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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... -
@lighthawk96 if it's not at least 24 episodes, this is gonna suck HARD. OP got stuff up to Vol. 5, and given how that ends, I'm willing to bet we'd at least get half of Vol. 6 for proper closure.
Unless it was just bait like the OP to the first season of TenSura
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1st Episode is quite good. especially when Celia casting detect/scan.
CELIA FTW!!!
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I'm now really curious how many books their going to adapt, I assumed the anime would probably just adapt the first 3 books over 13 episodes just so the story could finish setting its foundation but that intro suggested their going to adapt far more than that. I really hope this is 2 cour now or this is going to be stupidly rushed.
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Other than Truck-kun not showing up to crash into the bus Haruto was riding just like in the LN it was a good 1st episode.
The director is probably starting a new movement for Train-kun to be the next big thing that causes people to be isekai'd.
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@paulnamida
I agree, but for the amount the showed, I just don't know. It would be really hard to get that much story into 24 episodes. 36 maybe, but that would basically be a 3 season run. Not many anime are blessed with 3 season runs. But, this one might be popular enough to get that far. -
anyone else think the slums looked too clean?
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@lighthawk96 12-13 episodes for 3 volumes is more or less the norm for LN adaptations, of course, the best ratio would be 2 vols per cour, but you can make a decent 3 vol adaptation in that time frame (i.e. Overlord, which has a huge word-count). And SG volumes are rather short IMO, so 24-26 episodes for an adaptation up to Vol 6 doesn't seem that far-fetched to me.
Still, we'll have to wait, if the first vol gets up to ep 4, we could be looking at a 2-cour or maybe a split cour. If they end it all on the next episode or on ep3, welp, we're probably fucked.
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@whyohwhy1 100% yes. It bugged me. It looked like a nice little village or something and not a place for sewer trash which is how he and his comrades are compared to as.
Also, I wonder why they cut out the prostitute. I'd argue that had a pretty positive impact on him going forward.
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@paulnamida
Please, oh please don't let this turn into another Arifureta. That would be cataclysmic for my psyche.
