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Originally Posted by lightbringer
That conclusion is a non sequitur.
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You're skirting the issue. May I take it to assume this is your way of saying you really haven't read it?
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Originally Posted by Thelastguardian
(I've read the novels as well)
A few things-
1. Remember the title of the 2 episodes? '900 Seconds After School'. Everything in the first 2 episodes (other than the school scenes and the flashbacks) happened within 900 seconds. Of course things seem rush.
2. Having said that, I think you guys are being too harsh on ZEXCS. The author somehow manged to be just as 'rushed' with the novel. The first volume was just a series of battles, flashbacks, oh-shi* moments weaved together. Even Hinata, who Himea was terrified of, was disposed of rather abruptly (like the anime). It's doubly bad as he was hyped up in the first half of the novel as a super powerful bad dude who (censored).
I hate to say this, but ZEXCS has managed to stay very true to the source material this time(in this case, not a good thing).
But Himea is cute, and that's all I care.
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While '900 Seconds of After School Time' are indeed the titles of the first two episodes, and the entirety of Volume 1 while we're at it, that should by no means be used to justify cramming an entire volume into two episodes. Only people looking for an excuse to justify butchering those episodes in the way that they did would fall back on such logic.
And if that's
really ZEXCS' reasoning, it's not logical or anything of the sort. It's just pathetic.
You say that ZEXCS' treatment of Itsu-Ten is near spot on with Kagami's writing? Nonsense. ZEXCS hacked off an entire chapter of Volume 1, specifically Gekkou, Hinata,
and Mirai's background stories just to fit the rest into two extremely squeezed episodes. Kagami avoided such a pitfall of disappointment by weaving the various battles, flashbacks and other events in a far more spread out and appealing manner.
That aside, with respect to Hinata, I wouldn't say Kagami really made him out to be the "super-powerful bad dude" you make him out to be. Sure he was evil and had otherworldly powers at his disposal, but from the very beginning we knew that he was a demon worshiper, and more specifically that he sought to undo Bhalskra's seal. Hinata had barely made his appearance before we're made aware of this mysterious Bhalskra and that he must have tremendous power in order for Hinata to be after him.
Bearing this in mind, it's really not all that surprising that Hinata was taken care of so early on. He never set the stage as something of a big-time antagonist to begin with.