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@lily-garden Mostly what Paul said; Celia and Latifa at least got a little more time in the PV which is appropriate since they're the actual heroines those first two books... OTOH all the other girls are basically side characters, one in particular only showing up in basically only one scene. They become important later so I suppose they have to pin down the cast if they expect this to go on for more than a single cour, but... it's a bit misleading.
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I could see them adapting the story differently from how it's presented in the novels. Unlike most, Seirei is a significantly different light novel from it's web novel predecessor. I could see them reorganizing the "prologue" stories to include more or less of certain elements from the main story and side stories. I could even see some new anime original content happening.
My guess is that if it is 13 episodes we will get the "Prologue story" up until Rio leaves Miharu and the siblings at the Spirit Village. Then we will get some side story content, and maybe some original content that takes place in the modern world.
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I could see them dumping volume 3 entirely. It has a few reveals, but those could be delivered in another manner and otherwise the book was entirely self contained.
I kinda hope this isn't going to end up a rush job like Rangarok was though.
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@flarecde They will probably montage most of village life. I mean... the random village girls fawning over Rio would be boring to watch. I'm guessing they'll show him meeting Yuba, defending the girls/hanging with Hayato, Saving Komono and then meeting his grandparents/dueling Gouki. The manga is probably the best outline for what they will do.
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I figure they're either going to skip it or not even reach it. They haven't announced casting for Sayo or Komomo or anyone else after all.
More likely not reach it, since heading to Yagumo is the whole reason he heads into the wilderness in the first place.
Unless they decide to go anime original (the horror!) and have his motivation for heading into the wilderness be mostly focused on escaping Strahl w/ Latifa and less on reaching Yagumo, and making it so he feels no need to continue on once he gets to the spirit folk village.
After all, the story's been changed significantly once before in transitioning from WN to LN :P
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@gamen said in Seirei Gensouki Anime Announcement:
After all, the story's been changed significantly once before in transitioning from WN to LN :P
That happens often. But the official adaptations(light novel, manga, anime) usually stick to a consistent story, though some exceptions exist(Skeleton Knight manga and novel differ from each other, both differ from the webnovel...).
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@gamen I guess they could spend 13 whole episodes on the first two books. A lot happens, and they can beef it up with some side story/anime original content. It would be cool if they did it as a flash back while he's chilling with Miharu in the stone house. The fact they cast both young and teenage Rio suggests we should get some teenage voice lines.
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@salientmind I wouldn't even complain if they go for the flashback approach since Rio does tell talk about his past so many times—sometimes offscreen—in the LN.
With that said, I doubt it'll happen, but color me surprised if they actually went for this approach.
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@albertrojas it also depends on how big of the budget they get to work with. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of things are cutout.
Edit: based on the poster, I feel like they are going for 4 volumes since that’s when the pick one shows up.
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I'm looking forward to this. It's easily my favorite Light Novel series, although I can't entirely say why. I feel that some of the others I've read are much more well-written, but this one just always keeps me glued. It's the only series I've read, where I have literally read every volume at least 4 or 5 times. I really want the anime to be 24 episodes and cover a lot, but I'm betting it's only going to cover the first two or three volumes. Which is a shame, because the story really starts to pick up around volume 5 or 6.
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I haven’t seen any of the major streaming services having picked this up yet.
Did I miss an announcement, or is there really a chance this doesn’t get picked up?
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@catstorm There is basically zero chance it doesn’t get picked up. Crunchyroll for instance has stated that they bid on just about everything seasonal (unless it’s something especially porny or distasteful like Redo of Healer, neither of which Seirei Gensouki fall into). So if Funimation doesn’t get this show (I think Funi is more likely given their recent-ish grab of Infinite Dendrogram, another Hobby Japan anime), Crunchyroll will get it almost by default.
Also it is very common for western streaming licenses to be announced less than a week before episode 1 broadcast, sometimes within just a day or two or even no heads up at all.
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@legitpancake lol you can tell that they are not lying either. Crunchy always has those weird anime that are drawn like crap and last 2 minutes per episode.
I'm concerned a Seirei Gensouki anime, just can't do it justice.
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@kilocron said in Seirei Gensouki Anime Announcement:
I'm concerned a Seirei Gensouki anime, just can't do it justice.
well I think that's 'a given', I mean in general anime cannot live up to LN's - they don't have the time/budget (and it is necessary to 'cover' a certain amount of plot in approx 6 hours/13 episodes) compromises must be made
That being said, for an Anime to be entertaining (to me) I have a low bar:
- does it tell a compelling story?
- (if a comedy) is it funny?
- does it avoid making me cringe?
- is it different (in some way) to other things I've seen?
get 2 out of 4 and I'll watch it - being 'true to the original' isn't even on the list (if it at least reminds me of the LN - bonus!) Arifurata barely made the cut, Ragnarok failed. Infinite Stratos anime (in my opinion, one of the few cases where the 'dub' is superior to the 'sub') is better than the LN.
since I don't have high expectations (or standards) - I'm anticipating an entertaining cour---will it be 'objectively good' ?? we'll find out -
@jon-mitchell Yeah, I just mean that Seirei is a real slow burner. Hard to adapt.
Bit of a different subject, but I'll comment that I actually think Konosuba is that super rare one where the anime actually improves from the LN's. Less details, sure, but with the great vocal talents they manage to make the series funnier then the original.
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And there's the answer; Crunchyroll will be streaming it.
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First episode dropped today. Can't wait to see to see what it's all about!
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@lighthawk96 it wasn’t bad, actually impressed they showed the cruelty of Charles Albor to Rio. Sad that Aria wasn’t added as a character in the post torture scene, since she goes on to work for Liselotte.
Looking to the next few years of Ascendance of a Bookworm.
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Remember to spoil as appropriate in this topic! Many people will be watching the anime as their first exposure to this series, so please spoil any future story developments!
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@grobinson2k1
Not a bad first part. They got about as far as I would have suspected them to in episode 1. Still, I felt that they left put some pretty crucial stuff, but being spiked with both the manga and light novel I guess that is to be expected. But, us this a 24 episode run or more. The intro kinda suggested thus so...
