's covered some incidental stories, it has pretty much focused on the events surrounding the remaining three girls becoming Touya's fiancés in a pretty liberal retelling. So it's probably better just to think of it as an alternate timeline.
Comparing Smartphone to Death March, if Smartphone represents junk food (e.g., lighthearted, easy street, antagonists exist purely as an outlet for MC's violence, all highs no lows, etc.) I'd say Death March can at least be recognized as a meal (e.g., firmly idealistic, has lows but always resolves to a supposed 'best' ending, MC generally has a mature outlook, etc.).
If you're looking for any complexity, I'd say Smartphone isn't a series that has it in any meaningful quantity. The overarching pattern of series is Touya goes somewhere (once he's acquired all the fiancés, occasionally one or two join him), makes friends with governing leaders of some group (countries/organizations) by helping them resolve some problem, then goes home and does random things until the cycle repeats. It's a very gross generalization, but it is how the series is structured.
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@endoftheline Appreciate the response. I'm not against junk food, excepting that it can get boring if it becomes too predictable. My bigger concern is that I'm not a big fan of the harem plot device. It's not that I can't tolerate it at all, but more that the fewer pages spent on it the better. I saw you mention above that the anime overplayed the harem aspects, and so I was hoping the LN might be worth a quick read while I wait for the next Death March (not until September...grr). But it sounds like I should focus on other stories instead.
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@unknownmat TBF, the original trio of haremettes worked for me; he met them naturally, their relationship developed organically as they all adventured together, so I could accept it.
The fourth essentially forced her way in, but paid her dues in story time and eventually became a developed part of the group.
Everyone after that, well… superficial justification for joining, and very few get significant screen time, let alone character development. Ehhhh.
The first few volumes are fun enough as cotton-candy-fluff power fantasy, where the MC overpowers everything but at least gets to be somewhat clever about it. I dropped out around volume 10, because the previous 3-4 volumes escalated the power creep and lost a lot of the creativity that made it tolerable.
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@unknownmat I'd say after the harem arc concludes (Vol 10), other than their periodic dates. It's more that the series has to remind the reader that, yes, this is a harem series and Touya does have nine fiancés. Which as I understand is partly because the author forgot about them in the WN and the LN solution was to basically include 1-3 of them when Touya goes out wandering the world.
As for the anime overplaying the harem... the other storylines happening at the same time are: collecting Babylon, the Phrase, country and ally development, plus another two which were cut from S2.
There might've been other story arcs that happen concurrently with the harem arc, but I probably forgot about them. New story arcs began after the harem and Babylon arcs completed, so the series never really focused on just one or two elements at a time. The variety in concurrent stories honestly probably helped keep my interest since it allowed the author to spread things around preventing the series from ever becoming too monotonous.
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@endoftheline said in In Another World with My Smartphone Anime adaptation (Crunchyroll & Funi):
As for the anime overplaying the harem... the other storylines happening at the same time are: collecting Babylon, the Phrase, country and ally development, plus another two which were cut from S2.
Ok. When you say it like that, it sounds like there's enough going on concurrently to keep it reasonably interesting, even if I just skim over the more harem-y stuff. I went ahead and grabbed Volume 1. I appreciate the thoughts.
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I loved season 1 the pacing was great.
I think they really painted themselves into the corner when they unveiled all Touyas wives at the end of the 1st season.I am worried that they will end the season after book 10.
They could have made it better. It just seems lazy to me.Why introduce Carol Rilletes at all. They leave her whole story out. Poor Renne.
Why waste most of a episode on this stupid side story. Mystic Eyes of the Catoblepas.
It would not have been that hard to put everything they skipped.
I have say that this is worse than Index III.
I just can't wait for next week to see how they screw up the end of the season.
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I'm finally watching the rest of season 2, and as others say it's condensed to the point it's disappointingly shallow. Not terrible, just disappointing
I'm also not impressed by the action scenes. Touya rescuing Hilde in their first meeting was a great scene in the LN, but was rather bland visually in the anime. I wish they'd put a bit more of the budget into that part.
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Wow, they decided to screw up the last episode worse than I thought. Now they show all the girls in their wedding dress. While completely skipping Leen and Sakura and how join the harem. I hope they do not have 3rd season.
This is from the afterword of book 28
By the time this volume releases, season 2 of the anime should already have
started airing. I hope you’re enjoying it.
In order to have all the heroines appear in the second season, the timeline
has been altered a little from the original novel, but I hope you find those
differences fun to watch.My reaction was hell no.
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@Kamijou-Touma said in In Another World with My Smartphone Anime adaptation (Crunchyroll & Funi):
Wow, they decided to screw up the last episode worse than I thought. Now they show all the girls in their wedding dress. While completely skipping Leen and Sakura and how join the harem.
That didn't bother me much since it was only a view through the spoiler-time-viewer, and they did something similar in season 1 and in the novels.
I hope they do not have 3rd season.
I could see a third season being good if it was more action than comedy, and covered the full Phrase war to the conclusion. There was a lot of filler in those volumes that could easily be cut like spending a volume on an auto race. All of the
anti-China-racismYulong be lying sneaky thieves I tells ya parts could be cut as well.Even if they made that choice though, if the budget was only as high as this season's I'd expect the large scale battles to be underwhelming.
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@HarmlessDave If there's a third season, I'd suspect it'd cover
and probably go for completing Babylon as the finale. The Phrase, escaped servile god, and Touya-style diplomacy would be filler material.
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@HarmlessDave said in In Another World with My Smartphone Anime adaptation (Crunchyroll & Funi):
@Kamijou-Touma said in In Another World with My Smartphone Anime adaptation (Crunchyroll & Funi):
Wow, they decided to screw up the last episode worse than I thought. Now they show all the girls in their wedding dress. While completely skipping Leen and Sakura and how join the harem.
That didn't bother me much since it was only a view through the spoiler-time-viewer, and they did something similar in season 1 and in the novels.
I hope they do not have 3rd season.
I could see a third season being good if it was more action than comedy, and covered the full Phrase war to the conclusion. There was a lot of filler in those volumes that could easily be cut like spending a volume on an auto race. All of the
anti-China-racismYulong be lying sneaky thieves I tells ya parts could be cut as well.Even if they made that choice though, if the budget was only as high as this season's I'd expect the large scale battles to be underwhelming.
Good luck with that. They will spend all the season on how Leen and Sakura join the harem, The crystal they used to show the future doesn't even work that way.
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@Kamijou-Touma said in In Another World with My Smartphone Anime adaptation (Crunchyroll & Funi):
This series is a lost cause as an anime.
I'm inclined to agree, but am curious as to why you think so.
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@Paul-Nebeling said in In Another World with My Smartphone Anime adaptation (Crunchyroll & Funi):
@Kamijou-Touma said in In Another World with My Smartphone Anime adaptation (Crunchyroll & Funi):
This series is a lost cause as an anime.
I'm inclined to agree, but am curious as to why you think so.
I loved season 1They skipped so much good stuff in the 2nd season to focus on the harem. Wasting time on the side stories. Why introduce Caroline Rilletes at all. Founding of Brunhild was mostly skipped. The book has good world building they skip most of it.
