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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. -
@whyohwhy1 yeah too clean.
or for me its too "open" from what I see in the zoom out it should be inside the wall. and for something inside walled city it has too much open space. -
The worst I’ve seen is Ragnarok where they crammed 7 volumes into 12 episodes, it was a complete disaster and one of the worst anime’s I have ever seen.
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@kilocron I agree much too clean and tidy inside and out. I would not expect it to be quite as messy as my flat, but it definitely should not look like it had been freshly scrubbed!
The outside looked like it was part of a small village rather than a slum. I would expect closely packed building with not gardens.
It is a shame the dropped Gigi (the prostitute) but it is understandable as she only survives a very short time and
we only see her sister and child twice.Anyone one else noticed that they used the same picture for the inside wall of the shack and one of the dungeon walls?
One slightly worrying change is Celia says she is learning magic at the academe.
Anyone else have difficulties with the subtitles. They would stick and then jump two or three sections, or was it just me?
Apart from that it looked reasonable.
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@catstorm
Yeah. It was pretty bad. But not as bad as Arifureta.
