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@Gamen why? The animation ?
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@Zeronos Because it's an anime adaptation. I abhor them: They ruined anime for me so I can't even watch my old favorites anymore, much less anything new and original...
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I guess one advantage Seirei Gensouki has going for it is that the novels all effectively end with "and the adventure continues." Provided no further cast is revealed, I'd say it'll go through the first 4 volumes.
Thinking about it, Volume 3 can more or less be ignored. So far the only thing in it that has had any long term repercussions out of that volume is Rio going all in on revenge, and he basically announced that fact to the Spirit Folk elder council. So the anime could get away with introducing a timeskip, without changing the story at all.
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I think they will skip past most of volume 2/3 content and will end around volume 6 ( but will only be 12 episodes and everyone will hate it ( i mean i want it to do well but they cut so much content for the anime adaptation most of the time it's a completely different story)
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They can quickly go through vol 1-3 in two episodes each by skipping through all the unnecessary scenes.
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my thoughts on how it might play out
personally i would prefer it if they just did V1-3 but if they do more the only other logical stopping point might be Vol 4 with Miharu/Masato/Aki being moved to the spirit folk village and a silhouette of Satsuki ending it as past that the story kinda just keeps going with no non-mid-volume stopping point.
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Yea volumes 2 and 3 are really full of unnecessary scenes, with the end of v3 being one of the most important
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Ahahaha. Of course Yoshitsugu Matsuoka will be voicing Rio. These kinds of roles are just made for him.
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I'm a bit concerned with how this series will be adapted but it will at least be fun to see the characters fully animated and voiced.
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It will be unsatisfying if they end the anime on volume 3.
If it will become a 2-cour then the 1st cour ending there would be okay but the next good stopping point would be after Miharu gets rescued from Gesuhisa since that is also when the LN greatly diverged from the WN.With that said that would be a 10 volume adaptation. It's still possible to have a good adaptation depending on how they cut parts of the story. Normally a 1-cour anime adapts 4 volumes worth on content so it could still work. We just need to believe on the skill of the Production Team.
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This is not a series that I expect to adapt to anime well, and all but the best adaptations inevitably end up being a fair bit worse than the books they're based on, but it at least should help the books sell - which is usually the main point of doing an anime adaptation of a LN series. So, it's probably good that it's going to be made, but I doubt that I'll bother watching it.
I've gotten to the point that I feel like anime adaptations are usually a waste of my time. At best, they get me interested in a book series that I wasn't aware of, but I pay enough attention to the US LN market that if it's a series that I'm not aware of, then the odds are that it's not available in English, in which case, it's just making me aware of books that I can't even read. And while the US LN market is way larger than it used to be, it's still the case that far more series never get licensed than do - even among those with anime adaptations - so the odds of a particular anime adaptation having its full source material adapted are never good - though at least they're not close to zero like they used to be.
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realistically Vol 4 would be the last place to end it on a decent note with simply a cutscene showing future characters (satsuki and liselotte) since starting with Vol 5 the story has run with little to no stopping point nor major time skips that could be used as one unless they stop mid volume though that would question where at as Celia's wedding would be a weird part to end as would the monster carriage attack and any later is just asking for a minimum mid Vol 11 run (post takashitsa punch)
in all i see Vol 5- vol 11 as a long continuous run better suited for its own season if ever.
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i do hope that getting an anime doesn't slow down/ delay the Ln's in japan as it does sometimes happen
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@whyohwhy1 We're still catching up to Japanese release, I think their latest volume is 17, to be released soonish.
As for the anime, I expect it to be quick paced and if they are smart, they stop at volume 4.
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@Zing 17 was back in september, next one is i believe 18 on Dec 1st
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@SoullessMinion said in Seirei Gensouki Anime Announcement:
next one is i believe 18 on Dec 1st
Yep, and pre-orders for the ebook version finally opened up like yesterday or today.
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I'm looking forward to this. I just hope that they do a good job with it. It's a great story that deserves to be well represented as far as an anime goes. The preview look pretty good quality wise so here's to hoping. 🤞
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The issue is the slow build up of the series and how the arc system was drafted.
To me, my least favourite, in the sense of reading constantly, is the 2nd volume. My favourite of the early arcs is the 5th, silver bride, and volume 3 of the Yamato arc. Both are self enclosed enough to be read alone.Sadly, I fear for the slow build up if only a 12/13 episode season cour. Seirei needs a 24/25 to bring it up to volume 5 which is a good enough end point. This would only be possible in a 1213 single season (as expected) if the episodes are rushed through, or the second volume is rushed through with volume 4 as well.
Personally I regard, volume 1, 3 and 5 as being the true essentials of the early series. Everything else is for icing.
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I agree that 13 episodes is way to short. Unfortunately, too many new anime series are capped at 13 episodes max, with no second season ever being produced. Bad part is, most stories would start to get really good where a second season, episodes 14-26, would be. It's a conundrum, but unfortunately anime has devolved into more of a marketing tool that anything. -
@shrike_al Well, he is the harem king, after all.
